My Journey So Far...

Hello everyone reading!

I feel as though I am about to cry. The other day, I was removing my nail polish. Actually, perhaps this isn't the place to start my story. Lets go way back.

One of my earliest memories is my mom telling me to stop picking at my cuticles, otherwise I'd get sick. For years, I've had this ongoing problem. I will pick at my fingers nonstop until they're little bloody stumps of shame. I've always hated this about myself, yet I still manage to do it. I've had this habit since I can remember.

There have been small amounts of time in the past where I've stopped, but these last for only a couple days, and just when I am starting to become proud of myself, I notice a drop of blood on my leg and I've started again. This habit usually gets worse with my anxiety. It reached it's all time high during my junior year of high school. When New Years rolled around this year, I vowed to stop picking and my reward would be my first tattoo. Around April, I was dismayed to discover I hadn't really made any progress at all.

Now back to now. I was removing my nail polish, and I braced myself for the intense stinging pain of remover in my wounds. After about two minutes, I realized there was no pain. I quickly removed the cotton ball and saw my fingers; they were smooth!

Now for those of you who don't know what it's like to pick your fingers, healing takes quite a bit of time. Your open wounded stubs do not heal over night, they don't even heal in a week. At least not for me. Because I've picked at them for years, it takes a long time for them to completely recover, which is actually a milestone I've never reached.

I told all my friends and they were so proud of me. They should be. Everyone who has been close to me has known about this problem since they've known me. In many ways, I feel like this step is a step toward recovery. Not necessarily recovery from just my picking, but from the anxiety and tortures I've been handling for the past three years or so. I feel like I am FINALLY getting to a better place.

I saw The Fault in Our Stars, and I cried a lot. I cried more than I thought I would. I went back to the car crying, and I was crying when we stopped at McDonald's. My best friend's nephew didn't really understand it, my friend Sean and my sister ignored it, and my best friend Kim looked at me knowingly. I wasn't crying over the movie. I was just letting it all out. The years of pretending to be strong and being mad and hurt are over. I cried for the first time. And I feel like it's finally over. I'm finally free. It may not make sense to some of you, but I will talk about it later on this journey...

I still catch myself picking occasionally, but I stop myself immediately. I thing things will change. They're looking up.

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Update/Giveaway

Hey everyone! I haven't posted in forever...

So basically everything that's happened in the past year or so! I started college, and I love it. I decided that I want to pursue a career in the medical field. I want to be a OB/GYN. I am still with my boyfriend Ahnaf, and we are approaching a two year relationship. I got a job at a kid's toy store and I absolutely love it.

Most of all, I wanted to let you guys know that if you even read my blog (I know Kim did but looking at my page views at least a couple people did come back) fear not! I post somewhat regularly on my YouTube channel, where I am xchigumachanx. I post a variety of videos, kinda similar to what I did here.

I also plan to get back into the groove of blogging very shortly here. Now let me explain why I am doing this. The other day, I was checking my bloglovin' account only to find that Sara Mari started posting blog updates again! I was ecstatic. I have loved her for years, and it seemed she fell off the face of the earth. I was so excited for her to be posting that it inspired me once again.

I am thinking of taking a new direction on this blog, however. I would definitely like to maybe focus this blog a little more inward and discuss my difficulties with trying to overcome my anxiety sans meds. Or just talk about day to day things, with a few tidbits and advice on like, how I think fashion wise and book reviews. It'll be more assorted and less strictly beauty related.

Also, Sara Mari is doing a celebratory giveaway since she's back now! Here is the link:

Click Here 

So, without further ado, I'll end this post. I hope you all have a wonderful couple of days, and hopefully, I'll see you soon! 

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Kawaii Companions Appreciation Post [:

About a year ago, I won a giveaway that was sponsored by Victoria aka ParfaitDoll. The prize was a ring and necklace from the store Kawaii Companions. After receiving my prize, I wrote a post basically reviewing the necklace and ring and talked about how much I loved everything having to do with Kawaii Companions. 

Since then, Kawaii Companions made a music video in partnership with Jen and the Gents which was absolutely adorable and somewhat heartbreaking. 

