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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!