Look for that day? I decided not to cosplay or anything since I assumed the gathering would be small and it's easier to cosplay when you're in large numbers and not get looked down upon. So I went as an onee-gyaru, meaning I wore super simple pulled back straight hair, gyaru make-up, and my Liz Lisa dress out.I honestly wish I had dressed even lighter. Despite my dress being a summer to fall transition outfit, I was still dying from heat! The whole time I wondered how it was even possible for my make-up to stay ON this long? But it's probably because I did it around noon or so in comparison to super early in the morning.
Dennis and I got a Starbucks frappe for the ride to Stockton-in which we indulged in super delicious Chinese food. Walnut shrimps, soup, rice... I felt like it was actually super healthy and light. Depending on where you go some food can feel heavy depending on how it's made but this was really nice. Enough to get you full but not overwhelm you.
Then it was off to the gathering where we just went to honestly just say hello to two friends and derp around.
We then left to then go to the shoot. The setting was crazy amazing and the girls there were all super gorgeous in my honest opinion. I was pretty intimidated honestly by it all even though I was only there to spectate and learn. In all it was a pretty educational shoot for me. I myself have a lot to learn after watching the past couple shoots I've attended and participated in and such. Honestly as a fashionista and model, I can say that lately I've been feeling pretty dissatisfied with myself. I think real life has been infecting the world I only get to occasionally enjoy and it's been showing even in pictures because I can't see myself. I've been also trying to do an intense diet and exercise routine in time for con season as I mentioned in a previous post.
Anyway, we derped around and shot for like...five minutes because I insisted that the setting (which believe it or not was someone's backyard) was too fabulous to pass up. This is the results. I really think the dress was shot well.
At the end of the day when we left. We hunting for Korean food and Starbucks. The Korean BBQ hunt was a half way success and the drugs in a cup was a total miss because everything closed early due to it being Sunday.
Anyway, onward to Snowflake. We had to wait a bit but this place is pretty popular so it's understandable why. The strawberry milk tea with boba was pretty good but also pretty tart. It was a different taste. The honey box I think depends on your preference. I like my toast a bit softer but the icecream and macrons were definitely good part for me. However the strawberry shaved ice with condensed milk and lychee popping boba was a total win. In all? Go for the drinks and shaved ice!
After hitting a couple more places we decided to go to the festival a day earlier than I had planned to say hello to a couple of friends who weren't going to attend Sunday's big events. I actually surprisingly got to do a lot more on Saturday versus Sunday. Lots of saying hello and just seeing what all the vendors and a shops had to offer. It was a pretty chill Saturday in terms of sight seeing SF. It was so chill that even the ride down was in a controvertible which I have never experienced riding in (usually because I'm too made up and shit to have my hair be all fucked up) before. I ran into some gyaru at BABY which was a pretty fun highlight. The look I had worn that day was pretty fucking agejyo. I was breaking in my shoes for the next day and I wore my Ageha dress. In all, it was pretty fun.
SUNDAY was super busy at Trish's. I how I even got sleep? I don't even know. I worked on nail sets all night for Trish since she was going to wear a yukata. Then somehow managed to crank out an epic ass hair and make-up look for Trish and make-up for Gabby partially. That was even with doing myself up too! So in all three and a half people to do stuff for.
I honestly love how Trish's deal turned out. I tried to do hostess hair on her but with it all decked out with pearls, roses, and sakura. Unfortunately I didn't bring my hair spray and the hair spray I used didn't work so well. The curls and such fell flat so I just made sure to tease the shit out of Trish's hair. Eye lashes weren't too challenging other than the bottom set in which NEVER AGAIN. I love my method of bottom lashes. I'll one day show you all. I take a full upper lash that has a gradual long to short ratio in length, cut it in half, and turn it on the other side and glue that shit to my eye.The only actual set of lower lashes I'll ever be interested in are the Dollywink ones because they're clear banded and separate. Could I call Trish's look gyaru? I don't think it was. It was it's own thing. It had hints of gyaru inspiration but it wasn't "kira-kira" enough.I still have to figure out how to conquer eyeliner on this girl!!! Everyone's eye shape/eye lids are so challenging to work with! In all though I think it turned out being a great original look.
As for Gabby's? It was super Popteen inspired. I used a lot of pink, white, and peaches. Especially blush wise was a mix of NARS 'Angelika' and a TokiDoki blush that resembled an in between of Benefit's 'Coralista' and NARS 'Orgasm' since it also has a gold sheen. Lots of high lights to give a glowy look. A Sakura crown and we were good to go.
