Success!  Yep, Super*Market was a success! You know how we do it here at Bubble Punch, super cute and nerdy!

We sure hope you all made it down to Meltdown Comics last Saturday for our revamped Super*Market event. If not, you really missed out on the beginning of something awesome.

Brightly coloured tentacles? Oh my!

Saturday was a blast from beginning to end.

From the fun jams that our friends at Tune in Tokyo were pumping out, the delicious treats, the amazing Snap Yourself! booth, the hilarious Defective Geeks Podcast, Nylon Pink’s special performance, to the super shopping sprees we witnessed; we’re not sure what was the best part.

Look, this party was so poppin’ that Captain America showed up!

We also had the honor of being one of the first of 10 Meltdown Comics events that was livecast on youtube. So if you didn’t make it, you can actually still see recording from our live cast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gqcCVLnLPk

We’re also happy to announce that Super*Market will be returning seasonally to Meltdown! That’s Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, folks!

An awesome sticker from one of our vendors.

If you missed out this round, be sure to look out for our next one. We’re still checking out calendars and making deals with the weather lords.

As always, it’s our goal is to continue to seek out the right mix of nerdy, fashionable, cute, and fabulous in So-Cal, and get it jammed into Meltdown for everyone to enjoy.

The Lady Geeks of DefectiveGeeks.com during their live podcast at Super*Market

For more behind the scenes photos, you can always check our flickr and our Facebook page! Feel free to tag yourselves as well.

You can also find some more awesome blogs and recaps of Super*Market from our attendees and vendors, here:

Eclectic Cutie’s Photostream
Beatique
JulieDoll
ChrissaVillanueva.com
Sarah the Rebel
CommicAttack.net

We also want to give a huge thank you to all of our vendors and sponsors:

• Sanrio
• Ingram
• Chubby Bunny
• Nylon Pink/Hello Drama
• Pretty Star Clothing
• Geeky Glamorous
• OGEEKU
• Messy Pink
• Locketship
• Miyu Decay
• Miss Alphabet
• Jupey Krusho
• The Many Arms of Misha
• Lil’ Rae Cakes
• Zambi Candy
• Oboro Charms
• Killer Tentacle Octopus
• Castle Corsetry
• Her Tiny Teeth/Chunktopia
• Happy Hoodie Friends
• Twinkle Wish
• Tune in Tokyo
• Defective Geeks
• Dokidoki Delights
• Zippercut
• Rae Stefanucci
• Zilla308
• Julie Doll

Thanks to everyone for participating and coming.  We’re really grateful for so many of you, both new and familiar faces who came out to support Bubble Punch, Meltdown Comics! All of our supporters always make these events possible, and fun.

Keep a look out, we’ll announce our next date sometime in the near future.

Also remember, for those interested in vending for participating in our future Super*Market events, please contact:

BubblePunch@Gmail.com

Hope you guys all had as much fun as we did!

Saturday, April 14, 2012
2:00 – 6:00PM
Meltdown Comics

7522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046      www.meltdowncomics.com

Bubble Punch is revamping the Super*Market event at Meltdown Comics, gathering all of the most awesome nerd gear in So Cal to create a metropolis of kickass shopping in one place.

Super*Market was originally the brainchild of Jessica Gao, who created super*MARKET as a vending fair for comics and the arts at UCLA, then moved to Meltdown for a very successful run. Jessica says,  ”I couldn’t be happier to see the triumphant return of super*MARKET.  It was an event that has always been dear to my heart and to have it in the capable hands of Bubble Punch is ultra-cute icing on the cake.”

Along with hunting for awesome swag, guests can also party down with live entertainment, refreshments, and a chance to mix and mingle with other colorful and fun patrons.

Super*Market vendors will specialize in the bright, geeky, girly, and super unique. Jewelry designers, unique clothing designers, and even second hand clothing from Japan will all be sold for the first time in one place at this fashionably nerdy event.

Entertainment during the event will be provided by the DJ team at Tune In Tokyo, along with a live podcast from the lady nerds at Defective Geeks, event snaps, and much more!

** FREE San-X Goody Bag to first 25 guests!
**HOURLY GIVEAWAY sponsored by Sanrio! Lots of Hello Kitty apparel, handbags, and accessories will be up for grabs!
Admission to this event is FREE!

Just some of the amazing vendors you will see at Super*Market:

Geeky Glamorous
Locketship
Messy Pink
Lemon Tree 11
Miss Alphabet
The Many Arms of Misha
Miyu Decay
Ogeeku
ZambiCandy
Her Tiny Teeth by Natasha Lillipore
Happy Hoodie Friends
Oboro Charms
Lil’ Rae Cakes
Chubby Bunny
Twinkle Wish
Eclectic Cutie
Jessica Louise Clothing
Pretty Star Clothing
Jupey Krusho
Killer Tentacle Octopus
DokiDoki Delights
Castle Corsetry

and more!

