TaoBaoSpree Review ♡

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Hello everyone! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

Yesterday my eagerly awaited package from TaoBaoSpree arrived! So, because of the great success and simplicity of placing the order, I thought I'd write a review! ☆彡

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I'm sure you're all familiar with TaoBao already and know that it is often referred to as the Chinese eBay! And that's basically what it is, (a variety of goods, and a lot at extremely cheap prices!) the only negative being that they do not ship outside of China~ So that's when agents come into it! 

An agent allows you to place an order on items from TaoBao. Usually, you pay in 2 installments! Firstly, when they buy the item from TaoBao and have it shipped to them (plus a small fee for using them) and secondly, when they ship it on to you (plus another small fee for using them)! （≧∇≦）

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I've known about TaoBao for around 6 months or more now and last month I finally got the courage to give it a go! My TaoBao agent of choose, TaoBaoSpree!

TaoBaoSpree has a very professional page and process of ordering. They keep you informed throughout the the order, including cost, availability and status of your order. They're also very friendly~

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I ordered 2 items from TaoBao. A Milklim beanie in blue and a Creamy Mami crop top! 

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To place the order, you must submit the order form (available on their website) to them via email~ A representative from TaoBaoSpree will email you back with a confirmation of your order being received and an introduction of themselves, my representative was named Candy! She was very helpful and very nice! ♡

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I'll now give you all a timetable from when my order was placed and when it was received! 

Order submitted: 21/10/2013 ♡

Order confirmation:22/10/2013 ♡

The order was confirmed by TBS represnetitive Candy and the the first payment was stated and to be paid for~

Order placed/items bought on TaoBao: 23/10/2013!

Order arrival at TBS: 26/10/2013! An email was sent containing a photo of the items I had ordered so I could verify them. Second payment was due. Actual weight was also calculated and shipping methods and costs were sent along~ ♡

Order shipped from TBS: 30/10/2013! (via EMS with a working tracking number) ♡

Order arrival: 04/11/2013! ヽ(；▽；)ノ

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Scores:

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Creamy Mami Crop Top:

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Product:

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The product is beautiful and fits well~

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Quality:

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There are no inperfections of the top, the print is perfect, the material is good quality and not see through at all. 

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Milklim Beanie:

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Product:

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It's Milklim~ What more can I say? ♡

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Quality:

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The beanie itself is warm, comfortable and fits perfectly. The pins however, aren't very well made. When I tried to pin them to the beanie, a couple of stars detached from the metal pin backing. This is due to bad glue. NOT THE AGENTS FAULT. It is the sellers~ It's easily fixable, and not too big of deal. 

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Shipping:

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Domestic:

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It arrived in 3 days from the seller to TBS. That's amazingly fast! And from the picture TBS sent me upon the arrival, everything looked like it arrived safely. 

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International:

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It was shipped by EMS and arrived in 5 days~ super fast, well packaged and  trackable! The perfect order! ♡

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Overall, I highly recommend you use TaoBao Spree! They're trustworthy, helpful, they care, they're kind they accept PAYPAL and cost efficient~ The order took only 2 weeks from order placement, to arrival~ I'll DEFINITELY be shopping on TaoBao with them again! ♡

A big thank you to the lovely Candy for helping me with my order, I hope you liked the review~ :3 ♡

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I haven't had the chance to wear the crop top yet because of Melbourne's shitty weather, but I did get to wear the beanie yesterday! 

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I hope you all found this review helpful, informative and enjoyable! 

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Take care! 

