Style Boutique - Miss Ribbon & Le Spark Guide (Glam/Flirty Style)

The Style Boutique series features a variety of clothing styles/images and over the course of the series, some styles have been removed entirely from the game. One such style is the fabulous glam/flirty style which was last featured in New Style Boutique (known as Style Savvy: Trendsetters in NA and わがままファッション GIRLS MODE よくばり宣言! in JPN). The style was referred to as glam in the PAL version (EUR/AUS and flirty in the NA version. The main brand to feature this style was also known as different names in each region: Miss Ribbon in EUR/AUS, Le Spark in NA and ビスクマリー BiscMary in JPN.

The Japanese guide book to わがままファッション GIRLS MODE よくばり宣言! describes the style as princess gal and emphasises sexyness and cuteness. Items that can be found under the main brand feature floral patterns, a large amount of polka dots and bows everywhere! Camisoles are a key item for glam/flirty outfits and the brand had a large number of them. Here are examples of items from the brand as listed in the Japanese guide book.

The glam/flirty style was removed from the series after New Style Boutique/Trendsetters and was no longer featured in the next game Fashion Forward. The Miss Ribbon/Le Spark/ビスクマリー BiscMary is no longer available in the Style Boutique games and the items from that brand were divided in other brands within the game. This guide will detail all the items that were available from the Miss Ribbon/Le Spark/ビスクマリー BiscMary brand and the number of colours each item came in. You can also find which brand the item now belongs to in Styling Star, for example the Polka Dot Lace Camisole is now found at April Bonbon. All items from Miss Ribbon/Le Spark/ビスクマリー BiscMary can be found at the following brands: April Bonbon, AZ-USA, Marzipan Sky, Marble Lily, Raven Candle, Stage Dive, Chorale, Brooke Bridge & Retrobeat.

Tops & Inners

• Dot Bikini Top - 7 colours (AZ-USA)
• Ruffled Tube Top - 8 colours (AZ-USA)
• Polka Dot Camisole - 6 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Leopard Print Camisole - 8 colours (AZ-USA)
• Leaf Lace Camisole - 8 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Lacy Camisole with bow - 8 colours (AZ-USA)
• I Love Me T-Shirt - 7 colours (April Bonbon)
• Striped Ribbon T-Shirt -6 colours - (AZ-USA)
• Knit Sailor Top - 5 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Ruffled Polka Dot Camisole - 7 colours (April Bonbon)
• Polka Dot Lace Camisole - 7 colours (April Bonbon)
• Lace & Ribbon camisole - 7 colours (AZ-USA)
• Vintage-Feel Rose Camisole - 7 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Lacy Babydoll Camisole - 8 colours (AZ-USA)
• Argyle Off-Shoulder - 8 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Glam Cable Knit Jumper - 7 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Rose Pattern Knit Top - 6 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Off-Shoulder with bow - 7 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Rose Off-Shoulder - 5 colours (Marzipan Sky)
• Roses & Dots Top - 7 colours (Marzipan Sky

November Favourites

This month's favourites are going to be incredibly short as not much happened this month for me besides work. Like the month just went by so quick and we are in December all ready! That's the joys of Christmas being the busiest month at work and that will continue for at least a month and half. I didn't really play any games this month besides making some colour collection outfits in Styling Star. Played a little bit of Pocket Camp but I'm really just waiting until next year when New Horizons comes out and I'll get a Switch console.

The last week has been crazy music wise with some big announcements related to my fave groups. My favourite member from KARA passed away sadly the other day and I've just been watching old KARA clips on Youtube for memories. MOMOLAND's company finally got their act together and announced some members would be leaving. I'm just waiting for them to announce Daisy has left because that girl needs to find a better company who treats her better. MOMOLAND just crashed and burned this year for me. I finally listened to their Japanese album Chiri Chiri recently and I wasn't impressed. The songs were a bit blah for me and you can really notice the difference with the missing members not singing on the tracks. Funny how MOMOLAND is totally going the Crayon Pop route which was my big group back in the day. Also I found out today that Pungdeng-E have announced a hiatus of some sort and will be performing a last live for fans. The writing was kinda on the wall for that one as Red hasn't been in the group for ages and there hasn't been much new content. Shame because I really liked Pungdeng-E for their uniqueness and fun sound. E-girls brought out their new song Easy Come, Easy Go in recent weeks and honestly I hate it. I listened to it on Spotify today and had to turn it off. The sound of the song just isn't very E-girls for me and whilst the verse is fine, the chorus is what does it for me. I feel since the reformation years ago, everything for me apart from EG-ENERGY (which is an amazing song I won't lie) has been kinda average. The group is releasing bops like everything on the EG-CRAZY album anymore and I didn't mind Cinderella Fit as it reminded me of Follow Me. I did have this photo to share from earlier this month when my workmate was asking me about what photocards were. I was unboxing a k-pop mini album at work and she was completely new to the concept of collecting k-pop. I attempted to take a photo of all the photocards I had at that time (I've managed to get a few more since) and whilst I don't seriously collect them, I've built up quite a collection over the years!

