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I always wanted to write about japanese hair colours~

I was using it TWICE.

For the first time I've dyied my hair with Palty's hair colour and it was chocolate brown. It didn't work at all! Well I was shocked, since I had really bright hair (partly blonde...) and I couldn't see any defference.

Ok, I could see it in one-two days. I started to loose about 3 times more hair than I used to...

I always thought that since it's for japanese it'll be stronger (I have difficulties in dying my hair in Poland too). Then I read on some sites that I wasn't the first one with no working japanese hair colours. 

Also there's one more issue - they have bleach even if it's dark brown colour. So be careful while using them.

OK, this year I went to Japan again and I really wanted to dye my hair into cute, pink colour.

This is what I bought~

Actually the left one wasn't mine, but I used a little at the ends of my hair.

Just regular bleach. As I had a big problem with bleaches (they didn't work) and I could sleep with bleach and I still had brown hair, it wasn't so bad for me. I had a chickin-colour hair.

Then - pink hair! This is hair I started with - 

(sorry for my face, it's purikura's fault)

brown, but a little red/pink

So, I should have the first option, right?

And this is after:

Actually this is a little fake photo (it was taken with silent camera) but there was no big difference too.. My hair had a little pinkish reflex in the sun. 

BUT

Since there was actually no effects on my regular hair, near my roots (where I had my natural colour which is DARK BROWN) my hair became blonde...

And it was looking awful ;___;

When I came back the first thing I did was dying my hair to black.

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PURIKURA TIME~~!

Since I have no idea how to transfer my photos I'll use old one and write note about one thing I totally miss ;____; Wish it was in Poland too...
Well, hope that I can go back to Japan SOON~

This is how purikura's machine looks from outside.
Just a big posters of photoshoped girls, who has nothing in common with purikura inside...
Actually there's something I was wondering about when I was in Japan...

Well, don't mind it.
There's actually 2 types of purikura.
New one.
And old one.

New one..
Has foreigner girl outside (lately also japanese girls). They're getting simplier, just like photosession, has no cute stamples and has few backgrounds to choose.
Actually they're trying to be more kakkoi (cool) like foreign countries (America). So they're making you extremely slim, and making your eyes so big. Few purikura I took was too deformed...

And the old one...
Which I love so much! They have A LOT of options, such as making donut around you~ They're cute, and making face much more smoothier than new one. But you can't find it in places like Shibuya or Harajuku. I found one in Sakuragicho near station。

I'm sorry for such a lot of photos, I really love purikura (it's not looking like me, so...). Probably that's the reason why japanese love purikura. You can look perfect and you if you don't you can always put some heart on your face.

OK! Now the inside of purikura! You can pay inside (inserting 4 - 100 yen - coins) but sometimes you can also pay outside. It depends on machine.

This is how purikura's machine looks inside:

You have always a little space to put your luggage on.

Green screen - that's why background can change~

But some new machine uses white background too.

 When you insert coins the fun starts~!

There are few steps and it can't be different in every machine, but generally it looks like:

1. Insert coin

2. Choose effects (whitening skin, brightening, making your eyes bigger, making your body slimmer)

3. Choose backgrounds

4. Take photos (machine is telling you about positions you can make)

5. Go to left/right corner to decorate your photos

6. Decorate photos (you have few seconds/minutes to do it. It depends on people who are waiting. If they don't you can have even 10 minutes - depends on machine)

7. Choose print style (which photo will be bigger, positions of photos)

8. Go to front screen and type your e-mail (It can't be gmail or yahoo, it has to be japanese phone mail - such as docomo, au or disney). Then you can choose photos you want to get in full size and they'll be sended to your e-mail (unfortunately only 2, max. 4)

9.  Wait for your photos to print~!

This is how purikura's sheet looks like

Then, there's next step.

Japan is a country where everything has it's place. Collecting anything or keeping order in notes from school is much more easy than in different countries. It's because of that there's a lot of stuff!