Also, their website has added so many more things onto it, like pictures and the music video as well as some tights they made. It's amazing! 

Anyway, they sent me a pair of tights to do a review on which I will be doing within the next week. I just need to take some pictures and upload them and be on my way. I have worn them once since getting them (I couldn't resist, plus, I figured that it might make for a better review if I actually had worn them) so expect a wonderful review. [: 

You can visit their webpage here and like their facebook page here! Have a wonderful next couple of days [: 

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Some Post

Hey everyone! This is some random personal post I guess. I was just watching grav3yardgirl videos and I looked down and... oh my gosh! I've almost been watching grav3yardgirl for a year. Well, I had a bit of a hiatus from her videos. Anyway, I am wearing this bone shirt with a zombie cameo. And I realized, wow, I have changed.

A year ago, things were just so different. I am so much happier and I accept myself so much more now. It's fabulous. Then I realized, holy crap, I'm graduating this year. We got these packets about prom and senior checkout and senior celebration and it was just a wake up call. I ought to get on top of my scholarship stuff... gah, I'm such a slacker.

I hope you guys are having a good day [:
Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Random Tidbits About Self Love

Throughout my life, I've constantly been evolving and trying to fit into these ideas of how I should be or how I ought to be. Many times I have used the opinion of my boyfriend to determine how I was. Oh, he likes girls like this? I'll become that. 

Just recently, I have been realizing that I ought to be who I am and nothing more or nothing less. I have realized that it is okay to both love sweet lolita and want to collect bones at the same time. I've learned that although the way I dress is a huge part of who I am, it does not make me who I am. I've also learned that I CAN dress however I want to. 

Worrying about the opinion of others has given me nothing but hardships throughout my life, especially when I worry about the opinions of those who I care about. But then I realized that the people I care about who also care about me care about me for a reason. They don't just talk to me because they have no one else to. They chose me because I am a unique individual in which they enjoy spending time with. 

So basically I've had all these journeys only to come to the conclusion that is most cheesy and overused; BE YOURSELF. It's so cliche but it is so true. 

And that's my random tidbit about self love. 

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

An Explanation

Hello everyone! I hope you have been doing well. I have come back to give a little explanation of my random hiatus.

During my junior year, I decided to sign up to be in this class where I have an internship. I thought it would be a wonderful experience and such. This year, when I actually had to deal with it, things turned out to be extremely difficult and I was lacking the time and effort to even dress up or do anything else worthwhile.

Meanwhile, my camera stopped working and I just lost the inspiration.

I finally decided to drop the class. After so much hard work and getting blown off and drama, it had not been worth the gain at all. I feel a lot better and a lot less stressed since dropping it, so I've decided to take back up the activities I previously liked.

I am not on the technical crew in my theatre program which is absolutely wonderful. I started dressing up again and I auditioned for the talent show again.

Anyway, I am going to start blogging again for good. Wish me luck!~ [:

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Update or something...

I am so bad at writing in this blog. I think I will improve though... I mean, I've been trying to improve. Writing here will make it a lot easier to keep up my New Year's Resolution to write something everyday. But for now I'll just tell you about my news and craziness and all that jazz.

First of all, I am not in costume crew at my school, so I have technical theater every day. That is insanely fun and I love it. Our school is doing the musical Aida and I usually would audition but the theater teacher, Mrs Fowler, had a baby and isn't around during this musical, so the choir teacher teaches it and I just prefer Mrs Fowler. I also miss her like crazy.

Next in line of my news is that I have decided one hundred percent to do my executive internship. The class in online and I'm currently working on writing my resume for them to send out to some people so they can get me placed. I am hopefully going to be placed in a hospital so that will be fun.

I'm thinking more about pursuing a career in the medical field again but I am just completely unsure. I go back and forth between the creative side and analytical side of me. One day I'll figure it out. Hopefully my internship helps me out a bit with my decision making.

I just finished reading the book The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and OH MY GOODNESS. I love that book so incredibly much. it is written so well and it's just a magnificent piece of prose. The more I learn/read about Oscar Wilde, the more I just love him. I'm looking forward to reading more of his books in the future, but for now, next on my reading list are The Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, and Frankenstein.

