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I haven't been writing for such a long time~~!
Thank you so much for your comments and I'm so sorry for not writing at all (;___;)

Well a lot happened in my life. I've been to Japan one more time since april to july. This time I went there completely unprepared, without plan and with amount of money which a lot of people is taking for 2 weeks.
Actually that was the best experience of my life. But I recommend it to people who can actually sleep at the street and have no problem with that (I didn't have to sleep on the street, but if I had no choice I will).
I booked my ticket one week before flight. I didn't have place to sleep, almost no friends sinve I had only my ex. in Japan before. I haven't told my father that I'm going too. 2nd time. Well, my parents should be used to it already... I called him when I was in Japan. Great experience, never do it to your parents, unless you're in Japan and they have 3 months more to calm down.
So.. I grab few of my things (and came back with one more suitcase) and went to Japan. How people call it? YOLO? Well, some people choose bangee. Some are doing big mess with their lifes.

At first I've been staying at my friend's place.. And this is when it starts, that was survival. Ok, I know, I don't like when it's so clean also, but try to image room (AND TOILET, AND BATHROOM) after 3 years of living (just living - no cleaning up).

One of the situations I had:
Shiori: Where's a  toilet brush?
Friend: When I was cleaning up the toilet it didn't became fully clean so I threw it away.

Well.
That toilet was BLACK. It wouldn't become white unless you buy new one.

Ok, another one.
I took chocolate with me and it was gift from my friend so I couldn't eat it and was waiting for the special day.
Special day↓
So, one day I'm opening a fridge, and there's my chocolate. Broke in half. Opened. And one part had bite marks...
I couldn't resist and I asked about it when my friend came home.
There was no bigger reaction like "Oh, that's your chocolate"..
Next day I burned my finger so I opened a freezer and..
There was my chocolate.

(ma.. majidesuka - eng. Re...Really?)

And this is how my first three-months-in-Japan has started~

(Harajuku, Omotesando)

See you!

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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!