in this corner of the ring...

so tonight ended up being super low key, which was super nice because I have been cleaning ALL day! I am in phase 1 of packing for moving soon. This means I daydream most waking hours of how I will decorate my new place, listen to good music, and bust my ass.

I wasn't going to let the ass busting stop me from going out, so I went to a ska show with a cool co-worker. It was at the U of M Union and it was in their bowling alley area, good music, mellow and fun :o)

http://theprizefighters.net/ <---- the band's website

you can only sort of tell in the photo, but I couldn't decide between Pink Friday, and the new Gaga 2 Viva Glam from MAC- SOOOOOO I wore the Pink Friday lipstick with the Gaga lipglass! They mix beautifully! love it!

I wore a Harajuku Lovers shirt with some pants I got in Hong Kong, L.A.M.B. watch, "Return to Tiffany" bracelet modified with HL charm, skull/spike bracelet, and stud earrings- with the standard ska show shoes- Doc Martens!

and of course, a favorite of mine that no one in the US ever seems to go for...

DROP CROTCH PANTS!!!

so the band gave me a total SUBLIME vibe so I am now sitting here chillin, drinking wine out of a teacup and listening to the 40 oz. to Freedom album... this album is love

Cleaning out stuff and getting ready to pack is awesome! I found these sunglasses that I thought were long gone! I can't really do regular Wayfarers, they just don't work on me, but I love them, so I was happy to find these (I will call them) "Nayfarers" at Target, the shape is a little bigger so I get the style and it works on my face.

I have found HELLA other stuff while cleaning too, stuff I can use to decorate the new place! SCORE :o)

throwback

I came across some fun stuff while I was "researching" Jeremy Scott adidas last night!

I am in LOVE with the French Fry print and I discovered it's a print he used in his Fall 2006 RTW line! I absolutely ADORE when designers bring a print back like this! I get so sad that each season is so final and it doesn't come back again :o(

These pictures are GEMS and I just had to make a second Jeremy Scott post!

images from the whole line can be found at the source (New York Magazine)- here

I want this outfit to wear at Christmastime!

and I really want a hamburger skirt!

and my imaginary boyfriend can wear the matching top-

and if we go to a fancy ball I can wear this!

the entire collection is just totally adorable and NOM-licious!

DONUT bracelets!!!

and this foodie print makes me totally wonder...

maybe some of my FAVORITE older Harajuku Lovers was Jeremy Scott inspired- we've seen Gwen rockin some Jeremy Scott a few times!

Hong Kong Kowloon Night Market...

so after 4 days straight working mentally exhausting days... I finally got a chance to get out and see some of Hong Kong!

We had to walk through this train station to go to an ATM, then get in a cab to the market... apparently this was a really stupid thing to do in a cab... I was like "Oh is it dumb to do this?" and my co-workers were super nice and basically said whatever it's OK to do stupid shit your first time in a new country haha.

I was also FINALLY able to experience the real "market" experience when we were pulled into an alley to look at "Chanel" "Louis Vuitton" and "Coach" bags... Neither of us were gonna buy a bag and I wouldn't let my coworker go by herself, but she told me I had to get the full experience. It's pretty funny, but also a little scary, like how scary movies start, haha!

This chick was HELLA giving me the side-eye when I was taking this pic with some stunners on-

(Do I spy Kate in that pic Stacey??)

We walked by this ummmm. "restaurant" and they had all this on display and real fish there... it looked beautiful and smelled appetizing but there was no way in hell I was gonna eat it!

I have no idea what "PINKO" is, but these were like at EVERY booth so I had to finally just take a picture? Any of you know what it is??? Are the chicks bending over? What is going on here? haha

some LIEpods... (these are NOT iPods, haha) they had fake iPads too...

I really do not know what was going on at this "massage" parlor... but I imagine they were offering more than masssages!

here... wash your brain out with some religious hologram sunglasses... I REALLY wanted to get the Mary or Jesus ones... but we were on our way out and the shop owner was giving me the evil eye for trying them on for too long!

Before I get to the best part... I had to take pics of these funny signs and shirts... I REALLY wanted the one that says "ALL MY FRIENDS ARE TROUBLEMAKER" but they would not BUDGE on price!!!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention! I was so good at bargaining... I don't know what happened I am usually too scared, but I was just balls out and totally lowballing some of them and they would accept or make a deal! It was so fun!

with such classics as "NO GAME I WILL DIZZY LAZY CRAZY" and "NO FART IN CAR"

I figured a photograph would be smarter (& cheaper) than buying each one that made me laugh!

and FINALLY... Pièce de résistance... counterfeit Harajuku Lovers... I know we are supposed to get all mad and the knockoff business is bad and wrong and stuff... But I just can't help but feel that fake HL being at the Kowloon Night Market means Harajuku Lovers has really made it!!!

I think my favorite was the "SPEUR HOE FLMATE" which I am still laughing about!

some of it was really close to the art on real HL... but some of it was WAY off!

and I will leave you with some good advice...

"TEKE A CHANSE YOO STPUID HOE"

a fatal attraction to cuteness!

it's about time I post about one of my favorite brands! Harajuku Lovers takes up a good portion of my closet and there's a good chance that if I am dressing casual and comfy, at least one of the items is probably HL.

I almost fell out of my chair when I just went to www.thegiantpeach.com to see if they had any new Super Kawaii goodies and I came across these jeans!

link to the most Super Kawaii jeans ever made!

I LOVE the knit waistband and the little tab at the mock fly actually has the image of a zipper pull on it! I absolutely ADORE the amount of detail that is going into Harajuku Lovers these days! It's the type of detail that went into the first several seasons of lamb, where there are little "Easter Eggs" in the garments and just as much cuteness is put into the inside of the garment as the outside!

one of my FAVORITE "Easter Eggs" in HL is the "made you look" on the back of the Country of Origin labels, a nod to the "with love" on the back of the older L.A.M.B. labels.

for a clothing nerd like me, those little things just send me over the edge! 

I won't buy these at the moment, because today I realized, I don't have to buy something just because I am posting about it, haha! but these will be mine, they HAVE to! Hopefully I can catch them on sale, but they've just moved to the top of my list, even past all the boots I am lusting over right now!

all images from the source