No talking about personal issues edition
Old thread: >>8973454
Shop list: http://fymenhera.tumblr.com/shops
>>8999124
inb4 the idiot talking about how the hime cut is the menhera cut shows up.
>>8999139
nobody even mentioned hair in this thread yet
Post a piece that you can't find the name of and hope some kind anon will share their wisdom with you and tell you the name of it! Pic related. My friend sent this picture to me wanting to know the brand but I can't find anything on it. I tried reverse image searching it but all that came up was reposts of the photo set with nothing about the dress.
>>8994914
Pretty sure it's some chinese indie brand. You can try their lolibrary:
>http://www.lolitaera.com/
It's kinda patchy and not up to date, but might help.
>>8994919
Hey, its better than nothing! Thanks! I had thought maybe it was Mary Magdalene or something
>>8994922
The hem is too puckered to be Mary Magdalene.
What are your thoughts about ACen 2016? Are you going to be there?
We have a somewhat actibe ACEN thread here. Granted it is pretty old and dying so perhaps this could work.
I'm obsessed with someone from the Facebook group do I'm pretty glad I'm not going because I'd do something desperate.
Party con for me, main costume will be Kaden from fire emblem.
Also running a sewing panel Saturday morning that I will likely be hungover for.
Didn't find one in the catalog.
I have F+F's Midsummer Night's Dream in purple (pictured). My current coord plan is black blouse, tights, and shoes, with purple hair accessories. Is this too simple? It's my first coord ever, and I don't want to be too risky.
I really love the light blues/blue-greens in the skirt; would a brooch or another hair accessory in that color bring those shades out elegantly?
Burn it and start over
so i got the suggestion of dpik bodyline shoes....suggestion for model?
>>8972319
My first thought was what you said with predominantly black and pops of color, I thought blue instead of purple though.
I'm not sure about the light blue and purple together, but you could definitely combine the darker blue with purple in a hair accessory, something like floral headwear with those colors. Another way to bring in color could potentially be in the shoes and bag. Maybe you could find black tights with a colored pattern too, or different colored shoe clips on black shoes.
I think save the lighter shades to do in a different version of the coord maybe.
>>8972327
For me there's kind of a disconnect between the blouse and dress. I think it would be better with a peter pan collar blouse but that might just be my taste... the current blouse just looks too classic or serious for the dress.
I think any bl shoe with a heel in your size should be alright. Maybe post ones you're considering.
Also is that lone sock going to be part of your coord? It looks silly whatever it is.
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>>9007557
Cute
>>9007557
Where does one begin with a photo like this...?
It seems its been awhile since we had a music thread? Please share music that reminds you of lolita, gothic, sweet, classic, other jfashions.
https://youtu.be/EHvud80lpFg
https://youtu.be/-n-iqXTztVQ
https://youtu.be/ccnipsk7WQo
Opening image is from Kera 26
Old Thread (Highlights from Kera 45, 29, 41, 42, BTSSB 2003 S/S Catalog )
>>8989680
Bringing along these questions from a few threads ago:
>Having any recent purchases?
>What's your oldest item?
>What kind if coords are you planning?
>Who's your old school inspiration/idol?
>What is it that draws you to old school?
>Do you have a specific favorite old school coord? If so, what is it you like so much about it?
>Do you have an old school "crown jewel" of your wardrobe? If so, why that piece?
>I feel old school has been making a comeback. What do you think?
every advert from this company is amazing.
fuck'in' sale
>>8996655
Absolutely beautiful
So whatever happened to these? They certainly didn't explode across conventions like I expected but then again con season is only gearing up around now.
Dude they sell these at the mall, I'm sure that's making more money than from poor weebs at cons.
I've seen people ditching theirs on Facebook/other sales pages because of how shitty they ended up being. Not really surprised by that.
Surprisingly these have a consistent 4.5 star rating on Amazon which goes against what I thought was the early consensus about them
Let's be honest here are maid cafes even really needed at anime conventions anymore?
Why or why not?
Personally I really don't think so.
Picture unrelated just pulled it off google.
>>8990421
??? why not?
Most people don't have any access to a maid cafe outside of Japan, I think it's a fun thing to have at a con. You get to sit down and get nice service and somewhat interesting food instead of finding a corner outside to huddle in while you eat your $10 chips in shame.
Obviously if it's a bad cafe that's another story, but it is technically part of the 'anime con' feel.
For me? I enjoy them. Obviously not every con needs to have one but I still think they are a pretty good addition to a convention.
>often helps earn a significant amount of money for the convention's charity
>a good way to force yourself to sit and eat at a convention, while still feeling like you aren't missing any of the con.
