Choies Review! ~no.3

Hello you, I hope you're good!

So today we have another fabulous sponsored review, from one of my favourite stylish stores, choies!

Ooooo feeling coool in my new jumper!

So let's get to the review~

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Ooo it's another Romwe review!

Helloo you, I hope you're good!

Ooo, so yesterday I got another package from Romwe! 

So, I thought I would do a review on the ultra cute clothes I received.

This is what I ordered (click on the products to go to them):

As usual, I ordered with free postage and it came in just over 3 weeks. It came safely packaged in a green postage bag and all the items were in secure Romwe bags. If you want to see how they arrive, check out this review

So, let's start with the "POW!" jumper~

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Dancer Of The Week~ Week 1 February

Hello you, I hope you're good!

I'm not feeling too good today, so I'm sorry if this blog post doesn't make much sense haha!

So it's time to start dancer of the week again!Wohoo!

If you don't know what it is you can see the first post here

Before we start there's a few things I need to mention.

I can't seem to get in contact with the winner of dancer of the month, friskie, so if anyone knows her, will you let her know she won! I will still try and get in contact though too.

Also, I've been a bit of a nicompoop. On one of the weeks, I forgot to check my comments on the blog page so I missed a load of nominations! That's what you get for writing blog posts on a Sunday when I've been working until 5am in the morning >.< But I've learnt my lesson!

So, I've decided to have two winners for each section this week and 7 special mentions to make up for it!

Actually, I lie.

There's been a huuuuge abundance of JPOP dancers being nominated, but for this week, only one Kpop dancer was nominated! Kpopers?? Where you at??

But do not fret, the person who was nominated was incredible, and I really enjoyed watching the video...

So I guess I best announce who that is!

This week's KPOP Winner is:

Karl Baclea-an!

Like I said, this was so entertaining to watch, the dancing was on point and I also loved the emotion in it! You really do deserve to win! Please go and congratulate him~
This week's JPOP winner's are:
Jyuke!

This was just such a beautiful cover! It was beautifully danced, beautifully shot in a beautiful location! I loved her energy in this and I really enjoyed watching this. I had no problem watching it the whole way through! Please go and support her she really deserves it!
Karochu!
 
You may have seen her in the special mentions before! I love the energy and passion that she puts into this dance so much! She danced it perfectly and her facial expressions are so cute too! It was a truly enjoyable cover to watch, and in fact all of her covers are, she's a very consistent dancer. Please go and support her and congratulate her~
Special Mentions!
Choom (I love the creativity in this cover!)
narutohatesyou512

iJeena

ThisIsTomemon

Miyu Nanami

Kirhia Hikari

DancingShrubbery


So that's it for this week! I know I say this a lot, but if you are not a winner and you were nominated or even a special mention, please don't be disheartened. It goes to show with Karochu, she has been nominated multiple times and has been a special mention before, and she won this time! She's a wonderful dancer and so is every single person that is entered! Any of you could easily win or become a special mention, and again some of the special mentions this week were so close to winning, so please keep entering!
Here's a reminder of the rules and how to enter:
Ways to Enter ~You can either nominate yourself or a friend!

~Comment on the latest Dancer Of The Week blog post

~Write the nomination on my Facebook like page wall here:

https://www.facebook.com/KimonoTimeOfficial

(NOT as a personal message or a comment on one of my posts)

Or if you would like your nomination to not be as public you can

~Send an email to kimonotime@googlemail.com with the subject "Dancer Of The Week Nomination"

You also have the option of letting me know that if you nominated someone else, whether or not you would like the person you nominated to know that you nominated them if they end up on the blog post.

I won't accept entries through personal messages on my facebook like page, my personal facebook pages, twitter, youtube, tumblr, askfm, instagram or any other social media I've missed; simply because there is a high chance I will miss them.

Rules:

~ It has to be a Kpop/Jpop dance

~You can only enter or nominate the same person once a week, so you can still nominate as many people as you like.
~You can enter again after the week is up if you're not a winner, that includes special mentions!

More rules will probably be added because people are cheeky monkeys haha.

The winners and special mentions will be announced every Sunday.

Also, the prize for February's Dancer Of The Month is

$20 to spend at Romwe!

Oh also, sneaky self promo...here's my latest cover!

I've really enjoyed watching everyone's entries and I'm excited for next week!

I hope you've all had a great weekend and thank you so much for reading~

Kelsey <3 

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HNY! ~ My style throughout 2013!

