Dolly Kei. Raqstarnails: Anne Boleyn/ King Henry VIII inspired nail set (via hoorayforseymour) (Source: dress-like-a-fairytale.blogspot.com, via faeriefable)
Dolly Kei & Cult Party Style. Grimoire 2nd Anniversary: Dolly Kei Party Pictures. Dolly-kei fashion took over Shibuya on Friday night as everyone’s favorite Dolly-kei boutique – Grimoire Tokyo – held their Second Anniversary party at Cafe x Lounge MICROCOSMOS.
Amazingly dressed and coiffed dollies – girls, and guys – came out in droves to celebrate the epicenter of Tokyo’s Dolly-Kei scene. The girls and boys sampled cake, muffins, and cookies while watching Japan in the World Cup, snapping pics of other attendees, making friends, and enjoying various DJs and performers – all the while toasting Grimoire’s 2nd birthday. The event was split into two parts: a reception party from 9pm to midnight, and a Midnight Lounge from midnight until 5am.
The party featured eight DJs, table magician Masaki Yamamoto, and pole dancer Tokyo Dolores. The entry fee included all the entertainment plus dinner and drink. Mori Girl. Ive just fallen in love with blog Mori Girl after discovering it via Three Buttons. Its full of pretty fashion and inspiration based around the subculture of the Mori Girl. The mori girls (森ガール) belong to a Japanese subculture. 'Mori' means forest in Japanese, and mori girls look like fairytale forest wanderers in their loose dresses, vintage prints and quaint accessories.
Mori girls choose to live their lives on their own terms, stopping to appreciate the little things that others overlook amidst the hustle and bustle of daily life. 462034. Mori in Japanese means "forest" and a Mori Girl (森ガール) is a girl who looks like she lives amongst cedar and pine trees.
She's part Little Red Ridinghood (although she prefers dark blue, dark green or bordeaux brown to bright red), part Marie Antoinette pastoral fantasy, part Alice in Wonderland. Although Mori Girl sounds like the sort of meme that fashion magazines mint -- and indeed Spoon magazine published a one-shot in March, a Mori Girl A-Z -- the term actually originated two years ago in a Mixi community. "You look like a girl in the forest! " someone remarked to Choco, the group's founder, one day. She began the group, and by June 2009 it had 8000 members.