avoid being an Ita

Now I'm going to talk about a lolita's most dreaded titles: the Ita. Italoli means "ouch" loli, like you look so bad it makes your eyes hurt. There are some simple ways to avoid ita-ness. if you follow these rules you shouldn't have to be called one

Cheap lace: It is well known that lolitas love lace but it can make or break an outfit. Good lace usually has lots of delicate details and is soft to touch. An effective test to tell if the lace is good is if you rub the lace against your skin and your skin doesn't get irritated, than it's good. Eye lit lace is usually a good choice and fits right in with a sweeter outfit. I know Anna house and angelic pretty use a lot of eye lit lace. Bad lace is usually really scratchy, netting based, and doesn't have much detail. Stores like Bodyline and milanoo use a lot of bad lace. 

Gothic Lolita: Gothic lolita can be great if it's pulled off right but a lot of people wear it wrong. One wrong thing that people do is the black with white lace combo. The contrast looks cheap and isn't in style anymore. Another thing people do wrong with gothic lolita is wearing other gawfik colors with black. Try to avoid black x red and black x purple.Black with a blue, white, or gray PRINT does look good.

Head wear: you could have a perfect outfit and ruin it all with head wear. Try to avoid wearing large rectangle head dresses, but that doesn't mean all rectangle headdresses are bad, the smaller ones are ok. Also try to avoid  fake animal ear headbands, they just make your outfit look like a costume. Coats that have fake animal ears on them are ok, I know angelic pretty and baby the stars shine bright do that sometimes. 

Materials: Try to avoid bad materials. Stay away from satin, velvet, and PVC. They just make the outfit look cheap and tasteless.

"Grandma" prints: please, don't wear any prints that look like they could be on your grandma's curtains. Some floral prints can look really grandma-ish.

Modesty: Modesty is one of the most important parts of a lolita outfit. Don't ruin that by trying to be "unique" and wearing short, low-cut, or see through dresses. Save the slutty clothes for strip clubs, and leave it out of lolita (maybe wear it for the "other" lolita)

WA-loli: If its your first lolita outfit don't make it WA-loli. WA-loli is one of the hardest styles to pull off and if it's your first try it will turn out looking like a costume. that means no paper fans, paper umbrellas, and kimono-like dresses.      

         



the ode to lolita hair

now am going to talk about something that lots of new lolitas have problems with: hair. of course you probably looked online and decided to try extravagant like these over to the left side. Well if that's what your going to attempted on your first loli try, your out of luck. Most of these are extensions or just full wigs. I've been trying a couple of years to get OTT sweet hair style on the bottom right, but it doesn't work without extensions. Right now your probably bummed out that you aren't going to be able to do these hair styles, but they're plenty of simple hair styles that are easy to do. Straight vs. curly: you might be trying to figure out whether to do your hair straight or curly. The answer to that is simple, make it easy on yourself, if you have naturally straight hair wear it straight and if you have naturally curly/wavy hair wear it curly. If you have long and wavy hair get out a curling iron, make some ringlet curls, and put in some hair spray so your hair keeps it's shape. If you have long straight hair, you can just leave it straight. Medium hair is basically the same thing except you don't have as much to work with. If your hair is short you can straighten it and wear it in a cute bob cut, or you can curl it. Keep in mind that with short hair you can't do the same spiral curls as you can in long or medium hair. It's good with any type of hair to have some sort of fringe. It can be straight across or side swept, both ways help hair accessories look more natural. Another hairstyle you can try is pig tails. Pig tails look best long or medium hair. Watch this video on how to get cute pig tails without teasing or using a wig. 

      

                                                                           





 

 



self confidence

 self confidence is one of the most important thing that any lolita can have. the way the world works nowdays if you wear something a tad bit different they stare and laugh at you. If you want to have fun wearing lolita than you need to be confident, if you walk around in your favorite dress and your all self consious and nervous you won't have any fun. Lets say your at school in lolita and you think someone's staring at you, it's not a good idea to try to pretend that they're not because chances are that they really are staring at you. If you do see someone staring at you, don't act like you care, just smilie and wave at them and you'll be surprised at the reaction you get. If someone asks you why your wearing that just politely say "because I like it" If you want to be really confident try to look at the glass half full instead of half empty, you'll be a lot happy that way.       

WTF?

Have you ever browed around an online lolita shop and thought "WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU DESIGNED THAT!" thats the perpouse of this segment on my blog. I'll post some funny pictures of lolita clothes.

The first iteam I'm going to show you is a cutsew cardagin thing from metamorphose temps de fille
http://www.metamorphose.gr.jp/onlineshop_eng/blouses_tops/110030070019.php?ssid=132e21181109112133 this shirt is almost ok in black or white (it would be better without the weird frill coming up the side of the sleeve) but if you scroll down your see the red and black one and it is HORIBLE. It just makes you think "No meta don't join the darkside with ebay and milanoo!"

i can easily say the fanplusfriend makes some "unique" things but this dress tops them all http://www.fanplusfriend.com/servlet/the-1318/Cute-Lolita-Open-Back/Detail it would be ok if we were all in "gone with the wind", but it's sad that they would actually call it lolita