SUPER*MARKET will also boast a huge selection of gently used clothing from Bubble Punch & Friends, ripe for the picking! Clothing, shoes, accessories, housewares, and more! Come early for the coolest stuff!

Facebook Invite<

VENDOR & MEDIA INQUIRIES: Bubblepunch@gmail.com

The Grove was full to brimming with guests that day, as the crowd shuffled in to experience different aspects of Japanese culture at the all-day event, with product sample booths, cultural performances, and special appearances!

Bubble Punch was happy to invite our friend Simone Legno, creative director and co-founder of tokidoki to join in the festivities, and he graciously offered to do a meet and greet session with fans over at the tokidoki booth! Simone is a great supporter of Japan, with tokidoki having done numerous charity campaigns to help those effected by the Northern Japan Earthquake last year. We are inspired by Simone and his company, all working hard to support Japan at this event!

Simone posing with a fan holding a drawing of one of his cute characters, with the phrase "Ganbarre, Nihon" (Do your best, Japan!) inscribed at the bottom.

Simone drew some awesome sketches for fans on items they brought in for the signing!

Bubble Punch also produced our very own fashion segment that night, to give attendees a look at what’s fun, trendy, and fashionable on the streets of Japan.  We also had a special segment of the show dedicated to Sanrio and Hello Kitty! The crowd packed in to get a glimpse of the over 30 models we had prepared who were decked head to toe in Japanese street fashions! The styles we featured were: Lolita, Mori Girl, Fairy Kei, Japanese punk and visual kei, Gyaru, Wa-Lolita (with clothing designed by the awesome Doll Delight), and the latest fashions from international brand Sanrio!

One audience member was able to capture a the fashion show in its entirety on video!

Intro by Bubble Punch

Full fashion show:

Full photos of some of the models just after the jump!

Lolita model, Stephanie

Pirate Lolita model, Emily

Mori girl model, Anya

Fairy kei model, Judy

Fairy kei model, Amanda

Gothic model, Ari.

Visual Kei model Tina

Gothic gyaru model Essy

Gyaru model, Jennifer

Wa-lolita style from "Doll Delight." Model Haylee

Wa-lolita style from "Doll Delight." Designer and model Cyril.

Sanrio model, Vanessa

Sanrio model, Andrew

Sanrio model, Risa

Sanrio model, Jenny

Sanrio Model, Chrissa

Sanrio model, Stephanie

Sanrio model, Hayden

Sarnio model, Abby

Sanrio model, Danielle

Hello Kitty herself starred in the fashion show!

All of our wonderful models! Thanks to everyone for their support!

We would like to thank the models so much for volunteering their time and energy for this show! We would also like to thank our friends at Tune in Tokyo for providing us with flawless and fun music for the fashion show, and also our buddies Mandie and Ollie for providing us with invaluable coordination support for this event! Thanks to our makeup artists Izzy and Jonathan and hairstylists Kaytea and Alannah for making the Sanrio models look picture perfect!

And of course, a huge thank you goes to the amazing people at Sanrio, for providing us with wardrobe for our Hello Kitty-themed portion of the show, as well as to Hello Kitty herself for popping by for an appearance! Special props go to our photographer, Eron Rauch, for fighting tooth and nail for these amazing shots, and for our great volunteers Jenna and Liz! You all rock!

Even more photos from the tokidoki signing and our fashion show can be found on our Flicker set!

Check out these links for great coverage of the event:
Photos:
LA Weekly

Blogs:
Haute Republic
Essy Violet
Fawn and Doll
SpeakGeekyToMe

Video:
SpeakGeekyToMe
ApocalipstickTV
Krys Villaster

If you have any coverage of the event you’d like to share with us and have listed here, please comment and let us know!

“To convey our heartfelt gratitude for the support we received after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, the Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles and Japan Business Association of Southern California will hold a public appreciation event: “Japan. Endless Discovery.”

We will be taking over the popular shopping center The Grove, with activities throughout the day for the whole family, special guest star signings, and special stage shows!

Bubble Punch is proud to be taking part in this momentous event, by producing “Bubble Punch Presents,” a showcase of fashion and pop culture from Japan!

