October Favourites

It really doesn't feel like October here as the weather has been rather bizarre. Most days the temperature is below 20 degrees and it is even going to snow in some parts of Australia this week. Probably the coldest October I've recalled for a while and it is hard to believe back in 2008 it was 40 degrees in October. I hope the warmer weather comes soon along with some reprieve from the rain. Like the rain is great because we need it but there has been a lot of bad flooding recently. Not where I live as I don't live near the Murray River or any large bodies of water. Hopefully it will get better soon!

Gaming

Been playing Style Boutique mainly along with some MODEL debut2 #nicola. I've been reading most of the month so I don't play many games. I have updated my Shopdo and my Caprice Chalet which I'll post on here for people to visit. Man remember back when I used to update my Shopdo every Monday? Where on earth did I find the time to do that every week!?!

Beauty

Got some lovely new items from Revolution Beauty including this Creator Hydra Pigment Palette. I've been interested in graphic liner palettes recently and this was the first one I've seen for sale near me. Picked it up but haven't figured out how to use it yet. Hopefully the pigments will be nice and vibrant. Everything else was lip glosses because I'm obsessed with Revolution lip products. I go through them pretty quick so it's great being able to try out lots of different ones. Also waiting on a ColourPop order to arrive this week which is exciting.

Music

Lately I've just been listening to random albums in my car and my favourite has definitely been Savage Garden's self titled album. Now back in the day when this band was promoting and quite popular, I wasn't into them at all and generally avoided their stuff. Plus I was younger so it wasn't really in my zone compared to the Spice Girls or Five. But my workmate got me onto the band and now I love this album. It's so good and I listen to it on repeat all the time.

One Year Challenge Week 13: Halloween

What a spooky occurrence that the Halloween themed challenge fell on week dated number 13! That number is actually my lucky number so I'm not too spooked by it. Halloween is such a fun time of year and it is nice that we are starting to celebrate it more in Australia. Whilst it isn't as crazy as overseas, it is a bit of fun for kids and I love grabbing Halloween themed stuff at the shops! I've started a tradition of making a Halloween themed dress each year and this years turned out super cute! Spotlight always has the best themed fabric and it is often better quality than their normal stuff! For this weeks challenge, I made up three costumed looks! Can you guess what they are? I won't give it away and I enjoyed putting together these looks. Even though they are super basic costumes, they turned out super cute. Now I wish I had a fun Halloween party to go to :(

One Year Challenge Week 12: AZ-USA

Another brand focused challenge week! What on earth is happening? I guess we will get a stack of them out the way early on in the challenge. I feel like AZ-USA is a brand I don't really care much about in the Style Boutique games. I've never been a huge fan of it and the bold/cool style isn't my kind of scene. Like I don't dislike the brand and I do use it quite often, it just isn't one I mess around with. For my AZ-USA looks, I went with items that had a new marked next to them meaning I'd never use them before. The first outfit could pass as a rock outfit as it has that kinda edge to it however I feel the hat is very AZ-USA. No idea why I went with a bikini look for the second one and I mainly wanted to try out this matching bikini top and skirt combo. We totally need a swimwear brand in the game just saying. The third outfit is a my favourite and is the usual feel I try to go for when creating bold looks. They always end up looking rather glam/flirty as I tend to use the same items from the brand.

Crayon Pop The Streets Go Disco - Mini Album Review (Australian Edition)

Looking back at all the music reviews that I have done Marzipan Wonderland, I'm always amazed at how I haven't gone through all my Crayon Pop releases yet! I have a large number of them in my collection and today we will be looking at one of their mini albums - The Streets Go Disco!

The Streets Go Disco was released in September 2013 and was released in a few different versions. Each member had their own version but none of those are the one I shall be reviewing today. This particular CD is actually the Australian edition released through JB Hi-Fi stores in 2013. Back when the mini album was released, Crayon Pop came to Australia for a fun promotional tour and the stores stocked this CD. I remember shattered at the time as I didn't have the means to travel to Sydney where they were promoting and that would've been the coolest thing ever! At least I was able to buy their CD in person at a store! I recall it cost about $9.99 which is the common price for CDs in JB Hi-Fi. The edition of The Streets Go Disco that I have came with the following contents:

• CD - 8 track mini album
• Jewel case
• Lyrics booklet

The cover for this edition has the members in their famous jump pose whilst wearing their helmet outfits. Everyone who was into K-Pop during this time knew this outfit! This cover is used as the digital cover for this mini album and the physical versions released in Korea have different covers. The back cover showcases the track listing for the album in lovely large print. There is some production information listed as well which is quite fascinating. Crayon Pop was promoted in Australia through a deal with Sony Music which is the big music company over here. The idea was to increase the market for Korean singers as Psy was popular at the time. It didn't really go anywhere and nowadays you can only really find boy groups in music stores. The back of this cover does make me laugh though as it lists bandit.fm on it and that brings back old memories. I had an account on there for years and I brought more music through there than iTunes!

One Year Challenge Week 11: Chorale Prelude

Why not post another week with a bag focused brand? It is my challenge rules after all! I have no idea why my random generator system decided on this combination but hey, it lets us compare the two brands. Chorale Prelude focuses more on feminine and girly bag pieces with Chorale being the sister brand. I always spell the brand name wrong and I've had many people correct me over the years. I always write it as 'chorale perlude' because of my dyslexia and honestly I never notice until people point it out! I do the same thing with the word clearance at work, there must be so many receipts out there with the word 'clerance' on it because of the way I type on the register keyboards haha. Anyway onto the outfits which are very classy and fit into day themes like the ARIANNA outfits. The first lovely purple outfit is perfect for that business meeting with a cute barrel bag, then we have a fun study preppy look with a large bag perfect for all those study supplies and finally a cute date look with a dainty clutch. Interesting how all three of these looks ended up using clothing items new to the Styling Star game. How bizarre how that worked out!