Trish also worked on our friend Sara's make-up for her AKB48 cosplay. It was her first time wearing cosmetics and I think it turned out well.
Then we FINALLY after forever left. We were running super late and not making good time. My phone was blowing up everyone five/ten minutes and with people asking where I was at. I kept having to reassure everyone 'No worries, I'll be there.' The BART was being a butt, my feet were killing me, the bus was ridiculously insanely packed. In all I conquered it all just by sucking it up, walking gracefully like a lady and taking the 38 at Montgomery Station instead of down at Powell so I could get a seat and keep my balance knowing that everyone was most likely heading in the same fucking direction considering the parade was that Sunday and the road was blocked off of certain areas. I'm pretty positive parking was a complete bitch that Sunday.
Arriving I walked around a bit, ran into people, said hello, went along for food (which yet again had horrendous timing because it was lunch time before the parade arrived so everyone wanted to eat) and got to see lovely Aya! I've mentioned before that Aya was my fairy god mother for the Liz Lisa contest I participated in back in August. I hadn't seen her since so it was so nice to see her! Her yukata was stunning!
We ended up dining at Izumiya where we all got our Okonomiyaki fix on. Izumiya had a menu change so there was no more chicken Okonomiyaki. Wahhh! So I ended up getting the mixed one instead which was still pretty good. I still prefer Kui Shin Bo's Okonomiyaki because they bring it out on a sizzling platter and I'm a sucker for bonito flakes. Which Izumiya tends to lack but in all it was a pretty good meal.
Leaving that area I forgot what we did next. I THINK we got photomobbed a lot in the process of trying to find Sae. We found Wendell who said the parade had just ended and it was lovely seeing him. We finally found Sae who was also eating. I also found badass Momo who was also gyaru-ing this shit out this weekend. I also ran into Sayori who had a super epic Catherine cosplay and ALL OF OUR FEET WERE DYING. Forget the heat. It was our SHOES that gave us a work out.
Super glad/happy that everyone got to meet each other over the weekend!! With that said the majority of the festival was spent photowhoring the shit out of PikaPika's newest machines with everyone. AH! And I got to see Lee and Aru of F3 Cosplay in the process of taking pictures. Sorry lovelies that I was so loopy. Running on two hours sleep is NOT ideal. haha~ I also got to see Charmie for a short second as well who was leaving because the poor girl was sickly. Brian was there with her as yet again I WAS LOOPY AS FUCK...due to...yeah..lack of sleep. BUT IT WAS SO NICE SEEING YOU ALL. -capsabusedone-
As for PuriKuring I LOVE the lighting and features of the newest machines however trying to fit more than two or three people in them are a bitch! There HAS to be a machine that is as big as the older ones but as nice of quality as the new ones somewhere! I think we raided both the Cube (which isn't new and has been around since '10 last I checked -chuckle-) and the AkogareBaby3 (WHICH IS NEW). The cool thing with Akogare is the collages set for the pictures and they break by themselves into four sets so you can split them. The Cube also splits but they don't have shiny collages.
I think I spent a good two hours in PikaPika alone.. Finally Dennis came for day two, round two from a photography thing. I got kidnapped to go eat yet again. Kui Shin Bo ran out of my beloved Okonomiyaki SO I had to get Kitsune Udon instead which was just at good of an alternative. I spent another couple hours there with Aya and everyone. It was packed and I felt so fucking bad for the staff in there. We came in saying there was TWO people and we ended up eventually having the whole village there. Heh.. Go figure. Aya joined us for food and I got to also spend time talking to Momo for awhile too.
Dessert was with Aya and Dennis. We thought we'd hit BellyGood before closing but nope! We ended up going to Moyo's instead for froyo.. I suicided everything into a cup like a crazy person.
Somehow we ended up at Hotel Kabuki at the end of the day. Trish, Gabby, Momo, and other lovely people who I just met went later. In the end Dennis took Aya home and the rest of us girls all commuted together home because it was safer considering we dressed up fancy and like I thought, we got a lot of creepers.
Those have been the last two weekends. Eventful, uneventful, crazy, and busy all in one. Thank you to everyone for a good fun time and such. It was nice seeing and meeting everyone.
I'll hopefully have the DreamV/Yumetenbo article/review/haul up for you all real soon!!!
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