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venerdì 17 settembre 2021

Gyaru Q&A pt. 2: Makeup version!

ヤッホー~

How are you? I hope you're having a nice gal month until now :D Today I want to share with you my second gal challenge! I really want to contribute to this month's activities so I thought it was time to share this :D I'll quit talking and show you the new challenge, this time all about make up

Let's go!

UP CHALLENGE!

Name:

Natsumin!

Your Style:

Generally gyarukei but my fav substyles are agejo and tsuyome!

Your Makeup Style:

I love every makeup style from gyaru but I try to stick to my EGG fav models makeup from 2009/2010, especially Yumachi and Chie:

Yumachi

Chie

So I prefer to use heavy dramatic lashes combined with light eyeshadow in natural colors, cuz I love to see my eyelashes and eyeliner pop up more than the rest! But when I work or I feel lazy I prefer Okarie's style from 2008:

Okarie

She uses only heavy upper lashes while the rest is quite light and easy (= fast) to do. I love the brown eyeshadow detail in the outer corner of the eye, it makes the lower lashes stand out even without falsies

Your Makeup Reference:

As I said I try to stick to 2009 style, but since one of my fav substyles is agejo, sometimes I like to take inspo from AGEHA :) so my reference generally are my fav models: Chie, Yumachi, Sakurina and Satomin

Satomin

Sakurina

Yumachi

Chie

I love how simple yet outstanding those makeups are! Chie, Yumachi and Satomin like to look more natural and in contrast Sakurina's makeup is so dramatic!

Your Favorite Makeup Brands:

Rn my faves are NYX, Chanel, Marc Jacobs, Too Faced and Benefit!

Last year I was a lot into Douglas basic makeup line but they changed the formula and removed my fav concealer T_T so I don't buy from their brand anymore, but it was my fav, sigh

Your Must Have Products:

Surely those!

Make Up For Ever fixing spray: I tried a lot of sprays but this one is the best until now (second place is NYX spray), especially this summer it helped my makeup stay up even in the pool!

NYX Total Control Pro foundation: I love this foundation! It has a high coverage, a must for me, which I had acne during my teenage years that left me some scars ^^" it's good for eyebags too! But beware that imho it has a neutral tone so it can look grey over someone else :/ (like the model on NYX makeup site ^^")

NYX Epic Ink Liner: the tip is really thin and it's a pen so it's the most comfortable eyeliner I ever had :D

CandyDoll Blush: in Strawberry Pink it's a must! There's nothing more gal than bright pink cheeks

YSL Lipstick: I love it in Peachy Light! It's a pinkish orange with a shiny effect :D

Your Favorite Makeup:

Probably this one! This time I was wearing "Le Blush" blush from L'oreal in Nectarine while my eyeshadow is from Naked palette.

I like that it looks so golden :D

Your Last Makeup:

Not my best one for sure XD but it was the last I took a pic of www

I like the eyeliner but I can do the lower line more accurate and I need different false lashes! But I like the eyebrows, I think XD

Others Favorite Makeup:

This makeup from Risa is to die for T___T!! It's really different from what I do usually, I love the black eyeshadow and glitter eyeliner! I want to try it soon!

THIS AINA MAKEUP T____T!!! It's so beautiful, I love the glittery blue eyeshadow and the lower eyelashes/eyeliner is perfection! I want to try it T_T

This Georgiepiyo makeup ;w; it's so cute, I love how her eyes stand out in contrast with pink lips T_T if somebody asks me how a gal makeup should look like, I'd probably show this cuz imho the most important points are really visible!!

Last but not least is this Akichu wonderful eyemake!! I'm so IN LOVE. It's perfect for summer and the beach, and I adore how neat is her eyeliner T_T Also the lenses combined with the blue (eyeliner? eyeshadow? pls tell meeee) makes me think about gorgeous, hawaiian blue seas, it's impossible to not love it

Top 5 Items from your Makeup Collection:

I'm sorry www but I just love my small CandyDoll collection!