Shopdo Update

December is here and that means a new Shopdo update! I have three new outfits for this month and I went with a Christmas theme for the outfits this month. Kept the same boutique interior as I quite like the blue toned look and my character has another girly outfit on that is one of my personal favourites. Onto the new outfits for this month and first up is a floral themed baby-doll look. I went with this pannier skirt as the green and red tones reminded me of Christmas and the roses are quite merry. This is an ideal baby-doll look as it features many key elements to the style: pannier skirt, gloves, bolero and knee high socks. The second look is a cute Santa inspired outfit featuring girly and baby-doll items. I've been quite interested in overalls and overall style dresses recently in real life so I wanted to create a look similar to them in the game. The final outfit for this month a girly outfit titled Pretty Present and I was inspired by the bows on the clothing items for the name. I couldn't think of another Christmas themed outfit so I went with something casual. You can see all these outfits at Shopdo ID 0006271056 in New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star (EUR/AUS Region).

Colour Outfits Collection - Magenta

Finally after what seems like forever, I have some time to make a new blog post. I'm back with a new Colour Outfits Collection and today is all about magenta coloured outfits! Magenta is a colour that I've worn often in my life due to it being one of my old school uniform colours. It's also a colour that suits me so I tend to wear it more in winter months than in summer. Styling Star has an excellent range of magenta  toned items and it was interesting seeing the variety available with each brand. It wasn't difficult to piece together outfits with this colour and I was able to put together a range of looks and use some items I rarely use such as the bold and feminine outfit.

Only a few favourites in this collection and they would be the eastern, girly and psychedelic outfits. The main reason I love the eastern outfit is because of the outer which is one of my go-to items from Kanokoi. I really liked the girly outfit because the leg warmers and off-the-shoulder jumper worked out so well! I didn't think this look was going to work at first but with the right boots, the leg warmers give the outfit that special touch. The psychedelic outfit was a favourite of mine as this style has grown on me and I love the combination of stripes and polka dots.

Lively

Eastern

Basic

Zenmarket Haul - Crayon Pop, April & わがままファッション GIRLS MODE よくばり宣言!

A while back I received this exciting order from Zenmarket and it's finally time to share my finds! Managed to get my hands on some rare Crayon Pop singles I had been searching forever for as well as the guide book for わがままファッション GIRLS MODE よくばり宣言! better known as New Style Boutique or Style Savvy: Trendsetters in the west. Let's take a look at this collection then!

First off is the Regular Edition A and B of April's first Japanese single TinkerBell. You may recall I picked up the CD+DVD edition of this single back in my June Zenmarket haul. I mainly picked these two up as it was really cheap for the two in a set. April has been a group that has really grown on me in recent months so I'd love to pick up more of their discography. I have two of their Korean singles and I'd love to get The Ruby soon as it has a great track selection.

April - TinkerBell Regular Edition A & Regular Edition B

Next are two rare Crayon Pop singles that I'm excited to add to my collection. I finally came across one of the PCSC editions of ラリルレ Ra Ri Ru Re which you don't see often. This one is the Type B edition with the cute pyramid formation on the front. I've actually found the Type A edition as well recently so I'll have the complete PCSC set of ラリルレ Ra Ri Ru Re now! I also got a copy of Crayon Pop's Bing Bing single which is impossible to find yet I managed to pick it for under $15! This single was a promo release and features a cute photo book of the early days of the group. This particular copy of the single is actually signed to a Japanese fan which is interesting. I usually don't collect signed things, but I couldn't pass on the deal for this single and it's a fun addition. The last Crayon Pop single I picked up is the Limited CD+GOODS Edition of Dancing All Night. This edition comes with a adorable Crayon Pop branded beanie and the CD of the single. I got this one brand new unopened for like $7 which is way under the normal cost of the single.

