Oh. My TaoBao order came in today. I was really not expecting that, since it shipped on Tuesday and they said it would take 5-10 days. Here are my reviews. Unfortunately, I can't find my camera, so all images are cell phone shots. There's a lot of text, so:
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
I like online shopping...
I haven't really been doing anything this Reading Week. I came down with a cold on Friday, so I've been staying in bed with my laptop and some tea all week.
Anyways, my TaoBao order shipped, so I'll post pictures when it comes in (next week, probably). One of the pairs of shoes I ordered (white pumps with little pink polkadots) was out of stock in my size, but that can't be helped. My current order consists of: a DoL Fantasic Dolly replica JSK (normal waist) in white, a pair of black boots for my Franziska cosplay (I think they're from Kiss Shoes, but it might be Yaya), and a short brown wig and two pairs of false lashes from Fantasy Sheep.
My EpicCosplay order came in. I originally wanted a short wig + extensions, but the extensions were out of stock so they gave me a long wig for the price of the short wig. The order also included wigs for three others, but I haven't seen them out of the package. I didn't want to take them out of the bags, since we wouldn't be able to return them in that case. Everyone's happy with the quality. The colour accuracy, not so much. One of my friends said that the dark red looked less saturated in person (which was good for the cosplay in question) and the walnut brown looked lighter (which was bad for the cosplay in question).
The wig really is nice. I had heard people say they didn't tangle much, so I put it on a head and shook it, and rubbed a towel on it. It didn't get tangles and there were no static flyaways. What was most impressive, though, was that I could style it with long sleeves on and not have it stick to my arms.
My wig was in copper red for my FeMC cosplay. The colour is perfect, but I was going for a redder tone (because I prefer a red-blue contrast between FeMC and MC to brown-blue) so I don't think colour accuracy is too important in this case (since her hair colour is all over the fucking place different people will have different opinions on what the perfect colour is). I had originally planned to use the extensions to make a clip-on and do something like this, but when I ended up with the long wig, I tried this. I don't like how it came out, so I think I'm going to chop up the long wig to make a short wig + extensions and go with my first idea.
Anyone with anime figures: what do you do about oiling? My TotA Ion figure started oiling recently. It's a trading figure so I know the plastic quality isn't that great, but it's become difficult to get a hold of so I'd like to know some way to clean it off. I've only found prevention tips through Google. Well, there was something about sticking it in the freezer and then wiping it down, but that didn't help. I'm really annoyed now that I sold my extra Ion last year.
Anyways, my TaoBao order shipped, so I'll post pictures when it comes in (next week, probably). One of the pairs of shoes I ordered (white pumps with little pink polkadots) was out of stock in my size, but that can't be helped. My current order consists of: a DoL Fantasic Dolly replica JSK (normal waist) in white, a pair of black boots for my Franziska cosplay (I think they're from Kiss Shoes, but it might be Yaya), and a short brown wig and two pairs of false lashes from Fantasy Sheep.
My EpicCosplay order came in. I originally wanted a short wig + extensions, but the extensions were out of stock so they gave me a long wig for the price of the short wig. The order also included wigs for three others, but I haven't seen them out of the package. I didn't want to take them out of the bags, since we wouldn't be able to return them in that case. Everyone's happy with the quality. The colour accuracy, not so much. One of my friends said that the dark red looked less saturated in person (which was good for the cosplay in question) and the walnut brown looked lighter (which was bad for the cosplay in question).
The wig really is nice. I had heard people say they didn't tangle much, so I put it on a head and shook it, and rubbed a towel on it. It didn't get tangles and there were no static flyaways. What was most impressive, though, was that I could style it with long sleeves on and not have it stick to my arms.
My wig was in copper red for my FeMC cosplay. The colour is perfect, but I was going for a redder tone (because I prefer a red-blue contrast between FeMC and MC to brown-blue) so I don't think colour accuracy is too important in this case (since her hair colour is all over the fucking place different people will have different opinions on what the perfect colour is). I had originally planned to use the extensions to make a clip-on and do something like this, but when I ended up with the long wig, I tried this. I don't like how it came out, so I think I'm going to chop up the long wig to make a short wig + extensions and go with my first idea.
