The Skullery of Nightmares (Ebay Store) PINK Care Bears Charm Bracelet REVIEW

I ordered from The Skullery of Nightmares Ebay Store!

I ordered the Pink Care Bears Charm Bracelet for £5.99 + £3.50 postage from Ebay store The Skullery of Nightmares.

Photo from Ebay

<3 It is absolutely adorable and I'm very pleased with it! <3

The construction is very good, and the chain is decorated abundantly and beautifully with pearls, charms, hearts, stars and the two Pink Care Bears.

The details are fantastic, like the heart shaped clasp, and the cute beads. 

The clasp was a bit tricky to figure out at first, but I soon learned the manoeuvre - with the effect that the clasp is very good - it doesn't open up unless you want it to! 

I only have one comment, and that is that I wish that the charms where fastened to the chain all the way up to the clasp (no bare chain), since the bracelet is so heavy, gravity takes its toll and the bracelet often hangs upside down - with the effect that the only real visible part of the bracelet is the cute heart clasp.

But apart from that, this is my favourite bracelet for the moment! I really love the details. Laura K is obviously a very skilled artisan! I'm looking forward to ordering more from her in the future :).

Would have gotten 5/5 if the bracelet was constructed with charms all the way to the clasp! :)

Review:

Did the items match the pictures on Ebay? 5/5 Absolutely! Very good and accurate photos.

Where the items of good quality? 5/5 Very good quality, durable, good clasp that does not open.

How was the sellers communication? 5/5 Very good.

Cost versus quality? 5/5 Very good value for your money!

I highly recommend this seller! :D

Me loooove!!! :D

REVIEW of Pink Ribbon Boutique on Ebay/ Etsy; Broken chains and ugly crudeness

I really WANT to like this store, I mean I love the business card slogan:

"Jewellery for girls born with glitter in their veins" 

and the rainbow and the unicorn...

And I love that I managed to find a JEM and a Rainbow Brite necklace...

But sadly, Pink Ribbon Boutique has a very low quality standard.

The Jem necklace is crude in its finish. The middle part doesn't really fit the frame and the chain is awful - cheap and ugly. When I'm wearing the necklace, it somehow always twists so the back is facing forward - highly irritating! The fastenings are really ungracefully done, bits of metal sticking out. :( 

The Rainbow Brite necklace is BROKEN when I receive it! The chain is off, and one of the links is still in the plastic bag it came with. Here again, I notice crudeness, because the Rainbow Brite picture is too small for the frame and it is just glued in "the middle" (slightly off center!) in the frame.

I was really sad, because even the Cherry earrings was of low quality.

Where I've marked with an arrow there is a chunk of black plastic fused to the cherry that doesn't come off and is really ugly. The metal in the earrings look cheap (irregular colour) and doesn't have the same high quality shine as NiNEFRUiTSPiE's earrings.

I'm very disappointed with the store items quality.

I am not going to buy from this store again and I do not recommend you to buy from this store either, if you care about quality.

I am going to have to mend the Rainbow Brite necklace and change the chain on the Jem necklace.

I feel that I want to give the store only 1/5, but since the items arrived alright and the packaging was good; I have to give them 2/5.

I paid £12 for all three items and £4-5 for postage. Unfortunately it was a waste of money.

Review:

Did the items match the pictures on Ebay? 2/5 No. The low quality was not perceived through Ebays pictures.

Where the items of good quality? 1/5 Very poor quality, broken chains and careless made.

How was the sellers communication? 3/5 Nothing bad or good.

Cost versus quality? 1/5 Terrible!

I do not recommend this seller. :(

Innocent World Antique Book Bag look-a-likes - A collection of Book Bags

My dream bag...

Since I saw Innocent Worlds beautiful chocolate Antique Book bag I really felt like I must have it...

Since it was released in 2010 it has been re-released in different patterns, i.e. Rose Lace:

Rose Lace Book Bag

On my quest to find it on the internet I discovered that several brands or NO-brands have made their own version of it! Some are pretty much "copies" and some are just PU messenger bags where they have printed a book front on top of the flap.

I've roamed the internet - so here's a collection of Book Bags for you!

Alice in Wonderland Chronicle Book Bag from Jill Punk X Loli on Ebay (35 USD)

Cinderella Coach bag from Jill Punk X Loli on Ebay (35 USD)

Infanta Alice Book Bag from Clobba Online (32 USD)

Great Love Poems: Handmade and unique from Etsy (335 SEK/51 USD)

Great Composers Handmade and unique from Etsy (51 USD)

Alice messenger bag from Ebay (42 USD)

Messenger bag  Ebay (40 USD)

Steampunk stories from Rebelsmarket (374 SEK/57 USD)

Vampire Chronicles from Rebelsmarket (374 SEK/ 57 USD)

Alice in wonderland from Rebelsmarket (374 SEK/ 57 USD)

Small messenger bag from Ebay (70 USD)

Dark Poetry from Restyle (47 USD)

Magic Spells from Restyle (47 USD)

Book of Shadows from Restyle (47 USD)

Antique Book Style mini handbag from Strapya (23.60 USD)

Messenger bag Diary from Aliexpress (23 USD)

La Grimoire de Lolita - from Loli-Loli paradise (from 2012, probably not available anymore)

And finally... Here's a link to a great tutorial how to make your own Book Bag!

