Tsuyome Gyaru Day Out - With My Gal Bestie Rihanna!

Hey cutie gals! It's the last day of the holidays as I am writing, but on Saturday I went on a fantastic outing to the city with the fabulous, glamourous, ravishing Rihanna! 

A week of tutoring outfits

 A Week Of Outfits - Holiday Tutoring Edition!

Hi cutie gals! Another post! Third one this week! And one will be coming on Sunday too!

I'm feeding you well now because...school begins on Tuesday...so you might have to fast, or at least go on a water diet.

Anyways, as I do each holidays, I have been attending english tutoring at matrix 🥲 it's Monday - Thursday for two hours in the morning. It's really handy though, so I don't mind. 

It's also a way for me to get out of the house and get dressed up, which I haven't really done much up until this holidays. Normally, my holidays are pretty isolated buuu~

I also wanted to try the outfit check format that was pretty standard for gyaru blogs where they'd say where each thing was from, except mine is all just Australian stores 🙄

Liz Lisa Style Dress Sewing Tutorial 

Happy easter cutie gals!

Finally exams are over and the term has come to a close, and I've been able to spend lot's of time sewing. Because I will have so much time over the holidays, I'm going to try pre-prepare tutorials then, so I can post consistently for you all during term!

Anyways, today I'll be teaching you how to make this beautiful dress, which is a pretty similar copy to this dress from a Liz Lisa 2009 release. This dress was so cute, I chose to wear it as my Easter Sunday dress, paired with a super cute bow.

I've seen many different versions of it, but sometimes its hard to tell which are replicas and which are just using the same fabric but in a different cut.

This dress is absolutely delectable, as i've made it with a very handy elasticated/faux smocked back, a gathered skirt and lace fagoting on the sleeves and close to the skirt hem.

Overall, the construction of this dress is quite straightforward, as we are not adding a zipper in or doing anything fancy with the sleeves (though you can if you'd like!), but it is the pattern drafting which is a bit tricky.

If you've never ever drafted a pattern yourself before and aren't familiar with the general idea of how different pieces would be shaped, I honestly wouldn't recommend doing this, but if you've used a commercial pattern or made your own bodice block before, I reckon you'll get the hang of this easy.

Easter show blog

 Easter show visit 2026 - blog

Happy belated easter cutie gals! Yesterday, I went with 🍎 to the Sydney Royal Easter Show! She only moved to Australia last year, so it was her first time at the show. I haven't posted for almost a month now, I'm really sorry! I'll be posting a tutorial by Sunday, I promise! I've been really busy with school, and then was really burnt out, so it's been tough for this little gal!

 Ruffled Sukapan Sewing Tutorial

Be there, or be square, cutie gals! I promised I would upload a new tutorial this week, and I did!

Today I'll teach you how to make this super cute ruffle skirt, which even has built-in shorts!

It's super simple to make, and it only took me about half a day. However, I did use a rolled hem foot, which definitely saved me an hour haha~

If you've sewn once or twice before, I think this is a perfect project for you. If you know how to use a machine but haven't sewn in a long time, I think it is also doable; there can just be a lot of fabric at times, and the amount of rolled hems can be frustrating.

In this tutorial, I'll teach you how to create ruffled layers, add an elastic waistband, draft a pair of safety shorts, and put it all together!

 ~Mate Gal - Weekend day out~

Hey cutie gals!

It's been so long...

I'm sorry! I've simply been so busy with school that I haven't managed my time well enough to make any posts. I'm making a tutorial this weekend, though (once I finish my homework that I'm meant to be doing right now) so you'll have something new by Thursday!

Anyways, today my family and I all went out for my grandmother's birthday to lovely Uruguayan cafes! 

Part of my heritage is Uruguayan, so I always like to take part in culture as well as I can. However, this is pretty hard LOL since there are very few Latinos in Sydney, let alone Uruguayans.

So today, we went on a pilgrimage to Smithfield, where there is not one, but two Uruguayan places!

 Ruched Skirt Sewing Tutorial

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Hello everyone! It's been about two weeks since my last post so today i'll be giving you the tutorial on how I made this super cute and sexy ruched skirt! Similar to my last skirt tutorial, this one is an underbust skirt, but with a whole different vibe.

I wore this to the Sydney Gal Meet, and it was so comfortable and really flattering. I must say, the ruching really emphasises the body shape and is a good way to add texture to an outfit.

I was inspired to make this skirt by an Ageha 11/09 scan I saw on Pinterest. I've been wanting to make this since before I became a gyaru!

