Berets are very popular in the lolita fashion scene, and every brand seems to always be releasing a beret to match their current collection. Lolita berets are mostly, from observation, flat and barely serve the purpose of hiding or storing hair (unlike medieval/Tudor berets) and serve a mostly...
There’s a lot of demand for “HQ” costumes in the local cosplay market, with “hq” meaning “high quality”. But what is “high quality”? There are a lot of shops and costume-making services claiming to have “high quality” products, but by what standards can we measure costume quality by?...
Today I’ll be giving a quick review on Flexi 3 Polymer Clay. I started using this clay around August of 2014 when I picked some up at Kawaii in Manila 3, they had a booth there selling some of the clay and a workshop about claying too. As...
Hi everyone! Today I’ll be sharing my review of Crystal’s Titanium Brown circle lenses. As a quick overview, I find these to be very appropriate and good hazel-brown/golden brown circle lenses. My lenses were purchased from gwyshop.com I wanted lenses that can pass for characters with brown/golden eyes,...
A VERY FREQUENT QUESTION I get asked in this blog is where I buy my tools, supplies, and metal findings. If you’ve asked me that, I’ve probably responded that I buy a chunk of my stuff from Wellmanson in Quiapo. It’s about time I did a focus article on...
IN 2014, I started dressing up in J-fashion inspired clothing. I wore it to events, wore it to go out shopping, wore it walking down the streets, along my neighborhood, in the wet market, riding a bus, riding a jeep, just to do groceries… I dressed up when...
This is a much-delayed post sharing my experience with Bee Happy Crafts! Bee Happy Crafts is an online craft store, which also has a physical store, that I discovered sometime long ago and kept in mind due to their wide and cheap selection of rhinestones. They launched their...
(Photo Credit: Jumpshot Photography) One of the best, most memorable experiences in my 2014 is that I got the chance to model for internationally-known lolita brand, dolldelight, even for one day! Dolldelight, owned and ran by Filipino-American designer Cyril Lumboy, has been a brand that I looked up...
Hi there everyone! Today I’ll be writing construction notes on my Fire Emblem: Awakening Tharja cosplay. Tharja is a fairly popular character for girls to cosplay as since, apart from being sexy, the whole… lack of actual clothing lol, makes it an easy costume that needs less time...
Hey there everyone! Long time no blog for me! My computer died (again) and had to go back into servicing once more, so I only got it back just recently. It’s sad too as I had a line up of blog posts there that I meant to show...
Hi everyone! Let me introduce everyone to a new segment that I want to run in this blog–all about the most redundant cosplay questions. These are questions I’ve seen TIME and TIME and TIME AGAIN that you almost get sick of seeing them. ^^;; I hope to run...
