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LovelyShoes.NET Review

September 30, 2009 chaigyaru ギャル 42 Comments

So recently I purchased a lot of shoes from lovelyshoes.net – a wholesale site for shoes “made in china”. So I’m just going to do a review for those girls out there who are thinking of maybe purchasing from there. I mean, each pair of shoes were under $20US, which is damn cheap, but to purchase from there, you must make an order of more than 10 pairs of shoes. I made a trial order, which means you can make an order of less than 10 pairs of shoes once but, you must pay an additional $10US.

I purchased 6 pairs of shoes for a total of $124.89 including shipping.

Total products money: US $ 77.25 + Shipping money: US $ 37.64 + Packing money: US $ 10.00

Shipping: Shipping is fairly expensive because understandable because shoes are quite heavy and $40 for shipping internationally for 7 pairs of shoes is actually very very cheap in comparison to many other international online stores. Shipping did not take long either, it was within their estimated period of time – which is just under 2 weeks. I received the package by Registered post which means the parcel is collected with a signature, and tends to be more safe than Air Mail – which is alternatively cheaper.

Packaging: Each pair of shoes were packed in an individual plastic wrap. Each shoe clip was also packed in a smaller plastic wrap and placed inside the shoes.

Quality: I wouldn’t say the quality of the shoes were perfect, but rather, you get what you pay for. The material of the shoes were mostly plastic and very light and flimsy. One of the shoes I received had missing diamontes and for another, the pearls were already falling off the first day I wore them.
Because the shoes were sitting the box all squished up, the shape of the shoes weren’t perfect either. For example, because I hadn’t worn the pink pair on the top row yet, they still look a bit out of shape.

Overall: I wouldn’t say it was a bad haul as the price

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Hair tutorials!

September 28, 2009 chaigyaru ギャル 2 Comments

Hey you’ll!

Just some updates on myself. Been sick for the past week and superrrr sick because I was naughty and went out drinking and dancing at the clubs for one of my girlfriend’s 21st birthday! I hadn’t been clubbing in so long that the music almost disgusted me a little! Or maybe it was just a very poor DJ playing on that night! I didn’t bring along my camera but I will be able to grab a few shots off Therese! ♥

Anyway, just to keep you girlies a little busy, I found some super helpful videos for hair curling! I know alot of you girls have problems with hair curling cause there are just too many videos on youtube!! I think because we all have different hair textures, lengths, colour and etc, you should all develop an individual technique to curl our own hair – which is why I found these three videos very helpful.

She doesn’t exactly show you how to curl the whole head, but she shows a little snipplet of how to use the three different tools – hair straightener, curling iron and blow dryer.

Taken directly from Tami @ Soompi
Straightening Iron: (medium sized curls-waves)
You simply place a medium sized clump of hair in the iron, and rotate it around 360degrees where that clump meets your skull (be careful not to burn yourself), then slide it down the strand. The speed with which you slide the iron will help determine the size of the curl. More quickly makes larger curls/waves, slower and you get a springy curl.
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Curling Iron:
You just clamp the iron onto your hair, slide it down to the bottom, than wrap it up trying to get as much hair on the actual iron as possible, then hold it until the hair is warm, unwrap from the iron a little for space to wiggle the clamp open and slide the iron out.
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With a Hair Dryer and diffuser: (loosest waves)
The general idea is to wrap my hair around my fingers into a little spiral, then put the spiral into the diffuser of the hairdryer and blow it with hot air on the medium speed for about 45 seconds.
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