Deco Tape usage examples

You can turn your ordinary items into kawaii style by using deco tape. You just need to be creative!

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Deco Tapes

Do you want to decorate your things with deco tapes too? You may find a lot of choices and a lot of beautiful designs of deco tapes on Kawaii Shop. Here are some of the deco tapes sold on Kawaii Shop.

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I like the design of kawaii deco tape sticker 11 and kawaii deco tape sticker 15 very much! Hope you can find your favorite deco tapes too!

Cute mini fruit made with clay

See for yourself, those mini fruit slices are really colorful and quite real.

Super cute mini fruit in scale

Here I put a coin next to the mini fruit slices, you can how small the fruit slices are.

Well, you can use these mini fruit to decorate your lovely things like mobile phone, pens, iPhone, PSP … etc. Some girls use these fruit slices to decorate their nails too.

In fact, I got a lot more different super cute things today, I will show you in the next few days.

One of the best way to learn the Japanese modern culture is the read their comic books, watch their TV shows and see the Japanese girls fashion style.

While I was still in Japan, my housemate purchased the highly appropriately namedGothic & Lolita Bible. This thing was atome. It washuge. And fairly hugely priced at a bit under 2000 yen. TheBiblehas many articles, interviews with Visual-kei artists that goth-lolis so often idolise, catalogues, photos, manga and even outfit designs for budding cosplayers and gothloli heads. In theory, it’s published quarterly but don’t bet on that. It seems to be pretty erratic.

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The Bible is a huge success in Japan (and around the world as Gothic Lolita and EGL became popular outside of Japan) and has spawned some spin-off magazines. TheGothic & Lolita Extra Volumeseems to be just a collection of things that couldn’t fit into previous volumes. It looks like there is only one of these, but more may appear in the future. TheGothic & Lolita Hair Make Biblefocusses obviously on the hair and make-up techniques and trends followed by gothlolis and finally theGothic Lolita & Punk Brand Book is basically just a catalogue of fashions available. It has photos of all the typical fashions you can find for sale along Takeshita-dori and Harajuku.

I’ve seen it available for sale in quite a few places, but you probably won’t find it at your local 7-Eleven store. Akihabara has stockists given that a few of the maids in the maid cafes also follow Goth Loli fashions. Our sponsors at JListwill sell you subscriptions, no matter where in the world you live.

Well, seems to me that the Japanese culture is totally different from any other country on Earth…  haha ~

This magazine is young as compared to many of the other magazines out there but it is making headwaves with the type of fashion it is covering. Koakuma Ageha has a cutesy take on the Lolita sub-fashion culture in Japan. Hence, if you’re interested in the Gothic, Cute, etc Lolita styles, this is the magazine is a good start for you. The magazines covers hairstyles, make-ups, latest fashion trends and targets young women who are into designer brands.

Well, it’s definitely an eye candy magazine that measures up in substance

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Happy to see more and more kawaii fashion magazine, because it also means that we are more and more likely to get free gifts from magazines!

How old is Hello Kitty? Hello Kitty is since 1975

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Do you know SANRIO CO., LTD. which developed a character of Hello Kitty   Now,the book which edited thier characters was published, titled “Sanrio Days”.

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Hello Kitty is one of the character that Sanrio developed in 70’s (1974). In 70’s, a lot of “Kawaii” characters were made. I will introduce a character at that time.

Little Twin Stars (Since 1975)

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Little Twin Stars is setting called twin brother&sister called Kiki and Lala created in “Omoide-Hosi (means consideration star)”.

PATTY & JIMMY (Since 1974)

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PATTY & JIMMY is setting called the student couple born in Kansas city, though it is a character made in Japan.

My Melody (Since 1975)

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My Melody is a character of a rabbit made from a children’s story “Little Red Riding Hood” as a model.

It’s interesting that there are the character which is not introduced to any place other than Japan and already became the discontinuance. I’ll introduce a character of 80’s on the next time.

After all these years, people still love this 33 years old characters. Seems kawaii items are timeless attraction to girls! There is no generation gap.

So, here is the most popular Japanese girl model “Rinka”. Do you like her?

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Rinka is the most popular model amang Japanese girls. Now she is featured on Japanese fashion magazine “Sweet” August issue.

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In this issue, she has been to LA and selected some clothes to appear in the magazine.

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The reader can buy the clothes in the online shopping site, besides. Recently, Japanaese fashion magazines collaborate with online shopping sites.

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You may shopping by mobile phone, too.

As you can see, Rinka’s photo is everywhere… Japanese girls like copying style of popular stars…. may be very soon we can see a lot of “Rinka style” girls on Japan streets.

Japanese Fashion Megazine 1 - More

“MORE“+”Cath Kidston“

You know those girls’fashion magazines often offer various free gifts come with them.

