Daily Life Update

Hi, so in between all of my other posts, I thought I would update you on how I've been. I've been feeling sick *again* . However, in the weekend, the weather has seriously picked up a lot, resulting in my mood being picked up, kind off.

I'm really tired right now because me and my sister did one of Blogilates ab workout videos and I'm just incredibly unfit and now my muscles are stiff and I'm really tired. What about you guys, what are your plans for the summer holidays, anything interesting? 

Is anyone going to a Jrock concert? if there are any concerts coming up, I really hope I can see some of my favourite Kpop/Jrock bands one day. I think I would just cry tears of happiness. =.= I think I'm so tired that I don't even know what I'm talking about. 

Its one of those days, were you've done nothing and I mean nothing and yet, you feel exhausted and drained but why? >.< I wish I knew the answer to that. 

~~~ This post, I shall end here because there isn't much to say, except that I highly recommend you to check out Alice Nine's Channel because its super funny and hilarious, I'm trying to listen to more Jrock bands, so I'm going to listen to Kagrra, its pretty sad that the vocalist Isshi, is no longer alive :( ~~~ 

Bye Bye Bye and stay happy.... Prinxe Happiness....see you in my next post, which will be very soon.

Visual Kei

For those who don't and do know about Visual Kei, I'm going to write a short post about it from information that I found on the internet and information that I already know. (credits: to homeless visual kids website and other websites where I checked up information verify that it was correct and for having the information about the different genres). Visual Kei is predominately dominated by males, although there are some female bands gaining recognition, some famous Female bands are

Visual Kei is about music and fashion, Visual kei started from Japan and its a type of genre of rock music with pop, hip hop, punk elements etc. Depending on the band, a different "theme" or "concept" will follow and using this theme or concept, bands will dress accordingly and their music will follow this theme or concept.

Its been said that X Japan first helped to create Visual Kei, they used to have spike up long hair and heavy make up during the start of their career, Yoshiki was the cross-dresser in the group and used to have long, blonde wavy hair and wore red lipstick. 

X Japan when they first started out.

"Psychedelic Violence of Visual Shock" - X Japan

This was how X Japan described what Visual Kei was and it was truly an explosion of colour, not just Oshare kei bands but other styles, too had colourful make up or clothes, or personalities... they were just caring as much music as about the fashion and stories they carried in their music.

Some sub-genres are (okay, I can't list all sub-genres because we would be here until next week and this post would be like 10 pages long and everyone would be bored to death) :

Oshare Kei- whilst Visual Kei is darker, Oshare Kei band members use bright colours and funky and cute looking accessories, so popular clothes in bright colours that I have seen them using include  red, pink, yellow, blue, green, purple etc. Make up is lighter so its more about enhancing thei face, and the fashion reminds me of some of the clothes the kids of Harajuku would wear. This is my personal opinion but Oshare Kei is more wearable compared to the other sub-genres. Famous Oshare kei bands include An Cafe, SuG,   Paradeis etc amongst others... some popular songs are "Smile Ichiban Il Onna by An Cafe" , " Sweet Toxic" by SuG. Also, the music has a more pop feeling to it.

  An Cafe

An Cafe

 SuG

  Sug

Paradeis

Kote Kei - Kote Kei is the opposite of Oshare Kei and has two sub genres black kei and white kei. Kote kei which is also sometimes written as kotekote, this type of kei is this most traditional kind.It is also the oldest style of visual kei. Some examples of this are "Lareine" , "Dir En Grey" amongst others.

Laraeine

Dir En Grey

Angura Kei - which comes from the English word "underground" , bands in this genre will wear more traditional Japanese clothing such as the kimono, some famous bands include "Kagrra" and "Inugami Circus-Dan".

Kagrra

I chose a few of the many different genres check out the "Homeless Visual Kids website - http://homelessvisualkids.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/a-look-into-visual-kei-sub genres/ - for more information and once again, credits for this website which gave me examples of bands and the differences between each style".

Also, credits to the owners of the pictures that are used for this post.

I'm going to finish with a few pictres with visual kei bands that I like because of their music or/and style of clothing/costumes.

 

   

 

Comment in the box below, your favourite styles ~ I don't know which style I would go with? >.< create, my own style... maybe? Good bye and stay happy ~~~ Prinxe Happiness.

Happy Super Belated Birthday to Saga!