And since there's a lot of everything they're trying to make it better and better, prettier and prettier.

And there's - 

album for stickers.

Sound simple?

My two cute albums ;__; (comparing to A4 size)

Well, purikura is so tiny, that's why taking photos is difficult.

I have no idea why is it like this...>< I changed it in photoshop but blogspot doesn't like me ;;

You can buy extra set of sheets and put it inside.. You can choose: rilakkuma, hello kitty, my melody and random cute stuff~

Pocket for something (I'm keeping there single purikuras I have already inside)

If there's no way to take japanese purikura...

Well, you can always take photos and cut background in photoshop or gimp.

Then go to phone application (the best one is DECOPIC - I've seen some stamps on real purikura too) and you have no limited time to decorate your photo!

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Hello~~ After my full of hate last note I wanted to write something more optimistic~
A lot happened in my life lately and I've lost my free time completely ;;

History...
Since I was a child I couldn't express my feeling in different way than singing. I don't care if I'm doing it good or not, it's my way to express myself. Music is something realy beautiful, but only when it's made by people who can feel it..
So I always wanted to record some songs, especially for nikoniko douga~
And when I finally started to do it my mic has broken..
I made THIS site to put my songs, but I have to wait and buy new mic ;___;
Anyway I'll keep writing this blog~
So my first question is:
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT LIVING IN JAPAN?

I have some topics I wanted to write about.
1. SHOPS (especially SHIBUYA 109), shopping malls, konbini etc.
2. AKIHABARA (where to buy anime-realted stuff, figures etc.)
3. HARAJUKU&YOYOGI PARK (which is unfortunatelly closed now...)

But which one should I write about first?


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If you want you can ask me a question ~HERE~
Also with my friend we will start to record some vlogs about Japan~
So come to my page and I hope that we'll add some movies soon!

See you!

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I'm so sorry, I haven't been writing for long time ;__;

Actually I'm not in Japan, and I wanted to write about the reason.

(At first I know that YOU can read it. And I don't care aymore. I wasn't perfect, but I didn't treat you as a SHIT as you did. Nobody's perfect, but it's really nice to have enough good manners to say goodbye properly.And don't lie.)

I was in Japan because I had a boyfriend there. Well, actually it was so lame.
And I;m not a 'fangirl' type. Not at all. I really loved him and I didn't think about him 'japanese'.
Sadly, he was still calling me 'polish girl' within his friends, even though I told him that I'm mixed so I don't want to be called like that. If I knew about it before.

AT FIRST - no, not all of guys are like that. Unfortunatelly, most of guys I MET...

I hope that girls who want to date with japanese will read it and don't make the same mistake as I did.

1. NEVER DATE WITH DAMEO! (good-for-nothing guy)
I heard that a lot of japanese girl don't even go on DATE with a guy who has no work/own money/own flat. And that they're cruel because of that.
Well, now I completely understand WHY.
The number of dameo (dame - dame simply means NO, or something you can't, otoko - man) in japan is impressing. Especially among guys who are 24-30.
These guys have no money, no flat, no work, and they don't even want to have anything. Well, probably still living with parents OR living with girlfriend. That's why NEVER LET SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN. I knew 3 guys like that. And 2 of them were musicians. Why have no work? MUSICIAN CAN'T HAVE WORK. And there is a question WHY they want to be musician... Probably that's something they think they're good at, but reality is different and they can't understand it. Pretty miserable.
I remember when I started to telling my ex. that he should find any work.. He was 26, and still didn't have anything. But when I was telling him that he was just getting angry and telling me that I SHOULD find a work. (I had no visa to work in Japan, but if I did believe me I would work 24h..). And I was stupid enough to give him all my money, even though I had a little (and I was working for that 2 months 7.30-20.00 everyday).
They're used to that their parents are giving them money, buying and preparing food and what's more paying for phone, internet, games etc. As a bday present it's normal to get about 2000zl...)

