Monday 30 July 2012

Arcade Con 13th~15th July (Part 1)

On the Friday morning, I got up early and drove to the Bus Station to meet with my two other friends whom I was travelling/working and staying at the hotel with. We had breakfast at McDonalds while waiting for the bus to arrive. We took the 10am bus to Dublin, then another bus to where the venue (D-4 Hotel) was. I think we arrived at around 11:30am. Because it wasn't time to check in our hotel rooms yet, we were allowed into the trade hall and started setting up our tables/booth. We had 3 tables and 1 clothing rail to share between us. I took up like 2/3 of the space though because I had a lot more stock. It was really tiring to be honest, even though the money wasn't too bad by the end of the weekend. Packing & unpacking/setting up is the worst part here. I just wanted to throw it all away and go back to bed XD
Anyway we were sort of done within an hour...or two, so we went to check in and put our personal belongings into the hotel rooms. I cried my eyes out again while putting on my circle lenses in the bathroom ;~; I will never get used to lenses so I think I'm pretty much done with them after this. They're very bad for my eyes, and my eyesight is already quite bad.
We went back down because it was nearly time to start. We expected it to be very slow since it was only Friday, but I don't think it was too bad.


Too early for zombies...I was a zombie myself!!! (x __ x)


I really liked them, because I'm a Star Wars fan XD
After seeing their outfits, I kinda want to make one for myself but with some Steampunk/Lolita elements to it? I think it might work because of the colour scheme.


I haven't seen the new Batman movie yet! Have you?? I will probably go see it this week or next week if I can find someone to go with. Le bf wants to go with me but he's not here.
Foreveralone.jpg ;~;



Lady Loki~


With Mini Thor here. Too cute! <3


 I only took a few photos of the cosplays because I was mostly interested in the superheroes/movies ones really. 

Afterwards, we were trying to figure out where to go for food. We were gonna order Pizza but long story short, we ran out of time and were starving to death so we decided to just go out to find a closest place to get food. We found a chipper about 5 minutes walk away that was a little bit weird but the food was really nice. Or maybe we were just too hungry to care XD I got Taco fries and that's what I got for 3 days in a row so no wonder I gained like half a kilo (> n <;)
Apparently Taco fries is the Irish thing, as in you can only get it in Ireland??? Seriously, because it's the best thing EVER!!! While I was in Germany, I wanted to get it but Eric was like what the hell is that because he never heard of it before in his life and he was sure that they wouldn't have it in Germany. Boo hiss~ I really wanted my Taco fries...

We got food and went back to our hotel room. Oh yeah, a friend from Scotland came as well, and his friend from Cork. So there were 5 of us. Then it was time for the evening events "Night of the Living Cabret" with some drag queen shows, burlesque shows, live music & karaoke. Maybe I was really tired, I just couldn't focus so I went outside to the bar to have a drink with a friend. I got ripped off with €6 for one bottle of Smirnoff Ice. Jesus Christ! But it was a 4 stars hotel apparently so yeah should have known. Not to mention, I got ID'd as well and because I didn't expect it, it took me ages to find my age card! And the friend standing beside me was like 8 YEARS younger than me and the barman didn't say anything. (=__=") I guess it's a compliment that I still look 16/17...

After the drink, I went back inside to join with my group and we stayed until the end. Then I think we went to bed after that because it'll be a long day on Saturday. I passed out almost instantly!!

Part 2 tomorrow!!! ^^

Saturday 28 July 2012

Some new gets from Japan~

Finally one of my packages from Japan had arrived and I was really happy with everything. Here are what I got:
MA*RS Hyobara(?) set~ dress & cardigan. Simple and cute.


Perfume bottle dress also from MA*RS. You can see that I'm really into MA*RS huh? I think this brand is glamarous but at the same time, not OTT like JD so I feel like I can wear it on a daily basis, although I know some people don't think Agejo in general is very convenient for daily wear but there are ways to wear it a bit more casual I think.


And my first Vivienne Westwood bag!!! <3 
It's made of real leather and I'm so in love with it. I've always wanted one and even though I know their jewellery isn't great at all quality wise, I can say that the quality of the bags are amazing so go for it if you want to get one! 
It's quite big so I can carry a lot of crap with me XD as you do!


Tag & awesome lining~


I like the little orb detail on the zippers~


I also got some extra gifts (lashes & rose candies) from the girl I'm buying from (a FB friend) 
That was very sweet. Thank you! <3 


I really want to get a matching wallet now that I have the bag XD 
I'm going to have a look in Arnotts next time I'm in Dublin and see what they have to offer.
Wish I was living in London though...

On another note, my "diet" didn't really go anywhere fuuuu~~
It was just so hard for me because (1)I'm really not a diet person. I love food wayyy too much and (2)I'm too impatient & just have no consistency or self discipline whatsoever "orz 
This time I'm going to try something different, a porridge diet. I realized I quite like porridge and if you're going on a diet, you might as well eat something you like rather than forcing horrible food down your throat. I will let you know how that goes in a while :P *fingers crossed*



Sunday 22 July 2012

Liz Lisa replica boots review~

Hello everyone, I got these Liz Lisa style boots recently, and I was asked to do a review once I got them. I know they're super popular & I'm sure lots of people would want to know about them so here it is ^^

 

They came in 2 colours - black & brown, and the material was suede, which is nice and all but it gets on my nerves just as much as velvet does, such as it gets dirty so easily. Especially in black, but I got a pair in black anyway XD because black is my favourite colour & it would go with most of my clothes (which are also in black!) 
I was a little unsure about their sizing, because Chinese sizes are freaking weird tbh (been there, done that). Now I'm normally a size 5UK/7US/38EU/23.5JAPAN. You know that you shop online wayyyy too much when you know ALL about your sizes XD;
But after some googling & thinking, I decided to trust their own sizing chart and went with size 39!!! A little bigger is always better than too small, right? So how did it turn out in the end???

It took them a few days to send the boots out which was fine with me. The delivery itself was pretty fast, about a week or so if I remember right (this is what happens when you don't do the review right away! ^^;) I was provided with a tracking number so I knew my package had ended up in customs. So when they actually arrived, I had to pay the VAT of €13...something which I guess wasn't too bad but still, it added to the cost of the boots. Not happy at all!!! 

But onto the more important things~ the boots fitted me well so I was relieved because the worst thing is buying shoes online and they don't fit so you have to resell them. Quality is great and they're quite comfortable to walk on because the heels aren't too high. I tried walking into town shopping for a couple of hours and it was fine. But of course if you go on for a whole day, your feet will die but this is the same with all kinds of boots I think.

Fitting: 4/5
Comfort: 4/5
Quality: 4.5/5
Price: 5/5
Shipping: 5/5
Service: 5/5

So yeah, if you have any other questions feel free to ask! I've never done a review before XD

Here are a few pictures of me wearing them just so you can see better. FYI I'm only like 5'3" (160cm) so the boots reach just above my knees, so if you're taller I'm not sure how that will look...




I kind of want to get them in brown now as well...We'll see~

PS: Oh and yeah fixed the layout a bit if you haven't noticed yet ^^; I like my background but still need to do something with the bloody header... "orz