My shoe collection~part 1, summer essentials~

Hello Summer! It's a season that I can use those below :)

You might wonder why there are the exactly same two pairs of havaianas's flip flops. I just simply bought the new one because I love them. I used the old one for about 5 years!! It might be a time to change it.
I thought I should buy new one so I bought the white one in Spain. I realised European size and JP size are different and in Europe they don't have my size. The white one is a bit bigger for me. I simply thought white matches to any things. Yes it does but it gets dirty soooo easily haha

ORONERO クロスストラップ　ウェッジサンダル color/Tan
I guess I bought these like 2 years ago (you might tell because they are A BIT dirty haha) but they still sell them. They are wedge sandals so it's very easy to walk. 

As I share my other post, I bought those Adidas Originals Honey Plimsoll. I love them! I realise how comfy wearing sneakers is! One thing I'd like to mention is that if you wear them with No-show socks, your bare top of the foot touches the tongue of a shoe which is not that good feeling personally. Since normal socks are not for this type of the shoes. You've got to be careful with the choice of your socks.
This Adidas shoes remind me the value of sneakers. I think this summer I will wear those a lot. 
 I got Converse ones many many years ago. I remember once my friend said to me 'shoes are ruined after 1 year, if you wear them often, it's gonna be like 3 months, even we wash them so we have to replace new ones.' This might be true but I just can't throw them away so easily as long as they look  still wearable...... If you look at the brown Converse, you find out I use different color shoelaces. When I bought those, I couldn't decide which color I should have used so I asked my friend who was very fashionable. She answered 'why not to use both of them?' So I end up using like that for many years. The other day, she said to me 'why do you use the different color shoelaces?' I was like, 'Oh come on! it was your idea!' but she completely forgot about the conversation. hahaha 
The bright pink NIKE shoes are from my friend. She said they were too small for her and gave them to me. How nice of her! I think this bright color is for summer so I'll try to wear them a lot :)  

ok as you can see, they are very old sandals. Left is Laristoga's one. I can't find its webpage... Maybe they don't exist anymore. Right is ANNA SUI's one. I love the pattern. 

I got these Melissa sandals last year. I really like Melissa heels. They are nice for parties! I had a kind of boot style Melissa heels but they got dirty so I threw away and bought these.

I realise many of my shoes are very old but they are all nice. haha 
Yes I'll repeat this sentence again and again to prevent me from buying new shoes!!!! :p

Shopping in Japan/Summer essentials updated!

A thought came up to me when I was shopping today. It's a bit different between shopping in Japan and the UK or US. 
I don't have a confident to say this so please take it as a personal thought.
Today I realised at some point that I didn't see sunshine when I was shopping since I was in a building all time.
There are many department store (ish) buildings in JP. Most of the shops are inside so you don't have to go outside.
However, my typical idea of shopping in the UK is at Oxford street. You walk alongside of shops. 
I think it might be just because Japan doesn't have a lot of land. You know even houses are unbelievably tiny. 
What I wanna say here is that Japanese buildings are bit strange and unhealthy because you don't feel and see sunshine. You don't have any access to outside. 
To be honest, I've started to concern about this a lot even at home. My dad likes to rely on aircon and shut windows when it's hot. I often say 'that's not green! There is still some nice breeds out there' I do feel and know how crazily hot nowadays but still we should try to live with natural weather. 
I took some pics hoping to be able to share how shops especially for clothes are like. I do know my photo skill is terrible....

These days I often visit drugstores to have a look at foundations. Again sorry for my poor photo but this is how drugstores look like. This makes me miss Boots more..... I don't know why but JP drugstores are super messy. 
Sooo many letters saying how reasonable and discounted they are.

Anyway I've found what I needed!
Spray sun cream!!!!

If you read my previous post, I wanted to buy something similar with the Nivea sun cream I bought in the UK.
I have no clue which one is better but it was like 2 for around ¥1000 so bought two. 
Left; SUNCUT UV Protect Spray by KOSE cosmeport / サンカット　ウルトラUV プロテクトスプレー、コーセーコスメポート
RIght; SKIN AQUA Sarafit UV by ROHTO / スキンアクア　サラフィットUV　さらさらUVシャワー、ロート製薬株式会社

Sun cream comes out like mist. I'm not sure whether I actually apply it or not, but I trust the maker and try to use them. Haha

蒙古タンメン中本/Nakamoto

When you come to Japan, what would you like to do?

You might wanna try Japanese food. Is Ramen included in the list???

If yes, I higher recommend you to try this ramen!

蒙古タンメン中本/Moko Tanmen Nakamoto

The main character of their ramen is spicy and hot.

Their catch copy is 'Spicy but delicious'

Yeah you might think 'I don't like spicy food' Me either.

However, they have less spicy one.

This is miso tanmen. The base is miso. It's still a bit spicy but a bit! 

As you can see, there are a lot of vegetable on top of ramen which make the taste milder. 

Actually their main ramen has Mabotofu on top of miso tanmen which is spicy. I've eaten this ramen more than 6 years now but every time I didn't have enough courage to try the spicer one....

It seems as if I can ask them to make it less spicy. So maybe I can enjoy eating it.....

They have beaches only around Tokyo area. So don't miss out if you're in Tokyo! X