[coord] "Gal-entine's Day" wine meetup

We had a meetup at a wine bar for a Valentine's Day and someone's birthday event! It was a potluck style with finger foods and cake along with delicious sweet and sparkling wines, and afterward we walked around and had coffee and pizza. I decided to wear something red with a few cute handmade accessories with comfortable shoes.

Salopette: R-series Take the Crown; blouse: Metamorphose; socks: Ergi by Piratessen; shoes: Bodyline; purse: offbrand; hat, badge: handmade; jewelry: Daiso, Forever21

I had been planning to wear the gold glitter shoes, but decided something flat for walking around in and not falling over while drunk was the wiser choice. And it was. The salopette was a little looser around my waist than I would have liked, but that tends to be the silhouette for them, so it wasn't bad. I quite liked how my badge and hat turned out, close up pics coming! Again those socks are not an exact match, but I felt great finally wearing them out, lmao.

[discussion] 2017 EGL community annual wardrobe post

Hello, I've actually had this lolita blog for over 1 year now, because here is the second annual wardrobe post I've made! We made it! The actual 2017 post is on my livejournal, but I will repost it here. Sorry in advance for the large images again. Anyway, I'm really proud of this wardrobe, got a lot of animal print, cute socks, a good variety. I don't really have a lot of things to add, but I would love it if these darn blouses and socks and shoes match the dresses better. Anyway, time to get to wearing these in public at least once this year before I buy new stuff.

Original LJ post: http://insomniel.livejournal.com/941645.html

Main Pieces: 24 brand and indie dresses! 3 Innocent World, 1 Moi Meme Moitie, 7 Metamorphose, 5 Baby/AaTP, 3 Angelic Pretty, 1 R-series, 1 Haenuli, 1 Mary Magdalene, 2 Taobao brands

Skirts: 6 total, 2 more Bodyline and 1 Meta, Shorts are the same from last year

Jackets/Coats: added a Dear Celine white jacket

Vests/Boleros: added steampunk stuff

Blouses: some Taobao additions, 1 Meta luckypack blouse

Cutsews: added 2 more, forgot to take a pic of the punk top

Hair Accessories and Jewelry: some handmade stuff and indie brand included!

Purses: added 2

Shoes: got a new pair of gold and brown heels, brown boots, those pink Rocking Horses I'm not sure about lol

Socks/Tights: so many... some I haven't even worn yet lmao

[coord] New Year's Community Meetup

The local community had another annual New Year meetup for the whole area last weekend. I wasn't sure I could make it since the theme was stars and I didn't finish a new headdress for my star-themed dresses. But I went ahead and wore my grandest dress, Angelic Pretty's Antoinette Decoration just to impress everyone and assert my alpha male dominance. Which I learned does not actually exist in wild wolf packs.

One-piece dress, bonnet, tights: Angelic Pretty; jacket: Zara; shoes: offbrand; flowers and hair accessories: Forever 21, handmade; jewelry: Forever 21, Daiso, Claire's

Since I bought the set from Angelic Pretty USA, there was not much else I needed to do to make it impressive, lol. I wore the jacket because it was chilly and wet outside, and since I wore my gold shoes recently, I brought out the cream heels for a more understated look. I added an ostrich feather to my bonnet and some flowers and head chains to give it a richer and more sumptuous feel, similar to Triple Fortune bonnets. But my favorite part of this coord is the braided bangs that I told myself I'd do for years and finally did on this old wig I bought for a cosplay that didn't work out. The wig had ringlet curls in the back but untrimmed parted bangs in the front, so I brushed the bangs to the front and braided them to the side to avoid cutting them wrongly. Anyway, I was impressed by myself so... yeah, lmao. I think my wrists looked bare without the jacket, I did have bracelets to wear but I put on super long deco nails and gave up trying to put on bracelets after that lol. Next time I will finish making some lace wrist cuffs and bell sleeves, another project I have yet to start on.

[coord] Ikki-con Tea Party with Baby the Stars Shine Bright

This year (last year a little bit) I headed down to Austin again to help out with the j-fashion staff for their lolita events! I came in on Friday night and helped out with the fashion show clean-up on Saturday, but most of my time was spent getting ready for the tea party on Sunday afternoon. Despite the difficult circumstances that came up last minute, I think we pulled off a fairly good event, I hope everyone, guests and staff, agreed!

The theme for the tea party was "fairy tale" and to match with the gorgeous centerpieces Cat designed for the tables, I bought an older Baby dress from takoyaki co, the Opale cut of the Sweet Jewelry Princess print, and made my own headdress to match.

JSK: Baby the Stars Shine Bright; blouse: Innocent World; neckbow: Metamorphose; tights: off brand (wearing Meta socks in this pic lol); shoes: Taobao; necklace: Forever 21; corsage, headdress: handmade; wig: Daiso 

I had wanted to buy a similar round flower headdress from the American Baby shop but they didn't have the colors I wanted, so I made my own using a large Daiso rose and smaller flowers I had lying around from Michaels, pastel ribbons from my stash, and some jeweled tulle and raschel lace from Joann's bargain bins because this Joann's will never call my number so I couldn't get the nice tulle cut. I might just go to another Joann's or shop online or something lmao. Anyway, I rather liked the look of the asymmetrical headdress even though the veil part was kinda oversized ooops. Another successful attempt at making my own accessories!