MODEL debut2 #nicola Play Journal - Introduction to GIRL's BOX

In last weeks MODELdebut2 #nicola play journal, I talked about unlocking the hall where you can buy clothes and boy is there a lot of clothes! This is only one brand as well! I actually didn't even buy much as I was enjoying just looking at the ones available. The game is similar to Style Boutique in which there are tabs for each type of clothing. You have your usual tops, bottoms, shoes and then you get subsections in each part. This blog post probably won't have much text and will be very image heavy as I have a fair amount of screenshots to share. The brand I'll be sharing today is called GIRL's BOX and the game called it fashion shop according to my google translate. This brand feels very girly like Marzipan Sky and the items have a youthful and casual look to them. 

First set of screenshots are the inners and tops which come in a range of styles and colours. Looks like a number of these inner items would work great paired with tops and I've even done that with my character at the end of this post. There is a good mix of pastel and bright toned items with some reminding me of AZ-USA or April Bonbon. I had a good laugh at some of the prints on the tops as they were legit just stock photos stuck onto the clothing. I've included one screenshot of a top that was a photo of ice-creams on a stand.

One Year Challenge Week 10: ARIANNA

Who would've thought a stand alone bag brand would have such dynamic pieces! The ultra chic brand ARIANNA has some stunning items in its collection and I've included three of those in this weeks challenge. It can be hard to narrow a bag brand down to just three items as there are just so many to choose from! I paired the bags with clothing items from its sister brand Enid Chen and everything matched perfectly. I cannot even narrow down which one is my favourite as they all look so elegant. If you look at the three outfits, they kind of fall into different times of the day! The first is a business look, then some party attire before switching to a date outfit. Between the three bags, if I had to pick one to use I would choose the last pink one as I love the colour pink and you can fit quite a number of items in that bag. I used to have a similar looking bag years ago and it was the best bag ever. I believe I brought it at a market in Melbourne which was a good place to buy funky looking bags.

MODEL debut2 #nicola Play Journal - A Change in Hairstyle

I'm back with another MODEL debut2 #nicola play journal! This game is the best game on the Nintendo Switch hands down!!! I think I'm just over hyped because I finally have a fashion simulator to play on there. Now onto the play journal and for this first screenshot, I cannot remember what the context on this was. Something about a meeting? Who knows as its time for a new modelling job! Chihiro is pleased so far with my work for the magazine and with clients. In the last play journal, time rolled over to a new month in-game which means new jobs have opened up!

The theme for the next job is a lovely hair focused advertisement and I'm super excited as I get the chance to change my hair style! Whilst this doesn't unlock the actual hair salon part of the game, it is nice to see some different looks and shake it up a bit. There was too many beautiful styles to choose from :( I couldn't make a decision! I really liked the third hairstyle as the cut was gorgeous and I wish my bangs looked that good.

September Favourites

No clue how we got to the first day of October and like did September just do super quick? One day it was the start of the month and all of the sudden everyone is talking about it being October this weekend. Maybe I was busy and lost track of time. This monthly favourites won't be super exciting as there wasn't too much going on. 

The other day I was shopping with a friend and came across some interesting things. First was this hilarious Shapes themed Christmas ornament we saw in Typo. They had all kinds of cool ornaments but I thought the Shapes one was the best. There was a Chicken Crimpy version too and I wish there was an Original flavour as that is my favourite one. We also visited the Lego store which I had never been to and I can understand why. The prices are insane in there and I would like to know who is dropping $700 on Lego sets. I mainly wanted to look at the spare pieces they have in there as my old Lego set from the 1990's is missing a few. Turns out you cannot buy individual pieces so I'll look elsewhere. The set-up was to fill a container for I think it was $29.99 for a small cup or $79.99 for a large one. It reminded me so much of the candy containers you can fill up at the cinemas.

Gaming

Haven't played many games this month besides a bit of MODEL debut2 #nicola which I am still in love with. I spend way too much time editing my photos and it takes ages for me to complete a job. The game has opened up to more content now and it has lots of fun styling activities. I will be posting some more MODEL debut2 #nicola play journals in October and one of them talks about clothing items in the game. Which I'll give you a sneak peak at with this awesome backpack item you can purchase. So happy to see these in the game as I always thought they would be great in Style Boutique.

One Year Challenge Week 9: Marble Lily

Sometimes I feel like that I make a billion of this type of post as Marble Lily is just that good! I wonder if over all the years I've been posting about the game, whether or not I've repeated outfits? There would have to be a point where I've used the exact same items and not realised it. Anyway you've probably guessed what the theme for this week's outfits are? Yes it is the lovely baby-doll focused brand Marble Lily! For the three outfits, I tried to go for three different looks. The first being a skirt and outer coordinate and I adore these shades of red together. Usually I'm not a red toned person but this is too gorgeous. The second outfit features one of the many dresses from the brand and I went with a fun print to brighten up the look. Third and final outfit is something different as I wanted to use items I usually don't use. Camisoles are something that I feel I rarely use from Marble Lily as sometimes they just look strange. This outfit turned out quite cute and the lilac tones are very pretty.