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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!