senior year first day of class coord!

hi dolls, welcome back to paradise! unfortunately for me, my university decided to start SUPER SUPER EARLY in the semester. we end early but whew does it suck that i only had two weeks of a real "summer break..." 

this monday i started classes! my sedule sucks at the moment, with mondays and tuesdays being my worst days. not only do i have a two hour break between classes on monday and tuesday, the one cafeteria where i genuinely get food is CLOSED for the semester. thankfully i didn't get dining dollars but STILL. honestly i would have gotten a meal plan if this specific hall was open, but this year's meal plans were a total SCAM... anyways here's my coord

top: unknown, got on vinted

skirts: burlington & (modern) charlotte russe

shoes: thrifted, lace and bows added

this was definitely the best outfit out of my four years here! my first and second year outfits were lowkey bad but ya know. i was so excited to get in some FDOC vids but my buns fits weren't making it in thattt 😭 junior year was slightly better but you can tell i was playing instead of locking in. i mainly had to cover up a sheer part of the dress i wore in junior year so thats why i layered the tube top! but honestly i should have just worn something else. here's all of my old first day outfits!:

freshman year! juicy couture tank top and pink leopard print skirt :)

sophomore year! i no longer have the shirt but the skirt is the same one i wore this year!

junior year! dress and tube top from ross iirc

i always love the vibes on the yard when its the first day of class! everyone is outside taking pictures and it's great to reflect on when it's the middle of february and no one is on the yard because its 10 degrees outside. i went pretty early this year and the yard was packed, a lot more packed compared to last year when i took my pictures! it was also near 90 degrees outside so i was BOILING... there was a bit of breeze but it was not enough...

I ALSO GOT IN A FDOC VIDEOOOO YAYYYYY!!!! ugh i'm so happy the one year i truly put that shit ONNN it happened!! and the vid did numbers on tiktok AND instagram, everyone was loving my coord!! i love attention so like i was living but it gets so overwhelming cause people genuinely be recognizing me and i'm like omggg 😭 but if you see me in person don't be a stranger i love talking to people!! it's just whiplash cause i'm not even a micro celebrity i just be posting myself and my fashion for funzies but my gyaru content is what the algorithm wanted to latch onto haha.

i'm not excited for classes but i AM excited to dress up for class again! now that i know the perils of capitalism full force i will CHERISH. my last days of being unemployed cause it really is all downhill from here chi... :P

all my love,

chele ♡

summerween cow-gal!

hi dolls, and welcome back to paradise!! 

i've been home from school for around two weeks (i go back on friday, not happy (╥﹏╥)) and i've been speed-running hanging out with my friends! two of my friends put together a summerween party and i had a BLAST! 

let's start with my coord, i didn't bring a crazy amount of clothes back home since i'm only here for a short time (unfortunately), so i went with a white tube top and my favorite pair of low rise shorts! 

coord details:

top: older no boundaries

necklace: hello angel girl

shorts: natalia paris jeans

belt: probably shein? keep in mind i bought this over 5 years ago when i was still a teen, definitely not a recent purchase 😅

hat: borrowed from my friend :3

the party started later in the day though i got there an hour late cause my friend and i still had to get supplies haha. most of the time spent was on food prep and catching up. my friends made 3 pizza doughs but there wasn't corn meal on the wooden thing that transferred the pizza to the pizza steel (? whatever its called) so our first pizza was Definitely Something... it flopped off of the wooden thingy and it couldn't be recovered. our pumpkin turned into a blob </3 therefore the last piece of pizza had to be split in half so we can still get cute pics. i was still willing to eat that pizza ngl but it got sacrificed to my friends family lol. 

our poor pizza... moments before disaster

we also had frankenstein chips and guac, s'mores (my fave!! i would've torn up like ten of them if given the chance), candy in a halloween bucket, lemonade in cups with jack-o-lanterns drawn on them, and carved watermelons as deocration! we also had candles and i was SO scared something (especially my hair) would catch on fire HAHA so i kept an eye on them.

closeups of the table!! everything was soo perfect :)

we closed the night by watching a movie! we wanted to watch the gravity falls summerween episode but it wasn't available on anything but disney plus/amazon prime for rent and no one had that. i would have offered if i had any prime credits left but i soooo didn't unfortunately. 

we watched fear street part 2 instead! it emcapsulated the vibes PERFECTLY and it got me interested in the whole franchise, so props to them! i like horror movies but they're usually either not scary or i get mildly scared. fear street part 2 had great buildup and the GORE. YES. sometimes i wanna get jumpscared and other times i wanna hide from the screen! this movie had a perfect mix of both and i'll probably watch the first and third movies when it actually becomes halloween time :)

speaking of, in my opinion, fall is a really strong contender for best thematic season. i'm very biased towards summer since its hot, i can go to the beach, and i hate winter/being cold (despite being a smack dab middle of december baby lol), but come on. just the pure idea of 2000s fall romanticizing and halloween already give fall a crazy edge by like a LOT. i'm from new england and we have the best fall by a long shot, which makes it even more memorable. i took it for granted not gonna lie, the dmv just doesn't have the same fall vibe :'/. not to mention it gets cold so i can't even wear my cute fall outfits to class since its 30 degrees when i leave and 50 by the time i get out of class, so not even a proper 60s or anything I HATE YOU CLIMATE CHANGE!!! the latter half of the year has the BEST most insane holiday lineup, the halloween to new years run just isn't/can't be replicated through the rest of the year. probably why the rest of january through april feels dead asf (unless you're in a couple LOL!). 

