Shi No Barado

Hello everybody! This week is going to be so exciting. At 00:00AM on the 28/04/13, my newest single was released! It was Shi No Barado by Area 11 ft Beckii Cruel! The music video was put onto YouTube, and it became available for purchase on iTunes worldwide!

The artwork is really wonderful! It was designed by Adam, who I hung out with last time I was in Bristol. I hope you all love the artwork too! Our friend Oliver also had a go at designing the artwork, which resulted in some quite humorous results. Please check it out!

I was really excited for the release of the track, so here's a video I uploaded right on the minute of the UK release! It's a small vlog on my second channel.

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And then there's music video. Sparkles* flew to the Isle of Man to shoot it with me in January, and we had a really great time! I think it's turned out beautifully and looks really professional. The reception has been amazing, and this morning we were fluttering around the #150 mark for the iTunes UK Singles, and we reached #11 in the iTunes Rock Chart! We also hit some number 1 spots on the Amazon Singles Charts! It's been a very exciting 24 hours. 

We hope to maintain a really good flow throughout the week, and we'll do that by having daily content on both my channel, and the Area 11 channel! Please subscribe to both to enjoy this week with us! Today's video on my channel was the Behind-The-Scenes Documentary which I created! 

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I've also added a photo gallery to my website for the music video BTS photos! Please check it out if you're interested ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ You can locate it underneath the 'Photos' tab on my website!

I'll check back in with more updates and the like throughout the week, but please keep excited for the single and support us all the way! I hope you love it as much as we all do ♥ 

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I am attending JAPANORAMA THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY / 4th and 5th MAY!

I hope to see you all there! I'll be singing and dancing live, and also selling new merchandise including Sticky Notes, Photo Cards, Desk Calendars, Posters and more!

Little Haul ♥

Today was amazingly sunny, but surprisingly warm, it was beautiful! I went to Douglas to have a meeting at 2:00PM today, which was awesome and lasted for 2 hours. It went really well (it was about magazine things), however before I went to that meeting, I got the chance to go shopping for half an hour! 

I have quite an affinity with backpacks right now. This was from Claire's Accessories, and it cost me only £8! It was in the sale, and reduced from £20. I love it so much! I really want a transparent backpack, there's a cool one on ASOS from American Apparel for £50, but I think that £50 is an awful lot of money for a backpack which probably won't be a bag I use all the time. It's a bit weird being transparent, but I think they are very fashionable. I saw one in Claire's on the way back from England for £15, but I didn't get it. I'm having major backpack regretful feels right now, but I'm sure that the perfect one for me will be found soon! ヽ(=´▽`=)ﾉ

When I was shopping, I also repurchased three of my staple makeup items. They are a Collection 2000 Brown Liquid Eyeliner, a Revlon Colorstay Liquid Liner in Black, and a Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer in Fair!

 

This is my first repurchase of the brown liner, second of the black and fourth of the concealer. 

The brown liquid eyeliner is useful because it's quite difficult to find brown eyeliner in the shops near me. I bought this liner for £3. Having brown is really useful if you want your makeup to look less harsh. I use my brown liquid liner in this makeup tutorial!

 

The black eyeliner is expensive, but it lasts a really long time. For £8 a bottle, it's the most expensive makeup item I purchased today, but I know that it works and it stays put all day long. I wear black eyeliner on most days, but it is always really great to use in heavy makeup looks! I used it in my Halloween makeup tutorial, which you can view to the left!

 

The final item I bought was concealer! I've purchased this same concealer four times already! This is by far my favourite concealer ever. I wear it every day, and it lasts a long time, even without primer. It blends well, it's buildable and the coverage is perfect for my skin. I use it in this foundation tutorial, and I will be sure to purchase it again when this one runs out! It cost me only £4.19. I'm really impressed with the brand Collection 2000, it's extremely affordable and the products are consistently great!

