How to play a Gothic Lolita?

If Lolita style stands for positive happy images, such as Cinderella’s castle, then Gothic Lolita style stands for negative decadent images, such as Snow White’s poisonous apple and devastated ancient city. However, many women like Gothic Lolita dresses very much.
Gothic Lolita style has a “dark, gorgeous” image, which is different with Lolita style’s keynote “aestheticism and dream”. How to choose Lolita dress and play Gothic Lolita? Here are some tips for you:

1. Choose a dark-colored (usually use black and white as its dominant colors) costume, which can be a knee-length dress, or a blouse and knee-length skirt, or a top and knee-length skirt, or just a knee-length jumper skirt. Make sure colors coordinated and the skirt is full enough to wear your petticoat.
2. Wear a traditional Victorian Choker rather than necklace.
3. Wear your petticoat to fill out your skirt. A-line or bell shaped is a good choice.
4. If there are crucifixes on your costume, wear small cross earrings or dark jewels or cameos to go with it.
5. Wear your long stockings or knee-length or over-the-knee socks. It should also be color coordinated.
6. Smoky eyes and neatly defined eyes created with dark eye shadow, eyeliner and mascara, dark lips made by slicking on a dark lipstick and dark nails finished by using dark nail polish are the keys of Gothic Lolita makeup.

7. You can dye your hair black, blonde or pink or just use black, blonde or pink cosplay wigs.
8. Hair accessories are mainly mini top hats, lacy hats, ribbons, large bows and square headdress. Flowers and floral accessories are also good.
9. Choose classic, old-style, flat shoes or boots.
10. Finish the ensemble with a black parasol or little purses (which are often in shapes like bats, coffins and crucifixes).
Well, with the above tips, I am sure that you know how to play your Gothic Lolita ware Lolita cosplay costume well. You will look like a noble queen in such Gothic Lolita costumes.

How to play a Classic Lolita?

Classic Lolita drew its inspiration from Baroque, Regency, and Rococo styles. As its name implies, it is the most elegant style in Lolita fashion. And its design is like a noble girl in the 19th century, not only classic and elegant, but also naive and lovely. Here are some tips for you to choose your Lolita dress to play a Classic Lolita successfully:

1. Choose an outfit with a simple style and hues to express the feeling of elegance.
2. You can choose an outfit made of glossy, smooth satin, which is a good choice.
3. As for its decoration, you can choose some light, transparent fabrics (such as lace, chiffon and tulle). However, using lace massively would make a splendid, luxurious impression and will make you look bulky, so you should avoid it and use lace in small scale.
4. Ruffle is its outstanding feature, you can’t forget it.
5. As for the waist, both A-lines and Empire waists are good choices, which are used to add to the more mature look of the classic style.
6. The makeup used in classic Lolita emphasizes natural coloring. To make your makeup look natural and pure, you should pay more attention to its luster. Only soft, fine face can show your princess-like nobility and elegance. Generally speaking, light make-up is suggested, but darker makeup that still creates a soft look is also appropriate.
7. You can also use feather false eyelashes and coat purple pearl eyeshadow from external canthus to internal canthus to send out the mature flavor belongs to the beginning of last century.
8. Natural looking curls or straight hair tend to suit the style very well.
9. Hair accessories are mainly hair hoops, flower headwear, purses and mini caps.
10. Shoes and accessories should be functional. You can also wear jewelry with intricate designs to make you look mature.
Well, with the above tips, I am sure that you know how to play your Classic Lolita well.
Well, if you have a dreamy Lolita cosplay costume, no matter it is of a picture or conception; you can send the picture to our custom made service, more details and your measurement are also needed.
Then a new fashionable, stunning and charming Lolita dress will in your wardrobe and on you.

What is Lolita fashion?

Many girls, especially those who have just started in Lolita fashion, confuse what is often called “Lolita fashion” with “Lolita”.

Lolita fashion is a fashion originated in Japan. Lolita dresses are mainly influenced by Victorian clothing as well as costumes from the Rococo period.

In Lolita fashion, it is generally accepted that “Lolita” does not refer to Vladimir Nabokov’s famous novel, in which “Lolita” is described as a sexually precocious girl. Adherents of Lolita fashion present themselves more as Victorian children or porcelain dolls and consider it necessary to look “cute”, “beautiful” or “elegant” rather than “sexy”.