So, if you don't know yet... Saga is my favourite member of Alice Nine with Shou and Nao being close~ I think Saga is very mysterious sometimes, on the Alice9 Channel he seems more quiet and occasionally makes some jokes.

Anyways, I liked to wish Saga, a Happy Belated Birthday. I hope all his wishes come true and he'll remain happy, healthy and joyous in each day. I thought I would share some basic facts regarding Saga, so readers of my blog, can get to understand this wonderful bassist a bit more.

 Credits: The pictures of Saga and all the facts do not belong to me, so credits to the original owner. ~

Okay, here some facts and then I'll end the post with a couple of Saga pictures:

Birth Name: Sakamoto Takashi

Birth Date: 24th of June

Birth Place: Saga was born in Koriyama, which is the Fukushima Prefecture, there is a clip when Tora visits Saga's house and talks to his parents.

Saga mother is a nurse and his father is a salary man, Saga is calm person who never gets angry, he has a dog called Chiko who is 17 years old, Saga is a gentleman and is known to give his seat up for the elderly. Saga would be a teacher if he wasn't a musician. Saga is a good cook and says men who can't cook are bad. There are loads of places on the Internet for more facts~ I just chose some.

^^ Some people say that Saga looks bit like Jui (ex-Vidoll) or Yuki (Lolita 23Q)

 









 Thank you and see you in my next post :)

Alice Nine

Hi, guys I'm back and I want to talk to you about my new favourite band... Alice Nine. They are a five member Japanese Visual Kei band. The members are vocalist Shou, guitarists Tora and Hiroto, bassist Saga and drummer Nao. From various sources, that I read Hiroto is the youngest and Nao is the oldest. Nao is also the leader of the band. Usually, drummers are the leaders of bands? ^_^ The band was also formed by Nao.

 
The cover of Rainbows, from left to right is Tora, Nao, Hiroto, Shou and Saga.

I was thinking the other day, I should check out some of other Jrock bands that I had never listened too and I decided on Alice Nine, I didn't go for bands with heavier visual appearances or music such as Dir En Grey or Gigrugamesh because I don't think I would like it as much.

The first song, I listened too was "Rainbows" by Alice Nine released on August the 6th 2008 and is their thirteenth maxi single!!!... It was really cool, Shou's singing voice reminds me of a blend of Gackt and someone else's voice but he has his own style, of course. The guitarists, drummer and bassist have lots of energy and give off a cool and mysterious vibe.

Nao


Tora

Saga

 

Shou


Hiroto

I also watched a few of their Alice Nine Channel videos, and they are so funny, I thought that the video where is Saga is answering questions related to soccer, a topic which is meant to have lots of knowledge about. Hiroto was the referee and Tora, I assume is the host of the channel and provides comments and generally makes the episode run more smoothly. 

To answer a question, Saga must head butt the soccer ball which is hanging over him (he has to jump up, when it gets higher, he has to take a few attempts and even falls over on one of them). Anyways, his face was priceless was when he got the answers wrong, he seemed so shocked. 

Also, another funny episode is "whats inside the box?" so I believe there are four boxes, there's a slit at the top and you put your hand through and touch whatever is inside, it could be alive or dead, anything...I won't tell you whats inside the box (no spoilers here) but I can tell you that Nao, despite the eldest and the leader is the most scared and screams the most :/ Saga and Tora are also part of this game.

I also watched their short movie "Number Six" which was roughly 15 minutes long. Its stars all five members and has a girl that is in high school (~17)and is very heart warming, the kind of film that leaves a meaning embedded inside you.

Here are some more pictures of Alice Nine to end this post.

 

 

Credit: None of these are my pictures, credits go to all the owners of these pictures.

There is a lot of information about each member and the band already, so I decided to keep this post shorter with just some of my favourite things of Alice Nine. If you have any song recommendations, let me know~ I highly recommend you to check them out, if you aren't into heavy Jrock and prefer more Oshare Kei style bands, perhaps you will like them too?