It's the skirt worn in the top left, I think I copied it quite well, but because my fabric was on the lighter side, it doesn't have as intense ruching, but if you wanted to have really intense ruching, you could multiply your pattern length by 2.5 instead of 2, but we can get into that later in the tutorial.

This project is super easy to do, even though you make your own pattern (don't worry, it's super easy), it's just working with stretch fabric that makes it take a while. An intermediate sewer could probably knock this out in 2-3 hours. (I took about double, though, as I had to figure out how to make the pattern from scratch and was accidentally using denim needles instead of stretch needles...)

 Gyaru Meet @ Hyde Park With Sydney Gals!

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Look at all those gorgeous gals!!! I don't think I've ever seen a gyarusa outside of Japan so big! At one point, there was almost 30 of us, but only 25 of us are pictured here 😔

Last Friday, I had the magnificent opportunity to go to a Sydney gal meet at Hyde Park, and I made sooooo many amazing friends from all over Sydney and of all different ages. My day was filled to the brim with smiling, eating sweets and attempting to do many different parapara dances.

Diy Agejo rose shoes

Hello darlings! Today, I'm giving you a tutorial on how I made these super cute and super hot heels from some shoes I got from Kmart on clearance. I first made these to wear to the TWICE concert back in November, but I decided to remake them and do a tutorial too!

When I first made these, I only had cream coloured heels from about a year ago, so sadly, it didn't quite match. It was truly just my luck when I found these black shoes in the same model!

I was really inspired by these Agejo-style shoes I found on Pinterest; they're so fun and are fairly versatile. I think they could work for Hime gyaru too if you used white and pink lace. I guess rose motifs unite the two substyles, which is great, because I really love them.

 Happy New Yuri 2026! + Christmas Haul 2025

Happy New Year, everyone!! Finally, it's the end of the holiday season 😅 while it's a lovely way to end the year, I'm pretty tired by the end of it...haha

Hence is why I still haven't posted my Christmas haul from LAST YEAR 😆, so here's everything I got!

Merry Christmas from Maomao too ~ (BTW - these aren't my presents! they're all my extended family's gifts)

Kawaii Underbust Skirt - Sewing Tutorial 

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Hi everyone! This is my first tutorial, and today I'll be recreating/revamping the first garment I ever sewed by myself and giving you a tutorial on how I made it. 

This skirt is soooo cute and flattering, and would be very suitable for an inverted triangle or hourglass body shape. I think it could be incorporated nicely into a himekaji co ord, and I'm planning to make a puffy, off-shoulder top in white to match, which I'll give a tutorial to draft the pattern for and the instructions to assemble. 

However, I have a longggggg list of things I want to make, and I don't have any more space to store fabric, so it could be a while. Don't worry though! I have lots of other cute tutorials planned too 😝

Day out diaries #1: noraebang with my besties!!

Day out diaries #1: noraebang with my besties!!

Wow, my summer has started fantastic! Today, I went to karaoke with N and Apple for the first time - it was so fun! I spent the morning tidying up my room though, normally I am pretty clean, but after the exam block burnout was BAD, and my room just had lots of workbooks and yarn everywhere haha… It’s still not clean…but I did make a start!

 Hello darling world!

October 14…December 11…

They’re basically the same!! With timezones they’re just like a few days apart right? 😅

Anyways, today is the day I do my first ever blog post! October 14 was the first day I actually opened up my WordPress account and started kind of “drafting” what I was going to do, but today I’m actually doing what I set out to do! Hooray for me~

And you might be thinking "huh? but this is a google blogger site..."

ding ding ding!!! You are correct! but originally, well about five hours ago, I was going to blog on wordpress.

But then I realised how ugly it was.

And how expensive it was...

But five hours later, I'm here! And I love it. Wordpress was a bit too complex for me, and even after premium, all the themes and customisation options were all just bland, minimalist and modernist - yuck!

I do want to do a proper introduction, but I think that’ll take some time because I’ll want to add some pictures for you gais, so for now I guess we might do a speed round get to know me! 😆

I’ve dreamt of making a blog for a while now because it is truly like my own little corner of the internet, and because of the social media ban that happened just yesterday in Australia, it may possibly be the only part of the internet I have for a while…heh…

On here, I’m hoping to document parts of my life, make tutorials for all my crafts and just have fun, like a special digital diary 💝 We’ll all get to know each other soon hopefully. 🥹

Oh!

And also…

Today school finished for the year! Which is why I am starting my blog today! I am now officially a year ten, so I’ll be celebrating and having lots of fun on here and at my sewing table the next six weeks. 

Big kiss for you~

– Mina 💘