Lastly, and most excitingly, I just received an acceptance letter to my first choice college on Friday! I was super excited, although I didn't doubt I would get in, it's still incredible, incredible news.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and I will be trying to write more, for once, I promise I'll do it! I've been working out and all of that so hopefully I stick to all the things I said I would.
Yours Truly, Jamie♥

New Year's Resolutions

Happy New Year everyone! I had one of the best New Years celebrations ever, but I became incredibly ill for the first day of 2013, unfortunately. Yesterday, I could barely stay awake yet alone do anything. I looked and felt like crap all day. Today I feel significantly better, yet I'm still sick. I hope you all are well, this really sucks :C

I always do this thing where I create a whole list of New Year's resolutions. I am constantly on a path of self-betterment. However, just as everyone else in this world, my New Years resolutions continue to be New Years resolutions and I never actually do them. This year, I thought I'd be more reasonable in my resolutions, so here they are!

     ♥ Limit myself to five hours of technology time a day and slowly decrease amount over time
     ♥ Exercise every other day
     ♥ Read every day
     ♥ Drink more water!
     ♥ Maintain a clean room

I feel like these resolutions are achievable and I've been a;ready trying my best to do them. it's been a little harder for the ones like maintaining my clean room and exercising because I am really sick, but hopefully when I get better within the next couple days it'll be easier [:

In other news, Ahnaf has another concert on Friday and I'll definitely be going to that. I'll also be taking pictures and stuff so that I can actually post about it this time! :D

I hope you are all well. I'll be posting hauls, outfit of the days, and many other random posts within the next couple weeks, so look forward to that!~
Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Lolita Blog Carnival: 5 Books Every Lolita Should Read

Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful last couple days of 2012. Today, I will be posting with the Lolita Blog Carnival about five books every lolita should read! I love the idea for this post. Reading is one of the most crucial parts of my life. I absolutely adore reading.

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 

This is the very first book I believe every single lolita should read. It is the book that most people would mistake it for when you say "this is lolita". I understand that this book is seen in a very bad light, but I enjoyed reading it... well. Hm, how should I word this? xD It is a very good example of wonderful prose. I enjoy higher reading, and this book is definitely under that category. Nabokov's use of vocabulary is astonishing.

However, I also feel that every lolita should read this so that they don't make rash assumptions about this book. It's one thing to call it crap and the like after reading it. You have formed a well educated opinion. But deciding that it's the devil because it gives you a bad name, but not looking into it? That's just ignorant. 

2. Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto 

Most lolitas have seen this hilarious movie about friendship, however, I found the book to be significantly more entertaining. This book isn't a hard read at at, and it follows, for the most part, closely to the plot of the movie. I think every lolita who likes Kamikaze Girls the movie, should see where the idea originated from. [: 

3. The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory 

I may just be putting this book in here because it's one of my all time favorite books, however I think there are plenty of lolitas out there who enjoy the historical aspect of lolita. The Other Boleyn girl is a fiction novel based on the story of Mary and Anne Boleyn, who lived in the court of King Henry VIII during the Early 1500's. 

4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 

Although I didn't particularly enjoy this book, I think it is a basic book that most lolitas should read. Seeing as how Alice in Wonderland motifs are used incredibly throughout the whole lolita fashion. That's pretty much all I have to say about that book xD 

5. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

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I loved this book a lot. I mostly just included it though, because a lot of other people did, I have read it, and I had a hard time thinking of a last book to add. xD 

Thank you for reading this Lolita Blog Carnival post! Check out what the other girls were writing about:

Sparkling Girl

Palace of Frills

A Lace Jail

EGL Community

Under the Parasol

Ice Age

Minimalist Lolita

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Happy Holidays!

Hello everyone! I was going to do an outfit of the day post, but then my camera decided to die on my and NOT import all my pictures. C'est la vie. I do really need to charge it. Anyway, this is mostly just a post to let you all know that I'm still alive and to wish everyone happy holidays!

I will probably post later tonight or tomorrow when my camera is more charged, as well as a Lolita Blog Carnival post on Friday. Also, I will be posting a Christmas Haul post! That one is super exciting.

