Long Ears & Sharp Ears: Hiding in the Gift Box

 I've been looking a lot at different taobao brands and there is so many amazing lolita brands on taobao. This adorable dress comes from Long Ears & Sharp Ears and is called 'Hiding in the Gift Box'. This is such a cute original print series and looks really sweet. So who is hiding in the Gift Box? Little cute kittens and snugly bun buns. Its a quite detailed print and has an adorable art style.

It comes in two different cuts, a jsk and a shorter salopette. The jsk is really cute and looks like it has a really nice shape. I love the fancy gift ribbon on the bodice and that it goes across vertically too on the side like cute gift wrapping. To separate the boarder print and the rest of the print it looks like draped scallops as a curtain which makes the dress look less plain. 

They have some great coordinate photos showing that dress would be great for a ott sweet lolita coord. This outfit is just really adorable. I notices a lot of taobao shops have amazing photoshoots, cant wait to share more of them with you all!

I also just had to show you some of these adorable pictures with this little girl! I'm not sure if this kids size dress is available right now but they had some other lolita dresses in kids size. This is just so cute!

For another cute dress from a taobao brand, check out Pumpkin Cat's dress series Lemon Cat!

I put together all these graphics myself, hope you like them and thanks for reading!

//Love Mintyfrills

Kawaii Box - Cute Subscription Box!

I just got the cute subscription box called 'Kawaii Box' home to review and I think its adorable. There are many subscriptionboxes no a days, and I think this is a nice one of you like cute things.

★★★  Click here for a change to win one for free!!  ★★★

I made a video of my unboxing and review that you can see here:

I'm happy with the Kawaii Box, here's a picture of everything that came in the box:

My favorite thing was the stickers and the bunny plush! I use stickers for my crafts a lot and I love collecting plushies to decorate my room with.

//Love Mintyfrills.

Outfit: Sugary Spring Happy Garden

I wanted to do a really sweet outfit and thought I hadn't worn this dress in a while! I really love Happy Garden, its such a super cute print. I know a lot of people don't like the highwaisted cuts but I think they suit me.

Outfit rundown:

Dress, cutsew, shoes, bag, socks, hair bows, bow bracelet, rings: Angelic Pretty

Wig: Dream Holic

I ended up changing out the necklaces to an other one I made in paler colors. I also changed the shoes since my Angelic Pretty ones need to be fixed! (The bottom of them is coming off) I also added some pink bows to the front of the dress which I really think pulls the look together. Even though this is an easter themed print I don't want to limit myself to just wearing it for easter. Its a cute dress with cute bun buns for any time of the year!

I did really cute and sweet makeup, its been a long time since I wore both circle lenses and a wig! I love this wig, the colors are so cute. I've been making these star clips that I really like, I want to make more of them, maybe some to sell?

Here are two extra outfit pictures, hope you like this look!

//Love Mintyfrills

Angelic Pretty: top 5 silly bags!

I really love silly bags, I have a few myself and Angelic Pretty have been releasing some really cute ones this year, so I decided to make a top 5 list of my favorite silly AP bags of 2015!

#5

Starting out my list is this pretty cross bag on fifth place, I really love all the pearl details and the over sized pearls that make out the handle makes it just perfect!

#4

Who doesn't love an Alice in wonderland theme? This bag has nice big 'drink me' tag that makes it super cute. Having a big bottle also makes you look more tiny like a doll.

#3

Angelic Pretty makes the purrfect plush bags and this kitty is no exception! Made to match with Dolly Cat and just super fluffy and adorable.

#2

The Fantastic Carnival bag is this super cute bunny with lots of bows and a fluffy tail. It also comes in white and both colorways are adorable.

#1

My favorite silly Angelic Pretty bag of 2015 is this perfectly cute teddy backpack. It is one of my favorite plush bags they have ever released, the colors are just perfect and it looks so soft. The wings are a super nice detail too. It barely has any room too put anything inside it, but it doesn't have to be practical if its this cute!

Hope you liked my list!

//Love Minty

Angelic Pretty new print: Fantastic Carnival

Angelic Pretty will be releasing yet an other carnival print and it is looking really cute! Also that bag is fantastic! I hope I can get my hands on it.~

//Love Minty

Angelic Pretty Themes: Berries

Angelic Pretty have released quite a few prints with berry themes and I'm going to give you some history on them! Hope you enjoy it. See this as a way to learn some print names also.

the right side one.

Strawberry Princess 

released: 2003

Going back to the old school before custom prints were a big thing in lolita. The simple patern reminds me of drained cherry, but I really miss this typ of detailed OP. This dress is perfect for a country lolita coord going out for a nice picnic.

Cherry Print

released: 2004

Sweet Berry

released: 2005

The name of this dress is unsure as Angelic Pretty released an other dress with the same name a year later. I think that since prints were not as big back then the names were not really that important to them either.

Sweet Berry

released: 2006

A few years later Angelic Pretty releases an other simple berry print. I like the earlier one more but this is also super cute. Prints were still not a big deal at this point. Solid colors were the thing in sweet lolita.

Ichigo Millfeuille

released: 2007

I really love this print and I think the mint colorway actually looks good, red and mint can be hard to coord. This dress can often be found for pretty cheap.

Pretty Cherry

released: 2008

Strawberry Picking

released: 2008

Sweet Ribbon Strawberry

released: 2008

This dress looks like a mess on a small picture but it has a lovely gingham print with rows of strawberries. I own this dress myself and I love it! It really has a old school lolita feel and the print looks great more up close!

Cherry Berry Bunny

released: 2009

This dress has the genius idea to mix lovely berries with really cute bunnies and the result is great! Boarder prints start to get more common and this is a good example of it, it's at this point where there started to be more focus on the print than on the dress details.

Milky Berry

released: 2010

Angelic Pretty continue to consistently produce berry prints every year. This time an other boarder print, I really love the look of this one. around 2010 is when OTT sweet lolita was really huge!

Strawberry Parlour

released: 2011

They again release a strawberry milkshake dress, the detailing on this dress is really cute!

Freshly Picked Strawberries

released: 2013

Drained Cherry

released: 2013

Really popular release, seems like people are looking for more casual dresses since OTT sweet is in a huge decline.

Berry Garden

released: 2014

I think this dress looks way to much like Freshly Picked Strawberries! They are both nice prints but really, they look the same.

Drained Cherry

re-released: 2015

Since it was popular it was released again and sold out pretty quickly again.

Cherry Marguerite

released: 2015

not yet released as I am writing this but there seems to be a lot of hype surrounding it, we'll see if it sells out quickly or not! Angelic Pretty have been releasing hit print after hit print. when will their customers run out of money to spend?

Melty Berry Princess

released: 2015

Also not yet released but really anticipated! I think all their prints have been really on point this year so far, cant wait to see coords with all these berry prints!

I will try to make more AP theme posts of people like this! Have a good berry coord? Comment with a link to it and I might feature you in a future post!

//Love Minty

Retro Sugar

Simple cute and feminine outfit in pretty pastels.

1. Blue Coat - H&M $85

2. Retro Dress - kokokim $73

3. Duralia Phonecase - Malene Birger $37

4. Abigails Party heels - Irregular Choice $136

5. Cat Tights - $10

6. Bunny Pins - ManiaQ $7

7. Bunny Totebag - Nile Perch $33

(if you wear this coord send it to me or write #mintycoord, and I might feature you!)

//Love Minty