here are more pictures to end it off (mainly me lol): 

i followed a magazine tut for my make! unfortunately it was from miss appropriator supreme ran, i used to be super obsessed with her and her make! i recently got the november 2025 issue of egg magazine for an insanely cheap price (i bought it within like 15 minutes of posting LOL i was NOT letting that slip), and it had one of her make tutorials which i recognized immediately from pinterest! what i like the most about the way she did her make was that there was more emphasis on the lower part of the inner corner and the top was more or less barely lined/not lined at all! 

the magazine scan for reference, pulled it from pinterest but it's the same one from the mag!

all my love,

chele ♡

agejo birthday dinner coord!

 welcome back to paradise! remember that yukata set i bought and the dress i REALLY wanted to wear with it...? well guess who got the chance to wear it? ME!!!

it was my friend's birthday this past week and she had dinner to celebrate! it was a cute lil italian restaurant, allegedly its michelin star too? everything on that meu was hella expensive though but ya know. birthday. i was able to see one of my friends that i haven't seen all summer which is also good! i was able to see a majority of my friends too but i wish we could get everyone together more often and not just for birthdays :')

i used safety pins to pull the sides of the dress together since i wasn't home yet to get it altered (as of writing, i am home now so hopefully i can get it pulled in)! it was kinda janky and it took over 20 minutes to get the pins secured the way i wanted them to be without the rest of the dres looking weird but i did it and that's all that matters. here are some of the pictures i took :) 

this one HAS to be my favorite picture of them all, so cunnntyyy!

i love this silly one, also make closeup kinda!

just adding this because i lovee this picture i took with my new ageha mags <3

this is what i ordered! i think it was carbonara?

i know MA*RS print and MA*RS adjacent replica stuff can be so overplayed sometimes BUTTTT i don't care i absolutely love anything that looks MA*RS inspired or adjacent, which is why i was itching to order this dress. like look at it the pomeranians they are so cute!! one of my besties said that she really liked the silhouette of the dress on me and i was like "I KNOW BUT I CAN'T EVER FIND STUFF LIKE THIS WITH THIS PRINT IN MY SIZE LOL." so shoutout hello angel girl fr! i think midi/maxi dresses in agejo are sooo underrated, the sets are cute but go put a crown in your hair and wear a cute long dress it's just as fun as a tartan MA*RS set!!

all my love,

chele ♡

lucky girl market and other clothing things! ♡

welcome back to paradise! on saturday, i went to lucky girl market in dc! lucky girl market does thrift event pop-ups in the DMV area and in philadelphia, if i remember correctly. 

i went with my one of my roommates and one of my friends! we also had to pick up some pottery that day so we also went ahead and did that too :) my roommate and i kind of arrived late but THANKFULLY my friend had gotten there before us and was able to secure us a spot at the front, so i went in 3-ish minutes after i got there (sorry to everyone who was before us oooopsss....).

this was my coord! i was unsure if i wanted to do an agejo coord or go for a more bimbocore vibe, so my make and hair were gal and my outfit was 2000s hyperfem!

top: ross (iirc)

bottoms: 2B bebe

shoes: wedges i thrifted

accessories: amazon 

necklace: playboy (not sure if its authentic playboy cause i didn't ask but if it's a knockoff, it doesn't look like a bad one and it was for a great price so i won!)

here is what i got: 

brand: toi et moi

i saw this cardigan and practically fell in love! it definitely reminded me of tsuyome coords/even onee gal coords (though i'm not super versed in onee if we're being completely fr LOL)!

brand: moda international

for cover ups and just about anything velour and or terry cloth, i usually go for juicy couture only, buuuut the juicy one's i've seen for resale are at MUCH WORSE PRICES so i was like nevermind lemme just get this one since i can actually try it out and it won't be like, knee length or something LOL!

brand: liz lisa 

the liz lisa top was the one i was most gagged about, since it was only $25. i damn near jumped for JOY since this was also the first vendor that i had went to! the toi et moi cardigan was $30 and the moda international cover up was $28. 

i really like going to thrift markets but it can only be a once-in-a-while thing. since its basically depop IRL, you gotta prepare that mind to not spend too much, and your wallet for when you eventually do LOL.

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i also finally had some packages come in! it was vinted pieces and *drumroll please* the newest drop from hello angel girl since their site reopened and was 60% off! so instead of paying $152 and $40 for the gal's best friend yukata and the gal* necklace, i only paid $60 YASSS!! that was before fees and shipping and all that other good stuff, but i was probably not gonna get a deal like that again (and i have some big girl job money left to spend!), so i went ahead and bought it. 

compared to their other gal stuff, i definitely think this drop has been a good one! i wasn't a major fan of their hime set release (mainly the dress), though i did love the shoes! the dress is basically a ma*rs dupe, and if i'm being completely honest, i kinda just wanted the dress. 

i'm usually a medium top and large bottom, but i sized up according to their size chart. everything fit pretty well... except the bust. UGH. i can't hag on them because they DID say it would be looser to accommodate the obi and jacket, but i lowkey did just want the dress to wear, not gonna lie... and it wasn't just loose in a slightly loose way, but in a TWO BIG GAPING HOLES WAY. don't get me wrong, i love the yukata and i definitely do want to wear it as a set, BUT! you can't just dangle a ma*rs dupe dress in front of a gal and NOT expect her to just want the dress 😭. i'm gonna see if i can get it altered in any way when i go home, since there's a tailor that did my prom dress near my home! cause i'll be DAYUMED if i can't wear the dress by itself, it's way too pretty. and as someone who doesn't fit typical asian size in the slightest, having anything that resembles brand in my size is so needed, so that's why i was super hyped about buying the set! i kinda wish they released the dress on its own since i might have just gotten that. but the yukata itself is so gorg, it just took me too long to figure out how to put it on OOPS. 

here's me with the full set on!

hopefully there's a festival i can wear this to! there's one coming to DC around the time i go back so maybe i'll wear it there if i go! it IS the weekend before school though so i'll see...

all my love,

chele ♡