Here we have CandyDoll lipglosses (Macaroon Pink, Gelato Glitter), lipsticks (Poodle Pink, Ramune Pink), blushes (Peach Pink, Strawberry Pink), highlight (Cream Beige) and eyeshadow (n.02, grey x red)

Top 5 Items from your Makeup Wishlist:

From left to right:

Too Faced Better than Sex Mascara

NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer in Toffee

Too Faced Peach Pink Lipstick in Peach Beach

SheIn Cloud Nine Palette

SheIn Chill Palette

Your Makeup Storage:

I store most of my products in this Cecil McBee bag! And I use this Ma*rs mirror to do my makeup at home www

I also have a pink organizer for my brushes and tools and I keep some products on the shelves in my bathroom, but since it's still not well organized (read: a big mess) I'll avoid to take a pic www

I don't do anything special to store them, and I'm probably making a mistake XD I just keep them away from light and heat, clean my brushes often (I have a specific brush-sponge for this) and that's all, I think lol

What's in your Makeup Bag:

The makeup bag I always carry in my bag is this Ravijour pouch! It looks small but can contain so much :D I also carry this compact mirror I got as gift from Japan which can stand up alone, which is really useful :D (I also have the lashes case and lenses case from the same series but I forgot to take a pic sorry ww)

And this is what's inside!

Face: NYX "Can't stop Won't Stop" powder + mini kabuki

NYX "Can't stop Won't Stop" concealer

Make Up For Ever fixing spray

Contouring: Maxfactor Pan stick in cool bronze

Canmake Contouring palette

Eyes: NYX Epic Ink Liner

Marc Jacobs mascara

Sephora lash glue

Sephora "Must-Have" Travel palette

Blush: L'oreal "Le Blush" in Nectarine

CandyDoll in Strawberry Pink

Lips: YSL Volupte Shine in Peachy Light

Heart Lipstick from Aliexpress in pink (it has a red lipstick inside a bright pink lipstick to make a bigger lips effect)

And that's it! I hope you liked it! If you want to try here's the template, just copy and paste (you can delete the suggestion between parentheses)!

UP CHALLENGE!

Name:
Your Style:
Your Makeup Style:
Your Makeup Reference: (models, mua, etc)
Your Favorite Makeup Brands:
Your Must Have Products:
Your Favorite Makeup: (made by you)
Your Last Makeup: (made by you)
Others Favorite Makeup: (not made by you)
Top 5 Items from your Makeup Collection:
Top 5 Items from your Makeup Wishlist:
Your Makeup Storage: (show where and how do you store your products)
What's in your Makeup Bag: (the makeup you always carry with you and use everyday, also show off your makeup pouch!)

I'll end this here and go to bed :D See you next post and take care!

Yours, Natsumin~

domenica 12 settembre 2021

GAL 109 MONTH MEME

Hi!! How are you? I know, I'm spamming but this month the adorable Reilaless with other gals created this "109 Gyaru Month" full with gal activities so I'm on FIIIIIIIIRE

They put together panels, makeup and parapara lessons, group videos and blogging projects and so on T__T

Obviously I had to take part to the blogging activities XD

So today's activity is a gyaru meme *0*

You can find this challenge's template here

Let's start!

GAL 109 MEME

1. Name / Gyaru nickname and country:
I'm Natsumi or Natsumin, and I'm from Italy 🇮🇹

2. Since when are you gyaru?

I started around 2008/2009, but my first attempts can't be seen as gyaru 🤣 in 2010 I finally stopped being stubborn and accepted a lot of advices from other gals who were more informed than me at that time; following their suggestions I started buying magazines and then BOOM! I became totally obsessed. My love for gyaru had some ups and downs, I quitted 2 times due to some problems, but everytime I regretted it and came back to gal www

3. How did you discover the style?

Probably in the "worst" way lol: through Super Gals! Manga XD I say it's the worst way because I was so obsessed with it, that my first gyaru attempts were more bad cosplay attempts than gal www thank goodness after some time I got to Gyaru Wardrobe, an Italian site about gyaru, and discovered the "real" gyaru style www
The funny thing is that I read SuperGals since 2003/2004 (when it was published in Italy), and I was obsessed with it back then, my first alternative fashion attempt ever was actually a Ran inspired outfit XDDDD me and my bestie back then were obsessed with it (we even called each other "Ran" and "Aya", and I was Aya www), we spent a lot of time searching and customizing our clothes to make them similar to theirs... (obviously no makeup, no big hairstyles cuz we didn't have the skills or the products) Then we started the HS, got into rock/metal sh*t and bye bye gyaru XDDDDD Only I came back to it 5 years later, in 2008, sadly with the same concept of gyaru in mind that I had back in 2003 XDDD thanks goodness internet allowed me to learn the right way wwww
Here you can see how I changed through my three big "phases", it took me a while to find those pics XDDDD

4. What's your current substyle? Why do you like it?

This question is always hard for me www I love every single side of gyaru so I tend to wear a lot of substyles depending on seasons, my mood, where I go etc. But I can say my most worn styles are agejo, onee and tsuyome! Mainly because I'm old www I have a job that only allows me elegant clothes (so onee) and I love strong, feminine coords so my choice often comes to be agejo or tsuyome!