Victorian children

Porcelain doll

The Lolita look consists mainly of a knee length skirt or dress, headdress, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks or stockings and rocking horse or high heel/platform shoes.

There are 3 major styles:

1. Sweet Lolita

The Sweet Lolita dress is the most child-like of Lolita styles, which is heavily influenced by Rococo styles as well as Victorian and Edwardian clothing. It adopts the basic Lolita format and uses lighter colors (mainly white or pink base colors) and child fantasy themes (such as Alice in Wonderland, fruits, sweets and classic fairy tales) in its design. It also uses a lot of color prints, laces and frills to create a cute look.

2. Gothic Lolita

Gothic Lolita is a combination of the Gothic and Lolita fashion. It is primarily influenced by Victorian and Rococo fashion.

Gothic Lolita fashion is characterized by a darker make-up (usually smokey or neatly defined eyes, which are created by using black eyeliner) and clothing. The outfits usually use black and white as dominant colors to express the feeling of mystery, horror or death, accessorizing a traditional Victorian Choker rather than necklace to make the Gothic Lolita look. Other accessories in the Gothic Lolita style include bags and purses which are often in shapes like bats, coffins and crucifixes, or just a black parasol.

Besides, there are 2 special branches in Gothic Lolita: Elegant Gothic Lolita and Elegant Gothic Aristocrat. As for the former, generally speaking, its style design tends to be traditional classical. Although the former is very similar to Gothic Lolita, it has more feeling of vampire; while for the latter, its outfits usually include menswear, long dresses, pants as well as button-down shirts and coats.

3. Classic Lolita

Classic Lolita is a more mature style of Lolita that focuses on Baroque and Rococo styles. Colors and patterns used in classic Lolita cosplay costume can be seen as somewhere between the Gothic and sweet styles: it is not as dark as Gothic Lolita, nor as cutesy as Sweet Lolita. The outfits usually use simple hues (such as pure colors) to express the feeling of elegance. Laces are reduced accordingly, while lotus leaf pleat become its outstanding feature. Various beautiful calicos are also used commonly by it.

How to play a Gothic Lolita?

If Lolita style stands for positive happy images, such as Cinderella’s castle, then Gothic Lolita style stands for negative decadent images, such as Snow White’s poisonous apple and devastated ancient city. However, many women like Lolita style very much.
Gothic Lolita style has a “dark, gorgeous” image, which is different with Lolita style’s keynote “aestheticism and dream”. How to choose Lolita dress and play Gothic Lolita? Here are some tips for you:

1. Choose a dark-colored (usually use black and white as its dominant colors) costume, which can be a knee-length dress, or a blouse and knee-length skirt, or a top and knee-length skirt, or just a knee-length jumper skirt. Make sure colors coordinated and the skirt is full enough to wear your petticoat.
2. Wear a traditional Victorian Choker rather than necklace.
3. Wear your petticoat to fill out your skirt. A-line or bell shaped is a good choice.
4. If there are crucifixes on your costume, wear small cross earrings or dark jewels or cameos to go with it.
5. Wear your long stockings or knee-length or over-the-knee socks. It should also be color coordinated.
6. Smoky eyes and neatly defined eyes created with dark eye shadow, eyeliner and mascara, dark lips made by slicking on a dark lipstick and dark nails finished by using dark nail polish are the keys of Gothic Lolita makeup.

7. You can dye your hair black, blonde or pink or just use black, blonde or pink cosplay wigs.
8. Hair accessories are mainly mini top hats, lacy hats, ribbons, large bows and square headdress. Flowers and floral accessories are also good.
9. Choose classic, old-style, flat shoes or boots.
10. Finish the ensemble with a black parasol or little purses (which are often in shapes like bats, coffins and crucifixes).
Well, with the above tips, I am sure that you know how to play your Gothic Lolita well. You will look like a noble queen in such Gothic Lolita costumes.

How to play a Classic Lolita?