And how about that seterotype that WOMAN IS A HOUSEHOLDER and a MAN IS WORKING?
Forget about that. Of course it's still 'living' and there's a lot of guys used to it, but dameo will be different. OK woman should be householder, but she should be working too. And guy? WAIT, WHY DO YOU WANT HIM TO DO SOMETHING? He'll broke his nail if he clean toilet ;__; It'll be terrible, really..

2. MOM, GIVE ME EVERYTHING... NOW.
Type who loves his mother more than everything! This type and dameo goes together in most cases.

Japanese mothers were staying with their children at home. And especially guys weren't allow to go to the kitchen. Kitchen was a place for WOMAN.

Living with parents in Japan is something normal.. Well, it's normal when you have no work etc. but parents can't kick you out and have to give you money and food..

When I was living with my ex. his mother came to house we were living in and she was cleaning dishes, cleaning garden... I know that I wasn't cleaning every single minute, but I was really doing my best.. Anyway I still was 20, I didn't felt like being housewife...
And she was giving us food.. I was really grateful, but still I thought that if it was my parents I wouldn't allow them and I'll go to work and buy food on my own..
I don't know if it's still culture difference or what..

Of course for guy like that girl is just second mother with other options.
Nothing more, sorry. Mom is the best.

3. PLAYBOY.
Especially connect dameo with playboy and you have the worst guy ever.

Never get involved in something with guy who started to talk to you on the street. Probably he's doing it every night or every week...
Anyway in Japan there's still little knowledge about HIV, AIDS and pregnancy... They really don't know about it...

4. OTAKU
If he don't imagine that you're his fav anime character he can't even kiss you.
They really exist...

That's only short ver. of what I wanted to write... I don't want to write personally (I did, I know.. But I don't want to write more...) so you can decide.
If you want use japanese guy just to date with him, better don't do it.
If you want use him and he wants to use you...(that's how most of mixed couples looks like) go ahead. Good luck!

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Hello~
I thought about making a note about living costs in Japan for a pretty long time. I'll also compare it to living costs in Poland (cause I know only about living costs there).

Since I have to buy food here,a lot of daily use products like shampoo, conditioners and also cleaning stuff I started to remember the prices so as not to be forced to eat only rice and wash myself with water only.

☆FOOD☆

First and the most important rule when you come to Japan is that you CAN'T eat western food the whole time unless you're rich and can afford it.
The second is that - NO JAPANESE DON'T EAT SUSHI EVERYDAY. What's more they also has an image that sushi is expensive food and women don't want to prepare it because it's too annoying.
And NO JAPANESE DON'T EAT DOGS AND CATS. They rather buy a cake for their cat. And believe me they're doing it.

1. RICE
You can buy a rice to self-prepare in special mashine which is called 精米機 (seimaiki).

This is machine I have at home and it's a little bit old (BUT WORKING!). It makes rice in about 30 minutes and when it's finished it'll keep the rice warm until you turn it off. So when you want to eat dinner you don't have to prepare rice just before you want to eat, but you can make it in the morning and in the afternoon the rice will be still warm and ready to put it into the bowl.
!! In Japanese culture you have to eat EVERY SINGLE GRAIN of rice. Leaving rice isn't polite and don't do it in the public or in official situations. It's difficult because rice is getting hard and it's allmost impossible to eat it all, but it's better to try.
You can buy this kind of rice in various packages - 2kg, 5kg and even 10kg. 2kg costs about 800-1000yen (from 20-40zl). A rice from earthquake regions is much cheaper. 5kg of rice will cost about 1200-2800 yen(generally about 40-70zl).

Also there is instant rice~ You can buy it in packages like this:

This is one portion (but I can eat only half of it and I'm full). To make this rice you just have to put inside microwave and wait 5-6 min. 

2.FISH&MEAT

If you don't eat meat or fishes you can just skip it.

Firstly - yes it's true that japanese eat raw fish and you can buy it in the supermarket. But a lot of japanese think that it's awful and they don't eat raw fish.

