..:Taobaospree - haul + review:..

Hello darlings <3

Today I will present to you the second review I´ve ever done of the taobao shopping service 

Taobaospree

And also I will show you my taobao haul, because I am so excited about all my new things and it´s been sooo long since I´ve posted about purchases (since I haven´t really ordered stuff for aaages) ^^

I will talk a bit about:

Communication

Price

Shipping

Over all rating

Communication  5/5

When I sendt the first email, it was around the end of may (25th), and it only took one day before they replied to me (I worked with Zeng)! After placing my order, they told me that they had to order everything and wait for it to arrive. I waited for about a couple of weeks without hearing back from them, before I decided to contact them myself. They appologized for the late reply, and told me they had got all my items allready. At the time I acctually found some new things that I wanted, and they said it was perfectly fine to add to the order. They always replied with a happy and friendly gesture like a smiley-face or a simple ask of how my day was going. Also, when I asked them to write a lower price on my package, they happily agreed to, as well as labeling it as a gift, saving me from big customs. So even though the total process of my order lasted all until now (10th of july) I will give them top grades because they treated me very kindly even when I messed up things and had to correct my order, or wanted to order something more after everything had arrived ^^

Price 4/5

When ordering from taobao, it doesn´t pay off to order small amounts of things. So if you are ordering something, make sure to make it quite a few things, because commission prices and shipping might be a bit high! I will not tell you what the price of my items where, but I can say that the service price by itself, with shipping and extra costs, went up to around 1000 HKD. 

I was not too bothered by this, as I am used to shipping being quite high when ordering from China, but I just want to make you guys aware so you make sure to make your order worthwhile ^^

I will however say that the service they provide, their nice mannerism and over all cheaper offer than I get when I order from Japan, is definitely worth the price! 

Shipping 4/5

The shipping from China itself was ok. It was sendt around the 20th of june, and as I said I got it today on the 10th of july! So it was about 20 days. My waiting time was prolonged because my package was held by the customs post-office in my country for quite a while before they sendt it on to me, charging me a small fee (thanks to the lowered price tag provided by taobaospree). 

It is quite a long time to wait, and usually I get my orders between 1 1/2 to 2 weeks when I order from China, but I suspect the customs might have held my package for a while before contacting me about it also.

Over all rating 4/5

I can´t say anything about the products in conclusion with the shopping service, as they are not produced by taobaospree, but rather from several different individual taobao shops!

So I will just say that over all, this is the third time ordering something from taobao through taobaospree, and they have never dissapointed me. In fact, I think this was the best experience I have had with them so far, as I was treated with such patience and kindness all the time. I would reccomend everyone wanting to order from taobao to look at the offers taobaospree gives you!

Ordering is very simple, by filling out a ready-made excel file and sending it to them in an email. 

So, what are you waiting for? Get shopping! ^^ I will definitely make use of their services again.

Now on to my haul!

 I wanted to get some new things for the new season that is upon us: summer!
Looking through my closet realizing I owned 2 t-shirts kind of shocked me, haha xD

So shopping was the answer!

I divided my things in kind of "themed pictures" ^^

First of all, I put almost all the accessories into one picture!

Love, hate and angel steel-cut badges, icecream and fantasy cloud buttons, horror-gore and cherry buttons, SNK scout legion steel-cut badge, daisy necklace and two freebie rings! ^^

I felt like my order this time was almost themed around smileys, haha!

I was inspired by the super cute Ayumi Seto around the time when I ordered this...

 Smiley face vest/shirt, socks, button-badge, ring and purse! ^0^

I also got my dream bag (finally) and a super cute cardigan!

School uniform pink cardigan and a super cute my melody bag (that is bigger than I expected!) <3

Oh, and the stuff I ordered after all the other things:
because I suddenly found this set and totally fell in love at once!

Super adorable short sleeved blouse with a lovely underbust onepiece dress! <3

And that was it! 

 

My package came to about 2 kg, and I think its my biggest taobao haul ever! 

I love all my new items and can´t wait to wear them in outfits

Which one was your favourite item?

Thank you for reading my review, I hope you enjoyed it!

Until next time, stay kawaii, happy and lovely! ^0^

Japonicamarket haul + new outfit

 

Yesterday I finally got one of my long–awaited packages from Japan! ^0^

Remember that I told you guys about ordering that cute Milklim sweater? >v<

Well, that, and the cute magazines I talked about (and the cute button) arrived together! 

So I thought I´d do a little update :-) 

Once again I used Japonicamarket (they have pretty much become my "go-to" shopping service when ordering from Japan! Definitely reccomending! ^0^), and after they had got all the things I had ordered,
it only took about a week for it to get to me!
I absolutely adore this sweater in this colourway, so happy I got it! <3
The button has marshmellows and its sooo cute >v<

I wanna pair this with something lovely in mint, or perhaps dark blue ( ; v;) hmhmhmmm <3

And now over to the magazines I got!

It has been ages since I bought any kind of japanese fashion–magazines, so I felt like trying something totally new! ^0^ Presenting: my very first Gothic & Lolita Bible (and its the 50th anniversary one too!), and the newest issue of Kera, featuring Mogami Moga! *V* 

whaah, I feel so lucky, since this is the March Issue, and my birthday is in March,
and I am so lucky as to have her feature my month! >v< 

She is a newly-discovered fashion idol of mine and her hairstyle is basically the cutest in the entire world ok >v> So if you don´t know about her, hit that google–button hard! 

