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Experimenting with GIF Making

*none of the frames were originally made by me*

F Yeah Lolita's "Back To Blogspot" Giveaway

  The wonderful lolita fashion blog F Yeah Lolita recently lost its private URL, and now it is back to blogspot at fyeahlolita.blogspot.com . Thus, a giveaway is taking place!

Here is the link to the giveaway post: http://fyeahlolita.blogspot.com/2011/12/back-to-blogspot-giveaway.html

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My Activities On International Lolita Day ^-^

  As some of you may know, this past Saturday was International Lolita Day. I'm not much of a lolita, though I admire the fashion and would love to make some better attempts at wearing it! My friends Rachel, Kaley (who has a pretty amazing blog here) and I got together at Kaley's house dressed in lolita (I made an attempt... I personally thought it wasn't very good so I took no outfit shots >.< XD) to eat brownies, drink hot chocolate, watch Mean Girls (because apparently I was missing out on lots of pop culture references not having seen it), and just generally hang out wearing lolita.
 
  And now, for some various enjoyable pictures for your viewing pleasure:

Kaley (left) and Rachel (right) preparing to make brownies. They had such cute dress prints and socks/tights! I'm truly jealous.

Rachel watching Kaley's Brother's Friend play Minecraft. And Zeppo (the dog) looking right at the camera. 

Their faces :D

Stirring Brownie Mix!

 
  Rachel had work the next day, so she had to leave early, but I slept over. Kaley gave me a Sweet Lolita Makeover! It came out like this:

PinkxWhite makeup and Pink Hair (wig)

Attempted Makeover Outfit Shot- Failed. It was too dark already >.<

  I felt so strange and un-me-like XD But generally I liked it and thought it was an interesting and fun experience. ^-^

  Overall, Saturday was a fun day.

Before I arrived at Kaley's, I had been in Boston for my weekly German class at the Goethe Institut. I took lots of pictures whilst walking around beforehand which shall hopefully be posted some time this week. ^-^

My Modification of Draculaura- Part I: Face Painting and Hair Cutting

  First, I removed her original paint. I tried using nail polish remover, but it wasn't working very well so I tried extra-strength Goof Off which worked just fine. 

That's my kitchen counter. Yes, she's lying on a Pooh Bear plate.

  I also got out the weird hairspray-like substance that comes in her hair to keep it in place with the same stuff. I rinsed her (and her hair) well with warm water.

Then, I started painting! I used acrylic paint and some nice new paint brushes I got.

It's a little hard to see, but I painted a light pink (slightly darker than her skin tone) where I wanted to put her eyes.

This is where I start doing things in a strange and compulsive order.
I outlined her eyelids with black. My smallest brush isn't quite small enough (or maybe I just don't paint enough) so it made weird lines that look like eyelashes. But I like them, so whatever. XD
Then I painted the whites of her eyes... white.

 I painted her irises very light pink and painted small black pupils.

Painted one eyebrow in black (and loved very much how it came out ♥). I also added more eyelashes and relined the eye.

Then painted the other eyebrow (they're not supposed to be even, they're a little off to give her an interesting expression). Also painted more eyelashes on the other eye. The other eye is so much better :/

It's hard to see, but I cut her bangs into more of a V shape and cut little short pieces next to them to frame her face.

Then I added more eye makeup and had lots and lots of issues with painting lips.
They ended up with black in the middle, fading to grey as it goes down the bottom lip (I didn't end up painting the top lip because I like how it looks). I don't have a picture of what they look like though, I forgot to take one XD

 So, that's her so far, I plan to do a shoulder/collarbone tattoo and some nail polish but I'm not sure what else yet. I think this is great fun and I'll definitely be repainting and modifying more dolls in the future, when I'm done with her. ^-^

Doll Modification

  I've been seeing a lot of modified Monster High dolls on tumblr lately, and I really like them. I like the idea that you can customize the doll into a new character that you invent yourself. It makes the dolls so much more interesting than they are when they're just taken out of the box and put on display as the factory made them. I've actually gotten quite bored of their original faces and clothing, having seen them so many times. Custom dolls are so much more fun.
I'm sort of nervous about giving examples without asking people's permission to use their photos. But... I'll just source them as best I can ^-^;

Lolly, by glossowl.tumblr.com

Lily, by limbiclullaby on Flickr

Accident, also by glossowl.tumblr.com

  I think that's enough of an example for now, just search "monster high mod" on tumblr and you'll get a bunch more results.

 I've done not-so-serious/well done doll modification before with Bratz dolls, using sharpies to give them tattoos and darker makeup. Some of them came out pretty good, but I plan to take off my previous work on most of them and do it a little better.

 The only Monster High doll I currently own is Draculaura, the first/original one, and I've decided to customize her. So far I've just taken off the original paint and taken her hair out of pigtails/washed the weird sticky "hair spray" out of it. I'm not sure what kind of character I'll make her into yet, but I shall post her when I'm done.
One thing I really want to do but I'm not sure whether or not is possible is to dye her pink streaks black. What I'd REALLY like is for them to be a much more pastel pink, but lightening synthetic hair is impossible, from my research.

My Draculaura, pre-modification

  I hope to get a few more dolls, the ones I'd like most are Frankie Stein, Ghoulia Yelps, and Spectra Vondergeist (I love that name :P oh lovely made up German surnames ♥).

  I think doll modification will be a fun thing for me to get into, it's drawing people, but on a 3D surface ^-^ I'll also get to sew the dolls clothing, which will be sort of difficult (they're so tiny and oddly-shaped!) but interesting and good practice.

Poupée Girl: 111411

poupeegirl

I'm sorry I haven't done any real posting lately! I need to think of something to do. Maybe when my life is being a little less obnoxious.

Poupée Girl: 110911 I bought a new skirt. ♥

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Poupée Girl

     So, sometimes I use this Japanese website called poupée girl, where you can post pictures of real clothes you obtain in real life to wear yourself in order to get in-game "money" to buy virtual clothing ^-^

     I haven't posted any new clothes lately, but I do enjoy dressing up my online me every day or so.

Here is today's outfit:


poupeegirl

For the past couple days I haven't been wearing any pants/skirts! I have gotten sick of all the ones I have. The corset looks like it has little shorts though... so all is well.

The Goth Challenge: Day Five

Day V: Is there a local Goth band or group in your area?

I have absolutely no idea >.<


Well, that was a short post. I can't add Day Six because I'm too lazy right now to do what it says. Maybe later...

The Goth Challenge: Day Four

Day IV: Name a stereotype or cliche that you relate to.

   There are kind of a lot.
   Here's a list, in no particular order:

• I'm not obsessed or anything, but I like vampires. I really like fangs. In fact, if I become successful enough at fashion design and art (to the point where I don't have to rely on whether anyone will hire me or not), I want to get my canines permanently pointed. Not because I think I'm a vampire, I just love how very pointed canines look.
• I write dark/gloomy/sad/morbid poetry.
• I'm artistic.
• I love Halloween and almost everything to do with it. When I go into stores with Halloween stuff, I get the biggest smile on my face and I want everything in sight.
• My favourite colour is black. I'm often heard saying things like "Well I'd LOVE this shirt if it was black..." "If it were cheaper, I'd buy it and dye it black." "I'm going to paint ____ black."
• I like being as pale as possible. 
• I hate the sun and prefer darkness and night to light and day.
• I love graveyards.

 There are probably a lot more that I can't think of at the moment, but those are a few.