Road to Gyaru

So I have not put a blog post up in so long and wanted to say sorry, I have been slacking on the important things in life but I am getting back on track. This is just a quick review of the Varsity Vox Box I got from Influenster. 


First off I will Start with the products that I had the pleasure of trying out.
1.NYC Big Bold Lip  Gloss 
2. Tide Pods
3.Air Heads Extreme Bites
4.Clearasil Refreshing Super Fruit Wash
5. Kiss Nail Stickers



(1.) So for the NYC Big Bold Lip Gloss I actually liked this but there was a few thing I do to make it more wearable. First off the texture is a bit sticky not so much to where there is those weird sticky strings when you open your lips but just a little bit too sticky. To counter act this I like to put a matte lipstick or one with a bit more creamy texture on before I apply the gloss which help with the stickiness. So this is one of tose collagen lipglosses that are suppose to plump your lips, I feel it did a decent job. For the price you cannot find many plumping lip glosses and event though it didn't have a amazing plump job it did pretty good for the price. The only full downfall of this priduct is the smell, it smells like a childhood thing we use to play with that smelt weird puddy or something similar. It is hard to explain unless you smell it. I might purchase this in the future but not to sure.

Hey lovelies today I am going to be doing my review for the Model 21 Lashes  that the company sent me to review. Even though they were sent to me this is my full opinion and I am not holding back. So after all that is said I received the No. 19 Combo in the mail about a week to a week in a half ago. They were received only a couple days after the email said they were sent out so they had very speedy shipping.

                              
                               

            The package came in perfect condition especially compared to how the ebay ones come and it is actually very appealing and the art is amazing.


                                       
                                       So when I opened it this is how it looked. You get 5 different number lashes which are (from top to bottom) 2T, 40T,19T,63,3T. Each of those have 2 pairs each which equals to 10 pair of lashes.

       So far I have tried the 2T, 3T, and the 19T. I got to say I love these lashes, they are very natural looking and good for everyday. I especially love the small band they have because I know the Ebay ones have a huge band which makes them very difficult to put on and keep on, but these have been the easiest lashes to put on for me. They also do not make your eyelid feel heavy and at times I forgot I had them on. I do wish they had a few more dramatic styles but the ones in here are good for people who like more natural. While wearing these I got so many compliments and some people even thought they were real. All in all I will be buying from this company again and I hope to see more styles because these are such nice lashes!!


                                     Here are a few pics of the 19T ones I wore today.
                                                                         



                                                       Have a nice day everyone!!!






     

Hey Gals sorry I havent posted in a couple days I have been busy with work and planning for Denver's Comic Con. Well heres a update, yesterday I finally got my model 21 lashes in and I have not tried them on yet but just looking at them the quality looks AMAZING!! I will be doing a review as soon as possible so look forward to that. I am also going to be updating on the progress of my Hinata Hyuga ( shippuden) cosplay and will be putting up pics of different pieces done as soon as I get them done.  Other than that hopefully after Comic Con I will be doing a few hauls from rakuten or  another similar store. Also I have started a Gal Circle for Colorado if anyone that reads this is interested contact me, we are always welcoming new members seeing as we only have 3. Sorry for just the quick update I got to head to work soon and you all know how long it takes to get ready lol. Have an AMAZING day!!

       Hey everyone, so a couple of days ago after a long day at work I went to Target to go get me a few E.L.F products I have been dying to try. I ended up picking up the bronzer/blush pallet, $1 lip gloss in Pink Lemonade, the $1 Crease definer brush (which I use to contour), and the $1 eyelash curler. So far I am enjoying all of them a lot. I will wait to do a full review so I can try it out for a week first. So check back in a couple days for the full review on all the products.I will be also doing another haul in a couple weeks so if you know any good makeup products to try, comment and let me know.

Hey Gals, this post is just going to be a short review/outfit of the day post. Yesterday I received my lashes I got from Ebay. I am still waiting for my makeup21 lashes so I can do a comparison, well here we go.


                                            So I ordered the #8(which were difficult to find)
                                                      this is how the packaging looked. 
                                                                             
                                    I was surprised the packaging was still in good condition
                               I seen a lot of people receiving their package highly damaged. 
                                                     
                                             This is the package opened so you can see lashes
                                                                                    

                                              So as you can see I got a pack of 10 for around $1.50
                                                 I was able to try these for only one day so far and 
                                                   I got to say they are not bad at all for the price.
                                           They do have a little plastic look to them but not much at all.
                                     They are a little hard to make form to your eye but not impossible. 
                                                       Over all so far they are worth the money.

                                                       A few pics of me wearing them



                                                                

                                                           Review

                                               Comfort: 7/10 I am able to feel them on and
                                       at some points they feel weird on the band but not bad
                                          
                                       Effect: 8/10 I love the effect these give, they are dramatic
                                  but they still have a natural look. The only downside is they
                                    look a little shiny or plastic like but not as bad as other ones.
                                                         Over all I give these a 7/10.

                                      

                    
                                                                              

                                                                    Contest Link!!

