London & Vkei Night !!

Hiiii!! I went on a spontaneous trip to London to meet some friends and attend Vkei Night (I had just gotten my payoff from the job I had for the past winter so I had money to spend on something like that😭) and I wore some really cool outfits which I'll be showing off now!! But before that I will be giving some song recommendations to go with today's theme... The Vkei Night was gothic themed so today's songs will be gothic visual kei!! This is an insane opportunity to mention my favorite band D'espairsRay since they're literally a gothic visual kei band... Their music also counts as nu metal and industrial and and and-

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★ Gothic - D'espairsRay (There are lots of other perfect examples of gothic visual kei by D'espairsRay but I literally had no other choice but to choose this song...)

★ Lucifer - Madeth Gray'll (To be honest Madeth Gray'll sucks but IDK sometimes awful kote kei bands are so bad that they're good. However Lucifer is one of my fave songs ever so it doesn't suck THAT much...)

★ Le Revenant - Blood

★ 月世界 (Tsuki Sekai) - BUCK-TICK (This is the opening song for one of my favorite anime, 'Nightwalker'... It has vampires in case you're interested...)

★ 我、在ルベキ場所 (waga arubeki basho) - MUCC

★ 極東の恋人 (kyokutou no koibito) - LAREINE (Kind of unrelated but LAREINE era Kamijo (their singer) is like the ultimate gender... I wish to look like that but I don't know if I'll ever have enough patience to grow my hair that long.)

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Friday 16.06.2023

After having spent the previous night at the airport because of poor train connections I didn't look nor feel very fresh once I got to London but it got a bit better after I got some food and coffee in my system... I spent most of the day with a friend, in the morning we met at Camden Town where I had already wanted to visit last year on my London trip but hadn't had time. We got lunch, walked around the market and visited shops, and got coffee (my friend got tea like a real Bri'ish person). There were so many cool stores with insanely cool stuff that I wanted to buy but I only ended up getting another skull for my collection.

In the afternoon after I had checked in at my hotel and freshened up and changed my outfit we went out again and took some cool pictures. I took my digital camera with me this time and the vibes of that camera are sooo dreamy and out of this world, it's just unfortunate that the camera eats batteries and you have to change them really often :(.

I made this skirt myself and this far it is my coolest creation. I'm really happy with how it turned out cause it was way more complicated than anything I've made before!

Saturday 17.06.2023

I spent most of the day at my hotel drinking vodka mixed with various other drinks while reading Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire, only going out to eat late lunch/early dinner again in Camden Town. When it started getting late I got ready to meet up with friends and go to Vkei Night! I was really nervous cause I had never met these friends in real life but once again I was nervous for no reason, they were so cool and I had a lot of fun.

Anyway as a certified Uruha of The GazettE lover and specifically blue haired baby Uruha from pre-Gazetto times, I based my Vkei Night look on his iconic Ma'die Küsse look. Considering that it was going to be really hot I didn't exactly copy his outfit and made myself a sleeveless dress rather than a dress with sleeves. Because of the heat I also didn't put on a lace shirt beneath the dress, despite owning like 4 or 5 black lace shirts, and instead wore lace gloves for like the train ride to the bar cause then I forgot them on the bottom of my bag after going to the bathroom lmao.

I met some other cool people besides my friends there and got told that I didn't actually even need to go fashion school after I said that I'd made my dress myself and that made me really happy :). I am totally going to fashion school anyway, though. [My pictures of the look are extremely limited but I will take better pics of the dress at some point!!]

Sunday 18.06.2023

I met up with the same friend as on Friday, this time she was so nice as to go see some tourist attractions with me despite having lived in London all her life lmao. We also took really cute pictures again!

Once we parted ways and I got to the right part of town I picked up some takeout from a Thai buffet near my hotel and that was one of the best meals I've ever had... It was so cheap and so so tasty and there were so many different foods... Unfortunately I have no idea what most of the foods I ate were and thus the only way I can experience them again is either to find my way back there or by accident.

On Sunday night I also met up with the other friend from the previous night to hang out for a bit before we both would go back to our countries again... :( At the same time I love having friends all over the globe but I also hate it cause it's so difficult to meet up with them...

What I'm wearing:

★ corset [tripp nyc]

★ skirt [thrifted]

★ boots [off brand] (these have been my fave shoes for about 4 years but the other shoe's sole is broken so I really need to get some new boots... :()

★ all accessories [thrifted or ebay]

★ bags [mostly my friend's, my tote bag is originally palaye royale merch but I covered their logo with The GazettE's debut album 'Disorder's cover art... as in I painted it myself]

Monday 19.06.2023

As last year I didn't have time to go meet my friend's cats I went over for lunch on Monday. I also met my friend's mom which was kinda awkward as expected cause I'm not very good with people's parents, but it could've been worse! Anyway my friend made us some really good lunch, and after eating that she walked me to the train station where I took the train to Heathrow Airport and eventually started my long journey back home... 

