My Christmas Wishlist

Let's start by saying that this is not one of those wishlists where followers/readers are supposed to pick one item and buy them for the blog's owner XD I'm just doing this because I want to show you some pretty stuff I like, ok XD? Ok :D.

So, since this is a fashion blog, I'll only share things I'm interested in fashionwise. Of course there are going to be dolls (you know exactly which dolls) but since my passion for them has roots in their amazing outfits, I think they're totally in topic.

In random order…


1. Pink oxfords.




No, ok, these ones are my top priority. I just need to have them. I'll buy them myself, I don't care, I just want them so bad.

2. Flocked Cardigan.



They've run out of my size practically everywhere, but I'm not giving up on this cardigan.

3. Red corseted skirt



I've been drooling over this skirt for ages. It isn't very expensive in itself, what scares me is shipping costs and most of all THE CUSTOM DUTIES OF DOOM.

4. White tights

5.  Blondie Locks



6. Cupid



7. Skelita Calaveras



8. Loverdose Tattoo by Diesel

This is quite unusual for me, wishing a fragrance, but I'm in love with its packaging, and its smell is just fantastic.

Uhm, I guess this is it! The other things I'd like to have are mostly figures (well, more like exclusively), but I don't want to bore you with those, since I know many of you are not familiar with mangas and animes.
Have you done your wishlists yet? What would you like to get for Christmas? You can share pics in the comment if you wish, I'm always glad to see beautiful clothes <3

Outfit post + wishlist

How come the spring/summer collections came out exactly when I'd been stolen my wallet and I had to pay for two concert tickets and a travel? (Or better: how come I've had all these unexpected expenses right when the SS collections were coming out?)

There were only two possible options:
-spending all my savings;
-selling some of my stuff.
I chose the second one, and that's also because I've been meaning to sell some of my clothes for a while. I have tons of stuff that I've only worn once or twice and then forgot I even had it, and it was about time I at least tried to gain back some of the money I so irresponsibly spent.

So maybe the next post will contain some pictures of the clothes I'm selling, in case some of you are interested.
But for the moment, let's go through my wishlist! And the outfit I wore yesterday to go play Magic the Gathering with my boyfriend and some other guys :D

One thing I hate about being "curvy"... my belts never stay straight XD they, like, hang from the top of my butt XDD

I bought these boots two years ago at €20. Best purchase of my life.

It's still uncharged, but eventually I thought, who's going to care? Nobody's going to check whether it's working or not. Instead, everybody's going to notice how awesome it is, and for that it doesn't need to be charged.

And this is the necklace I bought from Madame Mari Mortem some time ago :D.

This outfit looks like an everyday outfit, but actually it's the best I can do in the winter when it's freezing outside. I promise I'll do better when the weather's warmer :D

This is a preview of what I'm going to wear this spring/summer, aka my next orders:

I don't know how I've managed to live 24 years (and a half) without one of these. I mean, not that I'm this huge fan of a grungy look, but lately, with grunge becoming trendy and eveything, well... I've started to wonder why I didn't have a flannel blouse. I can't wait to pair it with a denim miniskirt, legwarmers, black Docs or Chuck Taylors and a band t-shirt. And as much make-up as my face can take.

I want to look like Ellie from About a Boy XD

 

Oohh, this one. Finally my favourite italian online shop is selling it. It's my top priority: years of being a redhead have prevented me from wearing red stuff, which was torture 'cause red is one of the few colours that actually look good on me. But now that torture's over: this beauty is going to be mine *__*

This is something I needed, if we can call "need" a shopping-related desire... by the way, I don't have any black blouse, and by any I mean "any". With this one, I get to wear corsets even in the coldest months of the year, and my outfits are going to considerably improve. :D

I had to renounce red for way too long a time. This blouse has many things I just can't resist: the colour (dark red), ruffles and the X straps. It's beautiful. I just need a nice gothic lolita skirt, but I'm working on it XD (aka, I'm waiting for Bodyline to restock that one I loved so much)

<3

These leggings alone can goth up even the lamest outfit. I'm planning to match them with the little black dress you can find below :D 

Isn't this beautiful *_*? Not only it reminds me of an old Vivienne Westwood blazer, but it's also something Chloe from Apartment 23 would wear.

Lately Chloe has been my greatest fashion inspiration... too bad they suddenly shut the show down :/ her outfits were stunning.

Aw yeah.

