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21 Şubat 2015 Cumartesi

All About: Face masks

pubg Şubat 21, 2015 0

Recently Face masks are being seen more in more in fashion street snaps from places such as Shibuya and Harajuku. If you go to Japan or other places in Asia, your likely to see people walking about in this fashion trend. But what are the reasons behind this? Where can you buy them? Find out this article. Hope you enjoy it!

What are the reasons why people usually wear face masks?

1) To keep their illness (Such as a cold) to themselves or to stop it from getting worse.

2) To not catch a cold in the first place.

3) In the cold, Face masks can serve as a protective layer over the bottom half of your face to keep you warm.

4) For fashion

What styles can you incorporate face masks into?

Any style! Even if your coord is not J fashion related, you can still wear a face mask since they are generalized.

Face masks are casually seen with Gyaru, Fairy Kei and even Lolita.

Printed masks

While you can get plain ones, brands have started to make unique printed ones with add a touch of Kawaii to a simple item. In the two bellow you can see a pastel pink Hello Kitty mask which is perfect for lighter styles such as Fairy Kei meanwhile on the right you can see a black mask with a "?" as the main empress.

Let's have a look at more styles with face masks:

Decora (Source)

Hime Gyaru

Even more gothic looks

Where to buy?

The easiest place to buy them is from any convenience store in Tokyo. However if buying online is your only option, there are a few places selling them.

Click here to find the mask above and a couple other.

eBay also offer a wide range of face masks

If your a fan of Kpop (Korean pop music) you can also find Kpop related face masks. One place is here.

Do you wear Japanese face masks? Comment below!

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13 Kasım 2014 Perşembe

Fairy Kei In Winter - Style Tips

pubg Kasım 13, 2014 0

Yuki♥

It's November and the weather is starting to get colder.

This time of the year people may want to just keep warm instead of Kawaii with layers of coats, boots, scarfs and mundane clothes.

However you can still dress up cute, you can still look Kawaii while trying to keep warm.

In this article will be some tips for wearing Fairy Kei in Winter.

What is Fairy Kei?

Fairy Kei ("Fairy Fashion") is a Japanese Street fashion made out of pastel colours (Although dark colours can still be used). More and more people oversea's have started wearing the style, and it has quickly become the most popular kawaii style, after lolita.

The style is easily confused with similair styles such as Pop Kei or Decora. To find out more about Fairy Kei, click here to read our All About post!

Now onto the keep warm tips!

Layers!
The style itself often consists of layers so adding extra to keep warm won't look out of place. Layering can also be pretty simple if you have a pre-existing Fairy Kei wardrobe. If you don't, some good places to start buying some clothes for layering are: Spreepicky, Himi store, Maniaq and MilkLim.

Boots
Boots will help keep your feet/legs warm and can also look cute with Fairy Kei.
Some places to buy boots perfect for Fairy Kei: Clobba online, Bodyline

There are also some Gyau brands that have brought out shoes which would look cute with Fairy.

Leg warmers!

Leg warmers such as these in the picture above add a cute touch to any outfit and can help with warming your legs! Check out a few of the Leg warmers from Lolita Desu, they're cute and affordable!: YellowXpink. PinkXMintXoffwhite. PinkXpurple

Gloves

Gloves keep your hands warm. They also come in pastel colours which are perfect for Fairy Kei. Click here to buy the cat paw gloves from the picture below.

Check out some of the gloves from Lolita Desu: Purple, PinkXyellowXmint, MintXblack, Pink. You can also buy some animal themed ones here.

Long sleeves

Long sleeves will cover up your arms to keep you warm. By wearing pastels you can mix long sleeves with Fairy Kei. Click here to check out the long sleeved hoody above.

Coats/ jackets

Easy method to adding layers to keep you warm!

Hats

Hats can cover you head, keeping you warm and adds a cute touch! Click any of the links to check some out!: Flower hat, Bow, Hearts, The hat above. You can also use simple pastel coloured beanies which you can find in a variety of UK stores such as Primark.

A few winter friendly Fairy Kei coords:

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11 Ekim 2014 Cumartesi

Kawaii-B all about: Decoden

pubg Ekim 11, 2014 0

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Decoden or Dekoden which is short for "Decoration Denwa". Denwa means phone, the translation is literately Decoration phone. Despite having "Phone" in the name, Decoden can be used on anything from phone cases, to nails, to circle lenses cases to mirrors. Hope you enjoy it!

It is possible to buy decoden phone cases and other objects online. For phones they usually fit smartphones such as iPhones or Samsung Galaxy. Before buying you have to double check that it will fit what type of phone your buying it for.

Ciali in kawaiiland

Offers adorable designs featuring bunnys, stars and music notes.

Yukiumi

Supplies Decoden nails, phone cases and supplies to make your own. It is a little pricy ($39.99 for the Decoden nails below) however they do have a lot of designs perfect for Hime Gyaru.

There are also a few places where you can buy your own things to add a special DIY Decoden touch to anything.

candy crystal is a UK online store that supplies accessories for Decoden. You can also buy other things including plain but coloured ring bases and whipped cream clay.