Herabibi's Yap Corner

HELLO!!! Today has been a day, like not a lot of good today, so I'm taking the time to now blog about something I'm excited about!!! This image specifically from Yumetenbo, with some hints at new items from Diable Baiser!! PINK CHECK!!!! AGEJO CUTS OF CLOTHING... BIJOU... WE ARE (SLOWLY) COMING BACK!!! I am super excited. I have been pretty neutral with hime gyaru coming back simply because I lean more towards the Agejo side, but THIS got me excited. Now it's not fully the Late 2000s Early 2010s Agejo, but baby steps... baaaby steps...  For me personally, I'm most excited for the setup on the far right, it's not available yet on the website, but I will be keeping my eye out. The skirt on the middle left is available now though! It also is made in plus sizes too which is suuuper exciting!!!!  Link for the skirt! Link for the skirt in plus sizes! I will say I did read the reviews and they are mixed. Now this isn't for the pink skirt, but for other colors, but keep...

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my recent haul, and it's going to be the last major haul I do for awhile. I'm trying to work on my consumption habits, and work on wearing more of the items I  have. I am also trying to see wtf is going on with how tariffs and de minimis will be, so instead of trying to buy as much as I can before it happens, I'm holding off. I of course don't think it'll be 100% easy, my mercari jp addiction is hard to mitigate at times. For now, I'll detail what I picked up and why. Let me also make this clear to my blog readers who probably know this, I spent hours on hours scouring Mercari JP for some of these items. These are all second hand and won't be easy for my to just share a link to another exact version of. I highly recc you take some time to learn how to search secondhand if you ever want to get into digging for some gems! Ok, let's start!

 Hiii everyone! I wanted to document my first reaction to flipping through a recent version Koakuma Ageha. I'll probably document my total haul post, but I picked this up in my last Mercari JP order early January.  Just an FYI - I will not be sharing scans of this magazine and this era of Koakuma Ageha is still active. If you read this and want to start collecting, I'd recc grabbing it second hand, or if anyone knows if we can buy it on initial release, I'd love to do that! I def considered it with the Ane Ageha that recently came out, but didn't get it. Ok, onto some basics. For some reason I thought this was a 2023 mag, but this is actually Volume 7, Summer 2024. It seems the magazines don't come out in print as often... if anyone reading this knows a bit more, I would definitely love to know. There's obviously a lack of pink, but still a bit of glitz and glam. I would say it's about 2/3 as thick as my older mags. I'm basically just going to bullet poi...

Kind of a personal post today, so only really will be seen by the folks who check in once in awhile, but I wanted to write this out. Since 2024, I've been trying to make a conscious effort to wear more of my gal items out, if it's Wednesday and a karaoke day, it's a day to put together a code, when I'm going out on an excursion, I try to put together a code. This of course doesn't happen all the time, but I've even started just... wearing pink more. And I was already known as a pink thing for a long time! I have really been enjoying how I present, I've kind of suppressed the want to be an overly feminine girly woman for years, may it be due to comments from others, unwanted comments from men, or just me wondering if it's worth spending the money and if it'd even work. With discovering gyaru, it felt like something awoke in me.  Now, I started trying to wear pieces out in 2022, but I was suffering a lot with self image still, a lot of mental health is...

 Hi everyone!! Welcome to the grand blog post about my Boston excursion on Friday and Saturday!! This is going to be a long one, with codes, convention thoughts, and some small hauls!!  I had three goals for this trip: Go to Anthro New England with friends, Go to Newbury Street (specifically Reiwatakiya and MoreFun), and dye my hair!! I had about 48 hours to get this all done!  So, let's start with the detailing of my codes!

Hiiii! Wanted to blog some Mercari JP shopping tips for the gals who are dipping their toes into it. I think this year there's been a huge wave of people trying to navigate the platform and I myself have made shopping mistakes.  For some history, I've been using Mercari JP since 2019. It's a great website for secondhand goods, but there's a lot of I've learned to navigate the website. Which comes to my first tip: S earch on Mercari JP directly and don't rely on shopping proxy's search mechanisms . For some reason, some things just don't show up in, and from me briefly checking out Buyee and Zenmarket, they're missing some key items you want to look at when you find a listing you are interested in. Once you find the item you like, copy and paste the link and your proxy should be able to buy it. You can also translate Mercari JP to English!!! I rely on these for the sort and search functions. *In previous experiences with Buyee, there was a 'forei...