Anyone with anime figures: what do you do about oiling? My TotA Ion figure started oiling recently. It's a trading figure so I know the plastic quality isn't that great, but it's become difficult to get a hold of so I'd like to know some way to clean it off. I've only found prevention tips through Google. Well, there was something about sticking it in the freezer and then wiping it down, but that didn't help. I'm really annoyed now that I sold my extra Ion last year.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Lol exams
I think we all know by now that when I disappear it's because I've been taken in by exams, yes? I had three midterms (bio, chem, and genetics), a short essay (philosophy) and two labs (bio and chem) in the past week. Fun. It's now reading week, so I fully intend to sleep all week. On Monday I actually fell asleep in the hallway while I was waiting for my genetics tutorial to start. :/
Today's exam was genetics. That course is easy as fuck. We are doing Punnett squares. That's how easy it is. Hello, GPA-booster.
In contrast, we dissected fruit fly ovaries in the Bio lab yesterday. Do you know how hard it is to tear a fruit fly in half when your tweezers don't touch closely enough to grip it? After forty minutes, we (the four of us at our lab bench) only had six sets of ovaries extracted. We kept tearing the heads off instead of tearing the abdomen apart. The dissecting microscope made it harder because it offered no depth perception and you couldn't focus on both tweezers and the fruit fly at the same time.
I'd been holding off on getting my hair cut because it was too expensive. (My hair was ass-length, so I was going to be hit hard with the "long hair" surcharges--most of the places I called quoted me at around $100.) It's been really windy around here lately, so my hair's been tangling horribly every time I so much as think of going outside. It's been a pain to tie it up whenever I'm studying. So last night, I chopped it to my shoulders. I mean that literally. I went in the washroom, grabbed the scissors and started cutting.
I've cut plenty of wigs, so it's not like I had no idea what I was doing. It came out nicely and only took about fifteen to twenty minutes. Last time I had a professional haircut, it took two and a half hours and I ended up with a soccer mom bob. :/
Speaking of wigs, I cut my Franziska wig last week. It looks good. I ordered my FeMC wig, and I'm waiting for that to come in now.
KH:Coded has Castle Oblivion in it. CoM was my favourite game so that makes me happy, but after the end of BBS, I don't want to see Castle Oblivion.
Today's exam was genetics. That course is easy as fuck. We are doing Punnett squares. That's how easy it is. Hello, GPA-booster.
In contrast, we dissected fruit fly ovaries in the Bio lab yesterday. Do you know how hard it is to tear a fruit fly in half when your tweezers don't touch closely enough to grip it? After forty minutes, we (the four of us at our lab bench) only had six sets of ovaries extracted. We kept tearing the heads off instead of tearing the abdomen apart. The dissecting microscope made it harder because it offered no depth perception and you couldn't focus on both tweezers and the fruit fly at the same time.
I'd been holding off on getting my hair cut because it was too expensive. (My hair was ass-length, so I was going to be hit hard with the "long hair" surcharges--most of the places I called quoted me at around $100.) It's been really windy around here lately, so my hair's been tangling horribly every time I so much as think of going outside. It's been a pain to tie it up whenever I'm studying. So last night, I chopped it to my shoulders. I mean that literally. I went in the washroom, grabbed the scissors and started cutting.
I've cut plenty of wigs, so it's not like I had no idea what I was doing. It came out nicely and only took about fifteen to twenty minutes. Last time I had a professional haircut, it took two and a half hours and I ended up with a soccer mom bob. :/
Speaking of wigs, I cut my Franziska wig last week. It looks good. I ordered my FeMC wig, and I'm waiting for that to come in now.
KH:Coded has Castle Oblivion in it. CoM was my favourite game so that makes me happy, but after the end of BBS, I don't want to see Castle Oblivion.
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