11/3 - A retrospective of the longest 11 months of my life. (Mostly in terms of gal)

 Chat. I guess this one gets a bit personal at times, but in a way, my gyaru journey has tied itself to my current path. 2025 has been the craziest year of my life I think, and the year of most personal growth. This new year started with Prisila wigs on my head... and something about that made it crazy. Nothing in this is structured btw lol. 

I'll start w gal stuff and then if any oomfs care... we can talk about the non gal things.

I think in general my style has changed a lot this year and will continue to. I do still love ma*rs, but I think the overhype of the ma*rs himeagejo made me want to try other looks, the inner hipster in me I fear... But I think once the gal comm moves to another big substyle... I'll be more likely to wear the ma*rs pieces more LOL! I've also been into the non clothing parts of gal more, like hair, tanning, and lenses... it's been fun! And I think overall, I'm in the phase of finding things I want to wear and not just... what "looks" gal. Ever since I realized I could like just "be" gal it's like ok let me play with my style.

I think best way to discuss changes in gal is look back at the goals I set in my first blog post and comment on them in bold:

1. Learn Parapara dances!! I went to my first parapara panel at Katsucon this year held by the lovely 109 Degrees Gyarusa!! I had such a fun time (I... do not remember the dance though). I'd love to learn at least one, and hope to go to another parapara panel at a con if there is one! Sadly... no parapara panel this year... I also really didn't learn any new dances. I would like to do this, just gotta motivate!! 
2. Coordinate all of the pieces I have bought without buying new ones. I have treated myself a bit too much this Christmas, and I really need to actually wear all of the pieces before trying to make any new large hauls off of Mercari JP. My goal is to wear every piece at least once, and to try to re-wear as much as I can of course! This is going to probably cause a lot of lifestyle changes of when I get up and get ready, since it can take awhile. I then tripled my wardrobe size in 2025. LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO  I do really need to work on wearing pieces more. I will say some pieces I do wear to the ground (rady tracksuits, chiikawa tracksuits), but others not so much. I need to allow myself to wear them more. I think it leans on the fact a lot of pieces require the rest of me to be done up, and this past year has been hard to put all those factors together. This in general is something I'm working on. Actually thinking of dying my hair to match my LiYe pieces, it'd be a darker blonde, but I like how the color looks. Also got a sunlamp to help me get up earlier and working on motivating myself to dress up cuter. Winter is always hard... my closet is not meant for this colder weather. 
3. Go to an IRL Gal meet! I would love to meet some other gals locally. I knew of one in Boston back in October, but I was out of the country so I couldn't make it. I'm hoping that there are more organized in the future and I'd love to keep an eye out it! This has been done! I've met gal mutuals at Katsucon, but also went to a gyaru meetup at CtCon, though small... it was still fun! I also met Day there which was fun!!!
4. Work on navigating with longer nails. This was the year of navigating heels, I'm hoping next year I can work with nails to maybe consider getting my nails done or just keeping my press ons for longer than an evening. My natural nails are pretty short so I can type with no issues, and it's not hard to get normal task done. When I've had longer nails on this year, it's been wild. Ya girl did not do this at all... I wear nails even less now. I think I'd like to try to get my nails done, and figure out how they work with bouldering. Will be consulting Caty about this...
5. Wrap up all current DIY projects. I have two DIY outfits I have planned that I just have... sitting here! I want to work on those further to make some cute outfits I can wear. I actually need to do the opposite and not DIY anything right now as I don't really have the craft room set up at ALL LOL! I kept buying supplies and just did not DIY anything... I even bought a nice dress to try to rhinestone and I think that might just get tailored for a wedding guest dress in December lol... maybe I'll rhinestone it next year. 
6. Circle lenses at least once. I've been putting this off for ages due to just not having an updated eye prescription, and I'd rather get lenses that I can use to help me see. I'm hoping in January I can schedule an eye appointment and get it all taken care of. YES BRENNA YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I actually didn't do the eye appointment until much later but it was because my roommate went and got new glasses and I was like.. Ok let me do it too. Love this. 
7. DO NOT FALL FOR THE SUMMER GYARU PROPAGANDA!!!!!!! I could go into a huge ramble about how I do like restricting my substyles for the sake of consuming things. I made a large mistake of trying to do a whole summer wardrobe redo and a lot of items I ended up buying at the local thrift ended up going back during my winter cleanout. I have a lot of clothing still that works for summer. I feel like I actually didn't fall for it this year. I instead fell for the chiikawa propaganda but I am going to keep wearing those. Also I think just tanning in general helped a lot. Oh. But the floral propaganda was real... love the florals from ma*rs sm... they will be returning in spring. I think in general my closet is hitting a point where I've got clothing for like... almost every occasion... maybe a trench coat is in order... unsure.
8. Keep this blog going! I hope to post for now once a week minimum, I may try for more depending on if I'm doing anything. December specifically is a work-heavy month so I may not have as much free time. That didn't happen. It's been a bit more frequent recently due to me going to EJ's parents place on Saturdays and I've been in the proper headspace to blog. I also sometimes blog non gal things... 

And now... new goals...

• Girl do something about the nails. Even if you just get them done at a nail salon... they're gonna be short so I can still do my life but I think it's needed. 
• Wear the clothes out more. Even for mundane things. Even if I am working from home... lets put on the cute outfit and work. I mean... even my work knows I dress like this so what is stopping me!? 
• More research into the koakuma ageha trends along with ane ageha. This is just for the sake of my gal-ness but also I think this would benefit other gals who are interested in what agejo can truly be. 
• stop buying boots. stop. buying. boots at the thriftstore... someone stop me. If anything, I need to go through my shoes. 

I ended up deleting the paragraph on paragraph on paragraph on personal life, it was good to type it out but maybe not the best to overshare. I think if anything in 2025, I learned communication is the cause of a lot of issues and also a solution to many things. Also being ok if people don't like you even if you change and work on yourself... that's fine! I did a lot of moving and a lot of travel and I hope for 2026 I don't have to move again and I can feel more grounded in my apartment. I think I've already decided I'm extending this lease and my roomie feels the same LOL!

If anything I need more energy in my life arrrrgh!!!!! And I'm recovering from sickness and I'm like 75% better but this throat AAAUUUUGH!!!!