/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8937672
>someone obviously hasn't heard of kuragehime
egl may have hated on it when it was first released, for incredibly stupid reasons but since then times have very much changed and quite a number of lolitas have fallen in love with this dress (and the Kuragehime series it was based from). many have it as their holy grails because it's now a literal unicorn (has never appeared for sale even once since) but also because it's actually quite gorgeous in its details. at least try to know what you're talking about.

>tfw people in this day and age still call entire actually nice older dresses "ita" based on shit preferences such as "too oldschool" (while drooling over shit bodyline and taobao or all of the latest popular releases) or "too much lace" (too stuck in the oldschool mentality) or "i don't like it, therefore it's ita"

Lately I've been feeling a real lack of purpose. When I was younger adults would always comment that I was "going places" because I did so well in school and seemed to have my shit together. In the last five years I seem to have fallen apart. I used to throw myself into school and my hobbies like j fashion and cosplay because my home life was a total wreck. I think I just burned myself out though and now I haven't accomplished anything of worth. I didn't go to college. I never traveled. I never grew comfortable in my own skin. Recently I met up with an old friend and she's doing amazing things with her life. She has a kick ass job that pays out the butt. She has a gorgeous home. She's going back to school to persue a degree in something more creative. In comparison I'm a slob. I can't get this voice out of my head telling me I'll never amount to anything and I'll just live and die in the same white trash neighborhood I've been in my whole life. Whenever I try to take a step in the right direction I get pushed back somehow. My car was recently totaled. Money is super tight. I just spend all my time looking at coords online and dreaming.

Today I went out with a friend and I just felt so completely frumpy and gross. Lately I've been trying to put more effort into my look but all I seem to be accomplishing is making myself feel bad. My skin looked dull so I started taking better care of it and once it started looking nice I immediately noticed how shit my hair is. Now I'm currently working on fixing that. But there is still so much I need to improve on and it's just depressing. I suppose it doesn't help that while I was out I saw someone I used to know and she looked absolutely stunning. She really came into her own and even my friend who didn't know her commented 'such a cute girl'. I felt like a sack of potatoes in comparison. How will I ever be confident enough for J fashion? It's been a big driving factor behind all my self improvement. I want to be cute and frilly and feel like a princess for once in my life. I think I'm just going to be stuck as the ugly step sister though.