#eva-lotta kiibus

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Eva Lotta is back 🙌🏻

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Eva-Lotta Kiibus skating to music from A Star Is Born at the 2023 European Championships.

(Sources: 1 and 2)

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2022 Nebelhorn trophy entry #13

Women free program

Eva Lotta Kibus(EST)

Thoughts: I love what Eva did with her hair. But during the step sequence, she had this blank look on her face. And I wasn’t crazy about her dress either.

Women short program

Tzu Han Ting(TPE)

Thoughts: I don’t remember when I started falling in love with Tzu, because I got her confused with Ting Cui, who used to skate for the USA. I know now that they are two completely different people, but the similar names just made me confused

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I'm about to personally venmo Eva-Lotta Kiibus so she can finally get a new dress.

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Mihhail Selevko, Eva-Lotta Kiibus and Niina Petrokina have been named as Estonia’s team to the 2023 Europeans.

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Aaand I’m done with our girls!

And one of them was on the podium! What times we live in… Anyways I’m happy to be watching figure skating again (even if I’m a bit lost since i don’t know most of the skaters lol) and best of luck to them!

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My 10 favourite programes of 2021–2022 (women)

10. Eva-Lotta Kiibus – Baiana (SP)

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Beijing 2022 Women's SP Top and Bottom 5 Dresses (in my opinion)

A bit of a side note: I'm not including any of the Russian girls on this. They would have been Rather Low on the ranking, but I don't want to direct any more negativity towards them. In a brief summary, I liked Kamila's dress the most of the three and Anna's the least. Okay, moving on.

Opinions below the cut:

Top 5:

1) Favorite: Wakaba Higuchi

So, the weird thing is, I don't think this would have been my favorite dress any other year. It's not even my favorite Wakaba dress, least of all my favorite dress this season (that honor would go to Mai Mihara but she's not here :\). However, from the dresses at this competition, it's the most subtle, the most elegant, and the most detailed without becoming overworked or messy.

I'll talk about this more later down the ranking, but the mock-iridescent coloring works amazingly here, much better than with Ryabova. The colors never muddy or blend together too harshly, and the whole thing is just bright enough that you can see the different colors without it being overwhelming. Also, hands down the best use of lace I have seen this season! None of the little white vines look haphazardly placed or arbitrary; they all work together to influence the shape of the bodice, accentuated by the more vibrant, dark blue stones lightly scattered throughout. The shape is not original by any means, but it's executed so well that I don't even care! Beautiful, stunning, exceptional, and it's everything that I loved about this program as a whole!

2) Kaori Sakamoto

The only reason this isn't number one for me is because I liked her first 'Gladiator' dress better, sorry. If I didn't have that one to compare it to, it would absolutely have the edge over Wakaba's dress. (It's definitely the most memorable of the bunch, by a long shot.)

However, I think this is a spectacular dress. While there are a lot of very large rhinestones (which can easily look tacky), the colors of them make them more of accents than anything. On the topic of colors, the brown-to-gold gradient is beautiful! I really like how the brown turns more red on the bust rather than going straight to yellow. And, for a Gladiator dress, I'm glad it stayed away from the realm of Costume. Even with the little arm-wrap details, it doesn't look like someone was directly copying a costume from the movie. It hits the mark of "suggestion" rather than "interpretation" in the best way possible, which is ridiculously difficult to do! It's classy, it's attentive to detail, and it accents her program beautifully!

3) Zhu Yi

Just gorgeous. The dark purple looks beautiful on her! I'm also a huge fan of the two-piece (or mimicked two-piece) dresses that have become more popular lately. The cut of the neckline is perfect. I love the subtlety of the black airbrushing contrasted to the large rhinestones, and while I'm often iffy about sleeves that go all the way to the fingers, I think it accentuated her body lines really beautifully in this case. You can't tell with an image, but the skirt with the two thigh-splits moves very nicely while she skates. It's one of those dresses that made me excited to watch her program!

4) Alysa Liu

Honestly, I might only like this dress as much as I do because of the way Alysa kicked butt with her performance (one of the only programs I bothered rewatching lol). The vibrancy of the colors matched her visible glee while she skated, and made her short program feel like a complete package. And honestly, isn't that what a costume is for? It's not the focus of the routine- it shouldn't be- but it should definitely accentuate every strength of the skater's performance! On a technical edge, I love the spiraling, wild rhinestones and the subtle airbrushing along the seams of the red and the illusion fabric. Blue was a fantastic choice for an accent color, too! I liked the look better when she wore it with bangs, but that's a nitpick at worst. The cut is nothing new, but what is done with that basic silhouette is just gorgeous!

5) Lindsay van Zundert

Less can be a lot more, guys! Not everything is about sparkles and rhinestones! Sometimes, what makes a great dress is simple attention to detail and I think this dress really exemplifies that. I do love a good black strappy dress, though, so take that as you will ;) I LOVE the use of sheer on the bodice so much; the scalloping along the deep-v neckline is actually pretty unique, and gives the whole look a very nice shape. The long, dark sleeves emphasized her body lines against the harsh white of the ice (which, again should be the purpose of a dress: to emphasize your assets!). I think the shape of the skirt is really cool, too! You can't see it from this picture, but the front comes down to two points in the middle, and has more nice detail work. Even though there's nothing in the way of color or shine, that attention was applied to creating a unique shape for a one-of-a-kind look, and, for me, it works!

