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*~About Me~*

Name: Ruby 

Nicknames: Rini

Age: 18 (Birthday is on May 30th)

Sign: Gemini. Does that really matter? No but I wanna put it anyway.

Sexual Orientation: Pansexual 

Location: Born and raised in Houston, Texas! (*‿*✿)

Misc:  I love cats, pit bulls, flan and pan dulce. I enjoy any fashion that I deem is cute! That can range from gothic fashion to bright neon or pastel colors. I own the shopping blog Magical Shopping, along with my cousin Mio/Jackie. 

If you wanna know please ask me! 

Anime Matsuri Haul

Ay-yooo so I'm skipping the full Anime Matsuri experience post because I don't have much to bitch about really. It was a mostly positive experience other than the fact that it was highly disorganized. A lot of things were delayed up to an hour or more but that didn't really effect the panels I went to (which was like two). The SNK photoshoot was held back a couple of minutes and had to change locations due to the weather outside. The scanning of badges was a cool idea until it created a long ass single-filed line. A dumb fucking "guard" was hovering over me when I was in line for Reika because he was bitching non-stop about "being against the wall" when there wasn't any room to be against the walls. Like, get your balls off of me, your long leather black coat and wearing black sunglasses indoors makes you look like a douchebag, not scary. Despite the douchebaggery of the people there, I still had fun. I encountered Matthew Mercer (voice of Levi in SNK) near the elevators but was too chicken to go in with him, Reika was right in front of me, later on I got her autograph, and the one of guys from Nightmare was near me but I didn't notice until my cousin pointed it out and they were walking off. oops. 

Anyway, that's a bit of my experience.

On to the haul!

I got this Chibi Moon chain for $5 from a vendor. I figured I can get this at the local Asian toy store down my street and get it for the same price or more idk so might as well buy it now

I FUCKING LOVE DEDENNE. I'm becoming reacquainted with Pokemon again and one of the newer Pokemons that caught my eye (besides the obvious Leafeon, Sylveon, and Espurr) was Dedenne. AND I FOUND A LOT OF VENDORS SELLING DEDENNE PLUSHIES. But a lot of them were rip offs. They were selling like key-chain sized (like a handful) plushies for $14 so I was disappointed and was really sad. This one, on the other hand, was $25 and is as large as a medium/large Alpacasso and I ended up buying it because my friend Doan saw the size and price comparison and convinced me because there wasn't a better deal than this.

I promised myself that I needed to come out with at least one or two phone charms and I did so yay. I believe this vendor in the artist alley has either storenvy or an etsy store??? I don't know their name though (I didn't take their card) but yeah this charm was $5 and by Sunday other charms like this one were dropped to $3 I believe. 

Once again, another vendor in the artist alley. I promised myself I would by a squishy but a lot of the good ones were gone and there weren't any other vendors selling any squishies so I bought one of the cake squishies. Not all of it is squishy. The top pieces (the star tart, wafer, and fruit) are hard but it's still very fun to squish nonetheless. It's a phone charm as well. It was originally $7 but the artist offered it to me for $6 yay

Buttons. Fucking buttons, mayne. The Cas, Levi, and Harley were from a vendor in the artist alley and were for a dollar each. The Armin, survey corps crest, and Sailor Moon buttons were from a different vendor, each button $2 but buy 3 get them for $5 (wow such save). 

Ah and then one of my crown jewels. This print. This artist is just omigosh amazing. He had a lot of Pokemon and Sailor Moon prints and baggies/purses. I got the print for $12. This is the only vendor whose name I know because I got his card

Visit PicoPrince's Tumblr to see his art

This isn't really the complete haul. I also got a phone charm for my mum and it was a toilet paper roll a cute poop attached to it (my reasoning was because "she wiped my crap when I was little")

Part of my haul is also the Reika autograph I got. Technically, the Reika autograph I have isn't the one I got signed. The one I got signed belonged to my friend who pre-ordered it and put it under my name because she couldn't be there. BUT since my other friend got two Reika autographs and I did her dead Marco makeup (that shit can go for $15 - $25 dollars ayyy) she gave me one of her autographs so yaaaayyyy!

