Popteen January 2011 exercise section.

O-kay, i'm incapable of operating the printer-scanner-fax machine in my house. So i've been downloading magazine scans even though i actually do buy the magazines. *technological dinosaur*

As usual, some scans and stuff that caught my eye, especially the exercise section, that should prove useful for those attending christmas parties, new year parties and chinese new year a little later. Social eating = Diet? what diet? IT'S A SEAFOOD DIET. i see food and eat it. i also need to stop using this joke. IT IS NO LONGER FUNNY. SIRUISLY.

k, so here're scans from the exercise section, credits to the scanner, i'm only picking stuff out and highlighting them. 8D.

The exercises are quite self-explanatory and the pictures basically show you how to do everything. Mostly compound exercises though.

Kara's Mister dance! I was so amused to find this and some other K-pop references in this issue.

I honestly don't know what's going on the with nose exercise, but--

Seriously, what is that.

I find these exercise sections rather useful cause all of them can be done at home. No need to go out into the sun or on the treadmill.

Fashion picks will be up after i actually choose them.

Happy Christmas Eve everyone!

OMG IT'S CHRISTMAS TOMORROW, I AM SO EXCITE.

 

Jelly; Dec 2010 picks

OHAI! Just got back from Seoul on Monday night, at around 1am.

Photos will have to come later cause i've got 675 of them to sift through. I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW I EVEN MANAGED TO TAKE 675 PHOTOS.

Autumn colours are terribly dreary, hopefully winter brings in some cute fluffy colours. Then again, i was looking at Jelly, not Popteen. Popteen picks should be coming along soon!

Recently i've been drawn into more understated styles. Might be the influence of korean street fashion, which is, judging from what i've seen, ladylike, semi-formal, and subtle. It really depends on what you're looking at though. I did pick up this sweater in ghastly shades of purple and green. Purple and green happen to go quite well together, for some inexplicable reason.

But, i digress, beige, camel, brown, grey, black, khaki and tartan seem to be recurring colour palettes in this issue. As well as fur, in the form of legwarmers, vests, coats, scarves, or bags. Pants range from denim shorts to skinny jeans, boyfriend cuts, and slacks.

Red seems to be one of the more heavily featured vibrant colour in makeup now. Classic colour, goes with the season's muted tones, but tends to be a little tricky when it comes to picking a shade of red. Some are too orange, some are too pink, you might get it on your teeth and that's all kinds of awkward. One of my favourite lip colours is Chanel's Rouge Allure in excessive. Should've gotten it in the airport ugh, i'm such an indecisive shopper.

I'd suggest taking the advice of pairing red lippie with natural eye makeup. Heavy eye makeup and red lips as a set can be rather volatile; it either makes you look like a Harlot, Tranny, or well, to be honest i don't see any good coming out of overly dramatic eyes and red lipstick cause there's gonna be too much drama going on all over that face.

Some recurring shoe trends i've observed would be the laced up ankle boots, lots of suede, and fur. Though it seems like ankle boots are more popular than thigh highs or knee highs this season. Okay no i'm biased cause i just bought a pair of laced ankle boots from Korea. Yes, there'll be a mega haul post sometime soon.

One of my favourite pieces this autumn? The knitted socks. Lovelovelovelove them so much. My horrendous thunder thighs make it impossible for me to wear them cause, hello, muffin top. Also, would someone be so kind as to inform me where i can obtain sock glue? Because my thigh high socks keep slithering downwards. It's ridiculous.
Also, just a little note for the scarf under belt style in the top right hand side of the picture. Try using a scarf with less elasticity, then it's not as likely that you'll stretch it out of shape.

Lastly, one of my favourite coordinates in this issue. It also happens to be unwearable in Singapore. Tragic.

Short snippet on korea:

It was incredibly fun, there was touristy stuff as well as a whole lot of shopping. Cosmetics, mostly. Clothes need to be washed before keeping them away, so i'll get photos of the stuff i bought sometime later, maybe in a week or so. Either way, there'll be a haul post and general tourist photos to look forward to. Hopefully soon. 8DD

I'll see if i remember enough of Dongdaemun to point anyone who needs information in the right direction, in terms of shopping for clothes.

Till then, 안녕~!

Dark hair gyaru scanspam, 2 week hiatus notice.

OHAI, this is a filler post, so if you want to read something with more substance, or a cool ass clothes customization tutorial, head over to my friend's blog ( http://bryangohey.wordpress.com/ ). Awesome Alternative fashion posts, and extremely fun to read.

Moving on,

Casually flip through any Gyaru magazine, Egg, Ranzuki, Popteen; you'll almost never see dark haired gyaru. As a dark haired individual, the constant barrage of light hair shades makes it difficult to emulate hairstyles in these magazines. And most of the time brings about an irrepressible urge to run out to a hair salon and wave a page in the stylist's face, demanding the exact shades of brown as Kumikki.

Unfortunately my hair's chemically straightened, because if left untreated, it becomes this unmanageable mass of frizz that resembles fairy floss after it starts melting.

If i should lighten/dye/bleach it, the main worries would be :
1. would the dye screw around with the straightening chemicals?
2. will my hair just fry from overprocessing then all fall out leaving me like one of those hairless chinese crested dogs?

Then October's popteen had a dark haired gyaru feature. Most of them were wearing wigs, but still.

The styles, honestly, aren't as bold, and if coordinated with the wrong clothes will come off more girl than gyaru. Nonetheless, a dark haired feature is better than none. And it does seem like warmer hair colours are coming back for fall.

More warm coloured hair scans from Popsister:

The cover of Popteen nov 2010

Love Hikari Shina's new hair colour!

While models are starting to sport darker hair colours and such, lightened hair is a fundamental part of gyaru style. Light hair is what usually distinguishes gyaru from the common girl, other than dress sense and makeup. It's the cherry on top of parfait of sorts.

I'll elaborate more on this in another post sometime in the future.

The next 2 weeks will be essay rush, which means i have a pile of assignments to complete and will be unable to blog coherently or at all. So i'll be taking a 2 week hiatus from blogging to write essays like a mad dog.

-edit- FORGOT TO POST MSS OTL. was off doing some work. i guess that means a total hiatus then. sorry!

There will be a barrage of tweets about how much my life sucks and why can't my assignments do themselves though. hahah.

So, i'll be back, and hopefully still alive in 2 weeks!~

Gonna get some sleep now. I feel like i just wrestled a bear and got mauled.