Inside/Outside

Imma try to take more pictures outside. Seeing the white wall of my room makes me fall asleep. Also, it looks like I wouldn't go out hahaha.

But I am always too shy to ask people to take my pic, and Tokyo is always so full of people I cannot take one real quick myself being all sneaky and stuff without being discovered haha.

And when I use others' pictures I happen to be in it has to turn out like this hahahahaha

6am on a rainy morning. I tried being very creative in hiding my peers' identities. Hahahahahaha ain't I genius! Besides, I am looking choooo-stupid lol

I must laugh all the time in real, too, because while writing this I am chatting with bf sending him silly messages. Yessss, I make myself laugh! hahaha

Oh and by the way have you ever chanced upon Japanese nail art?!

She has it all! Little cartoon characters, cakes and donuts :D She's having her own party on her nails.

Hahaha I must laugh again seeing her nails and checking what else is there. I'm not sure... ice cream?? sandwiches?? hahahahaha

Black&White

I love what I have in my inspiration folder. I really need to get it sorted and rekindle the picked pics aspect of this blog again.

Mega // Cocorosa // Turned Out // Face Hunter



unknown // Drop Snap // Saga // Geldof & Chung



The most interesting aspect about black&white in photography is probably the wonderful possibilities and at the same time strict limitations of the play of light/shadow that the exclusion of colors imposes on the picture.

New Hair

New hairrrrr :D in the University toilet:
A friend of mine cut it for me.

(You can see my new cam, too!!! It's golden :D )

When we first met, the first thing I had noticed about her was how sick cool her hair is. I asked her if she knew a good hair dresser here in TKY, but she said she cut them herself!!! I was like

CUT MINE TOO!

And she did. She never learned it tho!

And let me tell you, she did the most perfect job! It's exactly as I had wished it to be. No hair dresser I have been to came even slightly as close!

From the one side I look as if I had a normal, sickeningly cute bob, but when I turn my head *woah*! Like magic :D

The very best part is the back, the way the bob becomes longer and longer.

See how perfect the line is drawn. That's exactly what I wanted.

She is my personal hair dresser from now on. I buy her drinks and sweets and cherish her forever!

I cut my bangs myself, though. That's why it's crooked ^__^

I will leave you with some picture demonstrating what I felt up to the whole university day:
Rainy season messes me up so badly - I feel intensely tired the whole time and when you come out of your air conditioned room it feels like running against a wall of humidity!

Did I tell you that in my University 85% are male, because it used to be boys-only? Now I did.

Biker Shorts and Lace

I was already playing around with the idea of biker shorts since last late summer, being very attracted by the idea of layering it under frilly dresses and shorts, loving the idea of having another layer peeking out from underneath.

But sometimes I am even too slow for myself.

Now, without any assistance from my side, biker shorts have gotten a make-over and are accordingly celebrating their resurrection from the dead in a very fashionable manner. And I am reminded of how I, for more than half a year, wanted to play around with that one pair made of angora wool my mum actually gave me to prevent short-skirts-in-winter-wearing me from getting cystitis . For the ongoing summer I am absolutely enchanted by the idea of lace biker shorts!

As soon as the Japanese catch up on that trend, I know they will be all over the place here. Until then, how do I get my hands on a pair asap!? I see so many ways I would want to wear it.

Another thing I haven't gotten over just yet is my lust for some over-romantic lace pieces. Preferrably processed to loose tops or a dramatic dress.

(1. Gripp Jeans // 2. Anywho // 3. Alexa Chung // 4. and 6. from some Japanese magazine // 5. Hand it Over)

Haha, btw, biker shorts with some random T-shirt I stole from my daddy's closet was my uniform back in pre-school to primary school. Can someone say instant coolness. Ahh, childhood memories.

Gray Double-breasted Boyfriend Style Blazer on Sale!

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Don't you just love it! Perfect to dress it up and down. It has this wonderful slouchy, a tad oversized feel to it, silver embellished buttons and is lined with gray needle-stripes on sand-color. Wear the sleeves rolled up or as they are, both looks equally cool. I would like to keep it but it is getting unbearably hot over here, and I need to make space for more summer-y clothing. A few more pictures of it here and here.

One size means free size means one size fits all. I am usually a XS/S or EU34, but this blazer works for M-sizers or EU36-38 just as well! Outer 65% Polyester and 35% Rayon, inner 100% Polyester.

Worn more than a couple of times only, but in very good condition.

Other stuff on sale, buy! buy! buy! buy it while it's hot!.

SOLD

DISCOFUNBATH

UHMMMMM hello!?? Why has no one told me about it?! You wanted to keep it a secret, did you?! What, you did not know about it yourself? Really?!! WHY NOT?! OMG! I mean, this blog is effing superhypermega cool and I just found about it ... five minutes ago!?

Wardrobe stylist from New York DISCOFUNBATH's mix of street style pictures from New York, her own works and Iconoclasts-posts is amazing. I repeat. A-may-zingggg. I really cannot wait for other stuff to come, after I was devouring her archives in super high speed, just to go thru them again with more appreciating eye and sense of enjoyment.

The street pictures' quality have improved majorly over the course of time and by now they can easily compete with The Sartorialist's or Garance Doré's regarding their high inspiration-factor. I must add that I even like DISCOFUNBATH's a tad more since they are very much to my own personal taste.