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Lolita Blog Carnival: Underrated Colors

Hello everyone! I hope you're having a wonderful week. I just recently started my winter break, so hopefully I'll have more blogging time. Today, I'll be posting with the Lolita Blog Carnival about Underrated Colors!

The Lolita Blog Carnival is a group of bloggers who dress in lolita, and each week, we post about one of the same topics. You can visit our facebook page HERE!

Today's topic, underrated colors, is a topic I hold very dearly to my heart. A couple years ago, when I was first starting out in lolita, my favorite color was green. I asked my grandmother to sew me a dress for my birthday, and it was a lovely shade of muted mint green.

After posting my outfits on the Lolita Forums, I received an overwhelming amount of hate. Not specifically on my outfits, but more on the color of my dress. One person went so far as to even say it wasn't a lolita color. I was totally upset by this. How could colors be deemed as "lolita" or "not lolita"?

These are the three colors I feel are most underrated in the lolita style: peach, muted mint, and royal purple. 

Peach is one of my absolute favorite colors ever. I think it looks beautiful and sweet, especially paired with a creamy white. I think this color is often ignored, and I can't even think of a dress I've seen with this color. I feel like it would be a great alternative to the color pink, especially in sweet or classical lolita. 

I love the muted mint color. I think it adds a bit more elegance to an outfit, rather than the brighter baby pastel mint. This color seems a lot more adult to me and I feel like it's a versatile color. I, myself, have a skirt in this color, and it is a very fun piece to play around with. 

And last but not least, royal purple. This has evolved into being one of my absolute favorite colors lately. Although lavender is a hugely popular color in the lolita style, it's darker counterpart seems to get little to no attention. I feel like royal purple would be a very beautiful color to pair with a hime or classical coordinate. I also think it would be a lovely color to pair with a black gothic coordinate. 

I even had issues finding a non-ita picture of a purple lolita dress, and I'm pretty sure this isn't even lolita, because it looks like it is probably full length. 

Comment below with colors you'd also like to see more in lolita, and if you liked this post, check out what the other girls in the Carnival think about underrated colors! 

A Lace Jail

Ramble Rori

Xylia-X

Lemontree 11

F Yeah Lolita

Angelic Nostalgia

Darkly Darling

Lets Go!

Commercially Alternative

Ice Age

EGL Community

Suns in Our Hands

Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you all have wonderful weekends, holidays, and let's hope the world doesn't end ♥ Be safe, everyone. 

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

I apologize.

I apologize for my lack of blogging within the past couple weeks. I was doing pretty good, but I've just been getting overwhelmed really easily, especially with finals week and the shooting...

In July, my community was affected by the Aurora theater shooting, and many people I knew were there. Someone I knew even died. Hearing about the Connecticut shooting brought upon a whole new set of panic attacks and bad memories. I can't even comprehend what happened. It has been really bringing me down, and I needed a break from the internet for a while. I still get choked up thinking out it.

If any of you have been affected, my deepest condolences. I know how hard it can be, and I've been there. If any of you ever need anything, know that I am here for you always. Send me a message, and I will listen and understand. Time heals all wounds, but in the meantime, mourning is all that will do good. I hope everyone is being safe, and I wish you wonderful and joyous holidays.

I may be blogging within the next week, if so, see you then.
With Love and Warmth,
Yours Truly, Jamie♥

NDK Part 3: J Fashion Show

Hello everyone! I realized I never finished blogging about what happened at NDK, and I know it was a while ago but I can still post. I will also be posting another post later about everything I got at NDK. Maybe I'll just do a little haul post for the last couple months before Christmas. Anyway, NDK Part 3!

So after falling asleep on Saturday, I woke up kind of later and got ready. I was going to be in a panel called J Walking Fashion Show which is basically a compilation of many different J Fashion styles all together in a fashion show! Here is my outfit.

I also saw my friend Sarah, whose outfit was absolutely gorgeous. Sarah is a gyaru. Sarah also got asked to be in the fashion show, so we went together. 

When I got to the fashion show, I was expecting about five to eight other girls to be participating as models, from previous experience. But as Sarah and I walked up to the line of models, I was completely surprised to see nearly forty models, ranging anywhere from Visual Kei to sugary sweet Lolita. 

