More ★ Noel :: Sara Mari's Giveaway

Hey guys~!

So for some of you who are following Momoeri's blog - you guys may have seen her post about the More Noel iPod/iPhone app:

As you guys can see it's similar to a purikura app in that you get the pretty bokeh effect and the stars. 

☆ Pros: 

† My favorite part of this app is that it really brightens the pictures like in the purikura booths! 

So it's like a purikura booth... OUTSIDE OF A PURIKURA BOOTH!! Like woah~

† Another thing I really like about the app is the way that the effects look. They don't look sticky, pasted, and ugly. They're very pretty and shiny looking ヽ(´―｀)ノ

† It's free!

☆ Cons: 

† There are only two effects you have in the app. The sparkle and the bokeh. It would have been nice if they added more into the app. But it's a free app, so I'm happy with it.

† I wish we had more control of the contrasts and brightening.

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Each effect has three different degrees - going from lightest and most subtle to brightest and more dramatic. 

Here are examples of the sparkle effects from the lightest to brightest degree:

Original:

Sparkle Effect light:

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Original:

Sparkle Effect Medium:

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Original

Sparkle Effect Strong:

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Bokeh Effects:

Original:

Bokeh Effect Light:

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Original:

Bokeh Effect Medium:

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Original:

Bokeh Effect Strong:

As you guys can see it works better with pictures that have more contrast in them. Overall, I love this app, it's simple, fast, and the results are cute!　ъ(｀―^)

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Giveaway

So some of you may know that Sara Mari is having a giveaway for 1910 followers and she has a bunch of cute stuff up for grabs! Even if you guys don't want to participate in the giveaway, go on ahead and visit her anyways. She always something interesting on her blog.

Prizes:
1 pair of GEO brand circle lenses (winner's choice), foam hair curlers, mouse ear lens case and hair velcro provided by Shoppingholics.com
1 pink cosmetics pouch, 1 pair of Chocola Rich Parfait eyelashes, 1 sparkly hairclip, 1 eyelash case, 1 Shibuya109 booklet featuring Honda Mana, Diamond Beauty booklet with Sayaka, Remi and Mizukitty, 1 cute tissues

So check it out here!

❤ Mei

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Mie's Giveaway

Hey guys~! 

Mie is having a giveaway on her blog. It's pretty big! And it's also not only for one winner~

Here's a small preview of what's in the giveaway!

Check out more here ☆

Good luck everyone!!

❤ Mei

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Hair Tutorials and Mie's Giveaway

Hi guys this is Mei~~~

Sooo, sometimes I have trouble figuring out how to style my hair, and when I go online. I have a hard time looking for gal hair style tutorials that I already haven't seen before. 

So I would like to help you guys out with a link!

カワイイ☆巻き髪☆ヘアアレンジ

Here are a few examples of the finished hairstyles.

This is my favorite, the mermaid half up style. 

She provides step by step tutorials with pictures, and even though it's in Japanese, I find that the pictures are helpful (but then I do read and understand a little, little, liiiitttlleee bit of Japanese, so if you can read, it will help very much!!)

I'll help you guys navigate through the site.  

The first link: コテの選び方 and the bullet below it is  information about the types of curling irons.

I think the one below it is basic hair techniques. (基本的な巻き方)

Then, the section below it has the tutorials (挑戦！！ヘアアレンジ)

The first bullet point is "Up Hair" or Up-dos I believe. 

The Second bullet point is "Half Up" or hair styles (like the mermaid hair) that are... well... half up! (＞∇＜；)

Then, the last bullet is uhhh, I can't read this, hahaha but they're basically fluffier styles. (I think, correct me if I'm wrong)

The link below that one has pictures to a variety of hair accessories. (ヘアピン•ヘアアクセス)

I don't really check out the other links, because the ones I listed above are mainly the ones I use for tutorials and suchness.

So, I hope you guys find this useful at least to some degree, haha!! (´･ω･｀)

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and I would love to turn your attention to Mie's ME! Bath giveaway~ ☆ミ

She is giving away one of their Green Tea Ice Cream Bath bomb 

I think this picture is a chocolate one, but she will be giving away the green tea one. So visit her here and check out how to enter!! ❤

Have a great night loves~ ❤ Mei

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Photo Shoot!!

