Today was a good and sunny day! My plan was to down town and meet some friends and go shopping!
This is the look for the day! Outfit of the day is soooo last year, from now on it´s makeup of the day!
You may also have noticed that I re-dyed my hair dark purple again because it had faded!
Stole this picture from Kimii´s Instagram (avantcouture) and for once I look fine HAH
Agepoyo is pretty much last year, so SNIGELPOYO is the new shit. SNIGEL
Being very cute with awesome people! It´s almost like a GAL´s and shit mini version! (me, Eivind, Kimii, Daniel & Ingvild). Pity my bowling head need so much space....
I didn´t find much stuff to buy, in face I only bought a magazine and a brown liquid eyeliner. The reason why I´m buying a brown one is because:
TADAH! Ingvild bought these AMOYAMO x Eyemazing lashes, but she didn´t like them so I got them <3 I LOVE THEM.
And also got the new EGG issue (Nemoyayo´s hair color is so perfect! Flawless) and I got a GYDA makeup pouch with it! I actually wanted to buy Ageha since there is a Ank Rouge purse coming with the magazine, but honestly I´ve never read Ageha since it´s not my style of gyaru so I choose EGG. The pouch is handy anyway.
However something I still find funny is that EGG don´t have any age limit. I mean HONESTLY...
COME ON......my two words. Even if it´s cartoon I think there need to be an age limit eh...
Or maybe they have, but I´m blind? Or maybe people just don´t care at all.
So as the title says: Matsuoka Rie most known for Okarie has announced her graduation from Popteen magazine. Words cannot describe how big impact this had on me and when I got the news I literally wanted to cry.
For me Okarie is not only a style icon, but also a role model and very ´´down to earth´´-person despite her gaining so much fame those last years. I know she is one of the most hardworking gyarus out there and everything she has achieved by hard work she deserves to the fullest. The only reason I kept reading Popteen was because of Okarie. No that she no longer going to model for the magazine I have no reason whatsoever to read it anymore, but I´ll support her to the very end.
I understand that she has way to much work with Ank Rouge and if it was me I would also make the same choice. I would be more depressed if she would chose away Ank.
This is what Okarie said in her interview of graduation:
Today I have important news for everyone.
My life has certainly been one full of unforgettable moments. Today is a turning point in that life.
It’s sudden but…
Today, April 1st, with the release of the May issue of Popteen, I will be graduating from Popteen.
And coincidentally, along with that, I’ve been given the cover page!! (/_;)
The opening 8 page article contains the graduation announcement.
Thank you everyone who has already given me comments.
The official announcement release is the 1st, so I haven’t written about it until today.
Please allow me to accurately report my own words.
About graduating from Popteen…around what month did I start becoming aware of it…
I had just turned 19 when I first appeared in Popteen.
It’s a “teen” magazine, and that was my last year as a teen, so I was a bit of a late bloomer.
Until then, I had been living an ordinary life in my hometown.
But I wanted to DO something, so I applied to become a Popteen reader model.
Around my first appearance, I wondered if people would really look at my photographs.
“I really want to become better at modeling!” I said.
At that time, it was only a dream for me.
When I was 20, I started my own brand “Ank Rouge”, which was like a dream - I was so happy.
Popteen also assisted by devoting a page to it.
Every day became so busy.
When the new store opened, I tried with all my might to keep the balance between my business and modeling.
And so,
age 21, 22, 23 years…
I became aware that I was the oldest one.
My juniors increased.
I too slowly started to wonder…
I spoke firsthand with the editor-in-chief about my graduation.
After the decision was made that day,
I felt so lonely and so apologetic.
That’s what I remember from that day.
I couldn’t stop the tears.
I couldn’t say the word “graduation”.
While I was crying, I kept saying “um…by the way..um…” over and over again.
Despite that, the editor-in-chief was able to notice…
“Yes, what’s wrong?” she said.
She kindly watched over me as she listened.