 

 

When I returned from Bristol, we made a lot of stops along the way, and one of them was at a British chainstore called MATALAN. We don't have it in the Isle of Man, but when I was in there I managed to pick up these cute kitty headbands! At a half price sale price of £3.50, I was very impressed, and I think they're really adorable♥

 

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As a bonus, here are some miscellaneous photos of my past! Two of the photos are of me doing ballet. I've done ballet since I was about 3 or 4 years old, and I continue to do it to this day. I'm currently in RAD Grade 7, and I go to classes twice a week. You can also see my super long hair! I've always had long hair, and it's never been cut above my shoulders. The first time I had a haircut was when I was 13 years old!

Bristol Weekend

Continuing from my last post..

I woke up bright and annoyingly early at 6AM on Saturday. Myself, Sparkles*, Parv, Leo and Adam went to the studio to record a live acoustic version of Shi no Barado! We booked the session for 10AM, and arrived fashionably late at around 11AM. Here is a sneaky Vine of us while we were setting up, featuring Parv, Sparkles* and Adam. (Vine is a cool social network where you film 6 second clips and share them!)

Our sound engineer Phil brought out an accordion in the hopes we would use it in the acoustic version of Shi no Barado. (You will find out if we did soon enough!). Sparkles* had never played one before in his life, but he managed to make some form of music from it, and we were all very impressed. 

Behind the Scenes!

sparkles* and his accordion

After finishing the studio session, we headed back to Yogtowers and recorded some more videos! I'm really excited for you to see them all, we had a lot of fun recording silly things together. They'll be released on the week of the single release, so please look forward to that!

preview of one of our videos!

thank you all. i could never have made it here without you. ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

We were pretty much done working for the day after that, so Sparkles* and I went out to get frozen yoghurt! Before I visited, I had googled to see if there was anywhere which sold froyo in Bristol because there's nowhere that does in the Isle of Man, and lucky for me, there was! Angelberry is a self-serve frozen yoghurt shop and it was super delicious ヽ(=´▽`=)ﾉ After that, we went back to the offices and chilled out watching some anime, since all our work was over ☆

Mirror Sphere! (Me and Sparkles*). It is actually a planetarium but it was shut.

chocolate forever ☆

I am obsessed with making origami rabbits and I can make them super fast it's really impressive

In the evening, we went for a meal with everybody at an Asian Fusion restaurant! I had Chicken Katsu Curry and it was really delicious. I went with my parents, Sparkles*, Parv, Leo, Adam and Martyn, and we had a really lovely time! 

L: S*, Adam, Martyn,

R: Beckii, Parv, Leo

To celebrate getting all of our work done, we went out to Karaoke! In Bristol there's a karaoke place called Lollipop, which has all sorts of songs on it, including J-Pop and K-Pop! It was really good fun, and everyone had an awesome time♥ I also snapped some more Vines at the time!

Leo and Sparkles*

S*, B, P

Parv and Beckii

I don't wanna miss a thing! 

LINKIN PARV

We all headed home for 1AM, and sadly British Summer Time begun that night, so I only got 6 hours of sleep! We woke up fairly early on Friday, and had a McDonald's breakfast. It was then time to collect the recording stems from Saturday's studio session, and then I had to head back up to Blackpool to begin my journey home (・へ・) I was very sad to leave! I had such a lovely time, and I really hope I can experience Bristol again really soon!

Panorama Vine of the snowy service station ☆

When I arrived back up North, we went for a meal with some relatives. It was nice, but I was very exhausted and not very chatty! I found WIFI at the restaurant so I took advantage and did some tweeting too!

After returning to my nana's house, I got into bed and watched some old episodes of Community before sleeping off an amazing weekend! We woke up at a reasonable 9AM, and got into the car, headed to the ferry and sailed back home! 

sleepy cruel

awake cruel ft. kitty jumper

I want to thank everybody who made my stay in Bristol so wonderful! We got a lot of work done, and I'm super excited for the single release of Shi no Barado. I hope you all love it, it'll be released soon along with a ton of video content and of course the live acoustic version of the song. Now I'm back home, super exhausted but extremely happy and excited for the future! (╹◡╹)☆彡