Fall Fashion Inspiration

Clothes clothes clothes... Happy October 5th! Its pretty much fall now, and I have not even prepared anything for it fashion wise. I never really do. Chi-town fall and winter are just not my thing. But, I am trying to get some ideas to execute for the fall and winter to look cute for once. heheh

Nicki

Though I'm not usually partial to knits (I don't think it suits me much)., This one is just so cute! Nicki, you have my heart with this outfit!

So far, I love my Kenneth Cole jacket with skirts and what not. I have another jacket, but I feel it needs to be tailored down a little bit. It also sucks that it has no lapels! This looks is super nice and classy with a hint of sexiness. RAWR! When I wear skirts with jackets, I feel like a kid playing dress up. -_-; Curse my round childlike face! 

This look is so cuuute! I feel it is perfect for a slightly more mature gal blogger look. A hint of edginess and leather! I am in love!

I feel like I have yet to master the floppy hat, but I would like to one day. A flowy top and shorts that has a hint of psche feel to it is cute and I think would work perfectly for the fall depending on the colours. 

Knit mid sleeve sweater with a cowl neck, super cute and it looks very comfy. I usually shy away from baggy clothes due to boobage though...

Three different looks that I think can work for fall. I am not feeling the far left one all to much, but the middle outfit and the right one are cute. I might have to try them out somehow.

Shoes

H&M's website didn't seem to have a lot of red coloured shoes in their collection, but these jumped out at me from what I looked through. I really want to break away from having all black shoes asap. I think fall is perfect to wear cute booties paired with shirts, skirts, or jeans. I hope to be able to nab a pair or two this season! 

The only fall trend I got on is the use of purple for my eye make up and also a bit on my nails. I don't really count the use of sweaters or beanies and all that. The purple on my nails is a deep one, not too flashy, and it almost had me thinking it was a brown colour.

Nude +  Deep Purple Nail Colour with lace detail

Soom I have to get into seeing how I will coordinate for this fall season. Kind of looking forward to it...slightly.

PuriKura For Illinois!

Why Illinois and not Chicago? Because I am from the City,not Bloomingdale. That is all. ;p

So, from this source, it looks like there will finally be some purikura, or photo booths for people not in the loop, for taking super cute photo stickers to share with friends. Hallelu!

For the people who were and still are friends of purikura machines and the cute lil stickers in Chicago, this is and can be great news and a major update. We had a print club booth that was regularly out of order and one could not even use custom backgrounds with their pictures that was customary with these types of photos. Then there was the photo booth that was in Chinatown.... I am not sure which one was even better at that point. The pictures were usually a touch too dark compared to the dated photo booth that was located at one of the arcades near Mitsuwa.

I am looking forward to checking out these booths when it opens up! Just need to find a way to get out there....

You can check out more information here:

http://japc.kisekinohana.net/roundoneop/

Floating Through the City

I sit at my new fave coffee shop, Argo Tea for a quick snack of Macarons with a lovely touch of Hibiscus tea on the side. When I feel like I have the time, I take a stroll in my city. I tend to wander mostly in the downtown area, taking in the sights and sounds of various parts that are still yet hidden to me.

I decided to walk through Old Town and make my way over to the Magnificent Mile. The luxury stores seemed most spectacular on a sleek, moonstone grey rainy day.

I like to pop in and out of stores in the Water Tower. There is a Henry Bendel store that opened up several years ago and also a super cute and brainy Marble Store.

Henri Bendel is one of the stores that Gossip Girl's Blair shopped from. It originated from New York in 1895, their iconic print is a vertical white and brown stripes, and Henri also assisted Coco Chanel in bringing some of her items to America from Paris. How romantic!! <3

Giving the store a look see, I fell in love with some of the purses and accessories. I am also a sucker for the cute little charms they had there too! They also had cute doggy goods too! So adorable!
Though I couldn't get pix inside, I saw that stacking lots of bracelets were totally in in the store. Yippu! >:D


Though I am not a big Gossip Girl fan, I know that my sister and also Ms. Ariell are! Maybe Ariell will come to Chicago one day and check out the store...

Pic courtesy of The Brain Store

I also was highly interested in The Marble store, a place filled with games and books to exercise your brain! I got to play a bit of Anomia, a card game whose name means "not to know". It is a phenomenon when you stall and can't think of an answer, something I do at times. Playing the game a lot is said to help lower the time you stall when you are thinking with a lot of pressure put on you.

I also got to play with these little things called Brain Drops. They expand in water and you can pop them at people! A few of them were popped at me and totally caught me by surprise! XD

Edmund, one of the Marble Store people,  showed me a few various games, and also suggested a trivia book for me to read called The Book of General Ignorance which busts myths throughout history! Weird title >___> but it dispels a lotta stuff in it. SOOOOO, I am glad I got a new book for my collection.