Oh well, it doesn't help that I'm such a crazed fanatic about that little widget you find here on my blog side bar...or whatever it's called. Special events happen one after another, and I could only manage to comment Poupees on a regular basis, and dress my own Poupee up too. ToT oh well. At least I can actually manage to get some event special dress up items though, even if I'm TOO short on Ribbons...one of the sad facts of having no Paypal...ToT

Erm, yeah. Poupee Girl...so what is Poupee Girl? It's some kind of fashion widget wherein people get to dress up their Poupees for fun and profit. Profit comes in Ribbons, the currency of the Poupee world. Taking snapshots of Poupees once a day earns the user 10 Ribbons, 20 comments per day earns the user 20 Ribbons more, perfect attendance (as in the user dresses the Poupee up all days of the month) gains the user 100 Ribbons, and the Shells that users can sometimes obtain from each Poupee visit could be sold for Ribbons as well. On top of that, dress up could also net the user extra dress up Ribbons aside from the 10 Ribbons the user usually gets (usually, 3 to 10 extra Ribbons). Or, if the user finds the item prices too pricey, they can opt to buy Ribbons from various credit cards that could be used to purchase them, or through other online payment methods such as Paypal and Paysafe, and through payment options available for the Japanese market only. Ribbons could also be obtained from posting items in their "closets", where they could upload pictures of fashion items and the like to get other users to comment them and earn lots of Ribbons. Ribbons obtained from these payment methods net users with rare dress up items not sold over in the regular Poupee markets. Also, users with posted items in their closets could be awarded with special dress up items once they reach a certain "Ribbon tier" earned.

For one thing, I like looking at all those cute items on display that other users put in their closets, and it's a great way to make friends as well. Contrary to what the site may look like, Poupee Girl also has a lot of foreigners joining in that craze, especially so that the lolita fashion sub genre is slowly gaining popularity in the West and other Asian countries as it is very popular in Japan, among others. But aside from being all about fashion, as it really is, it is also an interesting look at how online transactions in social networking worlds (with Poupee Girl likened to being a "cousin" of Gaia, IMVU and other social networking widgets that use "currency" to net their users new items for their avatars and the like) work and be fun at the same time. And it's a great way to meet many new friends too!

I heart Poupee Girl!! <3

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