Brand: Replica of Alice and the Pirates

Print Name: Mid­sum­mer Night Dream Ver­sion II

Col­or­ways: Navy, Ivory, Black

Retail Price: Esti­mated $250-$350USD (Non-inclusive)

Rar­ity: (Of the orig­i­nal) Mod­er­ately Rare

Repli­ca­tor: Oo Jia

Price of Replica: $104.50 USD (inclu­sive of ship­ping, and extras)

Over­all Score: 4/5

 

On Tues­day, I received the Oo Jia replica I ordered in Feb­ru­ary. I have never ordered from Oo Jia so this is a first time, unbi­ased review for her and her replications.

I IM’d her via Face­book on the 12th of Feb­ru­ary and received it just about a month later. I have heard of occa­sional delay, so the expe­ri­ence with ship­ping and make time will vary with her.

The pack­age was sur­pris­ingly undam­aged except for what looks like a hole that some­one tried to poke open. The over­all pack­age looked like it hadn’t spent more than a day in tran­sit.

Pack­aged dress shown here. Already, you can see the details of the dress. They look fairly decent.

The first things to come out of the wrap­ping! A head­bow, corset-lacing bodice bows and a pair of Secret Shop socks.

The dress laid out is quite impres­sive. It has vol­ume of its own with­out a pet­ti­coat, and while miss­ing a few minor details, the print qual­ity is sur­pris­ingly vivid and accu­rate with min­i­mal edge blur­ring.

The back of the dress is shirred with the lace serv­ing as the loop­ing for the corset ties. As far as the siz­ing accu­racy goes for this dress, I’d say it was ok. It was a lit­tle on the tight side, but it’s not ter­ri­ble and unwear­able. The zip­per does get stuck (actu­ally, most invisa-zips seem to do this. Or atleast they do for me. orz)

Details in the straps of the JSK.

Hav­ing seen this print in real life, it looks almost real. The actual give away, isn’t so much the print qual­ity itself, rather, the orig­i­nal has a type of waf­fle weave in the fab­ric and because of this, you can see the tex­ture of it from a glance. The replica is printed on a poplin(?) cot­ton and is very smooth to look at. 

The beau­ti­ful sil­ver rose but­tons used to attach the waist ties.

The brand name of the orig­i­nal printed on to the replica. Which doesn’t bother me because it shows who really owns the print.

The stitch qual­ity. Not ter­ri­ble. So far, I’ve only found two loose threads that were prob­a­bly from the bob­bin thread.

On the ruf­fle of the dress, I did find a few weird lit­tle white spots in the print that shouldn’t be there. Keep in mind how­ever, I was scru­ti­niz­ing this dress with pretty much a mag­ni­fy­ing glass.

The only thing I hate about the head bow (actu­ally this goes for the bodice bows too) is that the mid­dle is not secured entirely. Thus, the bot­tom wings of the bow are free to slide around giv­ing them a sloppy look. Espe­cially so for the bodice bows because they are satin and that stuff slides like ice on glass.

Decent look­ing but slip­pery. The pins in them aren’t secured either.

Over all, I really do like this replica. I made a mis­take in the type of JSK I wanted as I wanted JSK ver. I and not Ver II (shown). This was entirely my fault. The extra bow on the bodice does not suit me, so adding a waist belt, helps with defin­ing my shape in the (for me) some-what unflat­ter­ing cut. I give this an 4/5

Alter­ations I am considering:

- A pocket.

- Removal of the bot­tom bodice bow/lacing.

After see­ing a review for BB cream being used on a darker lady, I decided to take a leap of faith and buy Skn79’s Triple Action BB cream. It came pretty quickly, so I’m really excited to do this review.

Now, it says that it’s sup­posed to whiten, with SPF 25, and improve blem­ishes and wrin­kles. So far, I’ve only used it once and it does a pretty good job of min­i­miz­ing my crater pores, and cov­er­ing up some light scar­ring I have from a ner­vous habit. I’ll keep you posted on whether or not those scars improve with use.

The cream looks neu­tral enough, and IRL it’s a lit­tle hard to see just how bright your skin gets, but as you will see, pho­tos pick up on it extremely well.

Bwua­haha, I started putting on foun­da­tion. At least, you can see the dif­fer­ence in tones between my foun­da­tion which is Revlon Pho­tore­ady in Medium Beige and the BB cream.

Now, I don’t look like so much of a ghost. This is the foun­da­tion fully blended into the BB cream. It’s about as typ­i­cally bright as my foun­da­tion by itself is. There is only a slight dif­fer­ence.  Please ignore my hair­line, because I typ­i­cally wear wigs, I don’t blend my foun­da­tion up into my hairline.

There! The com­pleted make up look. It’s not so notice­able here at all. It does, how­ever, do won­ders for the smooth­ness of the pho­tos. My ver­dict? Secret IRL pho­to­shoop. I also approve this for use for girls with medium skin tones. I do agree with other makeup gurus, girls with skin that is too dark should prob­a­bly avoid this prod­uct and con­tinue with a plain mois­tur­izer.

Over­all: ★ ★ ★ ★ ½

Pack­ag­ing: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tone Match: ★ ★ ★ ½

Cov­er­age: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Rec­om­mend: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Neck­lace: Forever21 /*  Blouse: Forever21 /*  Rose clip: Char­lotte Russe

Neck­lace: Forever21 /*  Blouse: Forever21 /*  Rose clip: Char­lotte Russe /* Skirt: Forever21 /* Bracelet & Ring: Forever21 /* Purse: Juicy Couture

It’s finally got­ten to the point where just, IDGAF about what any­one thinks of my weight and size. I’m fuck­ing beau­ti­ful and I know it. I’m not going to stop exer­cis­ing and diet­ing, but this whole being ashamed of wear­ing skirts and shorts is just bull. I’m 21 years old, nearly 22 and I can’t feel com­fort­able in my own skin because the media says I shouldn’t. Guess what? Fuck you, and the rock­ing horse shoes you rode in on.    

Dream of Lolita. We have all heard about them by now. They’ve caused huge splashes with their repro­duc­tion of pop­u­lar Angelic Pretty prints, and the extreme pop­u­lar­ity of one in par­tic­u­lar; Sug­ary Car­ni­val. A replica that was released around the same time Angelic Pretty decided to re-release the orig­i­nal print. There’s too many mixed opin­ions on the repli­ca­tion of these dresses and prints; at this point, I’m for it espe­cially for girls who either can’t seem to find a real one, need one for every day (and own a real one) or can’t fit a real one.  To me, it’s a bandaid.

 

Please be warned: this is extremely image heavy.

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