So on that friday, I had to wake up very early... 4:00AM. It was hard. Haha. My train for Paris was leaving at 6:14 so I didn't have much time. I dressed up, took all my stuff and left for the station. Marie-Lou joined me directly in the train at the next stop and the 3 hours trip to Paris was actually quite short as I slept most of the time. Once arrived, we first stopped at our hotel to leave our luggage and then we headed to our first destination: the Angelic Pretty Paris boutique!
We were quite early and the shop wasn't open yet, but nobody was waiting already so we just went to buy something to drink and came back. Some girls had arrived and they had tickets. We then wondered how? We didn't have any ourselves and didn't even know how to get one, but in the end it wasn't that important as only 7 girls had tickets and could enter the shop first.
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| We are so lucky to have an AP shop in Europe! |
Before leaving for Paris, I spotted a super lovely rain coat that I loved, but it was already sold out on the Japanese website so the day before I asked Paris' staff to put the coat aside for me and paid it with Paypal. So, I didn't care that much to enter the shop first as my item was already secured and paid!
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| Marianne coat, perfect for rainy days! |
I tried on the lovely skirt from the Sweet Bakery series. It fitted me, but it was not super comfortable so I didn't buy it in the end. I was a bit disappointed because I had so many coords ideas with this skirt already!
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| Oh dear skirt, why weren't you 2cm bigger? |
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| I want this to be a badge... It would go so well with my French Café JSK.... |
After spending quite a lot of time in the Angelic Pretty shop (I had to wait to try on the skirt actually). We took our tea party tickets and new purchases and left for lunch. Marie-Lou wanted to eat in her favourite Japanese restaurant nearby so we went there. I wasn't very hungry, but well I always have some space for Japanese food! Haha. I took Shoyu Ramen and they were actually really really good, even if I couldn't finish my bowl...
A thing that I really wanted to try in Paris was a bubble tea. I consider myself a bubble tea expert as I am manager in a bubble tea shop and often prepares tea and tapioca. When travelling, I like to taste different teas and compare it to the ones I make. We had a bit of difficulty to find the shop, Zen Zoo, but it was worth it as their bubble teas are quite good! I took a small one with a lime flavour. It was delicious and refreshing, the only "bad" thing was that their tapioca bubbles were a bit too soft for my taste. Anyway, if you're in Paris and want a good bubble tea, you can definitely go to Zen Zoo!
Time was running fast and we were a bit late on our schedule. We went back to our hotel to rest a bit in our room and then headed to the Japan Expo. We arrived there around 16:00 and god, oh god... I immediately told myself "why are you infliciting yourself this?" It was SO HOT and SO CROWDED. Definitely I am too old for this shit. Haha! How can people spend a full day there? Or worse 4 days full days there?! I stayed less than 3 hours and I was dead already! I used to do it ten years ago, but I can't imagine how I could now!
Last time I went to Japan Expo was in 2008 and I actually wouldn't have even planned to go again if my friend Marie didn't have a stall with her brand, Kawaii Style! I really really really wanted to support her and see her dream come physically true after all her hard work! We went directly to Kawaii Style booth where I hugged Marie immediately and then browsed what she had for sale. She had plenty of amazing Liz Lisa items and I fell in love with their Choco Dip Cherry series. The white dress was just adorable and I couldn't resist buying it! Yay, my very first Liz Lisa item! I also bought the necklace from the same series for Marie-Lou as a gift!
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| Liz Lisa items at Kawaii Style booth! |
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| Kawaii Style had the cutest socks too! |
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| The dress I bought ♥ Choco Dip Cherry! |
As I bought for more than 100euros of Liz Lisa products, I could have my picture taken with the beautiful model Ripanyan who came all the way from Japan! She was so pretty! I was so happy being able to have a picture with her!
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| I love this picture so much! ♥ |
After talking with Marie a bit more, we left her with her other clients and went to browse some other booths! Marie-Lou also really wanted to go to the Sailor Moon shop, so I went with her even if I'm not really a fan of Sailor Moon myself. I tried very hard not to buy all the Fallout 4 goodies on the way... It was hard, really. It's one of my ultimate favourite games and I love everything that is Vault-Tec related (you'll see, one day I'll make a Vault Boy inspired Lolita outfit! Haha). In the end, I still bought a Fallout 4 lucky bag for 10 euros and got a super nice keychain and badges inside, so I'm quite happy with it!
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| So many Fallout 4 goodies! |
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| What was inside my Fallout 4 lucky bag! Quite happy with it! |
There also was an Hello Kitty/Sanrio booth where you could make wishes and hang them on a (fake) cherry tree. I wrote one for myself (that I will keep secret of course), so I hope it'll come true :) We got a free sample of an Hello Kitty perfume, that actually smells quite good!
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| Cute wishes! I hope they'll all come true! |
The day was slowly coming to an end and we were dead tired, so we went back to Kawaii Style booth to say goodbye to Marie and left for the train station........ except that everybody was leaving for the train station too and it was clogged. There was REALLY no way to even get into the station and we didn't know what to do. We first waited for a while, then walked to see if we could cross the train rails somewhere else, gave up and came back to the station where we eventually found a way to go to the other side where we could finally enter the station easily, took the first coming train and even had seats. TOTAL WIN. I'm still praying for people who are still stuck there! Hahahaha. I swear it was an ocean of people. I wonder how long did some of them take to go back home? Awful.
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| Sea of people... and that's only part of the queue.... |
At the hotel, we quickly took a shower and as we were too tired to do anything else we just went to have MacDonald's. Well, Marie-Lou and I then quickly went to bed but couldn't really sleep as some lady was having a lot of fun somewhere in the building if you know what I mean... she was moaning loudly and we didn't really know what to do! That was so awkward!!! We could't close the window because the room wasn't air conditoned so we just waited until she (they?) had engouh.... ^^'''''''''''
That's it for this first day! Let's continue in a another entry with our journey to Disneyland Paris!!!
