21st Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig 2012 - Day 2

Hi cuties! :D Here's my blog about my second day in Leipzig at 21st WGT!

From day 2 we started moving around the city in small groups or even alone. Leipzig was a very important trade center before the fall of the Berlin wall, after wich the number of its inhabitants decreased drastically. That's why it looks so enormous and empty (we never found traffic in the city) and wandering through it you can see a lot of buildings empty or closed since ages. Because of its size it took centuries to go from one place to another by tram and busses, but the public transports were very efficient.

In the morning my group visited the central station were we saw other italian people we usually meet in clubs here (we met some of them the day before too) and I had some super yummy orange duck for lunch. *ç* Then we had a *REAL* italian espresso at Paganini's, the price was double than what we usually pay in Italy but it was the only good coffe I had in Germany. (I had to go back there a few other times in those days, because I'm an espresso addicted and I really couldn't drink that pot of dirty water Germans call coffee XD no offence!) It was so weird to speak to the italian waiters! :) I felt home. After lunch we walked through the streets nearby and I was photographed by many people when I stopped next to a wonderful Rolls Royce parked in front of an antiquary shop (a professional photographer gave me his card but I still can't find my pictures in his site). The same happened at Absintherie Sixtina were a real antique hearse was parked.

I felt such a diva that I almost forgot about the bartender making me pay more than my due and not giving my money back. :/ There was a clothing stand next to the absintherie and another stand selling dildos and other weird things. The man there gave me a little squared plastic pack and I thought it was a condom. So weird. Than we visited the amazing XtraX store but I didn't buy anything (unfortunately I have really expensive and peculiar tastes... I drool for everything is uncommon and very detailed, so I couldn't afford anything I liked there :/)

After all the walking and posing we went back to the hotel to rest for a while before going to Agra for the night. While I was all alone in my room I watched some interesting documentaries and the Simpsons in german on the tv and I laughed at some points even if I couldn't get a single word... I also decided to discover what was in the squared little pack: it was not a condom, it was heart shaped strawberry flavoured jelly candies! So cute! 

Then we spent the night in Agra: since I was very disappointed from the first band we saw for using playback and not even try to make it seem they were live, I left my friends to visit the shops again: I found some super cheap vintage clothes (I asked the seller if the prices had any mistake but he said they were right): there were 2 *AMAZING* tailored skirts I wanted so much but they just didn't fit, so I just bought a beautiful vintage dress I'll show you asap (it's in the washing machine right now). Then I tried to go back to my friends in the concerts area but it was too late and security didn't let me enter, so I just waited and when they reached me we all went back to hotel to put on proper clothing and go to the amazing fetish party at the beautiful Volkspalast (it is absolutely my favourite place among all the ones we visited, Moritzbastei takes the second place). We reached it through the wrong way and we seriously risked our lives because of the giant holes in the ground and no lights to see them! It was sadly forbidden to  take photographs inside the palace but you can see the location on its site, just to know how sumptuous it was! http://www.volkspalast.tv/ We had fun till the morning and then have a huuuuge breakfast at 6.30am at the hotel restaurant before falling dead on our beds. Woah! This post has been way longer than the other, but on the first day we actually didn't this much! As in the previous post I leave you with a picture of my outfit and one of my make up that day! byes xxx

Messy hair... Stupid wind!

21st Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig 2012 - Day 1

Hello cuties! I carved out some time to write about my super adventure at the 21st edition of the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig. In this post I'll tell you what happened on the first day. I travelled by train to Verona on Thursday afternoon to reach the house of one of the guys, which was our meeting point. (We all are from different cities in our region: since the goth scene is not so big in Italy, you have to travel a lot to reach the most popular parties and clubs - and still we live in the area where it's more populous - so you meet people from very different and far places.) We ate pizza for dinner and then at 10:22 pm our travel get started! We stopped many times because travelling by night is really hard, plus the owner of the car in which I was didn't want anyone else to drive so he did the whole travel without sleeping.

 So embrassing: my travel outfit!(I just

 put on what remained out of my bag, despite 

not a single cloth matches with the others)

We arrived at our hotel in Leipzig at 10 am. It was really beautiful, with big windows and a glass elevator. But when I opened the door of my apartment I found a man in his underwear: I shut the door immediately and ran in the guys' apartment! O.O How embrassing! My room mates didn't believe me so they opened the door again!

