An Extensive Rakuten Yumetenbo Review Part 1

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Before I start, I would just like to warn you that this review is going to be intensively and extensively long, since I will try my best to provide as much of an in-depth review on Yumetenbo as possible!

It seems that I had let time get the best of me yet again, but when you are in the middle of finals at the very moment anything goes! Anyway, lately I had been finding myself lacking the motivation or the drive to "frill-up" and dress myself up in Hime clothes. Not only that, but I realized that I have not changed up my wardrobe in over two years! In fact, some of my clothes were leftovers from my junior high to high school days! Yes I had added some pieces here and there, but generally overall it hasn't really changed.

To keep my wardrobe from getting even more stagnant, I had cleaned it out a while back and am now on an online shopping spree. One of the websites that I had been eying for quite some time now is Rakuten, specifically Yumetenbo. Apparently being well known for their affordable prices and cute clothes, Yumetenbo is pretty much the "Forever 21 or H&M" of the Gyaru world. Now I am absolutely sure that this is all common knowledge to most of the people by now, and I had actually been aware of this site for what seems to be ages. I just haven't gotten around to placing an order up until now, though why haven't I done so earlier is beyond me.

Before actually placing an order, I had done some thorough research on basically everything you can think of under the sun. What are the precise shoe sizes? How exactly do the clothes fit in terms of sizing? Did the order process drastically changed from the old reviews commonly found via Google? To make a long story short, it seems to me that I had found more of old reviews compared to new reviews. In addition, I noticed that a majority of the reviews did little to help me answer the questions posted above. Not saying that all of them did not help me out in some sort of way, since I did find a couple of exceptions. Just simply saying that most of them were not really helpful in answering questions in terms of sizing.

A sweet post Valentine's haul

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I had just gone through two midterms in a roll this past week, and never in my whole entire life did I feel so free after finishing them (though it did felt like a long battle during those two days, what with not being able to eat, sleep, or even shower right). Anyway, before any of the school work or other commitments builds up again for this upcoming week, I should get to work on updating asap!

Unfortunately with a busy schedule, one cannot really afford to go anywhere or have eventful social lives, so I don't really have any tutorial or craft posts in the making despite my passion for the arts and crafts building each day, but I can still post up what I had gotten the past two to three weeks.

I had also noticed from the comments and past posts that I have the tendency to make extremely long posts from the backlog, and therefore will try to limit those to make them easier to read. Sorry about that! ^^;

Without further ado, let's get started!

A little bit after Valentine's Day was over, I had quickly gone over to Walmart to see if they were still selling their huge heart pillows on clearance, particularly the ones with the word "Princess" on them with a crown. Usually regular retail price are dictated at $14 for a pillow, but they go down to $7 after Valentine's Day is over. I had really wanted one for quite some time, since I tried before and couldn't get them last year. Unfortunately, I still couldn't get them this year, which it seems like I never do, but I did end up walking away with a couple of cute things to compensate for my time searching.

Strapya World order, Sirens crazy shopping excursions, and outfit shots!

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We are now heading into the month of February and I am frankly quite amazed at how fast the whole entire time session is progressing at. One blink of an eye and we have gone from January to February in what feels like no amount of time at all!

Earlier on during the month of January, I had placed an order at Strapya World, for what I felt, had been my most expensive purchase at the website as of now. While looking through my Facebook news feed, I had come across this very adorable bunny bag charm that had just recently been released. Interestingly enough, the little bunny goes by the name of Petit Trianon, which is a small cheateau located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles. Usually I don't buy new releases for anything, let alone phone or bag charms, but this particular seems too cute to pass up (despite the hefty price tag of $21). So I ended up buying it along with a couple of items that my sister had wanted to get from the site, which consisted of a Sentimental Circus Mouton plush phone cleaner and a Manpuku-kun plush to go with the Juju-chan plush that was previously ordered.

Of course, a 10% discount helps a little bit in the purchasing process.

Past Month Shenanigans

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It seems to me that I cannot update asap to save my life, major apologies! Though to be a bit honest, I actually have not one, but two upcoming quizzes in a couple of days, but I figured that I might as well take this time to update on past happenings. It really isn't much, but it felt like I have done a ton of things in such a short amount of time. While I was browsing through the camera and my phone, I had noticed that I have a ton of photos that I had taken over the past month or so. So I figured, why not? This calls for picture spamming time! :D

First off, during the holiday break, my mom had gotten me two pairs of leggings along with the Nina Ricci Fantasy perfume! I had always been a fan of the fragrance ever since the debut, so I was so happy once I had gotten it! I had also loved how intertwined the fantasy concept is with the packaging, right down to the little "storybook" and the bottle design. 

A late holiday greeting and getting back into the blogosphere

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One word: Wow! It has been quite a long time since my last post, and time sure passes by quickly! For the average person, it would still be the middle of December, and the next thing you know it the month fast forwards straight to Christmas! Though speaking of Christmas, even though this might be a tad bit late, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ^^ May everyone's year have a great start!

Anyway, with that done and over with, I would like to profusely apologize for the very late post. I am quite aware that I have not been very active on the blogosphere at all, and therefore would hopefully be able to change that for the upcoming new year!  During the beginning of December, I had been extremely occupied with studying for the finals, while during the end of December, I had been more or less occupied with the frustrating activity known as Christmas shopping (though I got better eventually and managed to get everything). The holidays had calmed down a bit, and I figured that while I still have time left before the new school term starts, why not take the time to update the blog?

Unfortunately, this post is not really going to contain much content. It is more of a "letting others know that I am still alive and kicking" post rather than containing chalkfuls of content, as I am sometimes prone to do after coming back from a short break. But since I have not finished receiving or giving out the presents from Christmas (and I so wanted to list them all in one post for the sake of efficiency and completeness), I will save the Christmas posts until next time.

Though just going a bit off-topic, is anyone feeling a sense of "loss" in regards to their I guess you could say fashion identity? Lately, I have not been feeling up to or even in the mood for dressing up nicely, though I guess you can say that no one has the time to dress up when they are too busy worrying about finals. This has been equally compounded by the increasingly cold weather in the area where I live in. (Canada has and always been a cold place most of the time *sigh*) I hope that this will all change with the year 2013, where the old gets swept out and the new gets swept in. I'm pretty sure that I could use a wardrobe revamp anyway and who wouldn't want one? Surprisingly one day, I had managed to pull off this outfit, despite the lack of inspiration and motivation!

Dress/Onepiece: Urban Planet
Cardigan: Guess
Necklace: Claires
Bracelet/Hairpiece: Ardene

Until then, I would like to wish everyone good luck with the upcoming year 2013!