A wonderful day with my best friends

In February I had a wonderful weekend with my best friends. It's impossible to meet them often all together 'cause two of them are not living in Berlin so it was a rare and happy event for me.

My friend Michi who is living in Duesseldorf stayed for 3 nights at my place, Senja from Cottbus just one and Lau we met in the city 'cause she's living in Berlin.
I prepared myself that day carefully (lovely Senja did my hair), we wanted to do some purikura that day.

Michi had some special things in her luggage: our Golden Bomber tour DVDs from 2015 (regular version and special Kiryūin Shō version) and a really cute surprise, a Gachapin scrunchie from my friend Kirschu.
I haven't seen Kirschu for a long time and I really miss her!

But there was another surprise: Senja gave Michi and me a pre Valentine's present and we sreamed so much.
We got a selfmade Golden Bomber plush, Kenji for Michi and Kirishō for me. This was sooo cute, I really love my chibi Baby <3

The plush has very cute details like just one hairy arm pit *lol* I was so happy about such a cute present!

ootd:

shorts: d.i.a.

top: Garula

sweater: Garula

boots: Flag-J (Shibuya 1o9)

Senja, Michi and I met Lau at Charlottenburg station and went together to J-Store Berlin. There is one of Germanys two purikura machines.
But beside the purikura we took a lot of other pictures that day.

Senja and I

Michi and I

Senja and I decided to dress up Michi in Sweet Gyaru look. Unfortunately the extensions weren't the right color so Senja did a cute short curly hairdo.
Michi isn't Gyaru but I think it suits her very well! It was a trial for the coming book fair in Leipzig.

Lau and I

We had a lot of fun doing purikura. In fact I don't like it to take some and I have sooo many sheets I collected the last years. What the hell should I do with them? Do you ever look at your purikura again months ago?

But this time I like the result 'cause it's so great that my best friends are united at one picture. Michi and Lau decorated.

We did one last picture inside the puri machine and decided to have lunch after that.
On the street a few metres away from the J-Store there's a small Japanese restaurant called Udagawa.
From the outside it looks very unimpressive but the food was delicious!

I took the lunch menue with Miso soup and a fantastic Katsudon! I really can recommend this place so if you're on the way to make purikura in Berlin and get hungry, try out this restaurant.
(No, I don't get money for the promotion, ha ha....)

We are beautiful!

After lunch we went back to Alexanderplatz. We wanted to have a look at some stores like Primark, New Yorker and big shopping center Alexa.

my soulmate Senja and I xD

 

 

At New Yorker we tried on ear hoodies in 4 different colors. I love that picture so much!

After shopping we were so done that we needed a coffee at Coffee Fellows. To me it's the best thing in my life to sit there with friends and drink coffee. Sounds boring but I love that!

In the evening we said goodbye to Lau and went to my place. We still had a lot of things to do! At first Michi and I tried the fragrance body smell cards from all 4 member of Golden Bomber which was an extra at the last single 'Shinda tsuma ni niteiru' while Senja recorded it with my smartphone.

It was soooo funny.

After that we watched our new Golden Bomber tour 2015 DVD for the first time and had a lot of alcohol! It's the best thing to watch it with Senja and Michi.
I had such a great day with my friends and I really hope to see them all soon together!

Bye!

Gyaru replicas and similar clothes in our shops

Have you ever been frustrated about that you want to have Gyaru clothes but you don't have the possibility to go shopping in Japan or the Gyaru sales are too expensive for your wallet?
Don't be sad, just be attentive!
Why? Well, I like that style since 2011 and in that couple of years I was surprised how many Gyaru items you can find in our European shops that are really similar with expensive Japanese brands.
I would like to show you some examples I collected.

brand: d.i.a (right)

 

brand: Tally Weijl

Not exactly the same but similar in color and style is that top I bought at summer sale for around 10,- EUR.

Me wearing the Tally Weijl Top. I really love it and even it's a few years old it's perfect for summer styles with tanned skin like in old Gyaru times.

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 brand: Ma*rs

brand: Tally Weijl

Nearly perfect Tally Weijl copied the Ma*rs coat so on the first sight you won't see any differences between the original and that one.
I bought it in Winter sale 2012 for around 20 EUR.

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 brand: d.i.a.

brand: New Yorker

This romper is one of the popularst copies and a lot of Gaijin Gyaru own it. It's a more simple version of the d.i.a. one but very similar.
I bought it new but from a German clothes sharing website for 8,- EUR. The pre-owner didn't know about Gyaru style. So if you have luck you can still find that beautiful romper.
In store the price was around 20,- EUR, much more cheaper than from d.i.a.

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brand: Garula

brand: H&M

Maybe as you know Garula is / was one of my favourite brands 'cause the styles were always wearable, casual but also sexy.
I'm so sad about that the brand doesn't exist anymore (since 1st February 2016).
I bought the shorts in spring 2015 at H&M store for around 20,- EUR. The only difference between the Garula one is that the 'copy' is high waisted.

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 brand: Liz Lisa

brand: Tally Weijl

This time I didn't buy the 'copy' 'cause I own the original dress from Liz Lisa but I was very suprised when I discovered that dress at Tally Weijl's summer collection two years ago.

As you can see the the back view ist nearly the same!

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brand: Garula

brand: H&M

That knit top reminded me a little bit of a Garula top. Yeah I know, it's not exactly the same and it's half-armed but similar in style.