Hello you, I hope you're good!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2014! Woo! For me, it still doesn't feel like New Year to be honest. I don't know why, maybe because I was working last night, but maybe later on today one of my alpacas will wave their magic wand and go "A New Year, A New YOU!" Or something...I dunno.

I don't really have any New Years resolutions. I always go by the rule, work hard, play hard and be nice to people... and it seems to work every year!

And get better at Japanese...ok that might be a resolution.

Oh! I have a video up of bloopers, outtakes and unseen footage from this year and the other years I've been on youtube too!

I feel 2013 has been a year of style for me. I've always been into fashion and stuff, but I seemed to get proper into it this time. I also feel that 2013 my style changed and turned quite a lot, so I thought it would be fun to have a look throughout the year!

Ok let's go!

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MCM October 2013!

Hello you, I hope you're good!

Okokokok, so my friends and people have started saying that back to me, and I didn't realise how much I say it, like I literally say it in every vlog and now I'm really conscious about it oh dear. 

HAPPY LATE HALLOWEEN!

I hope you had a good one. I did a halloween themed cover video if you're interested~

Anyway, it feels like forever since I blogged and I'm sorry. I've been busy again and one of the reasons is because I've been to MCM Comic Con London. Another reason is because I've been working a lot, one of my jobs is in a bar and last night I got tipped loads, wohooo! But my stupid brain at 4.30am in the morning thought yeah, let's make it rain because I'm happy. Woke up this morning with a sore head and a huge bruise on my knee because most of them are pound coins...ouchy.  

So, I thought I'd share with you some adventures from MCM. Usually when I've gone, I've done a performance, so I have to prepare for months and then plan the whole day around performing. This time, I didn't know if I could make it, so it was a different experience. 

Last minute, I cosplayed Jinx from League of Legends. This was the end result. Thank you Sachie for this picture!

Her youtube

Her character is pretty badass, if you haven't seen her promo video get jinxed, you are missing out! It was actually a really cheap cosplay to make because the only really materials I needed to buy was the belts and the wig, I had the rest in my box of random junk. I do play LoL but I am a pretty bad noob, and I'm only at level 5 at the minute. My summoner name is KimonoTime if you wanted to know. 

The wig I recieved was a nightmare though, it was nowhere near long enough and it was really thin at the top, so it looked like I was bold. It was quite challenging styling the fringe, and then the wind ruined it by the end of the day. It was a pretty stressful cosplay!

So here's my day on Saturday. Times are approximate~

6.00am: Woke up and didn't feel too good. I felt sick. Shouldn't have had accepted the offer of crumpets at 1am in the morning, I was hungry but I only wanted one because I had to show my stomach tomorrow. Was too polite to decline 2 because that would have made the package uneven, and that felt rude.

6.30am: Stared at my facepaint for my arm.

7:00am: Watched some of my friends leave because they had to set up their stall.

7:30am: Still stared at my facepaint. Seriously considered just throwing on my seifuku, but that wig...it took forever to make and I was proud of it.

8:00am: Starts doing facepaint.

8:30am: Realises how special I look trying to paint with my left hand.

10:00am: Facepaint finally done! Decides to travel in normal clothes and get changed there. Didn't fancy walking around London in a Bikini.

11:00am: Arrives at MCM. Joins a huge group of confused cosplayers outside the doors, I've never experienced this before, usually you just walk straight into the queuing hall. There were no signs, but eventually after following other confused faces and people with weekend tickets print outs in their hands I got into the queuing hall. .

12:00am: After standing in the weekend early entry area for an hour and watching the today only tickets go past us, we are finally given our wristbands. Stalks into the main hall with some angry adventure time cosplayers. I've never experienced that kind of chaos before for queuing! Runs into the toilets to get changed, feeling ill and stressed out. I meet some of my friends in the toilets there. I apologise if one of you is reading this, I was such a stress head!

12.30pm: 

Meets my friend Abi in the League of Legends area. Feels like one of those cliche chick flick movies where the new girl enters the classroom, except I'm in my Jinx Cosplay and there are loads of LoL fans judging/staring at me. Abi looked so adorable in her Kirino Cosplay! 

Compulsory Selfie time!

Her Youtubes~

Dancing

Vlogging

I also met a Jinx cosplayer outside the area. It's like I'm the chibi jinx haha!