Even with that tenderness, I couldn’t stop crying.
Time passed, and finally, I was able to say what I wanted to.
Graduating from my beloved Popteen makes me very, very sad, but…
Ank’s debut,
being given the cover shot,
being able to plan over 100 features,
being allowed to design the Popteen cafe uniform,
producing the Ank Rouge appendix every issue,
There’s nothing I haven’t done with Popteen,
I have no regrets,
this is how I feel.
And so, wanting to step things up, I graduate while looking forward.
To be honest,
at first, I was just a blogger, and then I founded Ank as the director…
I can only wear Ank clothing, so I became unable to be in the fashion pages.
So when I called myself a “Pop model”, I was kind of filled with uneasiness, thinking, can I really say that?
But, now that I’ve been given a graduation feature and cover page, I can say truthfully that graduating is the first time I’ve really hurt Popteen.
That is my testimony about graduating.
And so, having been given a warm send out, from the bottom of my heart, I thank you all.
With my graduation, I really really did not expect to be given the cover page.
Thank you to everyone who helped me with the magazine features up until now.
I apologize for the sudden graduation.
Without the help of Popteen, I’m someone with no redeeming features, so it is certainly with everyone’s help that I was able to get this far.
I really, really love Popteen.
I will absolutely miss the monthly photoshoots, but I won’t look back - I will continue to walk looking forward!
I am no longer a Popteen model, but Okarie is still Okarie!
I will keep doing my best with my blog and Ank Rouge.
I still have a long ways to go, so your help will make me very happy.
Graduation is not the end, it’s simply the beginning of something new.
I too don’t know what’s next, but I’ll keep looking forward!
To the beloved Popteen editorial department and staff, beloved Popteen models, all the readers, everyone who has helped me - thank you so very much!!
This is the cover of Popteen may 2013 which is gonna be Okarie´s last cover and issue. She looks so gorgeous and I´ll buy Popteen for the last time just for the cover haha! I got the one issue from october 2010 when she was also on the cover when Ank Rouge started.
Let´s have a look back to some of Okarie´s pages in Popteen shall we?
When Ank Rouge was released Okarie got on the cover and I knew from the very moment I saw the picture of her she was gonna be my favorite gyaru.
Some make-up and hair tutorials. She proved that gyaru is not only about long hair, but that you can look just at gyaru with short hair. While the other Pop-models moved on and went for more natural-looking makeup, Okarie stayed true to her more dramatic looking makeup all the time and for me she was the only gyaru left in popteen. The other ´´gals´´just look like normal girls wearing lenses and lashes to me now.
...and finally this is how the covers looks like.
I wish her all the luck with Ank and her blog. Unlike other gyarus who graduated from magazines (and started modeling for an another magazine) Okaries doesn´t plan on starting modeling for other magazines so she will just keep her crooz blog and work with Ank Rouge.
Final shooting for the Cover
Okarie leaving her fans a message.
Haha the only one who can make ´´sugoooi´´sound so cute :´D
Today was indeed a very fun day. Most people have what we call ´´winter holiday´´, but as I´m in Uni I don´t have one, instead we have something called study day. I´m supposed to study on this day, but since my friend Christine was coming all the way from Sandefjord to Oslo I thought the reading could wait for tomorrow. So I went down town to meet her. My friend Martin was also there so we three went to have some bubble tea at the new bubble tea store inside Oslo city.
peak-a-ru! I see you!
I had passion fruit milk tea and Christine had mango milk tea, Martin had mango fruit tea. I´m not really a fan of the fruit tea myself though.
The man behind the desk at the shop was really sweet and friendly, I prefer the tea they have at Grünerløkka more, but the service at this shop was so SO much better!
It´s been a long time since I last curled my hair so today I had to give it a go. Only sleek curls, didn´t have enough time to ´´mori´´it up, but I like it nonetheless.
After that we went to have some burgers and chit-chatted for a looong time, then we went out to take some pictures.