Hi everyone! Happy Tuesday! This week has had many non-gyaru related curveballs thrown at me and it is only Tuesday. My god. 😔 My friend and I are hunting for an apartment and one we had our eyes on isn't going to be available like we thought. But! We have another lead thanks to Monday night Bingo!!  I wanted to blog about Sunday and share what I got at the thrift store!! My karaoke friends and I decided to head over to the Savers in East Providence to see if there was anything good. I initially was going to go all out, but it's been so cold in Rhode Island that I am suffering and most of my Agejo clothes are not meant for the winter. So I went with some inspiration from back when I did my Rin scans on Saturday!!

Yeah I'm yapping about the events on the reddit/twt, I won't go into detail because I think that threads done enough, and instead of doing a personal attack I just wanna note some things I thought. There are going to be times some gals do something that just doesn't fit the substyle and its going to look off. I think there's a difference between someone who just actively is like "I don't like doing (insert part of being gyaru here) because I don't like it/it's not for me)" and like if it's a ah yeah my feet hurt for a bit/I put on my driving shoes and forgot to change before the photo. I have no idea what photo was being referenced so like. I have no context on that part. I think for the sanity part, sometimes I'll see something and be like "hm, that looks a bit off to me" and mention it to a close friend but then it's like... ok yep that's all. Sometimes I just keep it to myself as a lot of times I'll see a gal style ...

 WOW!!! Two posts in one day. I decided to finally give in and blab about my favorite Koakuma Ageha Model: Rin.  When I was flipping through my magazines and getting familiar with the models, I kept seeing her and was like, "Who is this diva?" There is some sort of like beauty-aura she exudes, and I just kept looking at her in my mags and I was like, ok, she's the it girl in my books. I'll be sharing some photos I took from Koakuma Ageha 2011 Mags! These are from November, March, and May. I'll also be sharing some other stuff I've learned in my research at the end!! Also this isn't like a proper here's all you should know about Rin, this is just me blabbing.

 Woooow it's been a whole week!! It's been very un-eventful due to illness and just... snow. So much snow. I wanted to just blog about like the accessibility/idea return of the heisei gal brands returning and my thoughts, a lot of concerns I guess. I don't have a structure to this so i'm just gonna go crazy with my fingers on the keyboard.

Hi everyone!! Happy Monday!! I am supposed to be going to bingo right now, but I actually caught something at the sunday bingo event so I am sick again... 😓I've been getting sick a lot this winter, and it's not fun. I definitely have not been dressing the best for winter this year, so that's probably why I keep getting sick!! Which is kind of funny about today's post!! I definitely did not dress for winter for Sunday Bingo! To my defense, we weren't outside for very long (just walking to and from the car). This is going to be a bit more of a detailed thought process into this co*de from start to finish, but first, I'll share pictures of the outfit!!

Welcome to the first official I lose my mind yap session blog, as today has just been frustrating, so I am going to just ramble about fashion trends as a gyaru who does not really follow the mainstream ones and is not really into the current relevant trends either. I'm based out of the United States, and it's just been so when it comes to trends I see NEUTRALS EVERYWHERE.... BASIC OUTFITS... EVERYWHERE... "Clean Girl"?! "Quiet Luxury?!" it just feels wrong to me!  I've always been a person that's not followed current fashion trends, when I was younger it was just due to financial constraints, but now it's just... I like BRIGHT! SATURATED! pink, frilly girly things. This is why I really like 2010s koakuma ageha... it itches that scratch I didn't know I needed. The problem is in Japan a lot of the brands I really looked up to either disintegrated into abyss, or moved onto the jirai/ryousangata fashion, which is where the pinks are not bright, o...

Hi everyone! I hope you are doing well!! I wanted to document yesterday's co*de as well as just yap about the struggle of putting it together, and also wanted to share the food I ate yesterday because I had so much good food!!! First, lets get into yapping about this code, shall we?

Hi everyone!!! Happy 2025!!! I hope this year is great for you all. The start of last year was really hard on me, so I'm hoping the first half of this year is a lot better.  I wanted to share my co*de from last night's ordeal! My parents got invited to the big neighborhood event and I came as a plus one, and I figured for a big party, that required big hair!