Inspiration and Iconoclasts include Jesus and the Mary Chains, Kelly Kapowski or Dead Can Walk.

In any case, DISCOFUNBATH is my new favorite!

Light Denim High Waist Skirt for Sale

I put it up before, and I put it up again, because I am not wearing it and think that it'd be a real waste!

I am talking about a light denim high waist skirt with invisible side pockets and stretch waist. One size means free size means one size fits all (like most of the high street clothing in Japan for whatever reason), so it is meant to fit whatever size you are (I am usually an EU34, or XS/S but it will work on a M all the same!).

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It is a bit crinkled still, nothing a good ironing cannot handle. I have worn it maybe 1 or 2 times, so the skirt is still in best condition.

35€ or 49US$ and it's yourrrrrs!

If you are interested, shoot me an e-mail to pickypickspics@gmail.com !

As soon as we have agreed upon a deal, send me your address and the money via Paypal, and I send you the chosen item upon receival of payment.

Combined shipping possible (other stuff on sale, buy! buy! buy!).

INT'L SHIPPING!
PRIVATE SALE!
NO RETURNS!
NO GUARANTUEES!

Sold items are taken off the Shop upon receival of payment.

Randoms

• I came to the conclusion (after I wrote this post) that if I had plenty of money, of course I could be stylish, because I would be able to buy whatever the hell I wanted, I would just buy style. The point, however, is to make the best with the means you have, and since I have never been the quality-over-quantity-type, anyway, I am fine with buying cheap, and since I still think that finding something ridiculously cool for ridiculously cheap is one of the best shopping experiences you can have, I guess I do not necessarily have to whine and complain. Furthermore, it is all about keeping your eyes and mind open to work with the average to make it hits!

• Lamé zipper-leggings by Glad News + some random oversized print T-shirt and jelly sandals I picked up somewhere in the backstreets of Shimokitazawa, photographed with my new camera. I finally am able to navigate my way thru that highly confusing maze of Shimokitazawa's alleys without completely losing orientation - I concentrated really hard to learn! I still get lost in Shibuya on a regular basis, though.
  

• There is some love fling going on between me and jelly-shoes. These are my third pair of jelly-shoes now. There is something about the rubber-plastic-material that appeals to me. Something about its obvious cheapness, yet through the characteristics of the material - forming, texture and looks - it has a futuristic feeling to it, since the shoes are more sculptured in contrast to cut&sewn/glued. Oh, and it's shiny!
• I am highly irritated by Tokyo's summer. Because I think it is supposed to be summer here, but the rainy season kind of dominates the whole summer time, does it not?? Anyway, it is hot and mad humid. Yesterday evening the rain was so amazingly heavy like I have seldom experienced before, just when we left the restaurant. Here's to getting soaked by heavy summer rains.
• Torn between black and colors (lots of it!). I realized that I have opened up to colors big time, lately choosing pink (!!) over black, and being all crazy about red, although today's attire does not really show. I just like to think back to those times when black was really my color and I would be more rock than pop (pre-blog). Guess the whole grunge-hype spoiled it for me somehow. Also, I got so overly casual lately - as in just a jeans and T-shirt. I like to think that I thus follow my line of Neo-Homeless with my ripped or acid wash jeans, sloppy T-shirts and tanks, and rubber sandals..
• If we all had to give our style a name right now, what would yours be? I am striving for Neo-Homeless, but right now I am more a Random Crayon-Sketch.
  

New Camera

Got a new compact digital camera. A good one at that, might I add. Sharp and clear pictures, acceptable noise-level (it loses sharpness in bad lighting, tho.. I mean not only 'cause the objects get blurred), good, vivid colors for a compact.. all in all, it is the perfect substitute/counterpart to my DSLR. I especially love that I ordered it yesterday in the afternoon, and it came today by late noon. I love Japan.

Lashes

A few of you asked for pictures with the lashes. Close-up-shots are difficult, tho. I do not know how to Photoshop, so I do not know how to cover up my blemishes, and so most of the pictures just fall through. I still look extremely stupid in the second picture. Oh well...

Party

From a party two or three weeks ago. The glasses were the DJ's.

Art of Lashes

Flipping through SPUR's July 2009 issue to find these and become ab-so-lutely enchanted.

I am especially lusting after the "goldglam leaves" (2nd page) and "snow twists" (last page). I will have to think about it twice, though, since you get each for 8,400JPY, which sums up to about 60€/85USD, lol. But I def think about it, or find me some less expensive but just as nice ones (probs more of the latter ^__^). Pimping up eyelashes is just too much fun.

Since you asked for more Japan-rants, and there is a lot to rant about haha, here is another small one. I went to the cinema some time ago, first time in Japan, and was overly confused when the credits at the end began scrolling down and... people would just stay still in their seats and watch them scrolling down. I thought, okay, that's nice, and kinda polite to the dudes who made the movie, uh-huh - not like we rude Europeans who would instantly leave the cinema as soon as the credits appear. But when we finally got out and my Taiwanese friend told me how confused she was at the end when nobody moved until the credits were done scrolling, I knew it's not me. It's them!

Do you stay for the credits?