Friday, 18 May 2018

25 Day Outfit Challenge Day 25: Your Favourite Outfit

Now I've already posted about my absolute favourite outfit in my last challenge which is a baby-doll style outfit from Marble Lily. I don't want to repeat the same outfit so I picked an outfit that I love that features a new item exclusive to Styling Star. When I first saw these dresses from Marzipan Sky, I was in love! They are perfect in every colour and I'd love to try to sew one just like it in real life one day. So for my favourite outfit for this challenge, I built an outfit around this amazing dress. Went with a pink colour scheme and a beret of course!

And that brings us to the end of the 25 Day Challenge! It's been super fun and I quite enjoyed doing this challenge. I've posted links to all the outfits from this challenge on the 25 Day Outfit Challenge page. I've seen a few more challenges that I'd be interested in doing but I might take a break from posting another challenge for a little while.






Thursday, 17 May 2018

Song Review: MOMOLAND - BBoom BBoom (Japanese Version)

MOMOLAND have set off to conquer the Japanese market with their first Japanese single BBoom BBoom. The song is the Japanese version of their Korean hit BBoom BBoom released early this year. The song and MV were released yesterday where as the physical single will be released in Japan on the 13th of June 2018. For a review on the original Korean song, please check out my review of MOMOLAND's 3rd Mini Album: Great!





The Japanese version of BBoom BBoom has the same tune as the Korean version. In live performances of the song, the girls would shout 'Great!' which was not featured in the Korean release. This time, the Great has been added to the song which has divided some fans. Some enjoy the addition whilst others aren't too sure about the addition. Personally I think it's quite fun and many fans were yelling Great anyway because they were used to it from the live performances. The girls pronunciation of the Japanese lyrics is superb an the flow of the lyrics is great in the verses, choruses not so much. I feel that the chorus works better with the Korean lyrics. The song keeps in most of the original lyrics, mainly the English ones such as the 'rendezvous' in the first chorus.



Now can we please talk about the rap in the song? That part was a huge part of the original song, but I can't explain what happened in the Japanese version. It seems they turned the  rap in English. Whilst it sounds amazing, it just kinda defeats the purpose of releasing a Japanese version but having an English section. Still sounds great, just a weird choice. Also can we get an English version of BBoom BBoom after that move? Please and thank you!



Autumn Lookbook - Boho-Chic Style

Next up in the Autumn Lookbook is a Boho-Chic style outfit. Now the Soy brand and Boho-Chic isn't one I use often, but there are quite a few nice items available. This outfit is ideal for warmer months and a great outfit if you are out hiking or heading to a music festival. Used my favourite boots from the Soy brand and finally used a scarf item. I hardly use these and need to plan on using them more. I usually place necklaces on outfits first because I look at that category before the scarf one.





25 Day Outfit Challenge Day 24: A Casual Look

Yesterday was a formal look and today is a casual look. Now this is an outfit I would totally wear in real life! Everything about it is perfect! I'm in love with these check mini skirts in Styling Star, I've been using them a lot. These boots from Marzipan Sky were one of my favourite items in Fashion Forward and they were perfect for this brown toned outfit. Used a beret for the hat of course as I do love my berets.





Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Autumn Lookbook - Basic Style

Today's outfit for the Autumn Lookbook is a basic outfit! This outfit featuring items from Basic U is perfect for the warmer days of the season. I quite like these layer camisoles from Basic U and they are perfect to layer over t-shirts in a similar colour. These are the main basic items I use for basic image customers at the boutique. Not a fan of the shoes but they were the only ones that matched the outfit.




Zenmarket Haul - E-girls Albums

My recent order from Zenmarket has officially taken the crown of being my favourite thing ordered online. I recently won an auction on Zenmarket for a set that contained three E-girls albums but not just any albums. The albums were the 2CD+3DVD+Photobook versions of some albums I had been wanting for years. So firstly, here are the three albums I received in the set: E.G Time, E.G. Smile- E-girls Best- and E.G. Crazy.


E.G. Crazy, E.G. Smile E-girls Best & E.G. Time

Now I had been after these versions of the albums for years but never brought them as they are quite expensive brand new. The E.G. Crazy version is 6980JPY which is about $100AUD for me. The albums I received are about around the 6000JPY mark so quite pricey as well. So how I ended up with this set was that I was scrolling through Zenmarket one day and came across a listing for all three of these albums for a starting price of 2000JPY. I was the first bidder and the auction ended up having 8 bids. It was the first time I had bidded against other people so that was nerve wracking. And to make it more difficult, I was also in the outback at the time and luckily near somewhere that I could connect to mobile data to bid. So it was an adventure to get these but I'm over the moon to finally have them and the final auction price was 3350JPY (without fees and shipping). I had recently won some credit from Zenmarket so it was exciting to spend the credit on something that was the whole reason I started using Zenmarket for in the first place.


Back covers of the albums

Side view of the albums

I'll quickly go through the albums I received and will be posting more detailed reviews of the albums in the future. First off, here is the E.G. Crazy 2CD+3DVD+Photobook version. I already owned this album digitally but wanted this version for my collection. It comes with the 2CD's which are the album and 3DVD's. The first DVD is the music videos and the other two are concert DVD's. This album was the largest of the three and came with the original plastic wrapping.

25 Day Outfit Challenge Day 23: A Formal Look

Nearing the end of the 25 Day Outfit Challenge. Finally a formal theme appeared and I decided to go with this elegant look using items from Purple Moon and Enid Chen. Now take a good look at this first photo and appreciate the hilarious clipping of the hair curl on the hand part. Just amazing! I love how some of the hairstyles do this, it looks so silly in photos. Anyway, the actual outfit is stunning and the Angelique hairstyle works perfectly for this elegant look.