No more going to conventions with amazing long dresses and super lame shrugs: this jacket is the perfect match for my Burleska Mollflander dress :D

And this is just a skirt I want to buy because I don't have any black miniskirts. Simple as that.

And finally, this is the little black dress I was talking about earlier. At some point I realized I had more tutu and corseted minidresses than regular, plain, everyday black dresses. I was kind of shocked.

And then there are a short blazer from H&M and a t-shirt by Sisley I absolutely want, but their catalogue pictures are nowhere to be found.

Ok: consider that this is only my *clothes* wishlist. Because there is also my figures wishlist, which is WAY more expensive :D

Well, this week I should be able to purchase the first two items, the flannel blouse and the red minidress. And possibly to sell some of my old clothes. Wish me luck :D

Next time I'll write here, Italy will have a new government. Expect me to be disappointed, whatever the result is going to be. Except if the old jerk wins: in this case, expect me to be mad. We will see :D!

Have a nice week ^^!

My graduation!

Ok, this entry has nothing to do with goth and such stuff :D but it's a really important point in my life, plus there are a few outfit pictures XD so I'll just do an exception and post a few pictures of this event :)

Fist of all, this was my outfit:

And yes, I'm rocking my new spiked Jeffrey Campbells *_*! Which are my parents' anticipated gift for Christmas. I can't tell how much I love them, they're amazing.
Actually I wasn't wearing them during the discussion, 'cause I thought it would have been better to keep it as sober as possible. But I immediately put them on as soon as I got off with the discussion <3
Unfortunately my father only took half-length pictures and you can't really see my booties -.-; so I took some photos for you, because they DESERVE to be shown off.

I want to show you my "papiro", literally "papyrus". I wouldn't know how to translate this in english, I don't think people do this abroad; it's a tradition of north-eastern Italy and I don't even think people do it outside my region. But where I live, whenever someone graduates, they get this paper.
It's generally a caricature, often with a lot of explicit sexual content, with a long rhymed text that tells the most embarrassing moments of one's life. You're supposed to read it out loud and whenever you make a mistake, you must drink wine. Of course, the more you drink, the more mistakes you're going to do :D.
Besides, while you do this you must wear a costume. It's usually something very ridiculous and it's your friends who decide what you're going to wear :D you can be a nurse, a prostitute, a bear, whatever comes to their mind; the sillier the better. I once saw one guy dressed as Jesus Christ: he was even baring a wood cross, lol.
Oh, and when you come out of the building you must cross two rows of people who beat the hell out of you and then they cover you in stuff like flour, or tomato, or other food. One of my high school professors had fish rubbed all over his armpits.
Well, not everyone likes all that, so they can just read their "papiro", have a sip of wine and just put on some funny clothes; that's what most people do.
I told my friends that I WOULD HAVE KILLED THEM if they did something like that to me. I even made sure my boyfriend told them not to do it. I'm sorry, but that was an important day for me and I didn't want to make an ass of myself °_°
So this is what they did:

That is me in an Asuka Soryu Langley cosplay (with my Eva Unit beside me <3), a lot of tea (I'm a tea junkie), mangas, books, tv-series I love and some pictures of me, alone or with them.

And then there is a crossword, which refers to some anecdotes of my life :D

I hid my face but you can get an idea by my caricature XD well, the guy actually made my nose and my eyebrows bigger than they really are, but considering he had to do this with just a couple pictures of me as a reference, I guess he did a nice job :D.
They also made me a very peculiar crown XD

Because, like I said, I REALLY, REALLY love tea. I could drink nothing else but tea. Realized by my beloved cousin.

Of course my boyfriend couldn't miss the chance to do a silly pose XD

And these are all the AMAZING presents I got!

Well, this was actually  a sort of gift from Sephora because they spent a shitload of money there. But it will surely come in handy. It's cute after all :D

Biphasic cleansing cream, mascara and eye liner <3 I really needed a cleansing cream, the one I have now sucks :°D

50€ Sephora gift card. I can finally buy the face powder I needed so bad *_*!

THIS PALETTE. The Queen of all palettes. It has a very good primer (which is wonderful since mine from Kiko really sucks) and a proper brush. I mean, look at the colours. Look at them.

I have no excuses for not looking hot from now on :D.

All these make-up related gifts were from my friends. Not only from the few you can see above; many people could not come because of work or university, so they came in the evening. It's really too much anyway :O.

