On December 9th, 2011 Bubble Punch (that’s us!) along with the help of 6%DOKIDOKI, Medicom Toys, Rune Productions, Sugarpill Cosmetics, Tokyo Fashion, [a]narchy hair, Royal/T cafe, Sapporo, and Jones Soda brought you Rune Boutique!

As you all know, the theme around this event was to bring the colorful and crative world of Rune Naito, father of the “kawaii” look, to America.

Rune Naito is not a name that is regularly heard outside of Japan, but has influenced some of the greatest ‘Kawaii’ minds, like that of Sebastian Masuda of 6%DOKIDOKI.

In order to help bring Rune Boutique stateside with a punch, 6%DOKIDOKI brought over their new mens line along with a colorful fashion show, Medicom Toys brought over their new Rune Boutique inspired items, and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu even flew out to make this event an affair to remember.

We really want to thank the 4,000 of you who drove, flew, ran, and waited in line! All of you made this event a huge sucess.

We all hope that you enjoyed your evening and continue to come out and support not just Bubble Punch, but all of our cross pop-culture related events!

And for some extra bonus points! We had an incredibly busy week, as you know. We spent the entire week setting up, doing inventory with our awesome volunteers, and trying to get the entire night ready for all of you. Everyone involved did an amazing job helping us put all of the pieces of the puzzle together. We definitely could not have done it with out them.

Now you may want to know, with all of our adrenaline pumping from the event, what could we possibly want to do after this big night?

Why gather up 6%DOKIDOKI, Kyary, and Mr. Homma (of Rune Productions), and the Medicom Toys staff and mozy down to Saddle Ranch in Hollywood, of course!

We had corn, biscuts, all of those good things… and a gigantic cotton candy.

Kyary was brave enough to try out the mechanical bull! She lasted pretty long too. Alas she did eventually fall off, not to worry there were cushions to catch her!

Where are the pictures from the event? We know some of you have been dying to get your pictures. Sorry about the slight delay, we had over 1100 pictures to post so it took us a long while.

You can all find yourselves on our flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubblepunch/

You should be able to see yourself in action. **bear with us, some of them are still uploading, so if you don’t see yourself right away, check again a little bit later**

Thanks again everyone! We couldn’t have done it with out you. Thanks again to all of our sponsors, and we all hope you guys come out to the next Bubble Punch event in 2012!

Here’s what you’ve been waiting for:

In celebration of the RUNE BOUTIQUE collaborative event, 6%DOKIDOKI, inspired by the unreleased Rune Naito images, envisioning a magical boutique with a dapper manager and four enchanting shop girls.

On the night of our RUNE BOUTIQUE event, 6%DOKIDOKI and our sponsors, will be holding a costume contest, inspired by the re-imagined Rune Naito artwork by 6%DOKIDOKI.

If you still haven’t read up on the RUNE BOUTIQUE event, here’s the facebook event’s page:

http://www.facebook.com/events/188250317925389/

Confused? Here’s the gist of the contest!

One pair (2 people) will have the chance to win exclusive items from the RUNE BOUTIQUE collaborators and sponsors based on their style, creativity, and overall “kawaii” factor in their inspired outfits.

• Contestant pairs must enter in pairs of 2 people each, this can be a combination of Girl x Girl, Girl x Boy, Boy x Boy
• Contestant pairs must have costumes/outfits inspired by 1 of the 4 RUNE BOUTIQUE images: Candy, Drugs, Beauty, and Savon
• 1 person must portray their inspired version of the girl in the image, and the 2nd person must portray the shop manager.
• Outfits should be inspired by the 6%DOKIDOKI and Rune Naito images, not a replica
• Contestant pairs will must report to the designated area the night of the event, and will be judged by a panel of judges including RUNE BOUTIQUE sponsors and special guest judges.
• 3 prizes will be given to the 3 winning pairs (6 people total): Grand Prize, 2^nd Place, and 3^rd Place

Need a little inspiration? Help? We’re here to give you a little hop in the right direction.

We took a little trip to Goodwill to find a good starting point. Since there are four equally amazing looks to choose from, we wanted to find some cool threads and props to inspire us. Just remember we decided to do a photoshoot, but contestants don’t have to. All the contestants need to do is portray 1 of the 4 different looks in their own kawaii style.

We found this awesome hat that would have been potentially great for “Beauty”.

These shoes might have made an amazing start for the bright yellow ‘Savon’ look.

We saw these bottles and vases and decided they would be perfect for the two key images “Candy” and “Drugs”!

So after deciding on “Candy” and “Drugs”, Bubble Punch set off to make a few more props for our look!

“Candy” has a lollipop, so we wanted to keep that item. Instead of making it round, we decided to make it heart shaped using some craft foam. We colored it with some markers, wrapped it up with some cellophane, and glued it to a wooden stick!

Voila! We managed to make this in a few minutes!

We also decided to make cute glitter mustaches, since we also had to portray the imaginary ‘Shop Manager’ in the photos.

Grabbing some stiff glitter felt, we drew out a shape we wanted and cut it out. To apply this to our faces, we used some double sided tape, but you can get creative!

Then we put together our outfits for “Candy” and “Drugs”. For the “Candy” inspiration, Michelle was the shop girl, and Yume was the shop manager!

We inverted the roles for “Drugs”. Yume was the shop girl for “Drugs” and Michelle was the “Shop Manager”.

Drawing inspiration from the images was fun and easy. Our outfits were a mix of our love for Japanese street fashion and our own personal styles.

Of course, what is an outfit with out makeup? We put on our faces and went with the theme colors using our favourite and RUNE BOUTIQUE sponsor, Sugarpill cosmetics!

Here’s our final images and outfits!

Candy, inspired by 6%DOKIDOKI and Rune Naito.

“Drugs” inspired by 6%DOKIDOKI and Rune Naito.

Here’s a full look at our outfits:

Of course, contestants are welcome to portray characters from any of the four (4) RUNE BOUTIQUE  key visuals of RUNE BOUTIQUE photos for the contest.

Remember, creating unique and fashionable ensembles inspired by the original photos is a key factor. Show us your own inspired style!

We’ can’t wait to see what you guys come up with at the RUNE BOUTIQUE event. Good look guys!

<3 Bubble Punch!