♥ Lolita Lifestyle Challenge - Day 4! ♥ ~ Cute Lolita Hairstyles~

I think that there are a lot of lolitas out there who fall into a rut where their hair is concerned; I know that both of us tend to! I personally am not very good with my hair - and am definitely guilty of going days without brushing it because I'm so lazy - even though I have so much of it! I know how to plait, and I know how to put my hair into a pony tail, and that's about as far as I'm prepared to go - and I'm always too afraid of messing up wigs to go too far with them!

I'm going to drop a few inspirational lolita pictures with cute hair/wigs and then drop a few YouTube channels with tutorials on them here!

I really like how the first girl doesn't have a fringe but her hair is still classy and pretty; Haz's hair is a little too fine to hold a fringe in properly and to be honest I am much too scatter-brained to keep a fringe in good order; it's something I've attempted a few times but have never been successful with! Her hair seems to be in tiny little buns beneath the two hairclips; it's cute and faintly anime-ish without being weeby! The second hairstyle is one I've always wanted to try but been afraid it would look a little silly; this absolutely inspires me to try it out!

Some of my favourite hairstyles are vintage inspired; I love rockabilly and 50s pin-up fashion and I love their hair; a YouTube channel we follow that posts a lot of those is Cherry Dollface. Here's a tutorial of hers for a vintage style bouffant with a bow that I think would be adorable with the right retro-inspired coordinate!

One of Haz's favourite YouTube channels to look at for make-up and life inspiration is Kawaii Pateen, a Japan-based YouTube channel that often has special videos by Japanese fashion celebrities! You might have seen some of their videos with Misako Aoki. Here's a video that they made called "2 Kawaii CHILDISH FAIRY Hairstyles!" I think the first hairstyle with the powder puffs is really cute (and would be cute even replaced with bows or something else of the kind!

I hope this post gave you a few cute ideas about hairstyling yourself! I plan on trying these out as soon as I can; we're away right now so it's a bit difficult to take photos, but I'm excited especially to try out the vintage style bouffant!

✿Love,✿

♥Haz & Nat♥

★ ♥ AnimangaPOP haul! ♥ ★ (⊃ ´ω`)⊃♥⊂(´ω` ⊂)

This weekend we've been away at animangaPOP in Bristol, selling our kawaii shop's handmade wares! I realize we haven't really posted very much on here regarding our shop, but we're super excited to be running it and we love doing it! We sell kawaii handmade jewelry designed to be worn with J-Fashion, things we would be happy to wear ourselves! Here's a quick little link! 

I think one of the best things we found about selling at a convention was how lovely and supportive everyone else was! All of the other stall holders were so friendly and lovely, and we definitely overspent our budget! Oops. . .

We picked up some little Madoka blind boxes; one for Nat and one for a friend! 

The above are from the lovely Jessabel! A lot of the items on the left came from a lucky pack, and everything was super cute! The Lagoona print is definitely going up in our craft room! The stickers on the right (we are both so awfully tempted by every sticker set we see. . .) will probably end up on packages and penpal letters!  

All from the sweet Minty Kitty! Absolutely everything on her stall was so adorable, it was difficult to choose what to buy! I definitely want to get more prints and more keychains and more everything; I think we both went back to this stall about five different times! 

A quick summary of all the prints we got, featuring art by: Moonlily Illustration (appropriately, the cat girl on the moon!), Anastasia Catris (the girl with the muffins), Kavon Illustration (Elsa, Anna and Miku) and JammyScribbler (the adorable science cats illustration!).

To be honest, I've never really bought prints at conventions before - but when you're on the other side of the table, you suddenly start to get a lot more of an idea of exactly how much goes into manufacturing every single thing that's being sold, and it definitely gives you an appreciation of other handmade crafters and artists! I know that next time I go to a con, I'll definitely stop to look and purchase; and if you've never really thought about it, you should too! 

We also bought a couple of goodies from 8th Sin Creations; the rabbit brooch is a gift for a friend, but the rosette is for us! The girl running the stall also gave Haz 2 free pairs of earrings, which was super sweet!

I also bought a little Rilakkuma stapler as a gift! Cute stationery is the best kind, after all! 

