shopping paradise japan - tokyo report 4

to all of you who have been to japan know - japan is a shopping paradise!!!! and not only for clothes or anime and manga merch - for everything :) always when i'm back in germany from a japan trip shopping is so boring for me. now i'm so spoiled again from japan and it's really hard to realize that i have to wait again one year to be in the perfect shopping land :(

i love shopping but germany is kind of boring - especially with cute things. i could not resist to buy to much unnecessary stuff in japan but it can't be helped - i'm a poor victim of the japanese shopping culture :) i love cute things and one of my favorite brands for cute stuff is swimmer. i had one shop near my hotel in the ikebukuro train station and they sold not only normal goods, also sweets and cakes :)

 

  

while strolling around in harajuku and shibuya i found many cute, nice or strange themes for my camera and i want to share them with you ^^

 

 i love those drinks dispener - they are so colorfull ^^

 shibuyaaaaaaaaaaaaa ^^

 matcha latte *yummy*

 

 

 

new year in tokyo - tokyo report 3

honestly i really don't like new year in germany. all those forced partys, firework, the countdown, the new year resolutions and and and.... every year the same question "what are we going to do this new year" - horrible!!! and this was one of my main reasons to leave germany during this time and to celebrate new year in japan. i didn't had any expections - all i wanted was to visit a temple or shrine for hatsumoude, to buy some lucky charms and to eat food from the matsuri snack shops. the new year evening and the next day were great. it was def. one of my best new year celecrations ever :)

in the early afternoon miri, andre and i went out for a bit shopping, playing ufo catcher and planing our new year evening.

 my beloved otousan

 my shopping haul

 

 

 

my new swimmer goods

 

 and a new rilakkuma cup from lawson

first of all we met katrin and severine in an izakaya for dinner. because of the plans from my japanese friends our schedule was a bit tense and we didn't have much time for the girls. but we enjoyed our food and the puri session ^^

 

 

we spent the rest of the evening and the next morning with our friends and we had such a nice time together. we went to meguro to a big temple area and it was really awesome. so many people in the middle of the night - many many snack or lucky charm shops and we rang on of those huge bells. we spent there 2 or 3 hours but it didn't felt that long. it was great and def. not my last new year in japan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

new year soba

extensions and puris tokyo report 2

on our second day i finally met nicola. i really like her blog and her style and i was really looking forward to meet her :) she is such a kind person!!! unfortunately i didn't had much time during my stay in tokyo but we were able to meet us two times. we talked a lot, had great food ( i think our tast is nearly the same ^^) she helped me and katrin a lot to get our extensions, and in the evening we went to karaoke. a great day with lovely friends!!!!!

my favorite omrice from pomunoki

yummy dessert :)

i decided to get some extensions in japan. since some years i'm using clip in extensions. i'm really pleased with them but i wanted permanent extensions. after a real bad experience in germany i never tryed it again and i waited until my japan holiday. nicola helped me a lot. i read this report in her blog about the salon yuhouse. i was totally curious how the extensions will come out. is the hair color like my color? is the hair quality ok? can i get along with the braids? after 4 hours ( 2 of them were only waiting time) katrin and i had finally long hair. and i'm 100% happy with the resault.  now, nearly 4 weeks later they are still good - the color is perfect, the quality is good and it's really easy to style them. it was a good decision :)

before

after

the hairdresser and me

and here some puris from this day: