Fashion Valentine: Kate Davis

This weeks fashion valentine is the adorable Kate Davis! I've admired her fashion sense for a long time and I love seeing her new outfits. Kate is a fashionista and catlover from the US. She is an amazing lolita but she also dresses in many other styles like Otome and Larme kei. I think she brings her own style and aesthetic into any style she wears. Be sure to follow her on instagram!

Since as you all know I'm a huge fan of ott sweet lolita I wanted to start there. I just love the ott sweet coord Kate made with wrapping heart (I want that dress so much!!). All the hair ribbons just go perfectly with the style of the dress and coording it with lavender looks just adorable. I want this whole outfit. I love the look on the right because she just looks like a fairytale princess. Matching gold with that dress actually works really well and the light type of gold color is balanced out by her lovely hair.

I love that she does these retro inspired looks, it suits her so well. The popcorn inspired outfit is both fun and adorable. The milkshake printed top and skirt are so whimsy and cute, it looks both retro and modern on trend at the same time. Love it!

The sweet pale pink pastels and white she uses for her larme kei type outfits look so dreamy. It looks so soft and pretty. I love that she does the outfit pictures with some balloons on the floor and on the right her adorable fluffy cat also wants to join. Her photos are really nice.

Even though this is a pretty simple coord it still looks so perfect. The bunny bag works extra well since the color matches her hair. She styles her hair so nicely and I love her makeup. Another soft and dreamy outfit.

I love that Kate can adapt to any style she wants to. She has always been a pro at staying with the modern trends coming up while still keeping her own personal style. She makes anything she wears look gorgeous. Kate is a very kind and supportive friend and a huge inspiration to me. Keep being awesome and I look forward to seeing more outfits from you.

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//Love Mintyfrills

Outfit: Honey Cake

Recently I wore Honey Cake, I've had this dress for a long time and it's still one of my favorites! Many people ask me how I could get this 'rare' print and I find it funny since when it came out it wasn't really popular. Actually it was sold on sale from Angelic Pretty. I bought it cheap from mbok with headbow and matching bracelet. Then people started to seeing amazing coords with it and it gained popularity. Might of been that when it came out the sugary sweet style was still the thing.

Outfit rundown:

Dress, cutsew, bag, shoes, bracelet, ring: Angelic Pretty

socks: Baby the Stars Shine Bright

beret, hair bow, cherries, rosette: Made by me

sunglasses, bow ring: off brand 

Since my hair is blue now I decided to coord my honey cake with blue, there is actually a lot of blue in the print. And red really pops with this dress. I made the beret to match with this dress. I tried to keep with the food theme with adding the cherries, strawberry ring and 'drink me' socks. 

Did my make-up a bit differently, wanted a really doll like look with huge eyes.

//Love Mintyfrills

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

Angelic Pretty: Cherry Marguerite

Angelic Pretty will be releasing the anticipated Cherry Marguerite this weekend, it will be interesting to see how quickly it sells out! My favorite this time is the red OP, I honestly don't like the other colorways that much but it will be interesting to see how people will coord them! Are you getting this one or are you still holding out for an other dream dress?

//Love Minty

Angelic Pretty: Drained Cherry re-release

Angelic Pretty are doing a re-release of drained cherry this week! I have to say that I didnt like it at all when it was first released and I still dont like it now. There are a hundred prints I would rather see them do re-releases of. Im starting to get really curious about which prints will cone up next since I will be in their San Fransisco store in one month, hope they will have some good stuff in!!

//Love Minty