After my shortlived immersion in Tokyo style, I continued by doing what I used to do to procrastinate from writing my history essays at uni - browse on Japanese online stores, knowing that I could never buy any of the stuff and also getting much satisfaction out of converting Yen into Pounds on XE.com as the figure would shrink dramatically. Nuan+ is something I stumbled on (I never know HOW I get to these places... I just get there...somehow...). I can't really be very detailed about everything as I just go about clicking on the left handside list of labels, a lot of which I'm not familiar with and then see what turns up. My knowledge of Kanji (Chinese) characters only gets me so far on sites like these.
Some labels like Frapbois, Johanna Ho and Theatre Products are familiar to me from shopping in Hong Kong but it's basically bags of fun just clicking about on random things and seeing something that REALLY catches you without having a label/name tagging it. Through Nuan+, I discovered labels that I probably won't find much decent info on but to know it's existence is good enough - Full Nelson, Hisui, Carlife and Recipier are all tickling my fancy as you can see in the collages.
Why, might you ask, have I backed the images with Hong Kong skyscrapers? Surfing on sites like Nuan+ REALLY stokes up the desire to go fleeing back to Hong Kong on a shopping trip pronto. It's been less than a year but more like a lifetime to me.
I guess using Crescent Shop's exorbitant shipping service (they buy things on Japanese online sites and ship stuff overseas to ppl...for a PREMIUM price!) could work. Or harassing my Japanese flatmate to help me procure some of this stuff may be a better option.