In conclusion I really love London and my friends and cool clothes and good food.

xoxo V

A Night Out In Helsinki + Rammstein Concert Outfits !!

Happy my birthday to all of you!!! Isn't it a great day... Anyway considering that today's post is about my trip to Helsinki to see Rammstein, today's music recs are my fave Rammstein songs...

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★ Ich Will

★ Mein Teil (loved this song even before I seriously started listening to Rammstein)

★ Herzeleid

★ Ich Tu Dir Weh

★ Bück Dich

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So basically... I tested how good my lovely car is as in if it'll survive a trip to Helsinki (I was mostly worried about whether I can drive a high enough speed on the highways...) and the answer is that it is literally the best car ever and it survived. It would've been cheaper to take the train alas I went by a car cause I had so much stuff to take with me. I listened to Rammstein all the way there and back (I only had two CDs... Herzeleid and Sehnsucht that my dad burned like in the late 90s if I'm right), first on the way there to prepare for the concert and then on the way back cause I got so obsessed after seeing them live... Literally listening to them right now, too.

26.5.2023

I went down to Helsinki already on Friday cause there was a rave/electronic music festival I wanted to attend... At first it was really lame cause there were so few people and I went there alone but a bit after me this really cool girl arrived there and we ended up spending the night together... The music itself was alright, I enjoy electronic music even though you might not guess it looking at me, and after a few drinks I even ended up on the dance floor (mostly cause the cool girl wanted to dance lmao).

Anyway the point is my outfit. This is literally the slayest and coolest outfit I have ever worn and it is hard to top... I made the skirt, the top and the wrist cuffs that you can't really see in any pics myself, I already owned both a silver skirt and a top but I made them into something that I actually like!! I used the same pattern for the skirt as for the vinyl leather skirt I made for Turmion Kätilöt (see here) and the top I basically made free hand like I didn't make a pattern I just measured myself and cut and sewed the pieces based on vibes...

Also for this look I thought that a gyaru makeup would slay the most so that's the look I ended up doing... I also put on my pink contact lenses and painted my nails silver and I looked sooooo cute.

What I'm wearing:

★ coat [S.D.L. clothing] (literally the coolest coat ever UGH)

★ skirt [Ang3l Bl00d clothing]

★ top [Ang3l Bl00d clothing]

★ boots [demonia] (someone asked me on the street if I was a metalhead or a Eurovision freak cause the coat said metalhead but the shoes said Eurovision... also my feet hurt SO MUCH after wearing these boots all night... worth it though)

★ backpack (thrifted, originally from h&m)

27.5.2023

The actual concert day... I got back to my hotel a bit before 7 am this morning so I slept in till about 2 pm... I meant to go shopping since there are so many stores in Helsinki that I don't have anywhere near me and I actually drove into the heart of Helsinki but I got so stressed just as I was about to drive into a parking hall that I ended up driving back to my hotel without doing any shopping... Good for my bank account.

Back at my hotel I quickly ate a little something and then I got ready for the concert. I decided on Thursday that my original plan wasn't sufficient and then I made myself these vinyl leather shorts (inspired by Coal Chamber's bassist, see the pic below for reference) to wear to the gig. For the whole look the inspiration was just pictures of Rammstein... I felt drawn to the guy on a leash that had one white contact lense who I have now learned is called Richard Z. Kruspe (can't believe I'm obsessing over someone called Richard...) and since I still have a white contact lense from last Halloween I put it on. I also wore white face paint cause I love any possibility to wear it.

Since the shirt I meant to wear with the shorts was impossible to tuck into the shorts cause they were so skin tight and tiny I ended up ripping both the hem (and also the sleeves even though you couldn't see it since I wore the coat all the time...) so the shorts would be visible. And as a certified Uruha of The GazettE lover I obviously also wore garters...

The concert was like the most impressive I've ever been to and one of my faves too... Ugh I love live music... The best songs at this concert in my opinion were Du Hast, Du Riechst So Gut and Sehnsucht cause the pyros the had were so so insane... However they also played Mein Teil and Ich Will... Regarding Ich Will I have some really sad news and it is that last week as I started to prepare for the concert aka pulled up Rammstein on Spotify I found that they had an official playlist of their setlist for this tour and obviously I listened to that and so at the concert I knew what they were playing and when... Thinking I was smart I left the crowd before the last song, Rammstein, so there wouldn't be such a rush when I had to get out... But I forgot... That they still had TWO songs left on the setlist... The second to last being Ich Will... and I had had such a good place at the K18 area's barricade... I will regret that move forever and now I will never ever leave before it's clear that the band has actually ended their set...