All in all, we had a fabulous time at AnimangaPOP, bought some adorable crafts and met some lovely people! We definitely want to attend another Keep It Secret event in the near future, and it's given us a bit of a push to carry on exhibiting and selling at cons!

✿Love,✿

♥Haz & Nat♥

♥♪ Outfit Post! #1 ♪♥

One of our friends got married last weekend, and we were invited and asked if we would wear lolita! Generally, whether or not lolita is wedding-appropriate can come up as a point of contention - people worry it will take attention away from the bride, or come off as overdressed, or any other number of (perfectly valid!) worries! However, in this case, seeing as we'd been asked specifically, we thought we would risk it! 

Haz!

Haz wore Cinderella Bunny out for the first time! She felt a little bit more conspicuous than Nat, but it is such a cute dress and feels so cute and princessy to wear that it was definitely worth it!

JSK & Shoes: Bodyline

Blouse: Vintage
Kneesocks and Flower Crown: Primark
Acessories: Vintage, gifts and Primark

Haz feels a little bit self-conscious of her arms, so this vintage blouse with pin tucks and a ruffle is perfect for covering up and still being cute! She wore a vintage pearl necklace to match the pearl detailing on the JSK! On the picture above you can also see a cute little vintage ballet shoe brooch - we thought it was appropriate for a ball-themed dress!

Nat!

I got these shoes and skirt specifically for a wedding and was intending to wear them with my fancy new Bodyline blouse, but was a little worried about wearing too much white, so chose a duskier rose vintage blouse! It has some really cute collar embroidery that I love. I felt a lot more casual than Haz, but also might have went a little bit overboard on the accessory department!

Blouse: Vintage

Skirt, Bag & Shoes: Bodyline
Accessories: Cute Can Kill, Chocomint, Vintage, Poundland, eBay

I love this cute little Sailor Moon necklace from eBay!

Our place settings at the wedding were really cute! Also, the brownie served with dessert was absolutely the most delicious food!

We had a lot of fun and are so grateful that we were invited to such a special occasion in our friend's life! What would you say is the most special event you've worn lolita for? Haz and I have been talking a lot about having a lolita wedding or a lolita inspired wedding - how do you guys feel about something like that? 

✿Love,✿

♥Haz & Nat♥

❤ ❤ Instagram Round Up! ❤ ❤

Another month, another Instagram roundup! To be perfectly honest, with the end of college and the sudden onset of the summer holidays and with lots of events coming up, we haven't really had time to go on any adventures! However, being cooped up has lead to us having to find creative ways to spend our energy! And spending a whole ton of money . . . oops! (｡◕‿◕｡) (A direct quote from Haz: "I can't wait to get back to college so I won't be addicted to eBay anymore!")

First: a little eBay purchase package! We got some glue and jump rings for our business, and then some general cute stuff for our bags! The pens turned out to be very pretty to write with, but ran out almost immediately, which was super sad! Our lovely friend Billie also came over for a day, which was fab!

We attempted to play Disney Trivial Pursuit with Billie, but it did not go to plan! Also, whilst we were gone, Haz turned twenty! I guess we can't call ourselves "teenage lolitas" anymore! :c

We went out to celebrate Billie and Haz's birthday because they only had a day between! We got ice cream sundaes from Baskin Robbins (Nat's had sprinkles and tiny pastel sugar stars in!), shopped around at a few charity shops and altogether had a lovely time! Nat even found these cute Cardcaptor Sakura cards in one of the charity shops for £1.25, which was a super good deal! 

Some portrait shots from that day! Nat wearing a cute seifuku outfit and Cute Can Kill accessories, staringly lovingly at the manga and cards we bought . . . And Haz looking super cute in a flower crown and floral dress, as always! 

Billie and Nat did an art trade and we got this cute little picture of us as lolitas! We've also started buying these Barbie kinder eggs on our late night walks, although we're getting a lot of doubles . . . (๏ㅂ๏)

Another little eBay purchase package! Cat tights and a Sailor Moon necklace, which we can't wait to put together outfits with! We also discovered the "joys" of loom bands, and now we can't stop - Haz likes the fishtail ones best!

A sneak peek at some of the goodies that are hopefully going to be popping up in our online shop very soon! We also treated ourselves to a little pamper session before a local lolita meet, which included Nat trying out Nat's first ever face mask (Nat had a berry one and Haz had a chocolate one; Haz's smelt delicious!). We also picked up these "Dolly's Mixtures" shower gels, which smell super divine and were definitely worth the £1!