Honorable Mentions: Natasha McKay (loved the colors and cut), Anastasiia Shabotova (beautiful, matched the music), Young You (very pretty and intricate), and Yelim Kim (nice shape with lovely details).

Bottom 5:

1) Least Favorite: Nicole Schott

I want to emphasize the mad respect I have for Nicole. She has been a semi-successful senior (always on the GP circuit) for as long as I've been following the sport, and she has never failed to entertain me even when the tech elements aren't there. At 25, Nicole, Mariah Bell (25) and Josefin Taljegård (26) were the oldest women in the competition! However, this dress just is not it for me. I can get behind simple, don't get me wrong, but I cannot with that cut-out. I just kept thinking about how naked I would feel wearing that in a freezing arena lol (but if she feels empowered in it, then good on her!). Aside from that, the red collar bit makes the top half (above the cut-out) look like one of those training dresses that tiny girls wear to their basic 8 classes (if you skate you know what I mean). I like the asymmetry in the skirt, though.

2) Ekaterina Ryabova

This is just a LOT. I think I like the design they were going for with the mock-iridescent colors, but in execution it's sooo busy and overworked. Straight up, too many rhinestones. Either they should have used one less color or toned down the gold rhinestones because having them all of them is wayyy too much. The colors look muddied and dull from a distance, which I think is just a consequence of having that many of them and making them so dark. The length of the sleeves is awkward, especially with the weird stripes of rhinestones on them; make them longer or take them off. The triangles of sheer, sparkly fabric along the neckline gives it evil clown vibes. I like how the skirt moves, though, it's very flowy and pretty.

3) Anastasiia Gubanova

I cannot stand straight necklines. They never look good, unless they continue into off-the-shoulder sleeves. Otherwise, just give that neckline a shape for gods sake! The cut of the skirt didn't have any flow, either, so the whole look ended up being pretty stiff. This is just a circumstance of the sport, but being surrounded by bright white ice really drowned out the detail in the bodice, too. Also not a huge fan of the tulle-like fabric lining the top or the "nude" gloves since they are darker than her skin tone and they pulled my attention away once or twice (but I always give a pass to mismatched illusion fabric since its all but impossible to find a match to your specific complexion). Again, I liked her program despite my feelings for the dress. I'm glad she did well!

4) Eva-Lotta Kiibus

(I'm sorry Eva-Lotta every still image of you looks super awkward I'm so sorry.) I know a lot of people liked this dress, and that's totally valid, but as someone who had to suffer through high-school art history classes, I cannot describe to you the immediate pavlovian rage response I had upon seeing this weird, modern-art-ish sequin thing. I'll come out and say it: I don't like sequins. Rhinestones are fine, but sequins just... never look good to me? I know people are really sticky about all skating costumes needing sparkles (I disagree), but I cannot recall a skating dress made of sequins that has ever worked imo. The colors are nice, though, and I thought her program was great! My combined sequin and modern art vitriol just got in the way of me appreciating the dress.

5) Mariah Bell

*sigh* It's just... boring? Velvet is a beautiful fabric, and I have seen many a wonderful skating outfit across disciplines (see: my second favorite Shoma outfit ever) made from velvet but there has to be something else to it! The cut of the dress is uninspired, the skirt is painfully average, and the little strand of rhinestones is accentuating nothing. Maybe she could have worked in some mesh panels or something? Had an interesting neckline? Beading? Just... something? Normally her dresses are some of my favorites! Her designer is Lisa McKinnon, and I highly recommend you check out her stuff! I almost don't want to believe that Lisa had a hand in designing this because I know she has made so much better. I can't say it's the worst though; it's too boring for me to feel that strongly about it.

Dishonorable Mention: Olga Mikutina (don't know if I love or despise it honestly, kinda kitschy).

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The skating gods claim their first victim with Eva-Lotta Kiibus and we lose our clean skate streak :(

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Girlies at euros practice☺️

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(c) Denis Gladkov

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2022 Nebelhorn trophy entry #12

Women free program

Linea Ceder(FIN)

Thoughts: I wasn’t impressed with her spiral. But I was trying to get a better look at her earrings. They looked very sparkly.

Olga Mikutina(AUT)

Thoughts: I remember when she revealed this dress on her insta. I think it is still my favorite dress of hers. I love the side cutout. She is spectacular.

Women short program

Olga Mikutina(AUT)

Thoughts: the triple lutz fall. My heart did a nosedive when I saw her face. I think she was almost as surprised as I was.

Eva Lotta Kibus(EST)

Thoughts: I’ve seen this dress so much that sometimes I feel like I’m tired of it. But today, I was like “ooh look at all the pretty colors” .

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ROSTELECOM DAY ROSTELECOM DAY

Kaitlyn and Jean-luc! Eva-lotta! LOENA!!! The canadanes!!!

Can't believe the gp season is almost over tbh

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“To all the skaters competing at Nebelhorn Trophy next week: have a great competition, stay safe and healthy, and enjoy yourselves!”

“Really looking forward to Nebelhorn, especially to seeing Alexia and Eva-Lotta again.”

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Grand Prix Updates

Eva-Lotta Kiibus of Estonia has been given the final spot at the Rostelecom Cup, while Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius of Lithuania have been announced as the replacements for Kazkova and Reviya at the same event.

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“So sad that, after Euros ended, all the talk has been only about the 3A. What about Alexia coming 4th under such pressure with two great skates? Eva-Lotta's perfect comeback after a fall in the warm-up? Emmi's powerful SP breaking the updated technical minimum? Do people not care just because they don't have huge jumps?“