ILD - Sainte-Dolores Lolita Tea Party

Yesterday was my community's Lolita Day. Each year we celebrate for ILD and we organize activities such as going for tea, or renting a room for activities. This year, the organisators rented a room for tea at the Fairmount Reine Elizabeth hotel downtown Montreal so we could have our own place to be all together. We were a little over 40 people I believe, and it was nice, relax, and fun.

日曜日に私の市のロリータグループが集めていました。毎年International Lolita Dayを楽しんで、Tea Partyやどこか行く予定があるので、今年ReineElizabethホーテルへ皆でいきました。４０人ぐらいいましたわ！

I had my friend over in the morning, because since she isn't a lolita, she asked me to dress up her and make her all dolled up to join us ! I always like doing this it's very fun hehe So I woke up early so I could be ready by the time she would be here, and we got ready in record time !

ロリータが着ない友達を洋服上げて、髪の毛綺麗にしてあげてしました。１時に出かけるつもりに早くの時におきました。

It was a very beautiful and sunny day, and contrary to what the forecasts were saying, not too hot ! I was glad because everyone knows how much it's a pain to be so dressed up in a very hot weather and trying to stay cute all day. So this year, I went with a very new "style". I had seen the very cute straw hat by Moi-même-moitie a long time ago, and it was so beautiful, but totally not fitting my style at the time which was more gothic lolita with feathery headresses and more classic gothic looking coordinates, but I decided what better for summer than a little straw hat to make a cute spring summer coordinate ! So I went and made an outfit with the hat, flowers, short socks and sandals !

２月の時に小さいMoi meme moitieハット買って、ILDにこれを着たいとおもいました。だから、夏のようなゴシック感じなコジェネートから準備しました。可愛いに出来たとおもいますわ！

Straw Hat : Moi-même-moitié

Necklace : Moi-même-moitié

Parasol : Moi-même-moitié

Bag : Moi-même-moitié

Dress : Moi-même-moitié

Cutsew : Offbrand

Socks : Tutuanna

Sandals (not shown) : Offbrand 

I had bought a new Innocent World dress for cheap recently as well, and it did fit my friend's personality and style very well, so that's what I suggested she wore ! 

友達が私を買ったドレスを着て、全然可愛いに！イノセントワールドのJSKとAnna Sui 靴がとても似合うでしょう！

Look at that smile ! 

She was wearing one of my offbrand shirts, an Innocent World dress, a Moi-même-moitie Headdress and Anna Sui shoes along with a cute brooch that she got from a Canadian Lolita that handmade it ! She's also kind of new to having long hair as two years ago she had quite very short hair and decided to let them grow, so she doesn't often style it in more elaborate hairstyles so it was fun to try and do this little braid up-do on her ! I think it suited her a lot :) I also did a small make-up so it wouldn't hide her eyes in her glasses to much. She definitely blended with all the other lolitas ! 

And here is my outfit !

私のコージェネートです！

It was totally new for me to show so much skin as I am totally not comfortable with my body at all, but it was worth how comfortable, not too warm and not hurting I felt in the heat, walking all day and being in the sun. So it was worth it. I think I pulled out the cute country gothic quite well if I do say so myself ! 

そんなに肌を見られるが本当に好きではないので、暑い日だったから、よかったです。

We had a small game to play at first to know the newer lolitas of the community and get to talk to each other a bit before all sitting down at separate tables. But since I'm not the social bee, I just stayed calmly at my chair and tried to fill in the blanks of the questionnaire with my table-squad (haha). The tea was quite good, and the food alright. Since I had tea at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, I have trouble enjoying the dryness of the usual scones and plain sandwiches offered at usual tea salons here. And since I'm not a tea fan either.... 

I also could take time to take some pictures of the details of our community ! I had been inspired by the "Details of La Vie En Rose" posted on blogs earlier this year when the event in Europe occured. Here they are ! 

It was very strange as this year, me and very few of the lolitas I knew from years ago when the community started to grow, basically our "first generation" lolitas, were present, and most of the attendees were newer girls that came into the community one or two years ago. A lot of the community left because girls left the fashion, and the few left are separated by some conflicts of interests it seems, so some of them didn't come to the party this year. Well, they missed the fun ! 