Maybelline Fit Me Foundation Review

Hi, I'm back with another review this is the Fit Me Maybelline Foundation in shade 125, so this isn't the exact shade for me. I picked out the wrong one, its a shade darker (I feel) for me. Its not obvious but yeah. This was my first foundation that I bought and what I didn't realise was that with foundation, you test it on your jawline. I was always told that because tester products have been on hundreds on people, its unhygenic to apply i.e liptstick to directly on your lips, instead you swatch it either on the back of your hand or your wrist. So I tested foundation on the back on of my hand *I know, I failed but I'm pretty new to make up*


So, yeah~ also, I'm pretty fair "milky" skin tone. Although, I think a thin layer of this foundation is good and I will finish it off before trying out other BB creams & foundation. Any recommendations than drop a comment in the comments section? I'm looking for light to medium coverage.

Okay lets go!

 Product Description (taken from their website).

Why You'll Love It It's face makeup that fits you.

• No oils, no waxes, no nonsense
• Natural coverage that leaves skin the way it was meant to be... Fresh, breathing, flawless
• Exclusive translucent base and lightweight pigments allow skin's natural highs and lows to show through
• Seamless blending for light to medium coverage
• Non-comedogenic, dermatologist tested
• Available in 18 breathable shades
• SPF 18*.

*For all shades except 330, 340, 360

For Best Results Apply evenly to your face and blend with your fingertips.

Packaging is really boring compared to Japanese & Korean brands. Its in a glass rectangle tube thing with a black cap. The name of the product is on the product and the name of the brand. My one is in shade 125. There is 30ml of product (way more than enough, I don't wear foundation, every time I wear make up). It lasts for 24 months (2 years). Its also a pump product so you won't end up squeezing out too much product and wasting it. YAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!

       / 5 


Scent

There isn't a particular smell, it just smells pleasent enough to apply on your face. I can't see anyone having a problem with this.
 

 / 5


Product

There are 18 shades. My shade 125 is also known as "Nude Beige" , I'd probably should of tried "Ivory" or "Natural Ivory" to get closer to my skin tone. Oh well :(. The product is thick and glides onto the skin really well, its easy to blend into the skintone and you can you build up the converage, giving off a natural colour. Although, I don't know if I got the wrong shade or something but when I apply too much. I always end up looking orange and this usually, happens if I have pimples or break out and I try to cover up the redness. 

This is how the product looks like when pumped out of the bottle

 A swatch of the foundation.

Roughly blended

The top half of my hand is withouth the foundation and the bottom half, is with foundation.
I think you can see the difference between the skintones *LOL*.

           / 5




Overall:

    / 5


Thumbs Up

Lots of shades
Good coverage
No unpleasent smell

Thumbs Down

Packaging is a little boring for me.

^^ I would recommend this for others, however I'd probably won't re-purchase this because I want to try something else and I like products with cute packaging. I hope to see you in my next review.

David & Goliath

Hi, I'm back with another post, sorry I've been super lazy but I'll start to tidy up my blog and make a new layout as well. Lets start on todays post!

Have you guys heard of American designers David & Goliath, they make  colourful, funky tops, pajamas, mini sneakers in the shape of fries and hamburger, bracelets jumpers, socks etc with cool funny slogans and cheerful images. This is their website for more information : http://www.davidandgoliathtees.com/accessories.html  (I love the bracelets, they are really cute).

They are one of my favourite clothes designers because the cute and cartoon-ish prints is defnitely my style of clothing, I bought my t-shirts from  what you could call an "outlet:" so the clothes are much cheaper and discounted. Although, I bought the socks from the original shop! (they were kinda pricey :()

I'm Sweet top --- this top is kinda short on me but I love the purple colour its a very soft not harsh purple with the cute swirly red and white candy piece. I think this was the second top that I bought or I should say  my mum bought it for me.

Mellow Out top

This is a sharp neon orange, I guess with a green cup with a cute face and hot chocolate with squishy marshmallows with "mellow" faces with pink cheeks, This top makes me feel relaxed, as a lot of us drink hot chocolate before we sleep or to relax and unwind.

Best Buds and I'm so lonely t-shirt, a peachy coloured t-shirt with its cute head phones with smart phone attached to it. I <3 music and I felt this top was really cute.

This is how I roll. This is a pun because its sushi rolls on the socks, its bright neon colour with pinks, yellow and greens dotted on he sushi pieces, there is also peachy front tongue and the back of the foot.

^^ I'm going to be used the Nature Republic V shaped mask which helps to make the face kinda more v-shaped, this is very popular in Korea.  Korean celebrity "Jang Geun Suk" who has a vert v-shaped face.

I also have a pink top that says "I love music" but I can't find it at the moment *facepalm* sorry.