And that's all of my haul (I think)!

Personal Update: Anime Matsuri

So I've been taking a break because I came back from an anime convention on Sunday and ever since then I've felt weak and such so I haven't been blogging normally. Soon I will do the following:

- Anime Matsuri experience post

- Anime Matsuri haul post

- Black circle lenses from PinkyParadise review

- SpreePicky seifuku review

- Shoe update

so yeah I'll do that in a bit but for now I rest

Waiting for my lenses from PinkyParadise

Back in early February, almost exactly a month from now I won a giveaway that was sponsored by PinkyParadise. The giveaway holder was cherry-blossorn on tumblr.

I waited a few days because PP was closed until the 9th or 10th of February for Asian New Years break. I had to wait one or two extra days to get back with them (silly me, they got back with me as soon as they came back, their emails were just stuck in my spam). 

Anyway, I chose these lenses

Geo Ultra CK105 (XCK105)

Anyway, I felt like posting about it because I'm still waiting. On the 13th of February they said they would ship it out and it would take 14 - 25 days. So the latest it should get here is this upcoming Thursday or Friday. ;~; Sad thing is I won't be here Friday, I'll be at Anime Matsuri.

Fun fact: My Seifuku from Spreepicky came!

Isn't it the cutest? cx

I'm thinking about reviewing at least the shirt because I can't fit into the skirt. I bought the seifuku in 2L knowing that the skirt won't fit so it'd give me motivation to work out. It's okay though because the shirt can go with other outfits in the meantime. 

Random news: I drew Fetsu-Chan n.n

Not the best picture buuuuuuuuut I tried u.u

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Shoe update: New boots from Shiekhs

By new boots I mean I've been having them about 2 to 3 weeks already and I was too lazy to say anything about them especially since I've only worn them two times each. This isn't really a review I just wanted to talk about them because I love them. *~*

So these boots are from Shiekhs, they have an online store but I did not buy them online. I went to the store at the mall and they were having a buy one pair, get another pair for one dollar. Their boots are not even that expensive either unless you buy knee-high boots or combat boots with studs on them. Like really their price range on boots are $20 - $50 bucks so you can see this is a really good deal.

So these are the boots I got at full price ($50 - they're probably cheaper now online)

So the side with the gold studs is somewhat of a false zipper. It doesn't unzip all the way but it can zip up, which I don't recommend because it straightens out the flaps with the studs and when that happens they fold inward instead of out and it hides the design (*cough* that was a poor explanation).

These boots are really comfortable and nice and warm. They're hotter without socks on. 

The laces are adjustable and it helps the shoe get tighter which is cool because these boots go up to my calf almost and I have a huuuuuuuuge calf (huge legs in general). ;~;

The pair that I got for $1 are pretty basic but I wanted them for my cosplay and they're still pretty cute

there's not much to talk about. the inside has faux fur so it's nice and cozy. My only issue is that I have a huge foot so the tip of the shoe makes my toes feel closed-in but nothing too uncomfortable. I also made the mistake of wearing these without socks for a long period of time; the back of the shoe rubbed against my ankle to the point where it damaged/ripped my skin and irritated it for days. My ankle still feels a little weird like there's dead or damaged skin? idk but it doesn't make me love these shoes any less *~*

Waiting for my seifuku from SpreePicky

I bought a seifuku from spreepicky because they were having a sale and the seifuku goes up to "plus size" (an extra large in Asian sizes). They had up to seven colors but I was stuck between the violet and pink and sky blue ;~; In the end I picked violet.

Here's the stock photo

They said my order will be shipped out tomorrow but if I recall I bought the thing Wednesday so it's taking a while ;~; Oh well.

Oh and most likely it won't fit me but I'm losing weight for cosplay next year so this will help motivate me. 

and now we wait.

Yay! New shoes: AIR JORDAN 10 RETRO ‘POWDER BLUE’ :D

So yeah I got new shoes. Ever since I started getting into certain tennis/basketball/sports shoes, my dad has been kinda like ''DO YOU WANT THESE!? I CAN GET YOU THESE!'' because he likes collecting and wearing Jordans and such. I think it's like he wears them through me omfg. Sometimes my mum is like "she doesn't need those she's a girl" or she's just really iffy because of the cost of them.

