Miss Filigree

I've been wanting to make a post like this for ages, but unfortunately I'm extremely inconsistent with taking coord pictures! I like taking them, I just consistently forget or think "I'll do it later"and then don't, or one designated person takes them and then forgets to upload them. I go to lots of meetups, I wear lolita a ton, yet I have very little coord pictures. So these aren't all recent, some are several years old, but I still figured it would be fun to upload them! One of my oldest coords period, possibly five years old! For a Metamorphose meetup. I still quite like this one, but I'd go with OTKs if I were to wear this again because the skirt of this dress is very short and I feel it creates an awkward gap. The white frill under the dress is an underskirt to hide that I didn't have a petticoat of decent length yet, not the actual petti so no worries! (also, so little makeup! Even with oldschool I wear far more today) Another oldie,...

Long hair is sort of a universal ideal in lolita. If you wear sweet you go big poofy pigtails, if you wear classic you go long and straight or braided, if you wear gothic you tease it up. No matter the substyle, the vast majority of snaps have some sort of long hairdo, so much so that people constantly ask for short hair inspo because it’s so hard to find! Maybe you too love long hair and are thinking of growing it out, but you don’t know where to start. Sure your scalp will be doing most of the work, but you have to keep it healthy and you’re the one who’ll be styling it for meetups. If you’re that person, then this post is for you! Of course this isn’t some all-encompassing Long Hair Bible, it’s meant as a short introduction with some basic tips to get you started. I based all of these on things that work for me personally- for reference, my hair is caucasian, on the thin side and tangles easily (and yet comes down to my hips! So even difficult hair can be super long). If your hair i...