Classic Lolita drew its inspiration from Baroque, Regency, and Rococo styles. As its name implies, it is the most elegant style in Lolita fashion. And its design is like a noble girl in the 19th century, not only classic and elegant, but also naive and lovely. Here are some tips for you to choose your Lolita dress to play a Classic Lolita successfully:

1. Choose an outfit with a simple style and hues to express the feeling of elegance.
2. You can choose an outfit made of glossy, smooth satin, which is a good choice.
3. As for its decoration, you can choose some light, transparent fabrics (such as lace, chiffon and tulle). However, using lace massively would make a splendid, luxurious impression and will make you look bulky, so you should avoid it and use lace in small scale.
4. Ruffle is its outstanding feature, you can’t forget it.
5. As for the waist, both A-lines and Empire waists are good choices, which are used to add to the more mature look of the classic style.
6. The makeup used in classic Lolita emphasizes natural coloring. To make your makeup look natural and pure, you should pay more attention to its luster. Only soft, fine face can show your princess-like nobility and elegance. Generally speaking, light make-up is suggested, but darker makeup that still creates a soft look is also appropriate.
7. You can also use feather false eyelashes and coat purple pearl eyeshadow from external canthus to internal canthus to send out the mature flavor belongs to the beginning of last century.
8. Natural looking curls or straight hair tend to suit the style very well.
9. Hair accessories are mainly hair hoops, flower headwear, purses and mini caps.
10. Shoes and accessories should be functional. You can also wear jewelry with intricate designs to make you look mature.
Well, with the above tips, I am sure that you know how to play your Classic Lolita well.
Well, if you have a dreamy Lolita costume, no matter it is of a picture or conception; you can send the picture to our custom service (http://www.mltailor.com/pages/custom-made.html), more details and your measurement are also needed.
Then a new fashionable, stunning and charming Lolita dress will in your wardrobe and on you.

What is Lolita fashion?

Many girls, especially those who have just started in Lolita fashion, confuse what is often called “Lolita fashion” with “Lolita”.

Lolita fashion is a fashion originated in Japan. Lolita dresses are mainly influenced by Victorian clothing as well as costumes from the Rococo period.

In Lolita fashion, it is generally accepted that “Lolita” does not refer to Vladimir Nabokov’s famous novel, in which “Lolita” is described as a sexually precocious girl. Adherents of Lolita fashion present themselves more as Victorian children or porcelain dolls and consider it necessary to look “cute”, “beautiful” or “elegant” rather than “sexy”.

Victorian children

Porcelain doll

The Lolita look consists mainly of a knee length skirt or dress, headdress, blouse, petticoat, knee high socks or stockings and rocking horse or high heel/platform shoes.

There are 3 major styles:

1. Sweet Lolita

The Sweet Lolita dress is the most child-like of Lolita styles, which is heavily influenced by Rococo styles as well as Victorian and Edwardian clothing. It adopts the basic Lolita format and uses lighter colors (mainly white or pink base colors) and child fantasy themes (such as Alice in Wonderland, fruits, sweets and classic fairy tales) in its design. It also uses a lot of color prints, laces and frills to create a cute look.

2. Gothic Lolita

Gothic Lolita is a combination of the Gothic and Lolita fashion. It is primarily influenced by Victorian and Rococo fashion.

Gothic Lolita fashion is characterized by a darker make-up (usually smokey or neatly defined eyes, which are created by using black eyeliner) and clothing. The outfits usually use black and white as dominant colors to express the feeling of mystery, horror or death, accessorizing a traditional Victorian Choker rather than necklace to make the Gothic Lolita look. Other accessories in the Gothic Lolita style include bags and purses which are often in shapes like bats, coffins and crucifixes, or just a black parasol.

Besides, there are 2 special branches in Gothic Lolita: Elegant Gothic Lolita and Elegant Gothic Aristocrat. As for the former, generally speaking, its style design tends to be traditional classical. Although the former is very similar to Gothic Lolita, it has more feeling of vampire; while for the latter, its outfits usually include menswear, long dresses, pants as well as button-down shirts and coats.

3. Classic Lolita

Classic Lolita is a more mature style of Lolita that focuses on Baroque and Rococo styles. Colors and patterns used in classic Lolita can be seen as somewhere between the Gothic and sweet styles: it is not as dark as Gothic Lolita, nor as cutesy as Sweet Lolita. The outfits usually use simple hues (such as pure colors) to express the feeling of elegance. Laces are reduced accordingly, while lotus leaf pleat become its outstanding feature. Various beautiful calicos are also used commonly by it.