Slavic Gal in Cali

Name: Kay T. (read as Katie)

Community: ★ Slav gaijin gyaru 4 life ★ I’m still learning to apply conventional gyaru meiku well, but gal spirit just cannot be contained ⚡ concrit from all you lovely pro gyaru is more than welcome!

Gyaru styles: Onee main one, Mode, Tsuyome, Agejo, Amekaji

Inspo: Heisei Gyaru, McBling, Reiwa Gyaru, Synthwave, E-Girl, Barbiecore

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Location: Orange County, CA Place of origin: Moscow, Russia Age: mid-30s (up yours, creeps!) Relationship status: quite happily married (double up yours, creeps!) Occupation: graduate student/researcher at one of the UC schools

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In my free time, I like to: sift through my extensive wardrobe, take hot girl walks, exercise, window shop IRL and online, play video games, or just veg out on my phone playing games for AliExpress credits with smth playing in the background on YouTube.

Getting so many compliments when I wear dresses, from both guys and girls... feels almost unearned, it's not like I invented dresses, they do make you look put together, so I feel like more girls should give dresses a try! Anyway, had an end-of-the-year department party, caught up with my girlfriends, one of them is quitting the program 💔 but she's a smart babe, she's do fantastic out there in the world.

Anyway... I decided to break into the bottom lashies territory, and ofc was too lazy to look for the ones I bought forever ago, so gave drawing them a try! Room for improvement there, naturally, but I think they came out OK for the first try.

m: Ministry Of Power by Fastway

a: A Flash In The Night by David Dima

e: Everytime You Need Me by Arena 69

t: Take My Life by Rich Hard

e: Eurohero by Neo

aaand out of three products Reddit girlies were picking, I'll be getting all three - I picked the eyeshadow palette, and the mascara and eye masks were also top choices. Guess I'll be using eye masks? lol. Happy about the gel liner too, I do use the black liner a lot. And there is a makeup brush... it's a brush.

夏はクールに盛るのが新定番‼ This summer, emphasis on "cool" is the new standard!!

Rule 1: 「柄」 - pattern 自分大好きなオンナは… - A woman who loves herself… 柄アイテムでハクつける‼ - elevates her outfit with patterned items!!

Rule 2: 「ギリ丈」 - "barely there" length 魅せるオンナは… - A captivating woman… やっぱりギリ丈でしょ‼ - naturally embraces the "barely there" length!!

Rule 3: 「ゆる感」 - loose/relaxed feel ミーハーなオンナは… - A trendy woman… ゆるっとズルッとが気分です‼ - goes for loose and slouchy feel!!

because you all are too cute and I wanna join in 😌🌸

left is me being a gyaru, right is me being an off-duty gyaru at a park on Memorial Day (pls tell me there's at least smth gyarube about me 🥹)

Grrr... the options all look quite good, problem is, I have sooo much unused makeup and skincare (thanks Dollar Tree, you lil temptress). What do I piiiick lol, they all look rly good, well, save for eye masks, I don't do masks. I would've skipped, but this month's bag was calling my name, it's so delightfully glam and posh and loud and obnoxious, like, look at her.

Funnily enough, girlies on Reddit are skipping this month precisely because of the bag, they're calling it ugly. And here I am, bracing myself for more beauty stuff I don't rly need because of the bag. I feel like this clean world needs to get some colour back - and I'm not hating on clean girlies, but if you feel like exploding with colour, don't stop yourself just because it's not en vogue 💖

Not a very well known product, CELAVI Sweet Jelly Delicious Lip and Cheek Tint is a jelly lip & cheek tint by a Korean brand Celavi, similar to the viral Milk Makeup jelly stick. Pretty, innit? And you're getting 3 shades!

I got it for like $3 in the Burlington clearance section, and due to losing my usual blush in the post-moving clutter (long story), I popped this one open. Idk if it was opened before (hence the markdown), but upon popping it open for the first time, it was quite dry and patchy, with jelly flakes coming off and staining everything they come in contact with.

But it’s whatever. Mama raised no quitter, and I paid my hard-earned $3 for it. We can make it work.

