Jfashion festival!! <3Jfashion festival!! <3Hey guys! Merry Christmas Eve (it's actually the wee hours of Christmas, but whatever lol)! :) I really wanted to share about the jfashion event I mentioned! Not only was it super fun, but helped get over the last incident.
As I mentioned in my last diary entry, I went to a huge and super fun jfashion festival!! I went all decked out in manba gyaru (ganguro)! I had so much fun meeting and talking to so many different people! I saw so many different styles and it just felt so cool being around so many different people! Everybody was super friendly and I received tons of compliments!
Sadly, I really didn't see many gyaru. I saw one group. I tried to talk to them and be friendly, but they just seemed sort of closed off.. :/ So whatever. I just had a short chat and went about my way. I just wish I could have made friends with them. It made me kind of sad.
Anyways, I bought some adorable new accessories for my hime and agejo styles!! I'm super duper excited to style them-especially now that my princess hair bump supplies arrived! I will feel like the perfect hime! I also really want the big princessy tube curls, maybe.. :P
These pieces are so so cute and go perfectly with my agejo and hime styles!! Also Ka-tan’s romanba if I ever attempt that again. <3 It felt so good to not only acquire these new pieces, but also to support these small local creators!!
After I finished my rounds at the event, I decided to explore the area. The area’s a very Asian (mostly Japanese) one. I thought it was super cool! Of course it’s loaded with tourist traps, but I just fell so in love. I could really feel the heart of the culture there; so many murals, so much community, and so much culture. I loved the food, cute little shops, and vendors.
One vendor was a sweet older Japanese lady. As I bought an adorable little ganguro Hello Kitty (the brown girlie), she took a look at me and said “You must really like ganguro!” I said yes, of course, because I do! She told me that she thought I was so beautiful and that I remind her of her best friend who was into ganguro. :,) The memory brings a tear to my eye-well, not literally, but I think you get me. She says I should visit Japan again soon. I really want to. That’s a chapter of my life that I just really want to rewrite, honestly.
I also really wanted to add that this event was kind of the start of me dressing in ganguro style regularly again. ^^ My strawberry blonde wig had arrived just in time and, with the dark ass fake tan, I pulled it off PERFECTLY! It looked much better than it did with my old natural hair. I have been wearing the style again lately.
Just as I used to, I kind of just do whatever I feel like. If I want to go hime or agejo, I do that. If I want to go ganguro, I slap on a tan and do that. I don't like limiting myself to one thing. Life is just too short for that. I don’t care what anybody says.
I just had such a great time! The whole experience filled me with a sense of confidence and freedom. I loved the independence I felt; the same independence I hadn’t felt since I was in Japan. I loved being by myself and getting to choose what I wanted to do, where I wanted to go, and what I wanted to eat. I loved the fresh experience of exploring a whole new beautiful area.
Most of all, I loved getting to connect with and support other jfashion enthusiasts just like me. <3