The Name I Love

Hey, gals! Long time not see. How have you been? Here my life has been a huge up and down and right now so many things are happening so to treat myself and considering that the shipping to the Netherlands is way cheaper, I decided to start buying again some stuff on Mercari and Aliexpress. Did you know that here we have 2 weeks shipping on Aliexpress? I’ve been ordering too many things and I still have many more on the way. Lol

So today I want to share with you all the gyaru things I got untill today. Because I also order a lot of yarns, stickers, tech and random stuff. Haha. But since we’re on mid-season and last month was summer and now it’s cold already, I decided to fill up my closet with more clothes. Or well, Wes closet haha.

So first my Fril order:

Wes and I order a lot of stuff, and I also took the opportunity to order some stuff for a friend of mine. Everything came pretty fast and I’m happy everything first perfectly.

This time I’m obssesed with three bands: Cecil McBee (I got that skort, and also another shorts I don’t have the picture right now and OMG I’ve never had bottoms that fit me so perfectly), Liz Lisa / Liz Lisa Doll / Tralala (as you know Liz Lisa and sister brands will always be my fav) and d.i.a (just to feed my Tsuyome boom lol).

The only thing I didn’t noticed is that the d.i.a pattern dress didn’t have the lace to tie on the neck (maybe that’s why it was so cheap haha). I just noticed that once that arrived, so I decided to get a gold glittery yarn and made the strips myself. Hear me, I’m proud of myself because they look awesome!

Oh! I also got a d.i.a one piece and a skort from Chris. But I haven’t take pictures yet. I really need to make a TikTok trying on everything! I hope I can do that tomorrow while there’s still some sun.

And my AliExpress orders!

Some of them I ordered before coming here to be sure they will be here already when I arrive haha. And some others I ordered last month.

With this order I’m also super happy because almost everything fits. This time I was looking for casual clothes I could wear on some festivals or to film Kpop choreos. hehe The only thing I really needed was the tigh high boots because the ones I had at home broke some months ago. But it’s ok, I had those boots for over 5 years and I also got them on AliExpress.

The only thing that didn’t fit was the first tee because it was a little bit too big, so I gave it to Sacha. Now I just have to wait for my next Mercari other hihi.

So first my Fril order:

Wes and I order a lot of stuff, and I also took the opportunity to order some stuff for a friend of mine. Everything came pretty fast and I’m happy everything first perfectly.

And my AliExpress orders!

Some of them I ordered before coming here to be sure they will be here already when I arrive haha. And some others I ordered last month.

The only thing that didn’t fit was the first tee because it was a little bit too big, so I gave it to Sacha. Now I just have to wait for my next Mercari other hihi.

Hi, gals! Long time not seeing each other over here. I had too many things in mind I wanted to write but (honestly) zero motivation with being active in the comm or to create Gyary content anymore. It’s still like that though and that’s ok. I’ve noticed my mental health has improved considerably since I highly reduced my consumption of Gyaru content and I plan to keep it that way.

Howoever! That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the style. I’ve been pretty active dressing up and going out recently. Specially during my last holidays and that made me increible happy. I definitely prefer to live my Gyaru life in “the real life” rather than in Social Media and that’s an excersize I would recommend to you all.

So going on that path and after getting together with a photographer friend I adore super much, we had a super fun photoshoot 2000s inspired. I’ve been super inspired by the y2k Bratz looks and I’ve been thinking how I can incorporate that on my Gyaru looks, so that’s how we end up on this photoshoot.

💥 Inspiration board 💥

So having that in mind I made a casual look with items I had on my closet lol. I don’t usually go that casual in Gyaru so it was a nice opportunity to create new codes!

Photoshoot by: Nesuki Photo

First thing I chose was that cardigan that I got thinking of making a 2000s code but I had no idea how to style it. Lol. So since white and denim are always a good match, that’s how I went. + Plus leopard print is a win-win so here it is the code.

Fun thing about that day, it was cold as fuck. We got together around midday I think, and even if it was still summer, since we were close to the beach, all the fog came to where we were and the whole district looked like winter. So we decided to go walking to the next one to escape from the fog. Thanks god we did that! The weather there was much better. Act natural, like nobody is looking at you.

💥 Inspiration board 💥

So having that in mind I made a casual look with items I had on my closet lol. I don’t usually go that casual in Gyaru so it was a nice opportunity to create new codes!

Photoshoot by: Nesuki Photo

Hi, Gals! (*^^*)♡ How was your week? Here I’ve been working super much. From Monday to Friday I’m working hard so we’re trying to chill out and plan fun things to do together during the weekends. So the last one (actually a couple of weekends ago because I didn’t have time to blog or post anything on SNS recently) we went to the mall and I was so excited! Christmas decorations has just started and I love to see all that.

