Different Types of Lolita~

Decora Lolita

Decora Lolita, also known as Deco Lolita, commonly uses bright and bold colors. The base of this style comes from Sweet Lolita. They tend to layer their clothes and use tons of accessories.  Sometimes they also use cute wigs, fake eyelashes, and circle lenses.  Rhinestones and stickers also might be applied to the face and most of the items are decorated with pearls and ribbons.  

Sweet Lolita

Sweet Lolita focuses on a more child-like appearance.  It uses frills, lace, and colorful prints to achieve this.  The most common colors to see are pastel pinks, blues, and purples, but other colors can be used.  Lots of bows are incorporated into the hair, on the dress, or even on the shoes.  Wigs are also used, but are mainly natural colors or pastel colors.

Classic Lolita

Classic Lolita is an elegant style and takes inspiration through many different eras in history, such as Renaissance, Elizabethan, and Victorian.  To show the maturity of the style, the common colors are brown, dusty pink, ivory, navy, and black; Mainly neutral colors.  The clothing features less frills and lace and the skirts often have corset lacing.  And on these skirts, the prints are commonly floral patterns, but sometimes they have old toys or fruits.

Punk Lolita

This style is heavily influenced by the Western punk style.  Punk Lolita is slightly more casual than other styles, but still has a cute and edgy feel.  The most common colors are black, red, white, and purple.  The outfits consist of a mix of lolita and punk elements.  Diamonds, polka dots, tartan, plaid, and checkerboard are some of the common patterns and normally have more frills than lace.  The accessories are the common punk ones; chains, studded belts, safety pins, and rivets.

Princess Lolita

The goal of this style is to capture the elegance of royalty.  Crowns, gloves, pearls, and high-heels are worn to get this look.  It is influenced by Princess Gyaru Fashion.  A difference is that it's common to wear no blouse or one with long, flared sleeves.  Popular accessories are tiaras, lace tights, pearl chokers, and princess wands.

Country Lolita

This style is much simpler than other lolita styles, but it's just as cute, mixing sweet and classic lolita.  Most Country Lolita outfits have straw hats and a basket purse.  Common prints would be gingham, fruits, and small flowers.  Some common colors would be yellow and red.  This style is difficult to pull off, but ends up being very cute.  A good tip would be to keep your accessories, hair, and makeup simple.

Wa Lolita

Wa Lolita incorporates classic Japanese elements into the lolita silhouette.  Petticoats are a big  part of this style.  Most of the time they are worn underneath a stylized Kimono.  The other way to wear this style is to have a lolita dress made out of traditional Japanese fabric.

Qi Lolita

This style is similar to the Wa Lolita style, but is influenced by traditional Chinese elements instead of Japanese.  Traditional Chinese hair pieces are worn instead of the classic bows.  This isn't a common style and is worn more for special occasions.  

Shiro Lolita

Just as the name suggests, this is a Lolita outfit done all in white.  The hair doesn't have to be white, and sometimes a different colored accessory is added in for impact.  These outfits normally qualify in the Sweet Lolita style.

Kuro Lolita

This is the exact opposite of Shiro Lolita.  The outfits in this style are done in all black.  Just like Shiro Lolita, the hair doesn't have to be black and sometimes a colored accessory is used to make an impact.  These outfits normally fit into the Sweet Lolita category.

Sailor Lolita

Sailor Lolita incorporates a sailor suit, but gives it a cute twist.  The most common colors are navy, white, and black and the outfits rarely have patterns, but sometimes have stripes along the bottom.  Most of the accessories include items related to anchors.

Pirate Lolita

The sub-styles that this style fits in varies with the outfits, but normally they are a mix of a few.  These outfits focus around pirates and use accessories such as eye patches, tricorns, and swords.  This style is also worn mostly for special occasions. 

Ero Lolita

Ero Lolita is a hard style to pull off and is often misunderstood.  It is considered revealing, but not too revealing.  It still follows the Lolita silhouette, but the skirts are shorter and garters are used.  This is a mature, gothic style, so it uses darker colors normally.  The dresses are normally shorter, the blouses, if any, are lower, and the arms are often bare.

Guro Lolita

Guro is an abbreviation for grotesque, so as you can imagine, there is quite a bit of blood involved, or at least a lot of bandages.  This look tries to incorporate the look of a broken or injured doll from a horror movie.  Most of the dresses are white, which probably makes it easier to see the fake blood.  Can't forget the dark eye shadow and eyeliner!