During the fashion show, I talked to one of the cutest decoras and over all J-fashion followers I know, Saki. She actually told me my outfits get better and better each year, I was honored. A local Lolita named Raven was also in the fashion show dress in the Mori-girl style, and I got to take a picture with her. 

All of the models together

There was a winner but I don't remember who it was. xD Below are some more pictures. 

After the fashion show, Natalie and I headed down to the auction and took a bunch of silly pictures of ourselves, as per tradition. Overall, I had a very fun time at NDK this year and I always have a great time. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful week!

Yours truly, Jamie♥

Busy!

So today started out like an average day, go to school, come home, get on the computer... 

And I saw that my last post had some comments and I got super happy and all that! I realized that I haven't posted in almost ten days and I feel totally bad, but man it seemed like ten days just passed by at the bat of an eyelash. In the past couple days, I haven't really done much except for making my own jewelry, fill out scholarship applications, have a Thanksgiving dinner and go to a lolita meetup. 

I'll be posting more about the meetup and the jewelry I made soon, as well as another Lolita Blog carnival post. In the meantime, pictures! 

A picture of my eyeball earrings and bone necklace! 

A picture my boyfriend made for me cause we're all cheesy and such. 

I hope you all have a wonderful day and expect posts within the week ♥

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Lolita Blog Carnival: Wardrobe Challenge

Today I will be posting another entry alongside the Lolita Blog Carnival. For those of you who don't know, it is a group of lolita bloggers who post about the same prompt once a week.

This week's prompt is one that I was particularly excited for, the "Wardrobe Challenge". There were actually guidelines this time, and those were as stated: "take one staple wardrobe item, like a skirt or a JSK or OP and make five different coordinates with it". Being the Jamie that I am, I was totally excited.

My dear friend Kim often tells me how amazed she is by my ability to take my simple pink Bodyline dress and change it into so many different things than she could have ever imagined. Therefore, I thought I would (with the help of Polyvore) show you how to coordinate a plain colored jumper skirt. I will be using the color pink. :] Enjoy!

I've decided to only do four coordinates for the sake of time.

First I created a casual kind of look with just a blouse, the dress, some shoes and a bow. I forgot socks, I apologize. This is the kind of thing I might wear on a lazy lolita day. 

My initial idea was to create an OTT lolita look, but then I realized that it would take way longer than the rest, so I just stuck with a sweet lolita coordinate. This look was completely inspired by cotton candy. 

Next I thought I'd do kind of a gothic styled look. This is the kind of style I feel like I wear with my lolita the most, as I have a lot of black items in my wardrobe. I also like the way black and pink look together. 

One of my favorite kinds of looks- hime lolita. I really love the elegance that hime-lolita has. I've only tried one hime coordinate so I'm still a beginner. But I really love the roses and creamy colors. 

Thank you all for reading! Check out the Lolita Blog Carnival, and read the rest of the girls' posts ♥

Sparkling Girl

A Lace Jail

Hello Batty

2 Teaspoons of Sugar

Let's Go!

Redtonic's Blog

Make Lovely

Melting Mind of LizJuice

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

November 3rd, 2012

Hello everyone! I hope you had a good weekend. Today I will be talking about November 3rd, aka the day of my boyfriend, Ahnaf's concert. But mostly it's just a compilation of pictures of me, Kim, and my sister from before the concert, being silly and dumb. 

After getting ready, my sister and I took the bus and lightrail downtown. It was Ashley's first time riding the bus/lightrail plus her first time downtown without my parents there, and her first time on 16th Street Mall. She was adorable. After meeting Kim, we went to McDonalds and ate. 

We proceeded to go to The Tatted Cover Bookstore and that was really fun. We spent a good couple of hours in there, then took pictures in the bathroom. 

Then, we found this crazy bench... 

After the bench craziness, we walked to the Roxy where Ahnaf was playing and watched his concert. he did so good, I wish I took pictures, but c'est la vie! 

