Although I don’t follow Shear Genius, Bravo’s reality TV hair stylist competition, I just happened to watch episode 8 of the current season and was very surprised when one the contestants, Janine (center in photo above), went to the elimination room dressed in a Metamorphose skirt. She was also wearing a  necklace designed by Tarina Tarantino. [...]

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Tags: japanese brands, Metamorphose
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  Title: The Wallflower (or Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge or Japanese Beauty Evolution or ヤマトナデシコ七変化) Genre: Comedy Languages: English or Japanese audio, English subtitles available Length: 25 half-hour episodes The Premise: Sunako Nakahara confessed her love to a male classmate, who promptly told her he’d never go out with an ugly girl like her. Crushed [...]

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Tags: anime, television
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I’ve noticed lots of lolitas gravitate to the same movies and books – and not just the ones that have a lolita in a starring role, like Shimotsuma Monogatari. Maybe because we’re all attracted to a certain aesthetic that is common in lolita fashion and the Victorian or Edwardian days of yore. In addition to [...]

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Tags: Alice in Wonderland, entertainment for the lolita
Filed under: Entertainment, Film, TV