Spellbond Carnival: A New Lolita Fashion Blog
Hello, and welcome to Spellbond Carnival, a lolita fashion blog powered by Spellbond Studios (AKA Serena Rahhal and Reese Patterson)! We’re really excited to be launching this blog as a place to ramble about the fashion and post coord designs inspired by various aesthetics and fandoms. Both of us are autistic, so you can expect our content to delve deep into whatever strikes our (special) interest.
Lolita fashion blogs are what first drew Serena to the fashion, inspired by the passionate writing and seemingly endless conversations many lolita bloggers had about the fashion. Since finally getting a chance to start wearing lolita in 2018, it’s been a dream to run a lolita blog. After months of baiting Reese with Alice and the Pirates, Souffle Song, and lolita YouTube content until there was no choice but to fall down the rabbit hole last year… the two decided to make this dream a reality! (Everything’s better when you can do it with your best friend, right?)
About Serena
- Favourite brand: Can’t decide!
- Favourite substyle: Classic, maybe?!
- Select dream dresses: “Classic Fairy Tales” by Angelic Pretty, “The Romantic” by Henrietta, “Beauty and the Beast” by Haenuli, “̶A̶n̶t̶i̶q̶u̶e̶ ̶C̶l̶o̶c̶k̶”̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶S̶o̶u̶f̶f̶l̶̶e ̶S̶o̶n̶g̶ ACQUIRED!, “̶B̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶M̶i̶c̶h̶a̶e̶l̶”̶ b̶y̶ ̶B̶a̶b̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶t̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶S̶h̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶B̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ACQUIRED!
- Lolita Level Up Quiz 3.0 Score: 68 (Lolita Newbie)
- Select special interests: Lolita fashion, Dragon Age, Sasuke Uchiha
- Bio: Palestinian Women’s Studies MA who lives in London (the cool one, not the one in England)
- Social media: @skyromancing on Instagram, @absoluteclassic on Tumblr, @elevenverses on Twitter
About Reese
- Favourite brand: Souffle Song
- Favourite substyle: Punk (with dreams to make Vaporwave Lolita a thing)
- Notable dream dresses: “Magic Night in Museum” by Souffle Song, “Rose Jail” by Alice and the Pirates, “Magical Artefact” by Metamorphose, “Season Match” by Souffle Song, and “Rosy Night’s Masquerade” by Alice and the Pirates
- Lolita Level Up Quiz 3.0 Score: 24 (Lolita Newbie)
- Select special interests: ABC’s Once Upon a Time, Wolf 359, Bioware’s Anthem, and the gaming industry
- Bio: Pop culture wallflower from Montgomery, Alabama who started a soap and candle business just to play with fire.
- Social media: @exolexic on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
And if fiction podcasts are your thing, we also co-created and co-write the audio drama Signed, Venus.
One thing we’re really excited to start posting on this blog are fandom-inspired coord designs! We’re already working on a few that we think you guys will find really cool. For our intro post, we thought it’d be appropriate to share the first one we made together, inspired by Cypher outfits in the Bioware game, Anthem (which, Reese would like you all to know, is a great game that you should totally play):
Aaand that’s all for now! Thanks for checking us out. We’re really excited to be starting this blog and we can’t wait to come back with more lolita content here at Spellbond Carnival!