Taken by Martin when I wasn´t paying attention, but somehow the best pictures of me are always accidentally taken by someone else heh.... I really like this picture!The shadow on my forehead is kinda weird, but never mind that ok?
I don´t post outfits very often as the lighting inside my room is terrible and I don´t have someone else to
snap pictures of me, but since Martin is studying photography I made him snap one.
If only I had my personal photographer or something hahah!
Jacket: Liz Lisa
Top: Tralala
Shorts: Ageha Shibuya
Bag: Tralala
my roots are unforgivable, but please bare with it. Gonna fix it soon!
Got myself some new stuff. I recently lost my MAC lipstick so I had to get a new one, this time I went to the drugstore to buy one . Since I always seem to loose my expensive make-up I might as well stick to cheap ones :´(
...and the new issue off EGG. I love this issue as summer is coming and there were a few tan gyarus and interesting street snaps!
My friday morning started with terrible luck. The way to Uni that usually takes me around 15 min took me this morning one hour.
ONE HOUR!!
....what a waste of time. I hate wasting my time.
First I managed to board the wrong subway. From where I live, only number 3 and 4 goes all the way to Uni, but I managed to go on number 1. This was not the first time, it has happened before, but here comes the better part of the story:
After I took the train back to the center I boarded the number 5 which I was sure went to Uni, but heck no. So I managed to take wrong subway TWICE and had to take the subway back to center one again to get on the right one.
I guess it was due to lack of sleep the past week and so being tired I could´t focus at all.
Friday night I went home to my parents. My brother was celebrating his 11th birthday and mum asked me if I could come and help. He had invited 10 classmates over for an sleepover-party. Crazy kid. I haven´t felt to tired since I started at Uni. I know this weekend has been completely alcohol free, but it feels like I´m having a terrible hangover right now. Last night I only got 2-3 hours of sleep because the boys would´t shut up.
This was how I looked like. Right now I hate my hair....I have no clue about what to do with it .
The first thing I heard when I arrived was ´´Did you dye your hair again? IT´S TOO LIGHT´´.
Having a old fashioned mum and me being into gyaru has never helped me much hahah :´D
On my way to the train station I decided to drop by Neo Tokyo to get my monthly issue of Egg.
I love the cover of Egg february. After the disaster of a cover from Egg´s january issue, I´m glad they choose to have Mirai Saito as cover girl (with blonde hair). I´m not a big fan of Hana (brown hair), but I´m a really big fan of Mirai so it´s ok.
Last, but not least... I know I should be doing this right now as I don´t have much money to spend, but...
This Liz Lisa skirt wanted me to buy her! It was love at first sight when I saw it on gyaru sale.
The price was fair so I thought ´´why not?´´. I´m not gonna spend much money this months anyway since I´ll be going home to work every weekend.
Yeah, my dad is going to China so I´ll be working every weekend in february. It´s okay since I get paid, but it also sucks because I wanna spend my weekends with friends and go out.
So let´s continue from previous post. I wanna thank everyone who came and made the night unforgettable!
This pic is hilarious. Don´t take it serious we were joking obviously. STRIKE A VOGUE.
I didn´t expect any presents, but some people still gave me. <3 Thank you!
Power stone-bracelets from Ingvild. Apparently they are quite popular among gals right now. She made it herself and
I love it <3
I also got a bottle of wine from Monica and Maria, amazing hand cream from my roommate Viktoria and Janicke is gonna take me out for dinner this Saturday omg <3 I love my life!
On friday I went shopping. I wanted to look for something wearable for the party, but ended up buying
loads of other stuff.
Necklace from Zara. I love love LOVE it!
Necklaces from H&M it was take 2 pay for 1 so I only paid 99kr!
Egg and a new book to read lol!
I heard the was an article on the Gal unit: ´Black Diamond´in there so I had to get it. I´ve been really obsessed with them lately, because of their crazy old school-style!
I had a wonderful weekend and I hope everyone had fun too!
