Friday, September 25, 2015

Paris Shopping

Bonjour !

Although La vie en Rose is already a while ago I still want to post about it.

Paris is like a (European) Lolita's dream for in-store shopping - Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, Axes Femme for major Japanese streetfashion brands and many many small boutiques and secondhand stores.
Baby opened a crêpe café a while ago and serves Japanese style crêpe, so if you're craving for something sweet you should totally try them.

I visited Paris with one of my best friends and did some shopping combined with sightseeing the days before the actual event.

Baby, the Stars Shine Bright

The shopfront is so cute, isn't it?

Lately Baby Paris gets all major releases, but only what is left after reservation, so they have a good and up-to-date selection of dresses and blouses. They also have special reservation periods for all new releases, if you really want a release contact them! Also their customer service is very good, in-store and online!
Like the Japanese shops they offer a pointcard, with every 30€ purchase you get one point. If you collected 20 points you get 30€ off your purchase over 100€. The special thing about their pointcard: It doesn't expire!
They also offer a pointsystem for online purchases.

Axes Femme

They cater more to a Gyaru-ish and girly style, but you'll easily find items which work very well with Lolita and Mori Girl, like blouses, accessoires and sometimes even dresses.
Axes Femme Paris offers a pointcard as well, just ask one of the shop girls about it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they opened their online shop through Facebook again.

Uniqlo

This shop is well known for their high quality basics. I'm talking about Uniqlo, also a Japanese fashion brand. There are already operating multiple stores in Paris, but my favorite store interior-wise is Uniqlo Le Marais.

"Disneyland" on a budget

A real Disney fan won't miss Disneyland you think? If you don't have enough time and/or money you definitly will miss this adventure. Like we did.
BUT! There's the Disney Store which we affectionately called "Disneyland Budget". It sure is worth a visit if you're a huge fan, but sadly it offers more items for children than merchandise for adults like Disneyland does.

See you next time

Blushing Rabbit

Etude House flooding

Hi!

Here's another Etude House post.

In June I ordered a bunch of products I happen to run out very soon, like my beloved aloe gel. This order was lost for a very long time and arrived two month late.

A while ago I placed another order because I ran out of makeup and they had some nice gifts with the items I wanted to buy nonetheless (and yes, I can't get enough Etude House products...) - unfortunatly it got canceld without any notice by Etude House due to some defect with their security.
When I asked about my order I was told to order again, some of the gift events were already expired, but Etude House promised to add them to my order. Thank you Etude House!

As a compensation for the lack of security Etude House offered me two options to choose from:
Option A: 50% coupon on my next order
Option B: Several products in their original size

Option B was filled with products I wanted to buy back in the past, which I didn't because they were too expensive just to try them and notice that my skin doesn't tolerate them.

Yesterday both packages arrived, filled with pure cuteness and joy.

And here's what I ordered back in June.

What I ordered:

Moistfull Aloe Real Soothing Gel (1+1 deal)
Lovely Cookie Blusher in Cookie #6
I Need You Mask: 2x Aloe; 2x Collagen; 1x Coenzyme Q10

Love Homme Everything To 1 Fluid (for the boyfriend)
Precious Mineral MOIST Any Cushion in Natural Beige W13
2x Help My Finger Nail Finger Pack
Moistfull Super Collagen Cream
Drawing Show Brush Eyeliner in #BK401

Compensation gift:

Precious Mineral MAGIC Any Cushion in Mint
Beauty Shot Face Blur
Play 101 Pencil in #1, #49 and #50
Precious Mineral BB Cream Perfect Fit N02
Lash Perm Curl Fix Mascara in #1 Black
Moistfull Collagen Cream
Wonder Pore Freshner

Event gift:

2 Air Puffs
Sweet Drinking Bottle

Whoar! That's a lot right? They were very generous with their compensation gift, so many nice products.

I thought of doing some reviews, but I couldn't decide which items. I guess there are already so many reviews of these items out there, but these reviews are almost always on healthy or acne affected skin from what I saw/read.

So maybe it's interesting for some of you who also suffer from atopic dermatitis to see how my sink reacts to those items!?
If so, leave me a comment which item you would like to see in a review.

See you next time!

Blushing Rabbit

PS: My boyfriend offered to do a simple review of the fluid and Wonder Pore freshener if someone is interested. There aren't many reviews out there for Etude House's male products, aren't there?

Mori Girl Summer Swap

Hello my deers,

Some of you might already know that I organize Mori Girl Swaps through Facebook.

The theme for this round was Notebooks, Tea and Recipes.

I was matched with wonderful Rosette and Aime.

It was a lot of fun to go shopping for Aime, there were too many cute things to choose from.

The swap I received from Rosette was very adventurous.

Luckily she sent it with tracking. After one to two weeks it arrived in my city, but not at my doorstep. The tracking told us, that it was delivered to the original recipient (me) but that wasn't the case. So I started to ask several neighbors if they received my parcel, but none did. I even walked to the street which is often mistaken because of the similarity of the names and asked there is they know where my parcel is. Yes, you guess right, no luck either.
So I called customer service but they told me as it was delivered to the original recipient they are not allowed to tell me where it is and who signate for it.
All we could do was claiming a file and wait.
Two weeks after that the person who lives in #19 rang my bell and brought me the parcel! The mailman must have confused the numbers as I live in #10!

Time to open the swap!
Opening the envelope a delicious fruity smell greeted me.

She completly made the notebook by hand!
I think Rosette has the most beautiful handwriting ever, I'm really envy this. I'm very happy that she's my partner. The letter was a good and enjoyable read and the recipe is easy to understand, definitly going to try to make the Polish Moldy Cake.

Beside the Summer Swap we also did a Polaroid Swap.

Here's what I received from Australia

I really like the wide one, my partner took it in Buderim Forest Park. I get really fond of wide instax pictures, as the cameras tend to have a way better photo quality than the mini version whithout being that much more expensive.

Now I'm very excited for the next swap, which will be held in autumn.

Mori Girl Swap
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