I've been using it for 3 weeks now, just one shade (strawberry, the one in the photo) - I'm a "one at a time" type makeup enjoyer, so determined not to crack open any other blushes until this one is well-panned. I dab it on the cheek, and if there are any loose flakes, I rub them into the skin. It's really nicely pigmented, gives you a very cute pink cheek. Haven't tried it on the lips - the flakiness makes me terrified of putting it on the lips and ending up staining teeth and swallowing the jelly. But I'm quite content with it being nothing more than a blush stick - that's its one job, and it's been doing it quite well.

Until today...

Be me, getting ready for the morning class. The usual drill, makeup goes on last to make sure that I pick the outfit first and then match the eyeshadow to it (y2k for lyfe). Blush is part of makeup, all done'n'ready, vamos. Leaving the house barely to make it to class on time... and notice a huge pink stain on the jean pant. Drat. Whatever, let's be the "fashionably late" girl today, I'm going back home to change. Didn't take much of detective work to determine the culprit - but how did it get on my pant? Not like I put the stick anywhere close to it, or rubbed my cheek on it, lol.

Okay, change done, went to class, then back home for lunch before heading to the office. After lunch, I had a realisation... stared down on the pant of the other pair of jeans to realise that I was correct. The flakes probably got onto the chair, and their powerful staining abilities were manifested now on two of my pairs of jeans. My chair is black & fake leather, so I couldn't see, but as I wiped it with a wet wipe, there it was, bold and happy pink.

That's the pic of both pants: the one on the right is the first one (I started washing the stain so it's wet at the bottom) and the other one is the second pair (not wet, just darker).

Anyway, that's the story of the Celavi Sweet Jelly Stick in Strawberry and how it made my day so much more interesting and my laundry basket fuller.

Yup, an Ipsy mystery bag subscriber here. Also, I refuse to call it Ipsy Original, it was fine being called Glam Bag and Glam Bag it will forever remain for me.

This is my first post about my Ipsy bags here, but I've been a subscriber since May 2025 and only skipped the June 2025 bag. At first I thought to make a post when the bag arrives, but I guess I got impatient lol. I had bags that were both hits and misses, and unfortunately, this one is more of the latter.

My favourite part of the bag is definitely the bag itself. It's so cute and satin and crystal-like, looks very sophisticated, save for the blue zipper lol, but I'm not too mad at the zipper!

Second fave is Tatcha serum, which I chose for the bag myself (for Glam Bag, Ipsy lets you choose 1 product and you will be guaranteed to receive it). Huge point of contention I see online is the bottle being only 5 ml of product, but let's get real, Tatcha is that girl when it comes to skincare, and prices reflect that. Full-size product is $80+tax for 30 ml, and this whole bag is $15+tax (so around $17 here in Cali) so this is a win!

I'm not familiar with glazing milks (I know they're a big thing in Rhode, but I never cared for it), but I'm a dedicated skincare user and am always down to try new skincare, which puts Earth Harbor Naturals at the 3rd fave in this bag.

The makeup now... I guess the thing I mind the least in this bag is the blush. I like blush of all different colours, and corals actually look better than pinks on my warm-undertoned skin, so that blush will get some use for sure.

Then the brow juice, and a tubing one on top of that, lol. At least it's transparent (from the look of it), but as a gyaru, last thing I need is pronounced eyebrows, and I have some pretty dark and pronounced ones naturally! I guess I can try it... just as something different, sometimes.

Finally, the lip plumping pen. A clear one, too! Idk what I'm gonna do with it... I only use clear lip balm around the house, and other than that, all my lippies have some colour to them. This is such a miss it's actually sad. I'm down to go into it with an open mind and try it, but I defo don't expect it to become the lippie I reach for with enthusiasm.

Saw this question come up on Reddit, and bringing my answer here!

Songs by gyaru models, found at YouTube channels of gyaru magazines, like egg and nuts. Duh lol.

Eurobeat is the most inherently gyaru music genre I can think of. Literally ParaPara music - can't love ParaPara and hate Eurobeat, they inevitably go together!

Your local and international Top-40, from previous years as well. It's important for us to be able to sing along when a popular song comes up in public! That signals to people that you are "in the know" and are unapologetic about keeping up with what's popular.

K-Pop. Huge in East Asia, and by proxy, huge with gyaru. Not to mention that idols are an amazing source for outfit ideas!

J-Pop, J-Rock, J-anything. Build a connection to our culture's motherland through music!

EDM, especially trance and techno. Let's not forget that TraPara and TechPara are a thing, and girls as funloving as gyaru definitely appreciate club music!

What music taps into your gyaru nature the most? 💖