Birthday! Monster Hunter and Maid Cafe!

 I celebrated my birthday this past Saturday with a full day~

KC: BABY THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT

JSK: Angelic Pretty

Shoes: Sheep Puff

Bag: Swimmer Japan 

Taipei Game Show 2026 + Monster Hunter Wilds Taiwan Championship

 On the 31st I got up bright and early to meet my teammate Exo for the Monster Hunter Wilds Taiwan Championship!  I'll be honest - the organizers were not very well-organized and we received information bit by bit rather than all at once.  We didn't even know we had to check-in between 8-10AM until a few days before the event.

In addition, they doxxed our emails to the whole email list by using CC instead of BCC when sending out the initial notification.  This also led to multiple people responding to the incorrect person when confirming their participation.  

I did call the organizers to express displeasure at the doxxing, and they sent an email claiming there'd been a "problem with BCC" which sounds like a lie to me, to be honest.  If the email system was down, they would not have been able to send the email in the first place.  If regular emailing was available but BCC was not, they should have sent each email individually rather than doxxing everybody's emails (and legal names, if they had their real name on their profile. Fortunately I used my creator email so mine only said "Sparklewolfie")

Despite that fiasco, the day of the event went pretty smoothly.  We checked it around 9:30 and got a pass to go to 5F to queue for our group number.

Fun with Friends Pt. 3

 On Sunday we went to Ximending and of course that means MAID CAFE!!!

 

KC: Alice and the Pirates
JSK: Angelic Pretty

Bag: Swimmer Japan

Shoes: Sheep Puff

Food and Fashion

 Time for another random update on what I've been up to!  Last weekend I hung out with some friends.  I actually didn't wear makeup when I went out, but saw a cool eye look on Instagram and wanted to try it out when I got home, so that's why I'm wearing makeup in the photo (but only eyemake)

Monster Hunter 20th Anniversary Exhibition

On Saturday I went to the Monster Hunter 20th Anniversary exhibition with some Twitch friends!!

It was cool! We had tickets for 2pm and got in line then. They let us in in small batches at the beginning to avoid crowding, I assume.

Sparkle's Bizarre Adventures

On Wednesday I went out to eat with a couple friends, one of whom is a huge JoJo's Bizarre Adventures fan.  I'd told her about this pop-up shop so we ate at a restaurant nearby and then went to see the little pop-up!

I'll be honest: I know nothing about JoJo's Bizarre Adventures!!  But they had this cool setup for photos.  We spent quite a bit of time looking up JoJo poses and taking photos.  I only did this one, which is Killer Queen if I recall correctly!

 

Monster Hunter Wilds Character Creation

 Totally random post to show my character in Monster Hunter Wilds!  The Beta Tests (total of three times) allowed us to edit our characters with unlimited changes, so I tried to make it look like me.  There are some parts that cannot be changed the way I want, but I think it's closer than my World character at least!

I was unable to find a matching upper lip shape or a triangular nose, and the chin line is too round.  I actually plucked and shaved my IRL eyebrows to match my character better 😹

I also don't have eyeshadow as purple as the one I gave my character!  I should have gone for a pale pink instead.  The bump on the nose is also lower on the character than my bump IRL, but it's the closest I could get!  It's also the first time a bump nose was even available in Monster Hunter.  

So overall, I don't think it really looks like me, but I also spent about seven hours on it already and don't know how to change it further within the limitations of the system.

The full game launches in a week!  I ordered the steelbook (comes with two coasters) so I won't be able to play Day 1 as I must wait for delivery, but am still excited!

Do you play Monster Hunter?  Or have you ever tried to make yourself in a character creator in game?

Escape Room and MonHun Cooler!

This Saturday I went to an escape room with two classmates as a belated Halloween event!  We didn't actually dress up or anything, and actually failed the escape room, but still had fun!

Blouse: Little Dipper (taobao)

Red skirt: ACDC Rag

Shoes: Sheep Puff (taobao)

Nergigante Makeup

A while back I did some Nergigante-themed makeup!  It's just a short, fun post for today.

Nergigante is a monster from Monster Hunter World Iceborne, one of the ending game monsters. 

Icy Monster Makeup

 

Belated post!  Unfortunately a lot of life things have been happening and I am not able to do many things right now.  Things are being sorted out, and I can only hope for the best!

Several weeks ago I completed the Velkhana story quest, and have currently been stuck at Namielle.  Velkhana is an ice dragon who is surprisingly small!  I defeated it using Insect Glaive!  My favorite weapon.

For the look, I looked at a lot of "ice queen" looks and then tried to incorporate Velkhana's colors instead.  I set my entire face with highlighter, which was really weird for me, but I guess it looks frosty?  I just think my forehead looks HUGE.

I did a blue and purple cut crease with a silver highlight in the center.  I honestly didn't know what to do with the lips much, so I just added a touch of purple in the center for shading.

I couldn't find white lashes so I just colored on my lashes (after mascara) with while liquid eyeliner. I think it turned out ok?  Velkhana has icicles/spikes coming down from the sides of its face, so I created that with crystals rather than color.

Concept Art - Ice Form

Concept Art - Regular Form

To be honest, I didn't like the overall look as much, but I do like how the eyes turned out!  The blue shadow didn't photograph well in the top photo, but I think it still looks nice!

Today is also Double Ten Festival!  So after today I suppose we will see whether there is a spike in cases and whether restrictions will tighten up again~

I am also going on a "staycation" in a couple weeks (if restrictions don't tighten) so hopefully I'll have something more interesting to blog about.  Everything being closed really makes life quite boring.

Thank you for sticking around!

Monster Makeup! Ebony Odogaron

Recently I have been progressing in Monster Hunter World Iceborne expansion (yes, I'm probably 2 years late) and have been doing makeup to match the last couple of story quests.
Because it gives me power over the monster.
So far, it is working ^u^

The first one I did was Ebony Odogaron, or as I like to call it, burnt hamburger:

The "lightning" parts for the dragon element were a bit difficult for me to draw.  I referred to a lot of Ebony Odogaron screenshots for the lightning pattern.

The above picture shows Ebony Odogaron, the subspecies, with Odogaron, the base species.  The texture of Odogaron looks like raw hamburger according to DreamBoss__ (friend on Twitch) so I just called it Hamburger since then.  Of course, the Ebony version just looks burnt!

The idea for this one was easy.  I wanted a black and red smoky eye with the lightning/dragon element bits coming out the side. I wasn't able to incorporate the purple shades of the tail into the look this time, but I think it could have been neat either as the eyeliner or as contour!

However, I normally do not wear smoky eye makeup, and oh boy did I learn just how long it takes to blend out all the colors!!!!!!

Products used:

Milani -eyeshadow base

bh cosmetics -Trendy in Tokyo palette (the website has new packaging, but I like the original one I have better!) for the red shade

-Glam Reflections Smoke for the dark red and black shades and red shimmer

Kate Tokyo -gel liner as a base for the black

NYX cosmetics -epic ink liner in black

-epic wear liner in white

-matte lip liner in Alien (black)

-liquid suede lipstick in Alien (black)

-soft matte lip cream in Monte Carlo (red)

essence cosmetics -mascara that I don't really like too much so no link

e.l.f. cosmetics -instant lift brow pencil 

DUO -lash glue as brow gel

I digitally erased some acne spots so I won't list any base products.

Overall it was really fun!  Makeup is a really fun creative outlet for me!  Sometimes it turns out well, like this time, and sometimes... less so, but still enjoy the process!!

Do you ever try experimental looks?  Whether it's makeup, fashion, hair (I'm SO boring with my hair!!), etc. I like to see how others experience "wearable art"!