Hey guys, this is Mei!~~ ❤

So, because I'm a vocal major, I have to put on a 30 minute Junior Recital filled with classical goodness. To advertise my recital, I'm supposed to make a poster. SOOOOO, I had a small photo shoot today!!~~

I borrowed Lehrick's beautiful SLR camera. Not sure what kind it is.... he TAPED every sort of label (even the ones that tell you the modes, options, etc) to avoid brand bias among other people. Anyways, he had his whole umbrella and flash stuufff, legiiitttttt.

So, I found one photo I liked and edited it for poster use. What do you guys think?

Photo is taken by Lehrick. The overexposure effect was not a result of me playing with photoshop 

(゜Д゜) it was alll the equipment. There's no writing or anything on it yet. Just the basic design of the poster.

Afterwards, Rina and I had our own little PAJAMA SHOOT!! Hahaha. This was actually done because we had taken a pajama shoot a LOONG time ago... maybe in like middle school? So, this was done in light of the old shoot we had. There were so many photos and a lot of them turned out blurry, so I just picked out a few to share. We couldn't fix the setting back to normal lighting (I found out later that all I had to do was adjust the shutter speed) so they're all pretty overexposed, hahaha.

Enjoy the pictures~:

Present for our lovers!!! ❤

YEAYUH!!

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Kimmie Girl's DecoDen Giveaway!!~~

For all of you Deco crazy gals, here's a giveaway just for you!!

Kimmie is giving away decoden and nails for her 100th follower giveaway~~

The giveaway consists of:

☆ Sweets decoden

☆ Lollies decoden

☆ Cake decoden

☆ Flowers decoden

☆ Ribbon decoden

☆ Gold and Silver decoden

☆ Strawberry decoden

☆ 1 bear and 1 rabbit tiny teddy

☆ 3 sets of handmade nails.

You can find the post here.

❤ Mei

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Huntington Library

Hey guys it's Mei!!~ ❤❤
I hope everyone had a great Valentine's day!! 「I know, I'm a little late to jump on the boat」

I definitely had a great Valentine's day~ but I'll post about that maybe tomorrow, I already have a plethora of images to upload and post here today. The day before, I went to Huntington Library in hopes of getting a good picture for my Junior Recital (＞.＜) but no, I didn't get any good ones I wanted to use. I did, however get a whole bunch of other pretty pictures!~~

They dog-tagged the plants!!~

There's my love ❤

Taking a picture of Michael who was taking a picture of Lehrick... who was taking a picture of a fire hydrant...

This is actually just a tiny bonsai, but I wanted to make it look huuuuge (･w･)

Sad, lonely and homeless little filipino boy. No I kid, it's just Michael.

I was wondering what that creepy thing in the aquarium was. It looked like a ghostly image of a body in the water... then I realized it was just my reflection　(￣―￣)

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Tricia is having her first giveaway~~!!! 

She's so generous (°_。) here's what's going to be in her giveaway:

What's in there?

❤ ANAP black "LOVE" crop top (free size)
❤ ANAP/Miss Adoro upper lashes - #28
❤ SBY pastel colors hair scrunchy
❤ Dolly Wink upper lashes - #1 Dolly Sweet
❤ Dolly Wink eyelash case
❤ Dolly Wink information/photo booklets
❤ Diamond Lash bottom lashes - Lovely Eye
❤ PA upper lashes - "Gyaru" style
❤ PA bottom lashes - "Cute" style

☆ So beautiful!!! ☆ 

Enter here!! 

「And follow her blog anyways, even if you don't want to enter, it's pretty awesome, haha」

You know? I think I would suck with giveaways, because I think I'll have a hard time giving away things like these, hahahahaha. I'll end up just wanting to keep it for myself. So for all you ladies and 「maybe men?」 who do giveaways. Major props to you guys!!

Until next tiiiimmee!!

❤ Mei

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