So I am posting this to inform my readers that one of my favorite Western Gals is having a contest .  I put a link to the blog and info on it. Go check it out there is awesome prizes and its by an awesome person.

    So I noticed a lot of people going through hard times right now and just so you all know you are not alone. Whatever the problem is we got to stay strong because if we let ourselves get depressed and hurt then those things/people win.  My problem right now is my relationship sadly, I have been with this guy since 9th grade and I am 21 now. We did break up for 2 years in betwee but other than that we haven't been apart.  I even got a beautiful daughter from him and to this day I still love him to death. The problem is his anger, no I do not get hit or anything like that but I do get called some pretty horrible names and get told some horrible things.  Even though sometimes I dont cry it hurts every time, at time things are said so much I do start believing them. In the end though I know the things being said to me aren't true so after I have the time to calm down I understand this. I think high school is where all of the names and dishonesty started. I was lied to constantly while we were together and almost and maybe even cheated on a few times. That is when my cutting started and it lasted up until a year ago, that was when I was believing everything said about me. I just see so many people going through depression or pain right now and I want everyone to know I am here to talk. I have been through a lot in my past and if I could help some people conquer depression like I did I would be happy. I am still with the guy to this day he really did change tremendously, but we do have hard times and today was one of those times. The names were thrown around and no one but my feelings were hurt.  I could of fell back on my old ways of hurting myself but today I feel more like putting more of my story out in hopes of helping someone.  People see me and think I am one of the happiest people ever but in reality I cover up a lot of emotions. I don't have really anyone to talk to seeing as in high school I was always with this guy and never made any friends. So when days like this happen I feel extremely lonely and vulnerable, but I am trying something new and everytime I need to talk to someone I will blog. Its the easiest way of getting all my emotions out and maybe get some advice on the way. When you feel depressed or lonely I suggest blogging to get it off your mind or finding someone on the internet or somewhere else to talk to. Never harm yourself believe me it might make it feel better at the time but growing up with people asking you where those scars are from (expecially when its your daughter) it is embarrassing and in the end you will regret doing it. We are all beautiful and shouldnt harm our beautiful bodys. There really is people who will help you and things you can do to help as well.  Also never change yourself for anyone if they do not appreciate you or respect what you like then they are not worth it. I hopw this helps someone out someday. Stay Strong everyone!!

Hey everyone so I just found out about and amazing contest that Sashimidolly.com is doing. You get some amazing prizes so you should all go check it out.

So everyone sorry my Easter post is so late lol I was waiting for my sister to get the pictures she took uploaded. Hope everyone's Easter went awesome. I know mines did, this will just be a quick outfit post. I wore this on Easter and had my sister take a nice High quality pic for the blog. I just wish I had my eyelashes but they still haven't came in yet. Anyways please enjoy!!

Outfit

   Hey lovely's today I am going to be talking about what I think of Gyaru secrets. Well for most of you reading this you  probably know about Gyaru secrets, if not here is a fast description. It is a site where some Western Gyaru bash on other Gyaru. I think it was actually made for people to get help and such but people made it into a bashing place with people taking random photos of different Gyaru and then tearing them to shreds. I have actually heard a lot of Gals talk about how when they first heard about this site it scared them to put any Gyaru pictures out because they believed it would end up on Gyaru Secrets.

   Well let me tell you my opinion unlike a lot of people no I am not scared of my pictures going on the site because no matter how I look I am enjoying attempting/doing my style. But not everyone is like that, and we should all be celebrating that we all love Japanese culture and the Gyaru culture enough to bring it back to our own countries with us. No matter what, we all have love for the same thing so why not unite instead of hate, maybe if we did that eventually we would be able to get more of our fashion out here. I understand healthy criticism and advice but when your commenting on someone weight or are too harsh that's just not OK that turns into bullying. We should all bond because we already know the looks and the bullying we get doing this style in our own countries why go back and bully someone who is trying to do what they love. Every women and man are beautiful in their own ways and deserve to do what they love and not get bashed for it. 

  For all you people getting bullied you have to stay strong and confident and they will not phase you. So what if someone took their time to write a bunch of bull about you on Gyaru secrets as long as your confident with how you look and who you are then you have nothing to worry about. Letting them phase you is just going to get them to win and the most important NEVER GIVE UP!! There has been times when I wanted to give up not on just style but on life in general, I did things in the
past I regret. Now I see why because I had no confidence in myself.



  This is not only for Gyaru Secrets but for bullying in general. I went through a time when I was causing myself harm because the bullying and the lack of confidence made me feel so insignificant. This is actually my first time telling anyone about my self harm besides my close family. I just want to help someone like I know some people helped me. I have not caused myself harm for a good 1 1/2 years now and I am still staying strong. Self harm is the worst way to go because you fall into depression and even if you are surrounded by people who love you, you still feel  alone. This is because your not happy with yourself and before you can get to normal again you have to build confidence in yourself. After I realized this it took me a good year to start growing confidence and I feel like I have come extremely far in the past couple months. I feel as if now I am able to sit through people putting me down and not feel bad about myself at all. I know I still got a while to go before I become my normal self again but hey I am making amazing progress.

