A Liz Lisa Summer! + Diamond Lash Bottom Lashes Model Eye Review and Foundation Routine Tutorial

It's already the beginning of July guys! Time has flown by and we're more than half-way through the year which is pretty bizarre in my opinion. So much in my life has changed in this past six-seven months and I hope my resolution to blog and vlog more has followed through well. In my personal life, I've for a bit questioned whether or not dropping certain things for other things was the right choice for me to go with. Starting school finally instead of working retail aimlessly and just for income was the best decision I ever made. I might be financially limited in some aspects of my life but I also can focus on a long term career, have more time for myself, and focus on the things I truly love like this blog and fashion stuff. No regrets what so ever. I'm so much happier and a bit more sane. It's not like I would never work retail again but right now I just really want to focus on my education and long term goals. I'm slowly getting a hang of being back in school and processing information. I'm excited and nervous about next semester as I've already registered for my classes.

Anyway, as weird as July has started and as my fourth of July weekend being equally as blah- I tried to salvage it by dressing as cute as possible. The one dress in my haul from May that I didn't get to wear was the Liz Lisa dress I purchased. I thought this would be a nice excuse to wear it. Lately a lot of my tutorial looks or featured looks for the blog other than the ones at events, have been rather dark and 'rock themed'. Since the weather has been so hot (like seriously over the 100s in my area) I decided to lighten my make up routine and really go for a sweet romantic hime-kaji look.

The Liz Lisa dress and I have such a long history together even before I bought it. I'm really into old school Liz Lisa pieces because they're a bit more mature than the image that Liz Lisa is going for now. I feel like my twenty-three going on twenty-four year old self can get away with florals or certain femme aspects that the old line's concept pushed more than the Larme-kei pastel style.

When I first started wearing brand name items Liz Lisa was the first gyaru brand I wore. The print was the first piece I ended up going with for a Liz Lisa coordinate contest in 2012 for J-Pop Summit. I had borrowed the piece from a friend and it was the first time I could confidently say that I looked 'gyaru'. My make up look was a lot heavier back then. Like a mix between Popteen style and Koakuma Ageha. It was fun and young. It was incredibly me for that time frame. It's funny how things change in the matter of three years as well as how much I've changed. That piece wasn't mine but my friend's, but a lot of people associated that outfit with me.



When shopping for a couple pieces in May, I saw the OP/Dress version of that print and had to by it. The print has so many memories attached and spoke to me so much. So three years later I've progressed my look and lightened it a bit. I think as I've grown up, the more lady-like I've became in certain aspects of my life especially in terms of style. I used to think that the current trends in the gyaru magazines weren't influencing or affecting my make-up and personal style. Looking at this comparison picture made it nothing further from that truth. I've lightened it up quite a bit as I've aged and maybe became less fun? Some people who have followed my stuff have said that it has been a major improvement while others have told me that I've gotten boring/stale. Not sure which but I'd like to work on my style a lot more and experiment! 

DIAMOND LASH BOTTOM LASHES-MODEL EYE

So I saw this amazing deal going on Ebay for a second where I seller was selling specific Diamond Lashes for 10.00 with free shipping. I kind of needed to hop on that and I did. I really shouldn't be splurging but after a rough weekend ahead of me, I admittedly indulged a little. I was seriously running out of bottom lashes (oman this is sad because I love my Dollywink 5s especially) so I decided to stock up for a couple of summer events I had in mind. Plus it would give me something to blog about for this month!

I really thought that the Diamond Lash 'Model' eye series looked *so pretty*. It was between that set and another set that looked very 'Shizuka Mutou'-esque. But I was pretty set on this. What I wasn't prepared for though was these bitches not being on a band.

Now don't get me wrong, this could probably work out beautifully after a couple of tries. But this was my first try and holy shit, it was tedious. I didn't even end up using the entire 'lash' because my regular ones did the job enough. Placing on little section on at a time was slightly bitchy and trying to keep them symmetrical and not overlapping each other was equally as bitchy. You know what though? I love a challenge. So imma see if I can really work around this challenge and make these look amazing in a timely manner. 

I paired Diamond Lashes with Diamond Lash bottom lashes that weekend because it only seemed appropriate. I might try these out with the Ageha 115 lashes next. They were super pretty and surprisingly natural on me. I lost track of how many sections there were and accidentally pulled at one of my own bottom lashes thinking it was the fake one (fucking ow). That just shows how nice and believable these bottom lashes actually were!

GLOWING SKIN: 

Along with the look, a lot of people were really loving the selcas I did. I ever got this comment with I did the 'rokku' Kera gal style look-how am I getting my skin to look so flawless and glowy/shiny. A huge trend right now is glowing skin. There are plenty of ways to get that look. I think the biggest challenge for people is trying to get it to not look wet/too dewy/just oily and gross looking. A lot of friends have even went to the extent of calling my foundation set 'magazine quality' which is incredibly flattering because in all honesty my skin has been complete shit. Especially with this summer weather and the lack of AC. The constantly temperature change has made it incredibly difficult to have a skin type to combat. The only have I've been combatting the combination skin type from hell in terms of looks is this foundation routine. 

Luckily enough I did do a tutorial on my foundation routine recently! A lot of it is moisturization and a lot of different primers and products. It's like a gradual pigmentation build up of sorts and a foundation/concealer/bb cream/primer cocktail of sorts. It's definitely been working out for me and maybe it will work out for some of you guys! Here is the video below!