Shironuri (look)

Today I´m showing you my firt attempt at Shironuri style. I painted my face white and put on some laces and pastels for my lecture at J-Culture at Pragoffest 2014. This is by the way THAT event, that got me together with my man three years ago:).
I had two lectures / presentations, one on Shironuri and one on wigs in lolita/cosplay/japanese street styles. It was such a great weekend!

(more under the cut)

Liebe ist ein wilder Tier (Photoshoot + SoLolita dress review)

Hello there - today there´s gonna be some serious fashion so check it out:)

As I wrote earlier, I started a cooperation with SoLolita, which offered me to pick two items from their store. Today I am going to show you one of those, a classical looking red long sleeved lolita dress.

Original Retro Alice long sleeve Wine Red Flounced Classic Lolita Dress

At the beginning of the review, the team of SoLolita is wonderful. Both customer and tailoring service!  When I was picking a size, I was hesitating between two sizes. One seeme to fit me well in measures, but not height - the measure chart was offering the size for someone 15 centimetres shorter than me (which I found funny sice I tend to consider myself a hobbit being 166 cm with most friends taller than me). I wrote the contact person and told my concern about the skirt looking too short or the waist too high on me. I was asked for my actual measures and soon A PERFECTLY CUSTOM TAILORED DRESS CAME TO ME. Fits me really well:

Because this article has to have the proper review part, I will write about the qualities not visible from photographs. The fabric is very good, quite thick with not much need of ironing. The skirt is very full, looks good with no petticoat but is a little bit too heavy for a small soft petticoats. The frills on the skirt, buttons and details on sleeves are tailored very well.

The dress came with two detachable bows and a belt. That makes the dress versatile which I appreciate. I used the bigger of the bows in this look and put it on my waist. I am looking forward to wearing this dress for example in more casual way combined with completely different belt. It also looks great with nothing added, no bows and stuff.

In this close-up you can see the white lace collar, which I decorated with white floral brooch pin to have the look more detailed&decorative:

I went for my longest wig to wear with it, the dark brown "Silky straight" from Lockshop. With many shades of red (from brownish to bright) and burgundy together with white details (as the collar, pumps and hair flower accessories) I tried to create a classical lolita look in rather unusual colorway, as the dress itself seems "too bright" for the classic lolita style and so does the white.

My make-up was also white and red. I created this porcelain doll appearance with a twist of "ill" or creepy look as the eyeshadows are red and eyeliner pale. I played with my eyebrows this time, painting it also reddish tone and finishing it with black dots.

I love this carousel musicbox that you can see in the photo below! I bought it at Prague´s biggest flea market, it´s not as old as it looks like but it plays a Christmas song. I so very enjoy old circus and carnival theme in general, as well as carousel horse theme in lolita fashion. And... since this beautiful dress reminded me of this Rammstein music video, I couldn´t take the photos elsewhere than in trees and branches. But it´s no fairytale forrest, it´s our garden:)

Thank for the photos to my cute and skilled boyfriend Denerog!

Love,

KK

Next post will review this light-mint coloured wig - the other item I was happy to get from Sololita.com.

Lolita Short Straight White with Light Green Cosplay Wig

Stay tuned:)

Dress Up Doll (Photoshoot)

Sorry for a big delay, I am always like this, when it comes to blogging. This pause was caused by big life changes I had - Finishing my studies, getting a job, moving to Prague to live with my boyfriend. 

Now I am a grown up, no shit....! :D

I also had a lot of modeling work, I´m really looking forward to show you some results, especially from a photoshoot with italian photographer Gianni Russo, that lies on the border of glamour and fashion photography and is inspired by Charles Baudelaire´s Fleurs de mal.

But today I´d like to share with you some photos I made together with my boyfriend few weeks ago for a contest by czech lolita indie brand Porcelain Doll.

Dress Up Doll (c) Karolina Koblenova. Idea, Styling & makeup, postprocess: K.K., photographer: Denerog

Easter

Today I´m sending my outfit for a Hell Party 7, which was last weekend, as well as some photos from the event itself, altrough I didn´t photograph much. My look is inspired by Easter. Crucifixion, flowers in blooms
and all that stuff. Minus the eggs, bunny rabbits and ducklings :)

As I write this, I feel like listening to this wonderful Easter song - Easter by Patti Smith. Gorgeous!

More outfit photos under the cut, this post is quite image heavy and prepare yourself for a little blood too.

Drag Queen meets Lolita (makeup/outfit post)

I love playing with make-up so make-up posts will probably appear here as well.
These photos are from this years Prague Pride, a gay pride parade. I was offered to ride on a truck with my stylish friends, so I had to come with something special to wear. I always loved the traditional drag queen make-up, so I got inspired by something like this:

...and my result was this: 

Because I was in Prague at my boyfriend´s place, I only had a simple small pallette of eyeshadows, an eyeliner and a pair of blue lashes I borrowed from David´s sister. So not much material to make magic with. But still, I like how it turned out.

Actually I was asked that night what gender I was. It was a compliment for me! :)

Here are some another pics of the makeup:

I think the main trick is to make your eyebrows really thin and unnatural, if I had my own brows shaved, I would make them even higher and more curved. But unlike my hair, I´d never shave my eyebrows off. The eyes must be cat-like and the cheekbones higlighted to make the face less feminine.

I went for a sweet-lolita-gone-bad outfit, have never posted it at Lookbook before, so here it is: 

and here I am on the truck with my friends:

And my fave picture with Haru-chan (wonderlandharu.blogspot.com) - we are so Brandy Alexander, aren´t we?

I loved that day, I like to remember it especially now when it´s cold outside and nothing special is going on in my life. I look forward to next year and I have to think about my styling earlier!