THIS IS A FREE ALL AGES EVENT!! OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

☆★☆ 6:00PM: Japanese Street Fashion Show: With Lolita, Mori Girl, Fairy Kei, Visual Kei, Gyaru, Wa-Lolita, styles!
There will also be a special section of the fashion show featuring Sanrio fashions, and a special appearance by Hello Kitty herself!
Music Provided by Tune in Tokyo!

☆★☆ Simone Legno Signing: tokidoki co-founder and creative director Simone Legno will be doing a limited signing at the event!
2:30 – 3:30pm Pick up SIGNING TICKETS at the tokidoki booth on North Gilmore Lane in order to be eligible to meet and get one item signed with Simone Legno! You MUST have a ticket in order to participate in the signing!
3:30pm – 5:30PM: Signing times

Come and find “your Japan” by visiting booths featuring Japanese cutting edge technology, delicious and healthy food, charming characters, traditional culture, and trending fashion and pop culture. Perfect for the whole family!

Other event activities throughout the day include:
★Special presentation by YOSHIKI of X JAPAN
★Kimono Show
★Tea Ceremony
★Taiko Performance
★Anime
★Koto Performance
★Sake Tasting
★Japanese Cultural Showcase of Food, Tourism, Traditional Culture, and Technology

View more official info here: http://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/310event.htm

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!

Michelle (ChubbyBunny) created special black and white striped bows for this event along with Hello Kitty’s cute ensemble. At the door, some of these bows along with some of the new nail varnishes from the collection were given to attending guests.

The girls greeting us at the door were dressed in these cute themed ‘cigarette girl’ outfits! There were no cigarettes though, just bows and nail varnishes!

Cute raspberry cocktails in pink, just for Hello Kitty. There were also non-alcoholic versions.

Jenny, Grant, Michelle, and Mie pose for a picture inside Maison 140

A special room was converted into the Hello Kitty Suite at the Maison 140 for this event. It was wall to wall Hello Kitty!

Hello Kitty poses in Michelle’s one of a kind dress designed for Hello Kitty!

We packed into a small vintage elevator with our friends and guests for this shot.

It was an amazing night with well dress girls, and lots of cute makeup!

The entire Hello Kitty Noir Collection is currently available at Sephora for a limited time. Don’t miss it!

You can check out more pictures from that evening on our Flickr (side bar)

We (BubblePunch) thought we’d give you guys a fun little photo preview of Rune Boutique.

We’ve been burning the midnight oil all week at Royal/T in preparation for the event. Sebastian, Yuka, and Vani of 6%DOKIDOKI have joined us this week to help with the set up too!

Kawaii takes a lot of work guys, and we want it to be perfect for you:

We hope you enjoyed that fun little preview of what’s to come!

Remember this is a fun, free, all-ages, public event so please line up early, be safe, and be courteous.

This event was made possible by our sponsors:

We know some of you have desperately been wondering whether or not Kyary Pamyu Pamyu would be performing along with walking in the 6%DOKIDOKI fashion show at the collaborative Bubble Punch, 6%DOKIDOKI, and Medicom event: Rune Boutique.

Hot off the press, we here at Bubble Punch are happy to announce: YES!
Kyary will be performing a short set! This will be Kyary’s first performance in the USA so we hope you guys pick up the ‘Pon Pon Pon’ dance ASAP!

Kyary’s “Pon Pon Pon” video, released earlier this year, went viral instantly. She’s also our ‘Candy’ girl in the Rune Boutique inspired key images.

What will Kyary be performing? Of course, she’ll be performing “Pon Pon Pon” as well as her new single “ Tsukema Tsukeru“. The video for “Tsukema Tsukeru” is set to debut this week as well. Perfect, right?

So don’t miss out on this debut performance by Kyary and make your way out to the Rune Boutique World Debut party at Royal/T Cafe on Dec 9, 2011.

Facebook event/rsvp: http://www.facebook.com/events/188250317925389/

This event was made possible by our wonderful sponsors:

[a]narchy hair

Jones Soda

Sapporo USA

Sugarpill Cosmetics 

TokyoFashion.Com

It’s the last day of November and Rune Boutique is creeping up around the corner!

Are you guys entering the Rune Boutique look-a-like contest? Have you decided on your outfits?

There’s only one and a half weeks left so we hope you guys are creating amazing and fun coordinates for the party!

If you haven’t RSVP’d already, you can always do that at our Face Book Events page: http://www.facebook.com/events/188250317925389/

This is a public event for all ages.
Must be 21+ to drink (have valid ID!)
We would love to thank our wonderful sponsors, who have helped make this event possible:

[a]narchy hair

Fiji Water

Jones Soda

Sapporo USA

Sugarpill Cosmetics 

TokyoFashion.Com

We also have some exciting new announcements about the event!

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!