'Taobao' Shopping!

A few weeks ago, musing about outfits and general fashion related business,  i decided that I needed some new shoes. Not just any old shoes, but some real cool, chunky masterpieces to go with just about any outfit that has black involved... which is nearly my entire wardrobe >.<.

This caused me to have an epiphany. "TAOBAO!!" I cried.  This was the perfect excuse to explore the wonderful (albeit confusing) world of shopping services and Chinese eBay shopping!

So after (not much) research, i chose the shopping service 'Taobaoring', to help me purchase these beauties.

Now, if you don't know, a 'shopping service' is a service in which you pay someone from a given country (China in this case) to buy items from your chosen store, and they ship them to you personally. Unless you actually have a friend living in that country to do this for you, you have to use one of the many services online which will take a commission for that service, usually 8 - 10%. 'Taobaoring' takes 8%.

This may seem like a lot, but given the price of items on Taobao, it is in fact cheaper than buying from ebay or amazon in total, even with shipping fees! The incredibly cheap prices on this website is the reason why hundreds of people just like me, use Taobao for this kind of shopping. For example; some skeleton hair clips on taobao could be less than 50p depending on the seller, but on eBay they can be £7 or even more!

I'm not going to go into much detail on buying from Taobao in this post, but comment below if you want me to make a specific post on doing so, and I will :).

This is the box these beauties came in, i asked for it to be without the shoe box to save money on shipping, but the cardboard it came in was very secure, i nearly couldn't get into it there was so much tape. There's no way these babies were coming out during shipping.. 

Inside they were wrapped as above, like little socks for the shoes :3. They also came with two pairs of insoles for the front half of the shoe for comfort (and incase you lost one pair!), which i thought was lovely and thoughtful.

Please, gaze in awe at the beauty and grace that emanate within...

Or not, its cool either way (~￣▽￣)~

Basically; These shoes are awesome, the sizing specified is completely correct, they are comfy and really well made, not to mention exactly like the picture :)! They also have a red tartan insole, so what's not to love (✪㉨✪)!

To finish, have some pictures of my legs  (︶ω︶)  <----- {{ballsack mouth}}

P.s, I can't wait to get a better camera   >ohmygod<   iPhone quality is slowly destroying my soul (⊙_◎).

✿