Kawaii!

So last Wednesday, my friend Amy and I headed out for vegan sushi (deep fried avacado rolls, mmm!) and to check out the cute new Harajuku "mall" in Japantown. It's a rotating collection of actual Harajuku stores inhabiting one of the buildings in SF. I was impressed by the collections of little cutesy plastic animals, lolita dresses, the wooden platform shoes that I've been dying to own, and super chunky plastic jewelry! Made me feel like I was actually back in Tokyo, just a TAD less crowded, hehe.

The craziness of the actual Harajuku (Takeshita st):



Wall of cute Harajuku photos, and announcements of their SF stay:



Jen the jolly giant!



Making friends:



The parking lot across the street had an awesome Japanese garden photo taking spot! I could almost SMELL the cherry blossoms over the pee in the corner!



"Where's Amy?"



and just for laughs (see this post):



You can check out all the KAWAII adventures of 6%DokiDoki over on Amy's blog!

whoops!

My friend Amy and I were thinking yesterday, it's funny how when everyone turns 18 they think "YES! now I can mutilate my body!" Hordes of embarrassing tattoos and piercings take place shortly after. Luckily, I've always played it safe with mine, no hearts with crowns, no Calvin & Hobbes, or Marvin the Martians. I thought I was slick until I went to Japan....



Cute, right? That's what I thought too! So cute that I had to get a tattoo of the loving pair. What's not to ooooh and aahhh about an adorable mother cat carrying her little kitty??



Too bad it's the JAPANESE VERSION OF UPS!!!!! Yeah, I pretty much got the logo of the most popular Japanese shipping company on my hip! HA! I read that's it's as popular as the Coca Cola logo is in the US. Nice. No wonder when I showed my friends in Japan they all pointed and giggled, in that cute big-eyed KAWAII style face that I love. Oh well, I still think the tattoo is the best! Maybe I'll write the company and become they're new spokes model. ;)