See you next time~ ♡

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SheInside Review ♡

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Hello everyone!! (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))

A few days ago, my first SheInside package arrived! So today, I've decided to do a review! ♡

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I'd been seeing the clothes from SheInside all over tumblr and Instagram, and I thought "wow!" The sweaters really caught my eye~ I really loved 2 in particular, the ones with the "California Dream Barbie" print and "LAME" print! And so, I ordered them!! （≧∇≦）

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I placed my order on the 13th of October, and it shipped on the 21st of October! 
Then on the 30th of October, it arrived! ヽ(；▽；)ノ

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Product:

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The products are honestly gorgeous. They're exactly the same as the pictures, no fault or discolouration. I couldn't be happier with the sweaters~ ♡

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Quality:

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Both of the sweaters are extremely well made and comfortable. The prints are good quality too. They aren't the warmest, but as my friend Charlie says "you can always layer under them when it's cold and then you can still wear them when it's warm because they're not too thick!" Which I think is great! ♡

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Shipping:

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The shipping (Standard) was free! Which is awesome~
And they even gave you the option to choose different shipping methods like EMS. (They cost though!) The shipping was quite fast and everything was packaged really well. 
It even came with a tracking number. ☆彡

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SheInside is very easy to use, accept PAYPAL, and they keep you well up to date with what's going on with your order! I highly recommend them!

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I hope you enjoyed my review and found it helpful! Once again I must state that I was NOT sponsored to write this review~ ^^;

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Take care! See you next time~ ♡

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Armageddon Expo Melbourne 2013 ♡

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It's con time again! 

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And it's the last con of the year for Melbourne~  

The con season really ended with a BANG!!  

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This year, I went as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu in FASHION MONSTER!

 

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Pamyu debuted her first cosplay! She cosplayed Cousin Itt from the Addams Family!

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 I went on both days, to make the most of the last con for 6 months! 

As usual, we caught the train in to the city! I always take pre-con selfies on the train~

  
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We caught the train to the city, where we met my friend Baz! 
After meeting up, we traveled to the con together. 
We had to catch the train because it is on the other side of the city.. ^^; 
So we took selfies~

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When we got there, my boy friend I went to get tickets! We had to wait in line for half an hour~ It was funny though, we were waiting in the line for people paying by card and my boy friend saw a Heisenberg cosplayer in the same line and said to me "it's strange that he's not paying in cash!"

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So eventually we got into the traders hall and walked around. As soon as I started walking up the first line, a lovely man came up to me and asked for my photo! 
I was so worried because i wore the same costume to Armageddon last year and no one knew who I was, but the man recognized me! YAY! ♡

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A few minutes later, Pamyu's senpai Matt spotted us!! We got photos and selfies, and I got some pictures of Matt with Pamyu in her first cosplay! Pamyu lovessss Matt. Sometimes I think she loves him more than she loves me.. TnT

 

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After we spoke for a while, Matt and I both continued walking around. I saw Leah! She took some lovely photos of me~ But we forgot to take selfies together! (But we caught up on the selfies on Sunday so it all worked out~) As I was continued walking around, a lovely girl came up to me and gave me the biggest surprise! Her name is Cazz, aka Nerd Burger! ♡ She came up to me and told me that she follows me and watches my videos, I was so surprised! Hehe, she was cosplaying Carrie Kelly~♡

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We then went and had lunch. The food was overpriced but yummy~

After lunch, we continued to walk around the traders hall! 
On our way there, we saw beautiful Kymmie!

And the gorgeous Rachael!

 

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When we got to the traders hall, we bumped into Matt again! Pamyu was sick of wearing her cosplay so she took it off around the start of the convention.. She was super happy to get kisses from Matto Senpai! ;3;~♡

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I saw a super awesome female titan!!! 

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I got to see my super cute friend and fellow Kyary fan Jaiden too! 

It was our first time meeting, and he is so nice! A real darling!! ♡

Even Pamyu thinks he's a sweetie~♡

 

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At every con I go to, I always see my friend Josh! I had a feeling that he'd be in line for photos with some of the guests, so I made my way to the lines! On my way, I spotted the beautiful Elise!! *^* She was cosplaying Harley Quinn~ ♡

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I got to the lines and discovered that I was right! I found the super amazing Josh! 

We got lots of photos as always~♡

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My boy friend doesn't like being at cons very long, so we left pretty early!