We also had the organisators make a game of Cards Against Lolitas, so we played for the rest of the tea party and we had much fun with it. 

yes. that says "Twinning with Nicolas Cage"

After the tea, we left the group, me and my friends to go meet my friend's boyfriend at another station so we could go have dinner. I had never met my friend's boyfriend has he just arrived from Japan to come be with her in Canada, but he's nice ! He doesn't like lolita, but he dealt with us getting looks just fine ahaha... I promised him next time we would see each others I would look "like that". We had a little trouble deciding what to go eat, but since he wanted to go for burgers, we opted for an irish pub and boy did we have some good food !!! I opted for a curry poutine with grilled chicken, and dear lord was it delicious. The curry sauce was divine and just spicy enough ! It made the perfect match to the crispy fries... Ahaha 

Everyone's burger looked very good as well ! A very nice filling dinner after this long day of wearing small clothes and itchy wigs ahaha. After that we all went our separate ways and I came back home with my friend so she could drop my clothes and go home for the night. We are going to see each other soon anyways at her home warming party in two weeks ! 

She has moved to a new apartment, so we go and see how she decorated and made her little new nest comfortable for herself. I'm excited too see ! I know she has good taste. As for myself, I'm currently eyeing many products on the IKEA website and I might start to re decorate and furnish my place a little more during the summer. I'll be sure to show you the progress ! 

Dahlia

Moi-même-moitie May 2015

Every season, consistently, Moi-même-moitié comes up with new items that are featured in the quarterly volume of the Gothic&Lolita Bible, modeled by Mana. I always await the scans to show up online with impatience because even though I don't buy as much Moitie as I used to, I'm always a big fan of Mana's pictures and curious about the collections. This season has greatly surprised me, as far as styling goes ! I'm really glad of the turn back Mana did with the dark hair and black lipstick look which brings back a more old-school gothic lolita look, which was what brought me into the style years ago. Look at this month's issue ! 

I will not go on with my fangirl emotions and annoy you all, but I will just tell you to expand these pictures to see them well because, girl, let me tell you, it's worth it. 

I must admit that while I adore the overall look of both the EGA and EGL looks, I'm not a fan of the print. It does look alright on the EGA long tunic, but I still think it lacks details, and could have been a little brighter. The design itself also doesn't specifically appeal to me. It is not because of the imagery of an upside-down cross, as this doesn't bother me, the print itself is just not that interesting in my opinion. Let's look at the items ! 

This is the print. They call it "Fall cross". It is basically a faded down print of Jesus on an upside down cross, with a pair of daggers/swords crossing in the back, with what I think are rose petals flying around. It is also not an all around print, just is just placed at different places on the designs for a different effect. 

These are the three designs offered for EGL style. A shorter knee lenght JSK, a long version, and a corseted skirt. All models only come in the specific color shown in the pictures, with a grey print. What I am sad about.... Is the print. I think the JSK design is nice and interesting, versatile, I like how it's asymetrical and not too "cute" as this is what I'm into right now. I like the lacing and the medium volume of the bottom of the JSK. I wish they had made the skirt with only the material part just like the JSK instead of adding the lace, but considering the Cutsew with the lace bust, it does makes sense. 

 

And these are the two EGA designs, a top and a tunic. I must admit I LOVE the tunic one. If it wasn't for the fact that it wouldn't flatter my round assets and shape, I would have totally spent the money for this piece because I think it looks so nice. The big big collar is also a nice point that I like about the design. The other top is simpler and has a choker attached to it. Both the designs are kind of a re-take of the previous design with the Altar print that was out one or two years ago ? So if I had the choice, I would definitely go with the previous version as I like the print better, even tho I do love the present tunic look a lot more. and then they also had a cutsew, the one Mana is wearing in his EGL picture, and the cute headdress with the upside down cross as well ! 

I do like the headdress a lot, but I have this soft spot for their always perfectly constructed headgear with amazing lace and beautiful flowers and materials so I regret of not owning all of their headdresses in all colors. This headdress is available in all black, black and white, black and blue and all white ! All Moitie colors, of course :) And as of now, only the black/blue and completely blue cutsews are on their website, but I suppose they will also have the black and white one, since Mana has modeled it in the GLB, and maybe a completely black one ? I LOVE the blue one, but I cannot justify buying it for right now. But it's totally gorgeous, it's so rare to have blue tops like that in lolita, I strongly suggest you all to buy it ! 

I will not be buying from this collection as of right now, but as soon as I saw Mana's pictures I immediately put on my dark blue lipstick and fake eyelashes to go to work that day ! I got really excited and inspired <3 I'm so glad Mana did let go of the red or blonde hair for this time, ahahah I was getting bored of it ! I hope he keeps on this gothy way for a while now  ~ hehe 

Anyways, how do you like the new items ? Will you be getting anything ? How do you like Mana's new-old (?) style ? 