12:30-3.30pm: Got loads of pictures taken and realised that I was very conscious wearing a handmade bikini and that the crazy face I was pulling in every picture for Jinx's character was like my default I want some teeeeeeeeeeeeeA face. It was really nice to see people's face light up when they recognized my cosplay! Tried to go outside at one point but got stuck in a huge jam of cosplayers. It's a really horrible time to be small...ended up being dragged backwards towards the entrance by some Attack on Titan cosplayers. Also walked around the stalls, met some friends, bought some of those Danny Choo Kanji learning cards and kind of sneaked Jason and his friend (VeeOneEye check out his youtube I think you'll like it!) into the expo and he got a little mobbed by his fans >.<

Here's a couple of pictures!~

At the Sushi Noms stall!

Also, Dom (the duuude in the middle) has just started a youtube if you want to have a look~

Jessie and Walt! Like..the real ones obviously!

3.30pm: Bumped into my friends Cherry (from Oishii Ichigo!) and Sachie and Karen. Sachie and Karen I've known online for a while, but because they're from Canada and the U.S I have never seen them in real life. It was so great to finally meet them! We decided to brave the winds outside and I did a photoshoot with my friends. Sachie took the photos on her pro camera. She even looked so pro in the pro lying down pro photographer pro position.

Then the light shone on us and we knew that it was a good time to get decent selfies haha!

The highlight of the photoshoot had to be when me and Karen were trying to balance on those white things in the middle of the bridge and I fell into splits and Karen fell on her back and slid down them star fish style.

4.15pm: Went back inside and caught the last of a Jpop/Kpop dancing panel on the Japan Ex stage. Managed to get a selfie with some of the performers/audience there, it was really nice to meet them briefly, as we all watch each others videos online, but never really get to meet each other. This selfie took ages to take and I look really weird, but ah well, I think it's really cute I got to get one!

Charlotte's Youtube (James Potter cosplayer)

Elizabeth (blue wig)

James (Finn Cosplayer)

Rachel (Purdy Blue Bow)

Alice(Pinky Pie Pink wig)

Abi( Zero Suit Samus/Blonde Hair)

Beth(Blonde/Mami Cosplay)

And the other dancers from the Panel: who are not in the picture

Emma

Lauren

Charlotte

4:30pm: Watched Himezawa perform on stage. She was so adorable, and I didn't know it was her first time perfoming! She was such a professional, I really enjoyed her performance!

 Her youtube and facebook.

5.00pm: Said my goodbyes to everyone, got changed out of my cosplay and went back to my friends house. I realized I had hardly eaten or drunk anything all day, so I was a bit cheeky and got a pizza with my friend. He's like an expert at LoL so he taught me a load of things and we watched some funny game videos!

SUNDAY

It was basically just a chill day. I decided not to do Jinx again because it just takes so long to do the tattoos, so I went in my galaxy sailor fuku. 

I've had my fringe trimmed differently, and I'm really digging it woo!

The queues on Sunday were non exsistent, there were still lots of people there, but it seemed much more calmer and organised. 

I got to hang around with Sachie, Karen and Cherry all day, it was so much fun! We found this really cool 3D animation screen, and it looked like we were chilling with aliens, animals, dinosaurs and fantasy creatures on the screen. It entertained us along with some young children for quite a while.

Photo Courtesy of Sachie again~

 That's Cherry sneaking behind me in her Teemo hat, Sachie cosplaying Emmy Altava from the Professor Layton games and Karen sporting her fab red skinnys!

Got some shots of some pretty awesome cosplays too!

My friends look incredible in their Skyrim cosplays!

Ryun's Page

I  got to hang around the Japan Ex area more, and I met some lovely people who watch my videos too! I never know how to react, so I'm sorry if I was a bit awkward, but thank you so much for saying hi and watching my videos and sofgiuyosdiugyoduiy. I also go to watch Scarlett (another Ichigo Member) perform her solo slot on the Japan Ex stage. She was so fabulous and talented and cute! Me and Cherry did lots of Wota-ing with a glowstick that Scarlett let us borrow that she got from Akiba Japan.

After that I watched MK Dance group perform too. They were so energetic and fun to watch!

That was also the time to catch up on all my street passes on my Nintendo 3DS. I got so many!

Also, I got this lovely picture, thank you Himezawa!

I have platforms on and I still look like a hobbit ;A;

Aaaaaand that was about it! MCM was stressful but fun and fab. Sounds like a typical comic con to me.

Thank you so much to everyone who made it an amazing weekend. I love going to to conventions because I get to meet people who love the same things as me. I'm kind of gutted I didn't get to perform this time, it felt so weird and I missed it so much. I really hope I can get to do it again, even if it is just for a couple more times, because that's where I started everything really! 

If you haven't been to one before and are interested in games, films, comics, anime and things like that, I really recommend it, it's such a fun day out! 

