Wondering what to get your niece for her next birthday? Not the niece that shops at 5-7-9 or American Eagle… the other one. The one that broods all day and doesn’t read Cele|bitchy. The one that is GOTH.
Fear no more, (like you did before?) but there’s a new magazine out there for the Goth! Gothic Beauty is a magazine solely dedicated to fashion for the Goth men and women.
I have to agree with the writer of this gem of an article when he states,
If you want the Goth look, all you have to do is pierce half your bodily appendages, tattoo the other half, stay out of the sun long enough to get a corpselike pallor, swab on enough black eye shadow to look like you haven’t slept since the Reagan administration, then put on some black clothes and, bingo, you’re good to go.
According to Gothic Beauty, that’s like, so not true. It takes a lot of effort to look goth, dammit. For instance, every time you buy something new you have to “roll around on the ground a little”. Also, “for lipstick and nail polish, black and blood red are the only colors you’ll ever need.” Damn, so basically that means you have to get rid of that Lip Smacker in Pina Colada. I wonder about the flavors, actually. In the article, they talk about a perfume called Graveyard that smells like, “freshly dug dirt.” God, that stuff turns me on. Freshly dug dirt! Geez, it just can’t get any hotter than that.
This magazine sounds weird to me. Wouldn’t it look totally poseur if you were Goth and you went to Barnes and Noble or Borders and bought this? I mean, when I was in high school, I actually got along great with the Goths and they didn’t need no damn magazine to tell them how to dress. Or have any message boards. I was doing a search on Google with the words, “Goth and weird” just because I wanted to see what came up. And this dark lady’s answer to “Why do People See Goth Weird” (that is translated verbatim, obviously we are dealing with a grammatically-challenged Goth) totally sums up my feeling towards this magazine.
Today goths who go to hot topic defeat the culture of what it was. Individuality cannot be bought with spike collars and silly pants.
And she meant magazines, too, I bet.
Oh yeah, and no, that’s not a pic of one of Gwen Stefani’s Harajukukoowhatever girls.
Update: Gothic Beauty was established 7 years ago, but I haven’t heard about it until now. Back issues available for purchase at their website!
In old lady voice “When I was young I shaved my eyebrows and had an almost shaved haired and dyed my hair black. I got a tatoo at the age of 15. Did drugs, listened to all sorts of strange music and had a great time”
I really did not need to have a magazine to tell me how I wanted to be.
It’s so funny ’cause I have a daughter turning 21 this weekend, and she is doing the same old stuff.
I have a great relationship with her and the guy she lives with, although I see her musical tastes changing all the time.
P.S It was called Punk when I was young.
As a reformed Goth myself, I can tell you that 99.9% of the people who call themselves Goth are posers anyway, so it kinda works 🙂
I’m with you G.P., my fiancee was around for punk and the “first” Goth fad and it cracks him up to see the kids at the mall who think they’re “unique” while wearing the same crap he wore 15-20 years ago.
Meh, to each his own on that front. It’s defintely not original, but whatever they wanna do!
Um, I was a punk/goth in my high school and college days. This was back in the late 80s/early 90s when I like to think it was still cool, but I’m probably wrong. While I did not dye my hair black, I did love the music and dress style, and enjoyed wearing steel toed boots. Those things are awesome. Like everything else, though, it’s been commercialized. There’s no shame in embracing pop culture, or in pop culture swallowing up as much of the non-mainstream as it can. What’s cool anymore?
Ummm…Gothic Beauty has been around for a while. It’s hardly “new”. The first issue was released in October 2000.
Hey Darcy,
Thanks. I went and updated it. As a normal consumer female who has not embraced the Goth culture, I guess I was ignorant of it’s existence for seven years.
That girl looks like she got all made up only to get smacked square in the face with a water balloon.
Hey Viv,
Not quite sure how to take that. I’m not goth myself…more “normal consumer female” like you. Well, okay, I will admit to being goth curious but unfortunately I’m not cool enough to be anything but a poseur so I don’t even try. 😉
Sorry if my post came off as rude. If any negativity did seep into my post it was over the factchecking issues, and not over what subculture you do or don’t belong to.
No Darcy, you didn’t come off as rude. Thanks for calling attention to it; I appreciate it. This was just the first time I’ve ever heard of this crazy magazine!