Please comment to me if you find more Book Bags! :D I'll add them to the collection!

Bargain Ebay Hunting: Sweet Heart Bloomers REVIEW!

So my bloomers have finally arrived from Ebay!

Link to seller

I bought them from Ebay for 157 SEK /24 USD /15.5£ including postage.

They are available in a range of sizes - XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL and they can even tailor make them for you, and it doesn't cost anything extra!

I am 176 cm tall and I weigh 70 kg, so I got the XL size for comfort (you don't want your bloomers to sit too tight!)

I fell for these bloomers because they where affordable and have such a cute heart pocket <3

They arrived in a soft package from DHL, which was kind of an inconvenience for me, because if they had sent it with the ordinary post, the postman would have delivered the package to my door.

Now I had to walk an extra 6 km the wrong direction to another part of town to fetch the packet. But maybe that says something about how sparse the DHL delivery centers are in my city, not the choice of delivery method (which was excellent, quick and traceable).

Packed out! What I immediately noticed was the lace - it is of good quality, nice and soft - but the hue is slightly off white/ ivory - so it doesn't quite match the very white cotton in the pants.
On the Ebay picture of the product this does not show!

I like ivory tones, so I was actually happily surprised, but for all you Lolita's out there who wants the white-white, you should probably not order this product!

Here's a detail of the lace and ribbon. I liked the hue of the pink ribbon, but the quality of the ribbon was pretty ordinaire.

And the heart pocket is so adorable!

But then I noticed something really wierd...

There was a tag in the back that simply and carelessly has been ripped off?!
Is this some kind of stolen goods? Are they maybe really brand bloomers?
The questions are many... but the fact remains that there is a really itchy, awful and ugly ripped off label in the back... *sigh* I have to remove the pieces myself...

And these are the bloomers on! The cotton is still a bit stiff on this photo, but after I washed it, it was much better!

To summarise my review:
3/5
Cutesy affordable bloomers with some small issues...

Ebay seller: 5/5 - Quick delivery, great response.
Did the product match the selling photo? 3/5 - No, it didn't. The lace was a different hue and the ripped off tag in the back is really awkward.
Quality: 3/5 - Nothing extraordinary, the sewing seems good.
Comfort: 3/5 - After wearing them for a day I concluded the following: The lace is soft, but after a while it is a bit itchy, and the elastic waist band is a bit stiff. Even though I got a bigger size than was recommended, the waistband cuts in a little bit - not much, but still a little. But the cotton is very nice! Even when you are not in Lolita, they are great to wear under skirts when you are riding a bicycle.
Price compared to quality: 4/5 - the fact that they can tailor-make them for you, is a great deal.

Feels alright after a day! :D

1 year update: 

The bloomers have all but fallen apart :) These are really Lolita-newbie bloomers XD 

And I have so moved forward from these. 

I've bought a pair from metamorphose that I really enjoy, but my secret dream is to purchase a pair from Atelier Dormir! Laelette makes the most wonderful creations and I'm really hoping she will expand her brand to encompass dresses soon as well :D

I've bought my first Lolita dress!

This is a BIG thing.

I practically really can't afford it... but who can wait for like forever to get your own first dress? (So there is a hole in my economy - but I'll try to sell some of my old stuff on Ebay to get more money! ;)

First and foremost, it has been so difficult to choose which Lolita style I want to belong to.
For me there are 3 big different Lolita "girly" styles: Goth, Sweet and Classic.
(Boy style and Aristocrat are not "girly")

I'm really not into black at the moment, so Goth was out of the question (even though there are some neat purple and red prints out there!)

Sweet is so wonderful! I love the Fairy Kei Lolita with lots of pastels...

But... when my browser eyes fell upon this beautiful Classic Lolita dress in Velvet Cream...

It was to die for - I just knew it when I saw it. 

That will be my first dress! :)

Infanta Pumpkin Carriadge Cinderella JSK 89.99 USD

Infanta is a Chinese Lolita Brand that comes in a variety of sizes and the brand shop is on Taobao (Chinese Ebay) (Link to Infantas shop on Taobao).

MissyTetra has several excellent posts and reviews on Infantas dresses - you can read them here. 