>fun to just turn off your brain and be silly and stupid and connect to your inner-weeb for a while
>Worst case and the cafe is total cringe shit, and you still have prime people-watching and good story to tell /cgl/ later
I really get into the maid cafe thing though. I have pictures saved from every cafe I've been to, Japan and state-side. And granted state-side is a lot worse as a whole. But again, it just gives me a vacation from cosplay and caring what I look like. No one can judge you there.
>when you live in Spain and other anons get to discuss if they are needed in or not while you've never seen one in any con her
In all seriousness, why do you care?
Or more like, why is it important?
If it's in a con, you are free to ignore it if you please. Nobody is forcing you to go (again, never seen one here, but I'm pretty sure they don't anyway).
I'm sure if anybody wants it, they'll be happy to see it there.
New thread!!
>any great newcomers?
>thoughts on the new gyaru secrets
>dolly wink, diamond lashes or eyemazing?
Extra:
>favourite BD member
>favourite Japanese Gyarusa (ex or still alive)
And
>post all the awesome pics you got!
>>8990312
>My favourite bd members are harutamu and yuritanu.
>I prefer everything over dolly wink kek
>>8990314
Why the sudden Dolly Wink dislike? I noticed they've been toning down their lashes a lot and don't look too gyaru anymore. Which of the brands is better for a more classic gyaru lash look? Which is also the most comfortable?
>>8990312
I've only tried dolly and diamond, and out of those two I muuuuch prefer diamond (only talking about uppers here) but I'm very much into a heavy top lash, and dolly is just so, not that gyaru these days
I didn't see a hairstyle thread so I wanted to post one. I'd like to use my real hair like pic related. My hair is fine, thin, and naturally black (Asian). I'd like to pin up pigtails like that and I understand a little bit of teasing is neccessary but what else? I have twin tail lolita wigs that use claw clips on the other end but they're so bulky and just fall down on me if I use a smaller sized one. What type of clips (+ teasing of course) can I use to have pic related?
Can you imagine the fivehead of this chick? It counts for half of her fucking head.
>>8986431
She just has her bangs starting from unusually high up(probably has thin hair from the looks of it so needed to do it for full bangs). You can see where her hairline is from the side
speaking of hair, does anyone have that google docs guide to japanese bangs that someone posted a few days ago? it magically disappeared from my history somehow
When is the meetup and who's going?
>Tfw ordering stuff of ebay and it might not come until the day before
Why do I always last minute shit.
5 weeks left boys
>>8971061
let's do friday 8:30pm in front of pool?
>>8974443
Schedule's still not out yet
Image limit reached >8906568
Post your favorites, least favorites, and in betweens. Anime, manga, musicals, live show cosplays all welcome.
>>8970327
Whoops. >>8906568
>>8970329
>>8970718
So I shipped a dress out to a LaceMarket buyer on April 24, and I shipped from the US to the UK through USPS. I'd like to say first that I am very very inexperienced with selling and shipping so in case what I've done sounds stupid, that's why.
So I shipped international priority and when I tried the tracking # USPS says "USPS Tracking™ is unavailable for this product for UNITED KINGDOM." I've shipped something to Malaysia and Australia in the past without issue but UK apparently had an issue.
And basically my problem is the buyer STILL has not received her dress and we have no way of tracking it so I don't know what to do at this point. She opened a dispute on paypal with me which I don't blame her for, I'd probably do the same thing, but I don't know how to resolve this besides pray her dress comes.
It's been 4 weeks so far and the man at the post office said it'd take 3-6 weeks? so idk please help.
>>9006994
USPS gull here:
Take your copy of the customs form to the post office you sent it from and have them run the customs number through their internal tracking system. They can tell you with that number where it's at in relation to the US and UK customs clearance process.
You should have working tracking for that destination; I don't know why it's not showing up since now even first class customs numbers will work as tracking to the UK.
Never ship without tracking and insurance, especailly if the payment was thourgh paypal. This is the only way to protect yourself as seller.
To all the german gulls: Shipping international isn't that expensive. Try to avoid DHL and use the deutsche post instead. You can sent packages up to 2kg with tracking and insurance for around 25€. Just be sure that the package is within the max. Measurements.
>>9006995
thank you!
so because some fuckwit staffer committed PR suicide I have to see a bunch of slap dash articles on my feed about sexism in cosplay. Also this thread open to other stories about cons that died because someone said what we were all thinking.
>all the whiny men complaining about the imaginary female cosplayer who bragged about 20,000 followers and is clearly just a tits mcgee fake gamer girl
jim admitted it was a rhetorical conversation, not a real person, and that he's had male cosplayers do the same thing.
I was watching the thread yesterday as it climbed past 1.4k I see they nuked it.
Fuck SJWs and their cancerous callout culture.