To get what this brooch is you should know the anime/manga Kuroshitsuji. It's the one Sebastian wears over his uniform :D

It's from a friend who made a car accident that night, so she asked my aunt to bring her to my home so that she could at least give me this present. She's been super kind.

These are from my boyfriend's parents. I had seen them some weeks ago and I fell in love with them, but they cost too much. They are GORGEOUS and I already know which beige and marine blue dress I'll match them with.

Well, this is actually just the bag in which my cousin's boyfriend carried the wine, but it was so cute I couldn't not take a picture of it.

This was from one of my aunts; it's a silver bookmark. Which is very welcome since I read a lot (and now I'll read EVEN MORE, since a finally have some time!) and I always have to use random stuff to keep the page.

Apparently it brings luck to students that are graduating :D

This pendant was from one of my grandmothers. It's so cute. I had seen a pendant like this in a shop some time ago, and I wanted one. My nana didn't even know that, and yet she bought the perfect present :D.

This is a towels set, and it's PINK <3. It was from two of my father's colleagues.

And then there's my bay-wreath you saw me wearing above. Do people wear these outside of Italy? That's something people do here when they graduate. The colour of the bows depends on your faculty. Mine's was white - well, actually I'm not sure about that: Lettere e Filosofia (which I guess is liberal arts college...? The literal translation is "Literature and Philosophy") has white, but my course was related to two faculties, one of which is Political Sciences, which has another colour. Besides, in my city there isn't a faculty for the studies of foreign languages, but in some cities there is and it has its own colour.

I was unsure but in the end I just went for white. My mother's friend had it done for me and she still wanted to buy me a present; she's so kind, but it really wasn't necessary, I bet she spent a lot of money. I got many compliments for my bay-wreath.

After the graduation (I got 101/110, by the way, which is not bad at all :D) we went to a bar where we had sliced meats (which is a very typical dish) as a starter, a vegetables pie and venus rice with shrimps and zucchini.

After that, I spent my whole afternoon doing these:

Those are the remaining muffins. I also did a chocolate cake.
They don't look very pretty but they were quite good.
It's kind of ironic that the first thing I did after graduating (... with a dissertation on women's studies...) was going back to the kitchen and cooking cakes :°°D

It really was a nice day. My best friend even shed some tears; he was more moved than I was XD. I really enjoyed my party thanks to my friends and now I'm SO relieved for not having to worry about exams and dissertations anymore; I can't even describe it.
From now on I'll have ALL the time I need for blogging, planning outfits, reading books, correcting my novel and sending it to a publisher, watching movies, buying Christmas presents and so on. This is so great!
Thank you for reading; next time I'll show you my new Alchemy watch and my new Monster High dolls ;D stay tuned!

Halloween Outfit & Monthly Theme - Hosiery

As I said, in the end I couldn't be Drusilla: not only my boyfriend didn't want to shave his beard to be Spike, but he also got the flu, so I had to go to the party alone (I mean, with my friends) and there was no point in putting on an outfit I had planned to wear as a couple. (Besides, I hadn't found a brown wig)
So I went for a classic: pin-up. Not very original, I know, but you know, pin-up is a trend right now, and I had some clothes from my 2008 rockabilly phase :D. There was one in particular I'd only worn once, and it was too bad because it's lovely. So I gave up unicity and jumped on the rockabilly bandwagon :D

Unfortunately, my hair didn't come out very good. I had planned to do two victory rolls but it was easier to only do one; then I asked my mother for help with the curlers, but something went wrong and instead of getting amazing blonde locks I got... whatever this is. XD

XD I had also forgotten to bring my jewelry, my plan was to wear a black velvet choker. But I think my outfit was fine all the same.
Me and my friend Matteo ended up having matching costumes XD our friends told us we reminded them of Candyman by Christina Aguilera XD.
I don't really like the tights, but it was quite cold and there was a major storm outside. Well, they actually declared a state of maximum alert and we risked a flooding, but this happens very often where I live, I'm used to it :D.

And now... hosiery!



I'm glad this is this month's theme because these last few months I've bought some really nice stuff.
Unfortunately, I haven't worn any of these things yet, so the outfits you'll see below are instant and random xD I haven't figured out how to wear some of these tights yet.

For some reason, the picture of my favourite stockings (the lace corseted ones) came out really, really bad :/ but I should wear them again in a comic convention this weekend, and I'll make sure to take better pics. :)
I hope you liked them - and if you have any suggestion on how to wear the red and the pentagram tights, they'd be more than welcome XD!