But of course you can buy it. I really love sushi and I'm making it really often, but when I went to the supermarket for the first time I didnt know WHICH fish is raw. 

Generally raw fish has no skin and has a sticker that they're raw.

This is salmon and it's not so expensive. Only 369yen(-30%)[10-12zl without discount] for such a big part of fish;;

this is normal fish, which you CAN'T eat raw.

I have no meat right now in the fridge, but it's not so expensive. Everyday when the market is closing there are really big discounts (sometimes -80%). But of course you have to be carefull, I've bought raw tuna and it had so bloody taste that I couldn't eat it at all... Don't even mention that it was covered in blood. That was so awful and horrible experiance that I'm afraid of buying tuna.

The simpliest dinner ever is tonkatsu - meat costs about 300 yen for 2 portions (9zl). You just need egg and dry bread.

3.FRUITS&VEGETABLES

And now everyone who loves fruits should cry.

1 apple - 90yen (~2,70zl)

1 orange - 90yen (~2,70zl)

1 kiwi - 135yen (~4zl)

1 grapefruit - 135yen (~4zl)

The cheapest fruit is banana -  you can buy 4-5 banana for 90yen~

Vegetables also aren't so cheap (GOD WHY...)

tomato - 4 tomato - 380yen (almost 11zl)

And... strawberries. Luckily I got them today (as a present)

as you can see the price is 400 yen (with tax) 

and they're so beautiful, red and really sweet ;;

ok, in Poland you can buy much much more strawberries for the same price, but believe me that this one are really sweet ;;

Btw. when I commented "wow, they're really delicious" my bf's mother told me "of course, if weren't nobody will buy them".

wow...

In Poland everyone has to buy, because there is no choice... That's why Japan is such a good and comfortable country to live in...

4.WESTERN FOOD

Spaghetti? Pizza?

Of course you can buy it in the nearest supermarket of konbini~

At first- Japanese has not oven at houses, their microwave has a oven program, but believe me, I can't believe that it can stands such a temperature...

in one package it was about 4 pizza - 270yen

4. FASTFOODS&RESTAURANTS

The most famous type of restaurant is family restaurant (famiresu). You can go with your friend and sit there the whole night and drink all the time when you buy drink bar (about 300 yen so it's like 6~8zl). 

My favourite familyrestaurant is saizeria (italian restaurant). Luckily it's about 6min from my home.

Pizza - 399yen (about 12zl) [not really big, as you can see]

McDonald - THE SAME.

The only one difference is that you have to order a SET. For example cheeseburger set - cheeseburger, cola, chips - I don't really remember the price, but about 600 yen? (18zl)

I will continue this one, so if you want to read about something write your opinion in the comment!

Sorry for my english.

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Hisashiburiiiii~

AT FIRST:

• About what do you want me to write? If you have any question or ideas of topic I can write note about leave me a comment~
• What language should I use? English or polish? (Iknow that my english is poor...I don't talk in english at all...)

Since hanami season has already finished (but I couldn't do hanami;;) I'll post some photos of Sakura.

In Japan hanami is really special and during weather forecast there's special part which is "sakura forecast". Acording to that you can plan your hanami. Unfortunately this year it was so rainy that sakura has fallen down pretty fast...

At first - what was really shocking... sakura isn't so pink that I've imagined. Pink sakura is in different part of Japan - but Tokyo's sakura is white. At first it was pink, but at least became perfectly white.

The Yoyogi's park entrance

first sakura (as you can see everyone is taking pictures XD)

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Next day I went to Ueno park~

That was when hanami season has started and there were some special prepared place for people to sit and eat. Of course most people were adults and they weren't only drinking... They had really a lot of food, some of them also little kitchen.. Some were so LOUD.. Playing drinking games or just screaming "DRINK, DRINK". But anyway it was looking really nice. Police everywhere (and it's not polish police - they're really working).

(I'll write another post about ueno park)

And one more time Yoyogi park. Went there alone with book ;__;

way to the station near my house~

just strange grup

I'm waiting for comments with your opinion~~