Thank you all for reading (mostly looking) and have a good day :DD 

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Craziness in Aurora

Hello everyone! This is kind of a personal post, so if you don't want to hear it, just ignore this. [:

Today I came to school looking forward to a normal and regular Friday. I got dressed and walked into the school like usual. I sat in the commons until the bell rang as usual. I walked to my boyfriend, Ahnaf's, first class with him- as usual- and sat down in there as usual. He has AP Music Theory, so his class is in the band room. While in there, I decided to organize the guard closet, as it was getting a bit out of hand lately.

After a little less than an hour or organization with the help of my friend, Joe, we exited the guard closet and sat down in the little foyer type area of the band room where all the other students who don't necessarily have that class sit. The regular crew was there- Anna, Melissa, Matt and Sam- and we were all just chatting.

The band room doesn't get announcements in it for some reason, so when we heard the faint sound of one, Anna went out in the hall to hear it. However, she was scolded to get back in the class but heard something about a lockdown.

After telling the band teacher, Gonzo, we realized we were in a lockdown. He turned out the lights and we hid in the guard closet until we found out that it wasn't a red lockdown it was an orange one. This meant that students cannot leave the classroom. We all just kind of sat around for a while, but as time started to pass, we began to wonder.

Two hours passed. We were still isolated in the school without any knowledge of what was going on. Ahnaf, Joe, and I (we call ourselves "The Tres Musketeers") sat around and laughed at Spongebob, played with instruments, and lie down on the floor laughing. Lunchtime started to approach and we were still in lockdown.

The lunch ladies came to each door delivering lunches to all the students. It was kinda crappy so Gonzo made us hot dogs instead. We also had hot chocolate and some people started making cookies. (The band room is like a home, full of food and basically anything you need in an emergency.) While eating, we watched Youtube videos of dumb cats for a little while.

After that was finished, one of my friends, Debi, proposed that we built a fort. And thus, we built a fort.

It was a very great fort, and if I can, I will post a video of the whole fort on this blog with a tour. We were very bored.

We took down the fort because the end of the day was nearing. They have to let us out at 3:30, right? 

Wrong. We were held at the school until ten before five. The teacher were making plans to bus us to a completely different school so that they could dismiss us and send us home. We were all very confused. Ahnaf and I were listening to a police scanner on his phone and found out that SWAT team members were all over a nearby parking lot. 

They were talking about various victims, body bags being found, and five men who were detained. The school didn't let us in on any of it. When we finally got out of lockdown, police were swarming the school grounds and leaving was nightmarish. We had been in lockdown inside the school for nine consecutive hours. 

When I finally got home, I was watching the news to see if any information had been leaked, as the news all day had been clear of anything about us. The most they said was that a car that had been being looked for was found and that's all. THAT'S ALL. Part of me really doubts that this is the only thing that happened. After hearing the police scanner, it sounds like a lot more of an issue than that. A local news station also reported that when they asked, the Police Department spokesperson said to "never call again regarding the incident." 

Overall, I am just really confused and a little bit sick and tired of all the crazy crap happening in my city. If you have read my blog for a while, you remember my post about the Aurora Century 16 shooting that was less than a mile away from my house, where the victims were people who I go to school with. And then this? It's disturbing. 

The worst part is the fact that I don't know anything about what really happened and I probably won't. I'll never know why I had to stay in the band room for nine hours without leaving. I'll never know why my plans for the rest of the day had to be cancelled because the SWAT team was outside my school. It's completely unsettling. 

Thank you for reading, and I hope your day was much better than mine. 

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Update

Hello everyone!

I was going to post with the Lolita Blog Carnival tomorrow, but I don't think I'll have time. I thought I'd just update since I haven't really posted this week. Tomorrow I might post about the concert, but in other news, I dyed my hair.

I felt like I needed some kind of change so I found some dye we had at the house and colored my tips pink. I'll be posting more later!
Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Lolita Blog Carnival: My Lolita Playlist

Yay! Another Lolita Blog Carnival post!

This week's topic for the Lolita Blog Carnival (a group of lolitas who blog about a specific topic each week) is "Your Lolita Playlist". I especially love this topic because I feel like I really do have a playlist that I listen to when getting ready to dress up. Since there weren't really rules or anything about how to go about this post, I just decided to chose ten songs and tell you why they're on my lolita playlist [:

1. Fashion Monster by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu  - Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is one of the most popular artists to dress up in Harajuku fashions. I love getting ready to her music because it is so upbeat and just fun to listen to. It puts me in this kind of cute mood that I feel is necessary when I'm dressing up.