The last little booklet on there is a free "Asumiko Nakamura" Diary for 2014, that I got with the G&Lbible ;V; yay <3 It has loads of lovely black and white pen–like drawings with splashes of pink details in a very lolita–esque classical kind of drawing style *_* so prettyyy! <3
I feel like it´s too elegant to use ;A; 

I took the opportunity to show you some of my favourite pages from the magazines also! ^0^

Fashion inspiratioooon ~

Pastelly, spunk and cute! >v< Kimura Yu is the cutest <3

And would you just look at this AWSOME look!

Moga makes me wish for a holograpic jacket, oh yeah >v<!
So inventive with those slippers, haha xP

And offcourse one of my top favourite idols every, Kurebayashi ;v;
forever flawless, forever such a huge source of inspiration!
I absolutely love everything about her style(s)
and the fact that she is also into art makes her just more perfect ;3;

I want a tartan dress >.<

Latly, just look at how incredible that outfit on Misako is *_*

Lolita Heaven

And thats basically it! ^0^

Now on to the outfit of today! ;-P

I finally also got my Sheinside sweater, inspired by Anzujaamu, so I just had to make an outfit for it right away! Didn´t even take my time to get a picture of the sweater by itself first >v> hihi

I combined it with a brand new denim skirt and a tartan plaid scarf my mom got me,

for a simple outfit. The skirt is acctually far too big and long, but I pulled it up a lot ^^"

Outfit rundown:

Sweater: Sheinside

Skirt: KappAhl

Tights: H&M

Shoes: Taobao

Scarf: KappAhl

Hat: booth in Paris

Accesories: Claire´s

What do you think? ^^

Now, thats pretty much it for today! :-)
I am happy I was able to get so many cute new things to inspire myself and feel more happy! ^^

I have totally emersed myself in the magazines and I can feel myself filling up with new ideas <3

Have you bought any Japanese magazines lately?
What is your favourite kind ?

Personally, I have figured Kera is really my thing! ^^ I still have to try out a few magazines that I haven´t bought before (like Zipper and Ageha for instance) but this far, from the ones I´ve seen, Kera never fails to impress :-)

I hope you enjoyed this entry!
Please feel free to comment <3

Inspired january

 

 January is the first month of the year, its a fresh start for everyone!
You can be what you want, do what you want and get new inspirations from everything around you. Personally, I have finally grasped a certain interest in clothing again... after months and months of not buying anything in particuilar and lacking energy, not being inspired, and having no self–confidence.

I´ve had myself a little shopping spree online, finally getting some things for myself again :-)

Because I enjoyed it so much, and because I would love to perhaps inspire a few of you to do a little "become–new" investment in yourself (really, pampering yourself from time to time feels wonderful, and I am sure its good for your soul ^^). It´s totally worth it!

So, to start of with my recent purchases, made over the past few couple of days:

From Rakuten 

DreamV
 

 I got some things for when spring and summer comes along ^^

It will be a while until I can wear it, but I just adored these pieces so much, I had to go for it!
I am kind of challenging myself with acctually getting something like this >.<
I always think it looks so cute but I am so afraid that I can´t pull off shorts :-S

 

This skirt/shorts in PINK <3

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This super cute shorts in PINK <3

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After that, I felt like a little bit of an update on the fairy-kei front! ^^

I took a little trip into the webshop of

Milklim

and finally got myself a new colourway of one of my most beloved sweaters! 

 

Getting it in YELLOW because, it looks too adorable like that! ; u;

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Offcourse I absolutely fell in love with their new pins as well...

So I simply had to add this into my order >v< hehe

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I also got a couple of japanese magazines with this order,
but I´d rather surprise you with them when they arrive ;-)!

Moving on, I need to explain a few things first ;V;

Now, the reason for me to get this next item, is simply that one of my biggest inspirations these days (even though I haven´t been activly dressing up, I have felt inspired) is this super cute fellow
japanese fashionist blogger:

Anzujaamu

I would encourage EVERYONE to take a look at her blog, and especially her tumblr. She posts wonderful and original outfits with a super cute twist, and she makes such cute get-ups, that are entirely her own ;v; I would post pictures, but I haven´t asked her about it, and I´m kinda shy so I will leave it up to you guys to take a look! As a tribute to my favourite outfit of her,
I decided that my next order would be from

Sheinside

 

Can´t wait until this sweater arrives!

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And if you thought that was the end of it, haha xD I just have to laugh a bit, because there is more ^^"

(yeah I went a bit mental... can´t blame me though, after all those months of nothing >.<)

My wonderful friend Emilia (Pastelbat) have had one of my absolute dream-dresses in her position for many years now, and a few days ago she finally told me she wanted to sell it, and she wondered if I was interested in buying it! ^^ So offcourse I had to jump to it at once ; u; !! <3

How often do you get the opportunity to score THIS??:

Fancy Melody OP in PINK ;V;

My first short–sleeve lolita OP, and only my second lolita OP ever! <3
(I am such a loli–virgin, I´m just saying haha XD It´s been almost two years and still I have so many firsts...
the problems of being poor ; u; huhu)

Also, I totally faked it and went to ebay to get a couple of matching socks! 

(thank you, Refuse To Be Usual!)

And that was it! ^^

Gosh, I feel totally pumped after all that shopping ;v; haha

Do you get a rush from online shopping?

I hope you liked this entry, and found it potentially inspiring for buying some new things for yourself to start of the new year! ^^ Lets all become even more cute than we allready are, fighto for the kawaii! GO GO ^0^ <3

See you later, alligator