Hi, gals! To change a little bit the topic here, I just want to share my new gets! These last days I was in need of some skin and hair care productos I coudn’t bring here because I didn’t have much left so I thought it would be better to just buy them here. And that’s what I did!

Lately I’ve been really disciplined about my skincare routine and I’ve been looking to add some products for the black heads (or well sebaceous filaments) I have on my nose, so after a lot of research I found the BHA from Cosrx is really good for that. I also got a few other stuff like my regular moisturizer, a new cleanser for our mornings (cause I’m teaching Wes soup is not good for the face) and some liners we needed, specially now that I’m teaching him to improve his eyebrows. You know I’m an eyebrow junkie.

Hey, gals! As you may not, or maybe not (lol), last week I travelled to the Netherlands to stay with Wes for some months so I arrived just in time for Velvet’s Halloween Party! Yay! It was so fun and amazing to finally meet such a cool gals from the Netherlands and Germany. I hope I can keep meeting more during this stay.

Hi, gals! Reila here trying to catch up on my blog to see if I get my motivation back to create content. I feel like a have a huge pile of pendings I still need to do and I’m getting crazy. Lately I really didn’t want to write or edit anything (I haven’t even dressed up!) and that makes me really sad. But at least I’ve been going to the gym frequently and after training I’ve been practicing Para Para. I don’t feel Gyaru enough these last days, so I’m pushing myself to write a casual blog post at least. Please, bare today with me! ♡

Hey, gals! I still need to catch up on other blog posts I want to do and haven’t any motivation to do it, but parenthesis to share this amazing photoshoot Wes and I had with a friend of mine, Nesu.

Hi, gals! Long time not here. Since the last Gyaru meme I’ve been super busy because I was planning my holidays and even if I thought I was going to be super free to post all i want, I’ve been so full of fun things to do that I was more focused on real life rather than social media.

Kogal date after school! 🎓

Last week I wanted to travel abroad to visit my babe, but sadly I still can’t because I don’t have my second vaccine yet, so at last minute he made the desicion to come and being here with me. Σ(Ｔ□Ｔ)♡ How wonderful!

That’s why this last week we’ve been doing A LOT of stuff together traveling through the coast, but this weekend we had a chiller day for a kogal photoshoot and a date! I won’t release the photoshoot yet, but here there are some of the casual photos we took during the date and night!

What a babe! (╯▽╰)

Kogal date after school! 🎓

What a babe! (╯▽╰)

Hi, Gals! I’m happy to say we’re starting this fun Gyaru 109 Month with a blogging challenge. Lately I’ve seen so many gals starting their oldschool blog that I really wanted to include some activities for bloggers too. Something chill and fun we can do at our own time if we’re looking for inspiration and motivation to write. So today I’m starting with the:

Name / Gyaru nickname and country:

I’m Reila and I’m from Peru. 💗

Since when are you gyaru?

I consider myself Gyaru since June 1st, 2013. That was the first Harajuku Fashion Walk we had here and the first time I put together a complete Gyaru look. Or that’s how I felt, now I would do it different of course haha.

How did you discover the style?

I’ve told this story before, but it was 13 years ago when a friend of mine recommened me an GAV movie and one of the actors was gyaruo. I was shocked because it was the first time I saw a J-Fashion style where having a tan skin was seen as cool. After that I searched more about him and discovered he stopped acting and became a MEN’s EGG model. So thanks to that I eventually landed on the EGG and decided to learn about Gyaru. ♡(●´∀`●)

Hiroki Okada, Men’s EGG West (2010)

Hi, gals! It’s been quite some time of sharing a casual gal’slife blog post. Lately I’ve been working on more educational content and the Gyaru 109 Month coming, but finally a couple of days ago we had a national holiday so I went out with a friend to celebrate Shawol’s 13 th Anniversary! Which also means 13 years of friendship for us. ♡ Shawol is the name of SHINee‘s fandom. ♡

Hi, gals! ♡ The last months have been pretty overwhelming in social media, the gal community (j-fashion comm in general let me say), me organizing the Gyaru 109 Month and personal / work life don’t help at all, so I decided to have a moment of reflexion to rest my mind and take a break before keep going on. That’s why today I want to share with you:

I’ve been Gyaru since 8 years ago, however I discovered the style 13 years ago and since then I decided that’s what I wanted for me. However at that moment I wasn’t in the ideal moment of my life to start in the style, so the firsts years I did my best researching, practicing my makeup and learning more about j-fashion communities, so I could start 100% once I could afford it and I was independent enough to freely take my own decisions. And looking back, waiting for the right moment to actually be gal was a great decision I made.