Especially the Dec. issues, each mag has got a gorgeous free gift that I can not resist, so I end up buying it…

Japanese Fashion Megazine 1 - free gifts

Clockwise from the bottom left, Charlotte Ronson’s pouch, MILKFED’s pouch, Cath Kidston’s pouch, Aesop’s Rose Hair & Scalp Moisturizing Masque, Banner Barrett’s charm and Maison Martin Margiela’s pouch.

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“marie claire“+”Aesop“

Japanese Fashion Megazine 3 - spring

“spring”+”MILKFED“

Japanese Fashion Megazine 4 - sweet

“sweet“+”banner barrett“

And others like a key chain by Marc Jacobsor a Kitson’s tote, many of them are collaborated products with poplar fashion brands.

Ha ~ I find myself buying the megazines is only for the free gifts….  they marketing trick is totally successful….  at least I cannot resist the free gifts….   haha ~~

Here are some very nice cute emotion icons that you can use on MSN and forums.

These cats are really super cute! Hope you like them and treat them nicely!

Hello kitty’s designer has changed three times up to now. Yuko Shimizu (1974-1976), Setsuko Yonekubo (1976-1980), and Yuko Yamaguchi has designed Hello Kitty since 1980.

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Recently she began to blog (in japanese). She often hold her in-store autograph session around Japan. Those schedule are released at the blog.

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If you join the autograph session with 3,000 yen, you can get some hello kitty’s cards and accessories from her.

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You may visit her blog at: http://yamaguchiyuuko.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/

It is some how difficult for me to imagine that Hello Kitty is older them me….  and it is even harder for me to imagine that Hello Kitty is designed by a middle age lady….   haha ~

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“Hello World” ….  the common lesson that you would take when you learn computer programming! So, What else “Hello World” could be?

Hello Kitty First Album!

SANRIO state that:
We just started this campaign, and I wanted to send you an email about it- Hello Kitty’s first album, Hello World. Here’s the info I have on it! I’ve also included an audio stream and an embed code for a player so your readers can sample the album.

The album is available on iTunes now: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=289665628&s=143441

Audio Stream: “Do You Really Wanna” by Cory Yarckin
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Sanrio Hello Kitty Album Press Release

SANRIO, Inc. is thrilled to announce the release of “Hello World”, the first-ever Hello Kitty album available on Lakeshore Records. The album will offer 11 tracks of original pop tunes, performed by a number of up & coming young artists. The result is an upbeat and perky compilation that reflects the life-embracing mood of the Hello Kitty brand.

The album launches October 7th exclusively at Wal-Mart and the first single “Come On, Come On”, with early airplay reported from Radio Disney, will be available on iTunes starting September 30th. The online community is already abuzz over the album’s MySpace and Facebook pages that allow listeners to sample the tracks. Additional distribution, including SANRIO stores and www.sanrio.com, will begin in January 2009. A merchandise program featuring t-shirts and accessories emblazoned with the album’s colorful Japan-Pop artwork will coincide with this expanded release.

“Hello World” was created in partnership with New York’s Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co. Inc., home to the catalogues of Elvis Presley, the Black Eyed Peas, Wolfmother, John Legend and Quincy Jones. ‘Hello World’ is the first endeavor resulting from the multi-year joint venture between SANRIO, Inc. and Cherry Lane to produce original music for Hello Kitty and other character brands under the SANRIO umbrella.

Belting out the Hello Kitty headline track, “Come On, Come On”, actress, musician & Hello Kitty fan Keke Palmer mirrors the fun and friendship that’s synonymous with Hello Kitty and the entire SANRIO family of characters. A SAG-nominated & Image Award winning actress, Keke is part of DAS Communications’ impressive roster and has starred in the critically-acclaimed Akeelah & the Bee and Jump In, as well as the recent film The Longshots, with Ice Cube. Keke also has a debut solo album, ‘SO UNCOOL’, which was released in September 2007. Keke models girl empowerment, an integral trait of the Hello Kitty brand.

Cori Yarckin performs the album’s follow up single “Do You Really Wanna”. Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as “One of the Girls of MySpace” (in a feature on young female performers), Cori’s upbeat power pop sound will have listeners rocking out to this track. The video, currently in production, will launch online and made available on sanrio.com, YouTube, and multiple social networking sites.

For ‘Hello World’, writers and performers were hand-picked by SANRIO and Cherry Lane and primarily came from Cherry Lane’s impressive roster. “Come On, Come On” was co-penned by Nini Camps and Gary Phillips (producer of the popular Kidz Bop albums). Other ‘Hello World’ songwriters and producers include Toby Gad, the writer behind Fergie’s #1 song, “Big Girls Don’t Cry”and Gen Rubin, who brings his Grammy-nominated talents to three ‘Hello World’ songs in total.

So look out world! SANRIO and Hello Kitty are keeping music lovers engaged with perky personality, fun-loving attitude and a commitment to harmony at every turn!

Well, I am not really into these “Hello World” music….  I would prefer some other pop music more… haha ~