  So don't ever feel alone if you getting bullied or if you lack confidence there will always be at least one person out there that cares about you even if you know them or not. I am also here for anyone who would like to talk. I am a very good listener and would love to help anyone who needs it. Even if you feel like there is no one

So I was thinking of something monthly I could do for the people who read my blog. So I decided on doing a post each month about my favorite Gyaru magazine of the month. I will probably be putting a few of my favorite pages and then telling why its my favorite. So here is the first post!! So this month my favorite magazine had to be Ageha. I love all the sexiness in the fashion. 








So I love these pages because they show all the different fashion. I also love the darker colors in the magazine its some of my favorite to wear. Also I noticed they had a lot of red accessories throughout the magazine which I also love. They had some cool eye makeup tutorials which are in Japanese but they have pictures. I absolutely adored the contouring and highlighting page which I will put below. 




These pages have been helping me tremendously with my contouring so I decided to share them with you in hopes it helps you also.All in all this magazine was awesome and I can't wait for next months.

Hey my lovelys I thought I would do a quick post of a really simple Gyaru outfit I wore the other day!
I did have blue tights on also which I took off because I had took a nep before this. lol
Here are the pictures when I had the tights on.
Finally this was the makeup for the day sorry you cant see much my phone sucks at taking pictures when there not to much light.
Have a nice day lovelys and don't stop being you!!

             Hey everyone, I was doing absolutely nothing so I decided to do something useful and blog. So since I have been dressing Gyaru (or attempting to lol) I have noticed all the looks I have been getting. It kinda of funny if you ask me I enjoy wearing my style out and the looks good or bad don't phase me. This is what I am kinda surprised about, if you know me which probably not any of you do. In all my life I have been a pretty shy closed off girl, I had major social anxiety. I did not feel comfortable in really any social situation. Even things as simple as ordering things off menus at restaurants I couldn't do.  I also had very low self esteem and thought so poorly of myself. I only had a few friends at every school I went to (which was ALOT) because I could not connect to many people. This was like this until just a couple months ago, I don't really know what it was that woke me up. Maybe it was how tired I was of not having any friends or people I could connect with but I think all in all it was because I started respecting myself. After this I got a major boost in confidence and I started actually enjoying social situations. I have made so many good friends in just the 4 to 5 months then I have made my whole life before that. As I had said in a past post I had found out about all the Gyaru sub styles when I was around 17 or 18 but I just now started having the confidence to decide that's what I want to do.  So now its amazing to see how far I have come and that all those bad stares do not bother me and I do what I enjoy. I know some Gals or even just the random people coming across this blog have gone through this anxiety and I want you all to know you can beat it. It takes time and work but you got to respect and cherish yourself before you can feel totally relaxed in any situation. Confidence is always a good thing to have but being over confident is bad.  Well off to go get my day started if you read through this all and have anything you would like to talk about just comment. :) 

So my first pair of circle lenses finally came in!! These are the lenses I decided on ordering. They came in about 2 weeks after I ordered. Geo Starmish Brown Color: 4/5 The color was really nice it came lighter than what was on the picture but I am happy because they look more natural that way.    Comfort: 4/5 The comfort is pretty nice I can not feel them mostly but after about 6 to 8 hours I start to feel them a bit more but not bad at all.    I will be adding a little update later on in the week after I have worn them for a few more days. I will leave you with a few pics of the contacts on me.  Enjoy and have a beautiful day!!

This will be a post of my outfits from the past couple of weeks and the inspiration for them if any. After this post I will be doing them each day separate and not so many at once.  I would love if you would write any advice or opinion on them. Other than that here are the pics enjoy! :)


  ♥ This first one is the first day I decided to attempt to dress Gyaru just a simple outfit I came up with. ♥ Clothing Dress: Forever 21 Jacket: 579 Leggings: 579 ♥ Heres another attempt at a Gyaru!! ♥ Clothing One Piece: Forever 21 Hat: Forever 21 ♥ Heres my most recent attempt!! ♥ Clothing Shorts:Cut Myself Print Jacket:Love Culture Tank Top:579 Boots:Were a gift but I will figure it out

Hello, my name is Angelica. I am 21 and live in Colorado, USA. This first post will be a quick introduction, and will explain what I plan to do with this blog.

By the title you can tell I am into Japanese culture. This started since I was very young, my Uncles woyld watch anime all the time in front of me. I always enjoyed watching them and never stopped. By the time I was 15 or 16 I came across some Japanese fashion I seen on a website. The first one I came across was the Ganguro, after this I started to look up anything I could about Japan and read up on the culture. This is when I came across the normal Gyaru style and I fell in love at once. I always had low confidence and never thought about trying it out until recently. I feel my confidence had risen massivley and I am now starting to get into the Gyaru culture. This blog will practically be about my experiences and feelings about becoming a Gyaru, also just different tips and tricks I pick up on the way. I am not only looking to tell my journey but to also help people on theirs in the future. I would love any advice on what I should look toward on this journey. Thanks for reading!!