This took sooo long to write, so I'm sorry if I missed out anyone or anything >.<

Also, unrelated note, I've been looking at a load of blogs recently and so many people at the moment have the dark hair with the fringe, it's like were all clones ready to take on the world. I'm thinking of maybe for christmas having a little change to my hair and making it like a burgundy colour for christmas like this:

What do you think?

Kyary ma bb

I've never really had any other hair colour but black before (except a failed attempt a light brown where I got weird blonde highlights foisduyfois), and I'm still young, so why not! It will be easy to dye it back too if I don't like it I suppose.

Anywhoo, I think that's it!

Thank you so much for reading~

Kelsey <3 

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☺Romwe!☺

Hello you ,I hope you're good!

Look, I made a flower crown! I feel so magical

Sparkle sparkle~

It's been a while since I've blogged, I'm really sorry, I've been sorting a lot of things out in my life, some pretty big and possibly exciting stuff! So hopefully you will know about it soon! But for now I like to be all dark and mysterious like those anime characters or something. 

Anyhoo

While I've been away from blogging, I am proud to announce that I got sponsored by Romwe!

http://www.romwe.com/

I've had my eye on the store for a while, and a lot of things on my wishlist are from here, so I'm over the moon to be affiliated with such an awesome store! I also got the Mike Wazowski top from Romwe! (You can see the blogpost about that here.) I do believe they post worldwide, so that's a bonus.
They have also let me host a giveaway on my facebook page for these amazing tights!

There's only 3 days left, so click here to join in the giveaway!

So, today after eagerly waiting at the letterbox for what feels like forever, I got it a package from them this morning!

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✿My very floral vintage day✿

Hello you, I hope you're doing good!

So yesterday, I had a pretty floral day...

I'm a little addicted to photo editing apps at the moment. I used the sweet filter on camera 360, the sweety filter on photowonder, then a new app called studio for the frame and then Papelook for the flower stamps! But the floral doesn't stop there...oh no!...

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I'm a Primark Monster!

Well hello you, I hope you're good!

The past few days have been really fun, so I thought I'd share some of it with you!

On Saturday it was my sister's birthday, so we had a party at our house. Me and Abbi (my sister) used to go to the same theatre school, so we share some of the same friends, so I got to see them again, which was really nice!

My mum thought it would be cool to have pie and peas, and hotdogs instead of a full BBQ, so we had that instead! Mmmmm yummy (I don't like pie and peas though, so I had a hotdog).

I didn't take many pictures that day, but I did post a mini vine!

                                           

It took me forever to figure out how to embed this thing, so if it's not working, I'm KimonoTime on vine too.

I also got a picture of Abbi's cake!

Our whole family loves Disney, and her favourite is Snow White. Disney is not just for kids!!

Ahhh it's so pretty! We really don't want to eat it.

My Mum's friend made the cake, and there was an actual Barbie inside. However, she tried to dye the Barbies hair black and the hair dye got on her face, so she looks a little...purple. Oops.

I also took a sneaky picture of what I wore in my room.

I was feeling a little 80's that day!

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Bargain Hunter!

Hello you, I hope you're good!

So, here's my first kind of style post ^^

I'm always asked online where do I shop, so I thought I would start doing posts about my latest purchases, so then you know!

I really love getting a bargain and I am willing to hunt for clothes too. People are always asking me how I can afford so many clothes, well to be honest, I don't spend that much...(unless it's something reeeeeeeealy nice then I save up) 

And, I get given hand me downs because I'm small haha.

This is an an entire outfit from hand me downs (apart from the socks and bow which are from Primark)

Wohoo for hand me downs!

So, the other day I decided to go for a charity shop hunt. Usually there are loads of nifty things I can find, but this time there wasn't really much ;A;

I was after an oversized denim jacket, but I couldn't find one. But I did find this instead for £3.00

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Oishii Project Graduation

Hello you, I hope you're good! 

So, as some of you may know already, I have made the big decision to graduate from Oishii Ichigo and Oishii Project.

If you don't know what Oishii Project is, you can see more about it here

~Youtube

~Website

~Ichigo Facebook

This was my graduation video

I feel like there is so much more to say, so I'm going to try and say it in this blog post. Although, to be honest, I've not always been good at trying to put things across in speaking or writing, I'm generally just a person with a lot of feelings and I don't know how to put them across!...hahaha.

First off, I am so sooo happy that I auditioned to be a part of this amazing project. The people who are involved are all so passionate, energetic, and just all in all genuine people! I love being around people who make me happy, and the people in Oishii Project did just that.