Since then I’ve been learning and growing a lot. Specially having now Gyaru as my lifestyle. That’s why I want to share with you a few things I’ve learned during this journey so maybe you can have a smoother one.

1. Your mental health should always go first.

I know this is SUPER obvious, yet one of the most difficult things to achieve and I still work on that every day of my life. Hi, gals! Este mes he estado super full en el trabajo y me he estado haciendo varios chequeos porque mi salud no está al cien. Así que hoy decidí hacer un post más relajado para compartir algo bonis y tranquilo. Uno de los circle lenses que más me han gustado (pero que no sé si pueda volver a comprar). (ಥ﹏ಥ)
Debido a la pandemia casi todas las tiendas de circle lenses dejaron de hacer envíos a Perú y poco más de la mitad el primer año nuestro servicio postal no estuvo disponible, así que decidí probar por primera vez circle lenses japoneses porque esos me los mandaba mi shopping service a través de FedEx. Esta marca no tiene envíos internacionales, así que hice mis pedidos de Japón como generalmente lo hago con el shopping service y aproveché para incluir estos circle lenses de Candy Magic, una marca bastante popular y confiable. Hi, gals! ♡ Last weekend was the Harajuku Fashion Walk México, an online event Harajuku Gang México has been organizing since the pandemix started because we J-Fashion communities can’t have fashion walks since the pandemic started. It’s actually the first time I joinin an event from this country so I was really excited to meet new people and learn about the community in México.

As Gyaru we’re not really part of the Harajuku Fashion, becasuse meanwhile styles like Decora, Lolita o Visual Kei are concentrated on Takeshita Street (Harajuku/1-Chome), Gals are around Shibuya 109 (2-Chome). So we’re not from the same family, but neighbors. 😂

The special guest of the event was Cybr.grl

Since the event was scheduled at 7 pm, that day I woke up not so early to finish my blog posts about the Gyaru Life. (I recommend you to read in case you didn’t!) and around 5 pm I videocall with Kiwii and Thabasa to get ready together. This is one of the things I love the most about the Latinoamerican gal comm. More than a community, we’re a group of close friends who always find the way to spend time and have fun together. Chaossu! Part 2 of this blog post about the Gyaru life. In the first part I talked about my personal experience and how I live my Gyaru life, however this can be pretty much different from gal to gal, there are a lot of things that can be part of our lives as gals, so in this second part I’ll talk about many other things that are more common to see in Japanese gals and/or I haven’t done myself (yet?).

Read the previous post: Living a Gyaru Life pt. 1 ♡ How I live my Gyaru life?

There are a looot of words, some of them are really old like “agepoyo!” which is a expression of being super excited or “pagal” which is an incomplete not so good looking gal, could be considered the Gyaru equivalent of the “ita” for the Lolita comm (so not a nice word). And there are more modern slang like “gyau” which is a more modern a westernized way of gal (refered to current EGG models), “pien” which could be translated as “sob sob” and you use it when you’re tearing about something happy or sad.

Kyun desu!

Hi, gals! The other day I watched some really cool videos on Tiktok from Kandi Zacc and Chris I REALLY recommend you to watch so I decided to make another response video to share my lifestyle as Gyaru. I think it’s really cool how diverse Gyaru can be and how even if you can do a lot of different things, everything is Gyaru focused so in this post I’m going to talk about how’s my Gyaru life and what other things you can do to also live a Gyaru life.

I put this as number zero because is the basic of the basics. Fashion and beauty (makeup, hair and nails) are the absolute musts in the style and how most of us start our Gyaru journey. However there’s way more than that.

Eurobeat, Techno and Trance a huge among gals and many of them collect those CDs and DVDs. In my case I really like to listen to that music but also dancing ParaPara. I try to dance everyweek to make refilms (cover of ParaPara routines) and every time I can I join ParaPara projects in the Gyaru community or in the International ParaPara community. I also lead the 🌻ParaPara club🌻 in the 109 Discord. Sometimes we have meetings to dance together. I wish we could do it more often. ;;

ギャル♡ParaPara was a project I made at the beginning of this year.

Blogging was a huge thing around 2008~2013. Most gals in Japan used to share their lives, makeup, codes, gets, and for brands that was the main way to share news with their audiences. Ameblo and Blogcrooz were the social media of the 2010s.

Blogging from their phones was really popular and that’s where the use of super cute emojis for blogging comes from. So that’s something I do because I really enjoy writing and sharing my Gyaru journey, as well as some educative information for baby gals.

Welcome to my face blogging after work!

I’m usually super tired at night but blogging keeps me awake because I enjoy it a lot. ;;

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