2. Lemon Iro to Milk Tea by Morning Musume - If you have read my blog before, you probably know Morning Musume is one of my favorite bands ever. I love this song to get ready to because it has a cutesy and sugary feel to it.

3. Renai Circulation by Hanazawa Kana - I literally play this song every time I get dressed up. I heard it playing on one of the kawaii blogs I follow and I found it so suiting and adorable. It's a fun song, and I know all the words so I love singing with it.

4. CANDY CANDY by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - I think I'll be bombarding you guys with Kyary and MoMusu songs. I love them so much, they're my favorite to listen to and get ready. This song is also annoyingly catchy.

5. Please Mini Skirt Postwoman by S/mileage - I can never get enough of this song. Despite the odd lyrics, I adore singing and dancing to it. And I just adore S/mileage songs. They make me feel adorable.

6. Pyoko Pyoko Ultra by Morning Musume - When this song came out, it got a lot of criticism for being too childish and too cute. A big complaint was that the fans wanted a more adult song. I, however, love it. It makes me super happy when I'm getting ready for a lolita day

7. PONPONPON by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - How could I forget PONPONPON?

8. How To Be a Heartbreaker by Marina and the Diamonds - This isn't necessarily a cute or girly song, but I love jamming out and singing to this song while getting ready. Most of these songs are fast pace, and that's because I'm usually hurrying when getting ready.

9. 2.99 Cent Blues by Regina Spektor - Regina Spektor is by far my favorite artists ever. This song off of her 11:11 album is a song I literally listen to every day when I get ready. I don't know why but singing with it while I get ready gets me in a good mood and sets the mood for the day. It's a really fun song.

10. AS FOR ONE DAY by Morning Musume - This is my favorite Morning Musume song. I love dancing to it while getting ready. Actually, all of these songs I listen to primarily when I get ready, because that's when I listen to music the most.

Thank you for reading! Check out the other lolitas participating: 

KiraKiraShojou

Princess Palace
Dollhouse Diaries
Pop Princess
Commercially Alternative
La Petite Princesse
Parfait Doll
Sweet and Simple
Sweet Lolita Doll
Geisha Baby
Ramble Rori
Le Boudoir
Paivanvarjon alla
Stranger and Stranger
Hello Batty
Puppenschloss
Darkly Darling

Yours Truly, Jamie♥

Happy Halloween!

Happy belated Halloween, everyone. I apologize for not posting on Monday when I said I would, I didn't end up dressing up and I've been pretty busy the past couple days. I thought I'd just post about my Halloween experience. 

Yesterday I dressed up as an insane asylum escapee and went downtown with my boyfriend. I left my house and met him at a local park. He didn't have makeup and he had to break a hundred, so we walked over to a local store and he bought makeup. Then we headed to where he used to work to pick up tickets from the singer of his band, speaking of which, he has a show on Saturday that I'll probably post about. 

Then we waited for one of his friends at a 7-11. I think there was a full moon or something because seriously there were some crazies lurking around there. We were sitting on the side talking to some weird guy who kept asking if I was a cat and then his friend was really creepy about my costume so we left and went to the front of 7-11 instead. Ahnaf was all "I think that guy was gonna rape you" and I donno, I thought he was super cute cause he was protecting me. 

We took the bus to the light rail and headed downtown. I love it there so much. Then we went to his sister's apartment and I watched Spongebob while they both got ready. Ahnaf was Eric Draven from The Crow and Cynthia, his sister, was Batgirl. We then went to eat at Noodles & CO. My dad picked me up shortly after that. 

Then I came home and it was really boring at first and I was just sitting in my room, but then my sister and I decided to watch Poltergeist. I was so proud of myself. I usually am super terrified of movies and I stay scared the whole night and can't sleep but I fell asleep right away without issues. It wasn't that scary of a movie to me though, thank goodness. And that was my Halloween! 

That is the end of this post/ I will be posting with the Lolita Blog Carnival tomorrow, so expect that! I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween. 

Yours Truly, Jamie♥