[coord] Tacky Christmas Sweater coord

We had a White Elephant and general gift exchange party with some local lolitas. Alas, the tea place we wanted to meet at did not take reservations and had a two hour wait due to the holidays, so we met up at a Bucca di Beppo and had a solid Italian meal in our lolita instead lmao. I promised to wear a tacky Christmas sweater so here it is!

Skirt: Metamorphose, tights: Grimoire, boots: Bodyline; jacket: Dear Celine, blouse: off-brand, wig and reindeer antlers, crystal pendant and bracelet: Daiso, stole and necklace: Forever 21, flower wreath and necklace: handmade

This was another budget outfit with Daiso items, handmade and offbrand items. The only true lolita brand was Meta, a lucky pack skirt from 2 years ago. But I was glad to coord this vest that my Australian family gave me, as well as the jacket and stole. Overall, it was a good attempt, I'm proud of myself.

[survey] from the metroplex community facebook

Just wanted to fill out a survey!

1) Do you still have your first Lolita piece?
-handmade, yes, I made it into a petticoat lol. brand, no, sold it last year

2) What is the oldest piece in your wardrobe?
-2006 IW chemical lace jsk? some things I never found the release date

3) What is the newest piece in your wardrobe?
-AP Antoinette Decoration one piece, 2016

4) What is your cheapest main piece?
-AatP navy babydoll jsk, $71

5) What is your most expensive main piece?
-AP Antoinette Decoration one piece, over $400

6) What is your favorite item?
-Meta Dreaming Goldfish

7) Which item do you wear most?
-Meta Heart Leopard, since it's not really a poofy lolita shape, I wear it casually

8) Which item do you wear least?
-I don't really wear items more than twice, since I don't want to be seen by the peasant masses to rewear anything 

9) Anything you haven't worn yet?
-most of my recent purchases (7, not counting 2 on the way)

10) What is missing from your wardrobe?
-pastels, a better hime/curly wig, princess sleeve blouses, casual cutsews and skirts, more ouji items

11) When will your wardrobe be complete?
- never, but I guess if I move and my closet is smaller then I would try to sell before buying more stuff

12) What was the last Lolita item that you sold or threw away?
-Black Peace now jacket

13) How many OPS do you have?
-3, 1 on the way, not counting 2 handmade costumey pieces

14) How many JSKs do you have?
-17, 1 on the way, not counting 4 still decent handmade pieces

15) How many skirts do you have?
-7, not counting 3 handmade

16) How many petticoats do you have?
-3

17) What do you plan to buy next?
- a plain purple skirt, headdresses and jewelry to match my latest purchases, also see answer to question 10

18) When you first started wearing Lolita what did you want your wardrobe to be like?
- classic and gothic, no sweet

19) What is your wardrobe currently like?
-classic, leopard print, steampunk, some quirky fantasy prints, some ouji and sweet-ish stuff

20) What would you like your wardrobe to be like in the future?
- the same as it is now, but more extravagant, historically influenced pieces that are not racist or too culturally appropriating. a little more ouji, some more unique handmade pieces just because I can 

[coord] Style Swap - OTT Sweet!

The Metroplex lolitas had their second Style Swap meet, in which we dress in a style that is different from what we normally wear. I did OTT hime lolita last year (not exactly different from my usual lol), but this year I went all out and put together an over the top sweet coord which was totally different because even though the dress is pretty tasteful for a sweet dress, the pink twin falls wig was definitely not my usual.

JSK, headbow, black socks, bracelet, ring: Angelic Pretty; purse: Innocent World; shoes: Bodyline; bow ring: Chocomint; mint socks: Daiso; everything else: Forever 21, Claire's, handmade.

I bought Angelic Pretty Fantastic Dolly jsk and headbow in ivory/mint from a local lolita at the new year's meet, right after I won the prize for best niche style which happened to have mint accessories and fake nails. Then over the next 10 months, I added more and more pieces, including the pink/gold wig, more jewelry, the socks and rocking horse shoes. Two days before the meet, after I was physically and emotionally wrecked by the results of the US election, I finished decorating the nails and making the ribbon hair clips. I ended up wearing the coord on the right because I just wanted to wear the rocking horse shoes, the matching socks were actually white than ivory so I wore the green socks instead lol.

Here is a close up through several beauty cam filters. I wore glitter make up and so many hair clips.

The nails, base made by a local lolita, I added more rhinestones and stickers to match my coord.

Anyway, I was the most impressive this time, but that's because we don't have a ton of OTT fairy kei sweet girls in Dallas, everyone is more classic or country because...  well, Texas, lol.