And lastly here is the guide book for わがままファッション GIRLS MODE よくばり宣言! which is an excellent addition to my Girls Mode book collection. The official title for the book is わがままファッション GIRLS MODE よくばり宣言! 超完全コレクション. I really wanted to pick this up as I wanted the guide for the glam/flirty items to find out which ones originally fell under that style. The book is wonderful and is similar to one I have for ガールズモード３(New Style Boutique 2: Fashion Forward). This book however has pages where a real life model showcases outfits from the brands which I thought was a nice touch. I will be posting a review of this book in the future and share some of the pages from it. Here's a quick selection of some pages covering hairstyles, the Purple Moon brand and some boutique interiors.

わがままファッション GIRLS MODE よくばり宣言! 超完全コレクション

October Favourites

A few days late, but I'm finally here with my October Favourites! Last month went by so quickly and the weather was all over the place. I thought it was start to finally warm up but we had quite a number of cold days and only about 3 days over 30 degrees.

Gaming
The 100 Outfit Challenge in Styling Star finally ended in October and you can check out the challenge page if you wish to catch up on it. I really enjoyed it and discovered so many new favourite outfits. I've also seen a number of players on tumblr doing my older challenges like the brand ones, so I will need to post about those soon. I've loved seeing all the amazing outfits players have come up with and their interpretations on the prompts. Here's a sneak peak at one of my upcoming Styling Star posts I will post later this month!

Music
I've lost track of how many orders I have coming to me from Japan currently. I brought a bunch of rare albums and singles that I have been after for years so I'm excited to receive those. I still need to post my last Zenmarket haul from a few months ago on here, so I'll try to get to that this month. I actually did buy some non K-Pop and J-Pop releases this month! I got The Living End's recent release Wunderbar in the CD+DVD limited edition for my Living End collection. Picked up The Essential *Nsync because I do love my *Nsync! The TLC and Gwen Stefani ones were random purchases as they were cheap. All of these CD's came from JB Hi-Fi which has the best selection of CD's in Australia. They do have a small selection of K-Pop and J-Pop but it's limited to boy groups unfortauntly. I pick up a BLACPINK mini album a while back that I'll probably post about in my yearly collection post as it's not a main group I collect hardcore and just brought it for my collection.

Song wise I've been enjoying a whole stack of releases. I've been interested in TWICE for a while now, but don't collect any of their physicals currently. Usually I listen to their releases a few months after they come out and after the hype has died down. I found that's the easiest way I can get into their stuff. So I've been loving their song Fancy and especially the Japanese version. Might actually pick that up one day as it's on the Breakthrough single which is another song I enjoy. A bunch of other songs I've been super into include Happiness - Chao Chao, Elris - Summer Dream and Saturday - BByong. E-girls just announced a new single which I'm hoping is another digital release as I would like to take a break from physicals over the holidays. Let's hope it's as good as EG-ENERGY which is still playing on my playlist everyday.

Shopdo Update - Announcement & Blue Girly Boutique Interior

First off with a quick Shopdo Update announcement! From this week onwards, I will be doing monthly Shopdo Updates instead of weekly. With my work schedule, it's a challenge to update my Shopdo each week and with Christmas coming up, it's going to get a lot busier. I've enjoyed doing the weekly updates and coming up with a billion different outfits over the last few years. But it's time to slow down a bit and I will be uploading new outfits at the start of each month. Not sure if I'll change the boutique interior each month yet, depends on how much I like the interior style and outfit wise.

Now onto the outfits! I've given the boutique a new interior as I've packed away the Halloween interior for another year. This time I've gone for a girly themed boutique with a lovely blue colour scheme. All of the Shopdo outfits are themed around this colour scheme. First up is a feminine ensemble that is one of my favourite feminine looks in Styling Star. I love the cut of these new items to the Chorale brand, they look stunning in every colour. The second outfit is a elegant Baby-Doll coordinate as I really wanted to use this combo of the striped skirt and top. The green tie is a nice touch and brings a pop of colour to the blue scheme. The final outfit is a cute casual girly look which I tried to use items I was a fan of in Fashion Forward. I don't use these much nowadays but they always look great together as seen in this outfit. You can find all three outfits at Shopdo ID 0006271056 in New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star (EUR/AUS Region).

Here is a look at the new girly inspired boutique interior and as you can tell from the pictures, the colour blue is the theme of this boutique. I based it off an old pink themed boutique I had in my Shopdo once and just swapped out the furniture items for the blue versions. I really miss the blue tall cupboard miniature that was in Fashion Forward, it would've looked stunning in this set-up!