My room mates waiting for the naked
stranger to go away from our room

I'm not the tidiest person in the world, but  this is how the
room looked after 5 minutes  my room mates were in XD

Even if we all were tired I didn't sleep beacuse I wanted to get ready for Viona's victorian pic-nic starting at 3pm. Unfortunately the others get ready very late and after chainging our ticket at Agra we got lost in Leipzig trying to reach the park where the pic-nic took place. It was 7pm when I gave up because I saw many people around in victorian clothes with empty baskets coming back. I was so sad that I cried... I really wanted to partecipate. Plus, I brought a really big and heavy picnic hamper with food and wine for all my mates, which occupied a lot of space in the car and in the end it was totally useless. :(

My hamper and my huge black velvet blanket

Me sad for not going to the pic-nic :(

Fortunately I was soon cheered up by a bottle of wine and we decided to go back to Agra to have dinner, drink beer, watch the concerts and lose a lot of time wandering through the market. It was so big and full of amazing things to buy (some of them were very expensive like leather corsets worth 500-700 € or metal handmade collars worth 300€). I didn't want to spend all my money on the first day so I just bought a pair of cute goggles with mirrors as lenses.

Some rosè wine to cheer me up

My new supercute little goggles

No partying till the morning on the first night: we went back to the hotel very soon because we still were all very tired for the travel from Italy. I leave you with a picture of my outfit and one of my make up on the first day of Treffen, byes! xxx

    

Wave Gotik Treffen

So, tomorrow I'm leaving to reach Leipzig together with 7 gorgeous people and have fun for 4 days at the WGT! Can't wait to join Viona's picnic the day after tomorrow! *-* I know I'll feel so humble compared to all the magnificent dresses they all will be wearing, but I'll try my best to have an amazing day. That will be the amazing start of my trip to the Wave Gotik Treffen. This year will be my first time there: I'm soooo anxious and excited! I hope I won't forget anything important! As soon as my luggage will be ready I'll hide it in a safe place because I'm afraid my cats will pee on it (they try everytime they realize I'm leaving for a while, it's their goodbye present -.-'). It would be a disaster since I'll bring all the best from my goth wardrobe! O.O Tonight I was looking for batteries in a closet and I found this cool... 

...I don't know exactly what it is (it's not a watch, it's just empty inside), but it will be gorgeous attached on my steampunk belt together with this faux leather pocket I bought for 2.95€ today at H&M. :)

If anyone of you is going to be there I'll be so happy to know you in person! Let me know! Goodnight! xxx

Pictures from last bodypainting performance

That's been a tough day, we weren't even sure the model would have come in time but in the end all went well! Here are some pictures taken during the performance, you can see more on my facebook page! It seems I'll perform a lot this summer, but nothing's confirmed yet, so... Wish me luck!

A little preview of the photosession

Here's one of the first pictures I received from Steve tonight :) I like it sooooo much! I'll post them all on my facebook page so don't forget to subscribe! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rubina-Shiver

Make up sneak peak

Here's a little preview of the make up I wore today for the photosession. I'm quite satisfied of how I looked in the pictures. :)

Earthquake

Hello it's rubina here,
I don't know if i should be happy or sad for what happened today... I'll tell you...
Tonight I was waken up at 4am by a earthquake and I was very very very frightened because it was the hardest I've ever felt in my life since I don't live in a earthquake zone. Plus, all my relatives live in earthquake zones so I was very worried for them, and all the neighbours were down in the street. Then I checked the news on the internet and saw that the centre was not in my relatives' areas, so when the tremors stopped and my neighbours went back in their houses I went on with my life even if I wasn't able to fall asleep again.
This morning I took a train with my friend Silvia and my super patient boyfriend and went to Venice for a little photo session with Steve who took amazing pictures of us I'm very looking forward to seeing. I had a really crazy make up you'll see...
Now that I came back home my neighbours are in the street again beacuse they felt another tremor and I discovered that many people died in the central area of the earthquake.
I don't really think we are in danger here, but even if I'm tired as hell I don't think I'll be able to take the nap I wanted to, so lets see what happen, I'm ready to any inconvenience...