On our way out, we saw BATMAN!! I love BATMAN!! We Got photos,

And a selfie~

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I didn't completely make up my mind about going again on Sunday until I was sitting at the bus and my friend Chelsea texted me and asked if I was going! I just had to go! ♡

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I caught the train in on my own. I rarely catch public transport on my own, so it was kind of really scary for me. Even though I had Pamyu~

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I got to Flinders Street (the main station in the city) and I headed to the next platform. It was confirmed that it was the right train for me when I saw two Doctors on the platform! As I was waiting for the train, I saw a girl in a Mami Tomoe cosplay! She had the most friendly smile I've ever seen! While waiting for the train, we became friends! And spent the rest of the journey to the con/traders hall together! ♡

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When we got there, I saw so many of my friends~ ♡

First I saw my friend Magdalen who was cosplaying as Aurora from the Sleeping Beauty! ♡

Then, my friend Holly who was cosplaying Rin Kagamine! ♡

Then, my gorgeous friend Jaiden! He was GB Mami Tomoe again! ♡

Then the lovely and charming, Cat!!

Finally after seeing all my friends and saying hello, I went with Jess to get my ticket!

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We went in to the traders hall where I was to meet up with Chelsea! We got distracted on the way though, with photos!! I saw Rachael and Leah again! ♡

 

XXX CHEWING LOVE

 

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After taking a whole bunch of photos together, I met up with Chelsea!! We've known each other for months now and we realized that we'd never got a cute photo together. So we went to get one (and on the first pose Chelsea stabbed me in the temple with her spiked headband) and it was both cute and funny! ♡

LEAH PHOTO BOMBED!

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Jess went off to see her friends and look at the stalls, 

while Chelsea and I want off together too~♡

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While we went off in search of the TARDIS photobooth, I saw Zac! He was with Bonita, Daniel and the lovely Jenna! I idolize Jenna so i was super happy to get a photo with her and finally actually meet her~♡

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I also got to see my super cute friend Alexander! 

He takes fantastic photos, 

but more importantly he's super fun and an awesome dude! ♡

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Chelsea and I spent most of the day taking photos and talking! 

Here are some of the photos we got~

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 OMG IT'S HEISENBERG! ♡

HEISENBERG SELFIESSS ♡

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Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party Time! Excellent!

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WHAT TIME IS IT?

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California Gurls~♡

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After lunch, Chelsea went home. But luckily enough, I found Jess! ♡

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While walking around together, we saw some old friends! 

So we stopped to chat. While we were talking, CJ passed by! 

So we got selfies~♡

Amy even got a photo of us taking the selfie.. oh em gee~ >w<

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We planned to go to the TARDIS photobooth, and on our way we saw Josh!! So we introduced him to his new best buddy, Marshall Lee~

 

We also took photos, Josh taught me the Edward Elric pose!

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We spent the last few hours of the con socializing with Tim (who had just returned from a holiday overseas - he even gave me a few gifts that'll I'll show later!), taking photos

 

shopping and taking photos in the TARDIS photobooth! 

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After we got our photos, we went to buy stuff! We both bought Adventure Time stuffs!

I bought the BMO pillow and Marshall Lee, and Jess bought Lady Rainicorn! ♡

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We then went to the train, but it left without us! 

So we had to wait for 20 minutes.. So we took photos!! ♡

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It was such a lovely con.. I bought stuff, took photos, made new friends, got to see my old and dear friends, got to meet a few fans, and most importantly, I had a blast! 

I bought mostly Adventure Time stuff.. I would've bought another alpaca but my boy friend says "no more fucking alpacas" so I didn't~-w- ♡

I also got photos of Kyary from Tim! How lovely!

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Here's a few of the amazing photos my wonderful photographer friends got of me! ♡

(There's more on my DA)

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Photo by Leah Esler ♡

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Photo by Alexander Geoffrey Doran ♡

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Photo by Matt Murphy ♡

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Photo by Terry NG ♡

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I can't wait for con season to start again! I'm already working on Kyary's latest MV costume, but I think that another 2 MV's will be out before Supanova so I'll have plenty of costumes to choose from when 2014 con season starts! ♡

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I hope you enjoyed my Armageddon Expo 2013 blog post, even though it's so long! ^^;

See you next time! ♡

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