Even though I've only met the U.K members of Ichigo, I feel like we are all a very close knit unit in Ichigo, and I really enjoy talking to each and everyone of you. I really am sad that I had to leave before we all got to perform together. I know it will happen one day because all the hard work that goes into the project will pull through, and behind the scenes, well I just know...it's possible! If that day does come, I will try my best to join you guys and be the biggest wota ever! I am watching you...always watching you...
Anyway

I really am going to miss the crazy meetings we had. I don't know if the girls in Ichigo knew this, but in London sometimes I got very lonely, especially when my housemate left, and you were really the only people that kept me sane, and I looked forward to talking to you all so much!

I have had so much fun performing with Scarlett and Cherry at conventions and I will really miss doing them and our crazy rehearsals. I'll never forget the Leicester rehearsals in the hotel rooms and having to keep going for a pee because I was laughing too much!!

Me at the Leicester Space Center performance.

Performing at Hyper Japan with Cherry and Scarlett.

A picture I edited when I was bored...yeah

PURIKURAAAAAA! (After the Sun photoshoot, such a fun day!)

In fact all the photoshoots I did with you were so much fun!

^ We're the Kawaii Beatles...

It kind of makes me upset that my last performance of Ainano was at London Anime Con on my own. On stage I got the thought that I'll never do it again as an Oishii member and that you girls should have been there! I found it really hard to hold back tears! ;A;

However, seeing you both at Hyper Japan made me sure that we're still going to keep in touch no matter if I'm in the project or not, and it was so much fun doing karaoke and going shopping. Cherry's mum had made us homemade bags, and again, I started crying because I was emotional...I'm sorry! I love the bag though, and I can show my Oishii pride wherever I go!

It's even purple! Yey! Purple power!!

Of course I'm going to miss all the other crazy girls in Ichigo too!

Cherry: I know we will probably see each other at conventions again, but I really am going to miss performing with you, you're so energetic and uplifting, and I love how passionate about the industry you are. I love our long travelling chats!

Scarlett: I knew you before Oishii but I am so happy that we were both a part of it together, because I feel it brought us closer. You are the sweetest person I have ever met, and I love your sense of humor! Also (give me your clothes plz)

Popku: I really am going to miss your energy and randomness, every time I hear afro circus I'll remember that conversation!

Jenny: You are such a warm genuine person, and also incredibly talented. Them singing skillz.I love your goofiness and I feel we're on the same wavelength! I also love that you're willing to give everything a go! Don't lose that ^^

Chii: You are so talented and I love your quirkiness. You're such a hard worker and you always seem to have things in first haha! I really look up to you!

Micchi: Can I have your dance skills please? You're such a lovely warm person, and blossom wants to meet your alpaca too. Even though you joined Ichigo later, I feel you are a huge chunk of the group and I couldn't imagine Ichigo without you now!

Yumi: Again you're such a talented person...dang it you're all so talented! Your singing makes me melt honestly hahah. Also, like Micchi you are a huge part of Oishii Project and Ichigo now, and I couldn't imagine the project without you, you're such a hardworking, beautiful person, and I really look up to you!

Nyanko: You're the cutest and most bubbliest person I have ever met! I just want to pinch your cheeks all the time! You really shine on camera and you're just a great performer.

Also, to Beckii, Cam, Berry,Sango,Jeena and every member of staff:

Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication you've put into me and all the girls in Oishii Project. Without you, there would be chaos and you've always made me enjoy being in the project and keeping me inspired. Keep up the amazing work you are doing and I really do believe in you all!

I really do believe in the project, and although I have seen around online, and even in real life (while I've been stood there fhisdufyiu) that there are doubts about this project. Well, from being a part of this project I can say from the bottom of my heart I have no doubts at all. You are all doing everything right and this project can only grow and develop into something even better. I honestly can't wait to see where it goes, and I will always be the biggest wota ever, when the time comes! 

Also, my room has some special Oishii things in it, every time I see these it reminds me of O!P and makes me happy!

The full member poster! I have signatures from Cherry, Scarlett and Beckii.

I will collect them all!

The poster from the first concert I did with Cherry and Scarlett at MCM expo.

(The minion really wanted to be in the picture...)

I am sorry that it seems sudden and there is an unclear reason for my graduation, but I promise you the reason will be explained later on. I have actually being making this decision for a long time now. I can't tell you the exact reason why, but it is exciting and probably a once in a lifetime opportunity, so I'm excited for this new chapter in my life. But again, thank you soo much Oishii Project for letting me be a part of this wonderful group, I have learnt so many things and made so many good friends

Thank you! 

Puuuurple Power!<3 <3

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