Miss Filigree

Imagine this. You've finally booked the trip of your life, you're going to Japan. You have accommodation, travel tips and your suitcase is ready to go. However, you do not have thousands or even hundreds to spend on frivolous shopping! Considering cute clothes are expensive, that means you're done for, right? Time to limit yourself to one dress and nothing else. Well, not quite. Yes, brand new Angelic Pretty and gyaru-esque brands (Liz Lisa!) are very expensive, but you need to know where to look! First off, the classic, Closet Child . I think we all know what Closet Child is. However, their physical stores all vary a lot! I've found that Harajuku has the cheapest blouses and Axes Femme (300 yen Meta cutsew because the pearls needed to be re-sewn, 300 yen Axes Femme tanktop because it's a tanktop), Shibuya has the best Emily Temple Cute selection and Ikebukuro is just great all around. If you're on a family trip and you can only visit one, go for Ikebukuro! Th...

Hello from Japan!! I'm currently traveling throughout the country and probably will be for a few months, so I'll probably be posting a bunch of Japan-centric stuff. I have a twitter for it, if you enjoy pictures of random interesting things and lots of food >> https://twitter.com/AnnaJCat So while looking up weather patterns in Japan, I found out that Japan during the winter is a lot like during spring, aka dry as hell. At home I have a normal to oily skin and usually I need to touch up my T-zone several times daily, and I never need handcream or lipbalm. Here in Japan though, I got chapped lips for the first time in years. I brought my favourite lipsticks, only for me to never wear them because they dried my lips out even further. So, this time I left them all at home and figured I'd just buy them here because with such dry weather it would be silly for makeup companies not to latch onto that and make some super nourishing lipsticks. Turns out Canmake makes a very ...