As for me, in two weeks, on June 13th will be my community's International Lolita Day event and tea party so I'm excited about this ! I hope my outfit will turn out alright and that it won't be too hot and sunny ! I'll also be dressing my friend up for the occasion, and I love doing this, it's such a nice girls experience. So stay tuned for that in a while ! 

Dahlia

 

Birthday Week-end

You might have noticed a change in my blog recently ! I'm trying to change the aesthetics of it, but it might continue to change for a while as I try to find what I like best. So don't get too confused ! 

Last week end I had my birthday celebrations a little early, as my birthday is may 20th and fell on a wednesday this year. Two days worth of celebrations ! 

So I just turned 26. I'm always a little apprehensive about birthdays because I don't like doing celebrations for myself. I never thought birthdays were something much important, but it's still nice to go out anyways. In this last year a lot of stuff have happened so I thought this year might be worth celebrating. 

So on saturday, I had planned to go to this japanese Izakaya in town which has a very cool real izakaya decor ! I had invited a few friends to come have fun with me. The food was good, we had good fun ! 

One of my friends was also back from a short stay in Japan so I got some yummy goodies ! 

Classic but good treats ! 

She also brought me back some very adorable socks that I had asked for :) 

My other friend offered me a Sephora Gift Card, which is always welcome, because Sephora is heaven. And then after some fun, discussions and much food, we of course wanted some dessert, and went to get some frozen yogurt ! 

All these delicious calories <3 

We had fun ! Everyone went home after our dinner, and I'm really glad my friends came and enjoyed their evening <3 I had to go sleep well as my family was coming over the next day, and that usually promises some needed energy. 

My parents arrived with my sister after lunch time and came in to chat a little, while my dad installed my birthday gift.... An air conditioner *_* so now I can survive summer without becoming a little sweat puddle ! So exciting. 

After that was done, we went downtown to walk around a little before dinner, and I ended up going into a hip-hop store with my sister (she's into hip-hop and all this kind of stuff can you believe it ahaha) and we checked out shoes and other things ! Then we walked down to the port to go eat at the restaurant, Zibo. I didn't know about it until my sister told me she tried it in her city, so we went at the one location in my city. And the food. It was amazing ! 

I shared this amazing shredded duck poutine entree with my mom, and it was glorious. The sauce was a little peppery and the duck was great. I loved it ! And for my meal I got a terriyaki noodles sauté that was as great as the rest. My parents didn't leave too late as they had 3 hours worth of driving to go back home, but I was OK with that as I had work early the next morning. 

Overall I had a nice birthday week-end. It's still overwhelming thinking I just turned 26. I just don't like thinking about my age at all. Anyways, I suppose I don't have a choice ! 

Soon I'll post pictures of recent shopping and the new Moi-même-moitie collection as well ! :) 

Dahlia 

Adidas Originals x Jeremy Scott Cut out Wings 2.0 - Review

You would have told me even 6 months ago I would be checking out the adidas website to try and pick up a pair of sneakers, I would have laughed straight at your face. But that was my reality two weeks ago when a friend showed me the new model of Jeremy Scott winged sneaker design at adidas. My size wasn't available and their website wouldn't ship to Canada, so I ended up in an adidas store asking the staff about their beautiful winged shoes. My story ended up with a quick look up on Ebay to try and find new ones, which I did, in my size, and now they have arrived ! Let's take a look !

I had small doubts I wouldn't get real Jeremy Scott x Adidas shoes since you can never know the reputation of a seller on Ebay, but I took a chance and threw my money at the first legit seller with good reviews that had the cut-out model in my size that shipped in Canada. And I totally don't regret it ! 

They took about one and a half week to arrive and I was really wishing that they would be the right size ! I wasn't certain if they were in men size since the details were not specific on the adidas website but they are indeed in men size. So I went with 8.5 hoping they would in the worst case be a little too large and not too small. And they are perfect ! 

They are so nice ! They look bomb. The wings are just large enough to be really impressive, but they don't affect walking at all. The shoes are also light and easy to walk in. The transparent plastic parts are a little stiff (it's plastic after all) but the open cut out sides make them breathable and very cool looking. I can't wait to wear them out today ! 

 

Hopefully they will stand the reputation of adidas of being nice constructed shoes and they will be worth their price and will last a while :) I'm so happy ! 

This week-end I'm going out for my birthday with friends and family so I'll post pictures later this week ! I'm definitely wearing these babies out tonight so I'll try to snap an outfit picture ! 

Dahlia 

May 2-3 Week-end Trip - Toronto

When the quite popular MUJI store opened its doors in Toronto last year, me and my friend jokingly said we should go down there to go shop. Well, it ended up we actually planned to go spend two days for a nice week-end in Ontario's capital city ! So here is how our week-end went !