Anyway [through tears] I also spent 100€ on their merch... I got a huge tour poster, a t-shirt I had been eyeing online already last year, and a pink and black t-shirt that says 'Pussy' on the front and 'Just A Little Bitch' on the back... That song is so iconic and I can't resist funny things like so obviously I had to get the shirt. Unfortunately they didn't sell any CDs :(.

What I'm wearing:

★ coat [S.D.L. clothing] (literally the coolest coat ever UGH)

★ shorts [Ang3l Bl00d clothing]

★ shirt [new yorker, styled by me]

★ boots [demonia] (I was in so much pain after getting back to the hotel cause of two nights of wearing insanely high heels that you can't believe it...)

★ necktie (thrifted)

★ choker (ebay)

xoxo V

Turmion Kätilöt Concert Looks (Part 2)

Hiiiii :3 Starting off this entry here are some Turmion Kätilöt song recommendations to listen to while you enjoy this post!! 

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★ Liitto
★ Rangaistus
★ Revi Minut Auki
★ Lataa ja varmista
★ Minä Määrään

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Also here's a link to the first part in this what has become a series: Turmion Kätilöt Concert Looks (Part 1) !!!

Anyway so I have three outfits to show off for this post which means three Turmion Kätilöt shows... It's technically true except one of the shows was cancelled about 10 minutes before the band was supposed to start playing cause they didn't get to use smoke machines even though it had been approved beforehand. It was really annoying but thankfully I had another one of their shows coming up the next day so it wasn't as awful for me as it was for many others. [UPDATE: they're holding a make-up gig in September!!]

17.3.2023 Turmion Kätilöt

I don't actually have any pictures from this day, these pics are from when I tried on the outfit about a week before the gig. I ended up wearing fishnet gloves on both hands rather than one fishnet and one lace cause the lace gloves are actually kind of inconvenient. I also wore a plain silver cross necklace instead of the red cross because when I tried on the outfit I had red nails but I painted them black before the show and the silver cross fit the look better then.

Anyway I went to this gig with two of my friends who had also been to the Turmion Kätilöt gig last year back when we didn't know each other yet and it was really fun! This was one of my favourite gigs I've ever been to even though I ended up being sick for almost 2 weeks afterwards cause my immune system sucks and I was definitely not dressed for the weather... Also I saw my coworker at this gig but I had had so much to drink and I was sitting down so I wasn't able to react quickly enough to go talk to her :(.

What I'm wearing:

★ top [tripp nyc]

★ skirt [thrifted]

★ boots [lolita wardrobe]

★ literally all accessories [ebay]

★ except that silver cross necklace that you can see in look 3 [punxnkisses]

21.4.2023 Turmion Kätilöt

This is the gig that was cancelled! I went there with my dad and his girlfriend (aka my stepmom lite) and we ended up having fun despite the cancellation.

Oh also the thicker wrist cuff you can see in the picture above... I used to have two of them but last year I lent them to my dad for the second Turmion Kätilöt concert we went to and he wanted to use them this time too but since I wanted to use them, too, he offered to buy the other one from me... And then the next day he tried to sell it back to me but since I got such a good price for it I nowadays only have one of the cuffs lmao. 

What I'm wearing:

★ top [new yorker]

★ pants [tripp nyc]

★ boots (that you can't see in the picture...) [aliexpress]

★ choker & wrist cuffs [thrifted & ebay]

22.4.2023 Turmion Kätilöt

For this gig I made my outfit myself!! I managed to make both pieces (the top and the skirt) from one pair of pants I never used which is pretty impressive if I say so myself. At first I just made the skirt to match this corset top I bought from a thrift store in London last year (picture 1 (picture not taken in London but at Hyvinkää before Rockfest)) but then I saw this picture of Fallon Bowman of Kittie (picture 2) and decided to try if I could make myself a similar top (I did pretty well, I think).

Also I asked two of my friends from work to go with me (and the other friend from the first gig of the year) to this gig but neither of them were able to make it :(. We made plans to meet up this week with the other friend from work to make up for the gig, though, so that's cool! But to be honest I'm kinda really nervous cause well obviously since we met at work we haven't hung out Outside of work (besides going to the store together one time) and it's always different... But honestly everything makes me anxious, so. 

Anyway,

What I'm wearing:

★ top [Ang3l Bl00d (me)]

★ skirt [Ang3l Bl00d (me)]

★ boots (that you again can't see in the pictures...) [demonia]

★ tights [cybershop]

★ choker & wrist cuffs [thrifted & ebay]

★ necklace [punxnkisses]

Anyway, I also bought a Global Warning CD and a pink & black Turmion Kätilöt shirt from the first gig but I don't have a picture of them! Global Warning is my favourite album after their debut album Hoitovirhe but I already owned that as a CD cause I had stolen it from my dad lmao.

xoxo, V