I am 176 cm long and I weigh 70 kg, and Infanta's size XL will fit me if I lose 1 or 2 kg's of water weight (no more sweets until I get that dress! ;) LOL) (I'm really an XXL according to their size guide, but they only sold this dress up to XL!)

Being that tall, I'm worried that the dress will be too short. When the dress arrives I'll see if I need a lengthening underskirt to go with it.

I chose to buy the dress from Light in the box, since taobao is so complicated. Tabao is cheaper (you can buy the same dress as I bought for only 498 yuan (81 USD), but you have to have a Chinese cell phone number to confirm the order. If you wish to buy from Taobao, you can use a shopping service - Hello Lace has a taobao guide if you wish to venture that.

I bought the dress from Light in the box, anyway. I have never ordered from them before, so I hope everything will go well!

I ordered a lace blouse and some stockings too.

Aristocrat Lolita Cotton Blouse 49.99 USD

It was important to me that the blouse and stockings are made of cotton, because I relly hate the feeling of cheap polyester against my skin!

Stockings cotton 30% off 7.99 USD

I actually started of looking at Ebay and Bodyline for my first Lolita dress. 

Bodyline is very cheap, but most of the clothes come in very small sizes - I have 2L or 4L even according to them, and very few items catered my size, so I was worried that maybe the items also would be to short. Bodyline seems mostly cater to Sweet, Gothic and Kuro Lolitas.

All Bodyline's blouses are made out of polyester by the way! That's a terrible material to have close to your skin. I'd never buy that material for a blouse. Cotton, linen, bamboo, silk - natural materials are the way to go!

On the other hand, Bodyline had a great line of very affordable shoes! It looked like it was the same items that were available at Light in the Box, but with 40 USD lower price!

So I bought these beauties from Bodyline:

Shoes 251 from Bodyline 40 USD (and 10 USD postage)

I usually always wear leather shoes, but both Peachie and Vanessa Lopa swear to the comfort of Bodylines shoes, so I have to give it a go! Plus the fact I couldn't find any Lolita style real leather shoes anyway...

I chose flats because I'm so tall, I really don't need to add more height :) And I think flats look really classy.

Ebay has a great Chinese Lolita seller: cosplay007. They have beautiful Lolita clothes for very cheap prices, and they tailor sew them especially for you! That is some good service :) They announce that they can make anything at all - so if you want to, you can design your own dress and send it over to them, and they will sew it for you. They have a wide range of fabrics and colours to choose from as well.

A quick google on cosplay007 gives different reviews - some love it (and they are willing to compromise quality for the low price) and some were very disappointed, because they had received the wrong colour etc.

I will give cosplay007 a shot in the future, because I would love to own a tailor made dress!

But for this first, I fell for Infantas beautiful dress :).

I bought a wig from Ebay. My hair is medium brown, so I chose a wig that is dark brown to add some variety. Having a fringe on your wig is great - because it looks more natural and if you have a different coloured wig from your eyebrows, you can cover your eyebrows with the fringe.

I chosed a classic wig look to complement my classic Lolita dress.

Dark Brown Wig from Ebay 8.54 USD

And of course I need a pretty bow!
I couldn't find a matching bow to the dress print anywhere on the internet (I think the Infanta dress print I chose is from last season). So I bought a bargain Velvet Big Bow from Ebay.

Cream White Velvet Bow from Ebay 4.99 USD

I also bought my bloomers from Ebay.

White bloomers with heart pocket approx. 24 USD (incl postage)

From the local Swedish thrift store - the Red Cross - I stumbled upon this darling real leather Grandma Handbag. It needs a little TLC and something Lolita added to it, but it cost only 30 SEK (4.6 USD)

Granny bag in real leather from the local thrift store - 4.6 USD

I'm thinking of adding some jewellery to my handbag: maybe something like this:

Classic lolita brown flower pearl tassel 18.99 USD

And my petticoat is from the Salvation Army, it cost 40 SEK (6.1 USD).

Petticoat from VILA found at the Salvation Army for 6.1 USD

So all in all, my whole first outfit cost me ca 1750 SEK or 269 USD. That is including postage and a parcel insurance for 5 USD at Taobao (Don't know if it was worth it, but I'm better safe than sorry!)

269 USD for the first Lolita outfit is rather cheap - Just to buy a lucky pack from a brand with perhaps 1 skirt or 1 blouse costs often even more. I could probably gotten a cheaper dress, but I'm not sure I would be happy with the quality.
So I feel very satisfied with the end costs!

I'll be even more satisfied when the mail comes with all my lovely new stuff! :D

And then I will post all the REVIEWS - of course! :D
<3 BIG HUGZ <3

Ps. Now I just have to get my paws on this one: Infanta's Cinderella Embroidery Coat! I LOVE!