My History With Lolita Fashion and YouTube

So recently I ended up making a new video on YouTube for a quarentine/stayhome collab with other Lolita YouTubers. Joëlle of FluffyKawaiiJo on YouTube, and Designer of Fluffy Tori, has put together a collaboration project to share bring entertainment and give ideas to lolitas who are dealing with isolation. Other YouTubers who have also contributed to the project are Fallen Princess, Clover, Embroidered Doll, Cupcake Kamisama, Lou Graves and Lovely Lor. The whole playlist of videos in this collaboration series can be found here.

I ended up making a DIY/sew-along for face masks, as I mentioned in my previous post about things you can do in quarentine as a lifestyle lolita, I mentioned how recently I have been sewing face masks for my family members who work in hospitals, so I figured it might be helpful to others who might be interested in doing the same. Besides, sewing more often has helped calmed my anxiety during these uncertain times.

But you might be wondering, why all of a sudden start making videos? Well actually, my first ever video on my channel was over 8 years ago now. A year or so after that I uploaded some shitty videos I shot of S3RL and his set during one of the years I got to see him at a local rave. Around that time, FilleDePorcelaine happened to launch her Lolita Project on YouTube in which participants would make videos and complete several tasks, and the audience would vote on their favorite video each week. I was lucky enough to get picked to participate in it, and that's where it all began.

Although I didn't end up winning the competition, I was hooked! From there I continued to make some silly videos, most of them short OOTD/event clips and item reviews, but I did do some videos featuring one of my ex's, which are now private, and they got several hundred thousand views before I put them on lockdown... Anyways, with the help of my fiance who has a double major, one of them being in the arts (theater/acting/film etc), I made my most recent video. And I actually had a ton of fun filming and editing? My fiance wants me to do more because he's super into filming, though I'm not sure what I could do? I'd like to maybe go through my (almost complete) collection of GLBs, and maybe even try out some of the sewing patterns in there. Either way, I'm not sure if I'll continue to make videos, I'll probably just do random, casual videos. I have a fear of public speaking and I dont think I do too well speaking on camera. But who knows, I prefer to word-vomit through text, I just try to take things day by day.

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