Anyway... we all agreed on a certain pair of shoes. My dad can get shoes easily now since he knows a person.

 <.< >.>

so yay now for pictures

Stock photo:

So at first I was like "oh they're very nice. cool" but then my dad said they're limited edition so I decided to research them and found out they were first released back in 1994 and they're back for the first time which is apparently rare.

From nike's website

This ‘90s classic is making a comeback. The Air Jordan 10 Retro ‘Powder Blue’ is here and stays true to the original colorway. It features a tumbled leather upper and a signature elastic speed-lacing system. It rocks a Powder Blue padded collar and on the outsole, a listing of MJ’s career achievements. Releasing on February 22 on Nike.com.

So now pictures that I've taken

the usual box. I'll most likely be keeping it because my dad wants me to take extra care of them lul

The box with shoes inside (this is now how they were packed I took them out a couple of times)

More pictures~

oh and here's the list of MJ's achievements on the bottom that they're talking about

(picture kinda blurry)

I don't have any pictures of me wearing them but I actually like how well these shoes fit. I got them in a size 9 in men's (I'm a 9 - 10 in women's... I have a big, confusing foot ;~; ) and they fit just right but I have wide feet. They're very slim but my dad says that usually you need to break them in so yeah these shoes are cool. I'm not a huuuuuge fan of shoes like these but I appreciate the ones I actually get cx

I got a new phone case~

Here's the stock photo

I bought it from this person.

Nothing went wrong and it arrived in three days. It's really cute. cx It serves as a wallet and phone case.

Here's a picture of the front (I think it's upside down right here though)

The back of it

There's a zipper that goes around it and it is functional. That's where I'll probably keep my money and change

Here's the inside of it

On the right it was two slits for your cards and there's a fold on that side to keep more stuff in it.

The case is for the Samsung Galaxy S3 and I'm not entirely sure if they have this case for other models.

Fun fact: I won a giveaway

The giveaway was done by this wonderful person and it was the cutest giveaway ever. Here's everything I received.

Official SNK notebook (originally I was supposed to get either an Eren or Levi notebook but she said the place where she gets those don't have them anymore so yay notebook) and (seperate) Eruri clips which are adorable omfg

front

back

The notebook pages (with Big Big at the top yay)

My Estee Lauder Bag

So recently I've obtained a really nice bag from Estee Lauder. I researched it and it turns out it comes from  an entire makeup kit.

It's called The Professional Makeup Artist Colour Collection.

Some people refer it to as the "Blockbuster" makeup kit.

The collection, from what I believe, is usually on sale towards the end of the year on esteelauder.co.uk and the items or the bag changes every year.

I only have the bag though. It was given to me by my mother and I doubt she bought the makeup kit so she probably got it as a gift as well? 

The bag can be bought separately from the makeup kit on sites like ebay and amazon so if you'd like how this bag looks you might want to search for it on those sites.

So here's how the bag looks

It looks like a laptop bag so it could probably hold one depending on how big it is. 

A top view of it

on the zippers it says "estee lauder"

And here's a picture of the bag completely open

As you can see it's really roomy in there and as I said before it can fit a laptop or a few thin books/magazines in there.

I just wanted to show this because I think I might start putting my makeup in there. The box I keep my makeup in is falling apart. hehe n.n''

New shoes~!

Sheiks was having a "buy one pair, get a pair for a dollar" sale on boots like holy shit.

Look at these beauties.

The boots I bought for approx. $50.

The boots that were for $1 and were originally +$40 (I didn't check the price I just figured they were less than the other ones. n.n

I'll be doing a review over one of the two pairs tomorrow! I need to walk in them all day to get a good feel. 

Yooooo new blog

My original URL was RubyRedrum but due to the fact that the original blog was under a different email address, it was getting difficult to maintain it so I haven't been on it since half a year ago. And I couldn't get back my original URL unfortunately ;~;
I'm going to be reuploading old posts but only the reviews.