5. What are your current booms?

OMG I have so many! But the strongest ones surely are Chanel

, AGEHA, Duras, Cecil McBee and white/beige/cream colors!

6. Share 3 of your fav codes. Why do you like them so much?

I choose those three cuz they represent my favorite styles: colorful gyarukei, agejo, tsuyome and ora ora/anegyaru :D I think those represent every side of me, also you can see my favorite wig and my favorite hairstyle with my real hair www

7. Share 3 things your learned during your Gyaru journey.

Apart from makeup and hairstyle skills, I had to learn how to take criticisms and learn from what other gals point out; even bad comments can point out a real mistake (example: I ended up on gyaru_secrets because of my large nose; even if the comment was offensive it was right somehow, cuz back then I didn't care about contouring and without that secret probably I wouldn't started to learn how to contour) so I had to take my time to think about the criticisms I received and try to take the best lessons out of them.

Another thing I learned is to mix and match, I have to say XDDD when I was younger I loved colors but I used to mix them in the worst ways XDDD especially cuz I was influenced by manga and anime

Now if I ever mix again pink and brown at least I know how to do it www

Last thing I learned that I wanted to share is that thanks to gyaru I finally started to take care of myself - literally.

Gal's motto is "Get wild and be sexy" but is also love yourself, to me. After all why we dress this style? Cuz we want to look amazing for ourselves. And isn't this love for ourselves?

Thanks to gyaru I started to do skincare, haircare and tried to have a healthy life style (but also funny, so I still eat out or drink sometimes XD), but also I started to work hard on myself to improve as a person too before as a gyaru.

A beautiful appearence is useless if the inside is ugly, isn't it? So gyaru really pushes me to move forward and become the best version of myself.
8. Share 3 gaijin gals and 3 Japanese gals you look up to.

It's hard to choose just 3 T___T

Western:

Georgie, cuz she's the western Tsubasa Masuwaka to me, she should have a makeup or fashion line imho!! I love her taste, her chameleon style, and all her knowledge

sorry I'm a fangirl www

Lizzie Bee, cuz following her gyaru journey through her blog never made me feel alone, and her style is so dear and cute!!

Emirichuu, I know she left gal but I still look her old gal video in loop and I love her AGEHA boom into my heart T_T even if she won't dress the style anymore her old looks are still a big inspo

Japanese:

Yumachi, cuz she's still gal, have you seen her IG?? Even if she toned down she's still undeniably gal

Chie, cuz through her journey she tried so many styles and trends that her blog is like a gal manual to me

Sakurina, cuz she's the goddess of AGEHA and her movie "Girl's Life" is another gyaru manual to me XDD
9. What's your favorite Gyaru memory?

Surely is this 2016 Harajuku Fashion Walk! I was there with my besties back then and had the best time of my life XD I truly lived the gal lifestyle that day, and had so much fun! I miss a lot those days, but now my life doesn't allow me to do this kind of events and nobody here dresses gyaru anymore :'D
10. What would do advice to people who want to start in the style but doesn't have the courage yet?

My advice is to have courage XD here in Italy we say "Buttati, che è morbido" ("Jump, it's soft underneath") XDDD

Jokes aside, if you really want to be gyaru, then be gyaru! Take your time to study, learn how this fashion works and make lots of attempts and experiments; you don't need to spend lot of money from the start (in the 2008 pic I'm wearing flea market clothes and a Liz Lisa shirt I managed to buy for 10$ on ebay www) and above all DON'T RUSH, everybody grows at different speed (it took me more than TEN years to get this look and it's not even the best for me) so don't be hard to yourself and have fun!!

And remember: it's just clothes and makeup XDDD they don't bite, and if you get negative comments don't give up, as I said above, but try to take the best lessons from them! There's nothing wrong if you fail and in those failures you can learn and improve yourself!

Also, you're never too old for this ;) I'm 30 and I still do this and I'll do this until I die XD and if somebody says you're too old they can go to... "relax" themselves somewhere else wwwww

I wish you all a fun gyaru journey!!