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brand: d.i.a.

brand: H&M

Sorry, the picture of the original is really bad and you can't see that the knit pattern and the color is very similar.
I bought that knit cardigan two years ago at H&M and exchanged the ordinary buttons into typical gold buttons for the d.i.a. style.

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brand: Garula

brand: New Yorker

I saw the cardigan a few weeks ago at New Yorker store. The price is around 20 EUR and because I own the 'original' one of Garula I realized very fast that this is a more simple but very similar version.
You can create a lot of styles with that thing and I really recommend this cardigan.

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brand: Liz Lisa

brand: Jumex

This is a simple version of Liz Lisa wedges but very cheap. I bought them for around 10,- EUR.

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So it was just a smaller list and I wanted to show you that you can also buy 'brand' clothes in Europe for the perfect style.

Maybe at some websites like Kleiderkreisel (for the German ones) you can still find these 'replicas' or maybe you know a lot of other examples for copied Gyaru clothes.

Keep an eye at the Japanese fashion and store websites of your favorite brand and in your town, in your shops.

bye!

Spring is back!

キスミー!

It's been about 2 months since my last entry. I really want to force myself to blog one time a months but my problem is that I forget to take pictures when I'm doing something special or meet friends >.<
I really need some kind of memory ring tone, ha ha...

But now I want to continue with some pictures from the Book Fair in Leipzig, new gets and some outfits.

In the middle of March we went on Friday to Leipzig. Like ever year I wanted to visit the Book Fair there but Friday always was our chilling day in the city.

It was freaking cold, winter was coming back that weekend. So I had to wear thermo leggings under my tights. Mao, Hani, Kukki, Senja and I went by local train to Leipzig.
While Kukki and Hani took a nap in our appartement Senja, Mao and I met Lau and Michi in the city.

We strolled through the streets and went a bit shopping. I didn't buy anything that day but it was funny with the girls.

In the evening we met again with the other girls and also with Sato and Kirschu to have dinner at the 'Schnitzel Culture'.

I had 'Schnitzel Försterin' with croquettes and a sauce hollandaise - champignon mix. Very delicious!
It was a nice, relaxing evening with chatting and drinking some cocktails.

The next day started stressful to me 'cause Senja doesn't fit into GooF's yukata so she had to wear her own and unfortunately I own the same one.
But Senja stayed cool and so I was wearing GooF's yukata and with Senjas help everything went well.
Also a BIG THANKS to lovely Senja for doing my hair on all 2 days!

The fair was crowded as fuck! So for me it wasn't fun at all and we just stayed around two hours. In the crowd we met Lau and Michi.

They were having a Digimon cosplay group together. It was some kind of hurtful to me not being a part of them but I quitted cosplay last year.

The only picture of me and Senja that day taken by Lau. But Senja and I had a lot of fun to watch the good and bad cosplayer around us and also took some funny pics of ourselves.

After leaving the fair we changed clothes and had a nice evening in the city and celebrating Kirschu's pre-birthday.

The Sunday started with a breakfast at the main station before we went to the fair. I didn't take any pictures that day, that's really shameful >.<

Michi and I had a Pokémon battle with Sato as referee. We had the idea to take part at the World Championships qualification this year but we quitted. Stuttgart is too far and too expensive to go there.

My haul that day: 2 manga I wanted to have a long time (even I sold my complete collection a few years ago) and Gachapin snacks ^^

Kirschu's birthday cheki... and the only picture of me that day xD
It was a nice weekend in the end.

Let's talk about the next theme. Even it's still bad weather I did some spring shopping and also I got some gifts from my friends.

My friend Aiko visited her family and she fulfil my big desire for the book of Kiryuuin Shou, voka-ru of Golden Bomber, I had seen in September in Japan but didn't buy.
Also I got some sweet matcha stuff from her.

And more Golden Bomber stuff: Aya sent to me another 2 DVDs about the live tour 2014: special Saitama tour final edition and special Kyan Yutaka edition. She's crazy! I had to pick my package up at custom service but I was sooo happy after I received it.

Some weeks ago I met with Lau for shopping. She wanted to prepare for her holidays and I just wanted to look for some spring clothes.
At the moment I become more and more into GARULA. The spring collection is pointed on denim wear so I focused my eyes on that.

I found these jeans shorts at the new H&M collection and I was surprised 'cause Garula really have the same one in stock at the moment.

Some kind of similar, isn't it? But I really want to wish I would own the 'real one' 'cause I hate high waisted things like that H&M short is.

This cardigan I bought in sale at Tally Weijl and it also reminds me of some Garula cardigans I had seen on their website.

And for just 15,- EUR I got this really cool denim shoes.

And this is the Garula-inspired spring outfit with the new items I bought. I really like it! Also I tried to style some other Garula outfits with my wardrobe.

checked shirt: Juriano Jurrie

sewatshirt: Comme des Fuckdown

skirt: Tally Weijl

top: Garula

pink shirt: H&M

shorts: Tally Weijl

My normal light make up I wear for that kind of style: natural upper lashes (Dolly Wink No. 16) and no name lower lashes. I guess on that picture every kind of make up is invisible *drop*.

And last but not least: my birthday flowers from my mother... tulips are my favorite flowers and they brought back the spring to me.
Next weeks will be exciting: I will visit Senja in Cottbus, Michi in Düsseldorf and will visit with Aiko the MUCC live in Berlin included VIP meet and greet.

Bye!