A little selfie from the meet! We were helping out at a local festival on a stall making poppies; thus explaining our button-and-tissue-paper crowns! 

That's all for now; we're hoping we'll have some stuff to blog about soon! We're attending a friend's wedding next week and hoping to take some little day trips out before college starts again, so stay tuned for updates with regards to those! What have you been up to recently? 

✿Love,✿

♥Haz & Nat♥

✿ (｡♥‿♥｡) Cute Homewares! (｡♥‿♥｡) ✿

A-hoy-hoy! ✿ Haznat here again, delivering some friendly, kawaii blogging news! Now, as you may or may not know, both of us are currently studying at college and hoping to move onto studying at university (or maybe even a theatre school! (╯ಊ╰)) next year, and we've already started to do a teeny tiny little bit of shopping whilst our own personal aesthetic is in mainstream style! (◕‿-)

As you've probably guessed from this blog's posts, theme and overall ideas, both of us are very very into the idea of cute and kawaii as a lifestyle! (◕‿◕✿) We love unicorns, sparkly things and pastels! This is good for us, as currently pastels are very much the in thing! We've been stocking up on cute homewares for our little room and kitchen at uni (hopefully together!) whilst we can! ∩(︶▽︶)∩ And if it doesn't work out for university, I'm sure all of this stuff can keep until we make our little home together! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

First up, an adorable little mixing bowl for any mixing needs we might have whilst we're away! There were a few designs to choose from, but we thought this little sentiment was just so cute! ｡◕ ‿ ◕｡ 

These pastel beakers just looked so cute in their matching colours, we couldn't resist them! We may have bought too many, but it's always good to be prepared, right? (・∀・ )

We are - hopefully! - planning on baking a lot of treats for our friends, both now and at uni and hopefully beyond! We always have to take cupcakes and buns in tins that squishes all of the icing up, so hopefully this is going to solve that problem! （　´∀｀）☆

OK, I'll admit it - maybe this is mainly a baking haul! Still, neither of us are particularly good cooks - (=゜ω゜) - but we can at least understand baking! We thought the pattern on this was so cute, and the tin it comes in is always going to be helpful! (^▽^)

Some more useful baking things! This might also come in helpful with doing cute deco, so it's dual purpose! (´ω｀)

We bought probably far too much stuff from the Jane Asher Poundland range - but all of it was in such pretty pastel hues! We couldn't decide between the pink and the lavender (and lots of things were only available in one or the other in our local store!) so we have a little hodge podge of colours that hopefully will look adorable in our kitchen! (≧ω≦)

Some more things from the adorable range, both in lavender! We are so excited to be able to put these out on display in our kitchen, you have no idea! (✿◠‿◠)

These were some of the things we could only get in the pink! Still, even if they don't match perfectly, I'm sure they won't stick out too much! (´ω｀) I'm especially happy with the ice cream/cake mix scoop - I personally hate the part of baking where you have to hope you've got the cake mix even. (-＿- )ノ

This was a really interesting find! (^^;) Both of us are fans of the Food Network show 'Cupcake Wars', and we're always talking about trying out cupcake recipes - one of the things we're always complaining about here is how dry our cupcakes are! So we're very excited to be able to make delicious and moist filled cupcakes! (*~▽~) Also, at 99p, it seemed too good to pass up!

We also bought some more supplies for baking! Both Nat and Haz's birthdays are coming up, so maybe some cute cupcakes might even be baked to surprise one another! ∩(︶▽︶)∩

Finally, we picked up 2 important necessities - food containers and oven gloves! They're both in cute pastels to match our kitchen range, and the oven glove was even reduced! Both of us might love kawaii, but we also love bargains! (◕‿-)

So there's our pastel homeware haul of things for now! We've also got some cute little Mickey Mouse tea towels and a macaroon cutting board squirrelled away, but we haven't got any photos of those for now! All of the above came to less than £20 in total, which we're both very pleased with! (o´ω｀o) 

What about you? Does your kitchen have a theme, or is there a very important baking equipment item that we definitely need to purchase? Leave a comment and tell us all about it! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

✿Love,✿

♥Haz & Nat♥