Happy 34th Birthday Otsuka Ai!

HAPPY 34TH BIRTHDAY TO MY #1 MOST FAVOURITE JAPANESE SINGER OTSUKA AI!

Can you believe that she's 34?! She still looks so cute and as young as 24! I still can't believe she's married and has a daughter and also became a mother. I remember when I first listened to her music back in 2003 which was 13 years ago. She was this tiny cute Japanese singer who sang numerous hit kawaii fun songs such as Sakuranbo, Happy Days, SMILY, Biidama. She was also known as the queen of love ballads as she has sang many memorable and touching love ballads including Daisuki da Yo, Kingyo Hanabi, Planetarium, Renai Sashin, Pocket, Kurage, Nagareboshi. Recently she seemed to have taken a very "mature" direction in her music in her latest album Love Tricky in which she sings more electro dance songs and I'm really loving it. It's got this mature and sophisticated yet sexy vibe to it. I never thought she would be suitable for singing this genre type of music as it is totally different from the type of music she used to sing. But surprisingly she made it work and it is also quite refreshing and new to see her sing in a complete different genre type of music. I'm looking forward to her next new album and what she more surprises she has to bring to her fans. 

And I'm also really happy that she made an official account on instagram where I could literally stalk her everyday, lol. But seriously she's one of the very first person who I consistently check for new posts on instagram.

She has the BEST selfies on instagram and I love the way how she edit her pictures. It's got this natural but yet sophisticated feel to it and everything is just so on point and perfect, especially her face expressions. Each picture is like a piece of art filled with so much emotions. It seems she has also changed her makeup style which also gives her a very mature and sexy look.  

Outfit: Otsuka Ai Inspired White Winter Scarf Outfit

It's been yet again so long since my last update. I have been meaning to write a new blog post but I got sooooo busy with work in the start of January that I had no time to do anything. Like seriously, I didn't even have time to sleep. I was running on 4 hours of sleep everyday for 2 weeks straight. My body feels so exhausted!!! Hopefully work will be a little less busy in the upcoming weeks so I can get more rest and get on with actually doing some of my new year resolutions. Like exercising daily and take at least one self-portrait for this month. 

I also noticed that I have gained a few new followers on bloglovin' while I was away and haven't been able to update my blog. So I just want to say a warm hello to my new followers and thanks for following my blog! (o^__^o)v

Anyway, I wanted to share this outfit I put together that's extremely comfy and warm to wear on those cold days during the winter for a home/room wear kind of look. I was actually inspired by Otsuka Ai's outfit in a music show where she performed the song "Pocket". I modified the outfit a bit since I didn't have the exact same things she wore for the performance but I tried to be as close as I could get in mimicking it with what I have in my closet. 

I actually only realized this after I took all my outfit snaps that I forgot to wrap my scarf around my neck once. No wonder I thought it looked a bit strange when I finally imported my photos to my computer to edit them. *total fail* LOL! And I tried to wrap my hair up in a bun and couldn't get it to work. I have very fine, thin and light weight hair. It takes about over 20 pieces of hair put together to make a strand of a hair for me so you can imagine how thin my hair is. I also have no volume to my hair at all and I have very little hair to begin with. When I tried to tie my hair up to make it into a bun, my bun ended up being the size of my thumb finger. It looked as if I have no hair at all! I tried to make it into a bun for about 30 minutes and couldn't get my hair into a big bun and in the end I just decided to leave it in a pony tail instead. But actually even Otsuka Ai doesn't have enough hair to create that voluminous and big bun she has on top of her head. It is actually a fake hair bun that she has on top of her head. I love how she's wearing this really long scarf with feathers attached to them that make it so pretty and winter-y. I didn't have white feathers to attach to my scarf so I wore these white with black polkadots feather earrings that I have. It was as close as I could get! Here are some screencaps from Otsuka Ai's performance outfit for you to compare. 

I love her sparkly gold makeup for the performance too. Comment below to tell me what you think of this outfit look or what you would change or add to the outfit! =)