Black goths inspiration

Hello!
Today I've decided to write about a bit controversial theme.
The hell.. I don't even know WHY is it controversial. Why is the skin colour controversial? Whole nature is different, roses are red, yellow or white, so are people.
I'm deffinetly not going to write an essay about all the problems, I just want to show you some inspiring pictures.

I'm mostly surprised when i read od hear some racistic bullshits, it fears me that racism is STILL alive. The main "hatefree" topic of last years is(was?? i think it's over now) queer/trans/etc. and racism is like really old history to me. But yeah, i guess people are still racist, but they don't talk about it as much as they used to. It's just like written program in their head.
I've never met racist goth, but the truth is that I'm just sucesfully avoiding idiots and because my claims for people are very high, I'm communicating mostly with very inteligent and interesting people and I'm also quickly running away from unwanted conversations with idiots. I guess when someone is goth, racism is absolutely absurd thing, if you look different you should accept everyone else who is different too - in ANY way!
I'm really not sure, but I think and hope there is no racism in trad goth community, post-punk comes from punk and it's absolutely absurd to connect punk with racism.

I could be wrong I could be right
I could be black I could be white

 Since electronic music is something all around in modern world, I think there might be some racists when you're on electro goth party - just simply because dancing on the dance floor doesn't express any of your opinions, it just means that you want to dance, sometimes your moves could show that you're looking for a partner , but nothing more. 

I really don't want to judge or anything, I've just experienced more open-minded people in trad goth comm, than between EBM goths. You might have different experiences - and if you do, tell me, I would like to hear any other opinions!

BUT! Whatever. Racism is stupid and that's all. I need to show you how I love black goths for their style. Sometimes when I see someone black and really cool dressed, I'm so jealous that they can use their skin colour so stylishly and I am just white and boring. 

Black leather is sooo pretty with black skintone.

So in love with her, all the jewellry suites her so much  <3  (Jean Paul Gaultier SS 1994)

Awesome thing is that you can use fashion trends that comes from your own culture (as dreads).
(http://tajajanel.tumblr.com)

Manic Moth with beautifull Jaxy

I mentioned Jasmine-Denise before, she is really inspirative!

DigLazarusDig is also absolutely amazing and inspiring <3

VintageVirgin, using many jewelries, looks so great!

Another awesome thing is using white facepaint and other ways to do extravagant makeup!
kingkesia

I found thin on pinterest, idk who she is, but she is so lovely! 

Also don't know who she is, but she rocks sooo much!

TheresaFractale - dreads, crown, bones... breathtaking

http://raychillster.tumblr.com

I would like to praise all the goths of colour! You are absolutely amazing and you should NEVER doubt about yourself. You can wear whatever makes you happy and listen music that makes you feel the best!

+ great post-punk band with awesome black singer :))

New thrifted pieces

Hello!
We had big sales again in local second hand shop and i would like to share my new pieces with you.

1. Black dress They were just for 0.8 euro i guess? It was deffinitely less than one euro. This - i would call it romanian cut for brests and belly - is really comfortable for me right now, i'll give a birth in two months so the clothing is a big problem theese days especially when it's 30°C and you still want to wear black as a true goth :D So I can't stop wearing them last days!

2. Laced top
I wanted to buy something like this for a long time and I didn't want to buy it in HM for about 13 €, so I waited since now - it cost again less than 1 €
It's a bit oversized so I can comfortably wear it now. Im just not sure if it's OK for me to wear just bra under - but what else? How to combinate it if not like this? Hope I'm confident enought to wear this :D

3. Black cardigan
I've lost my favourite black hooded cardigan, so I needed a new one. This one is not hooded, but I don't mind.. It has ripped sleeves and it's probably designed like that, cause it looks really great! And the price was also less than euro.

4. Another black cardigan
I've decided to double-insure my lost, so i bought two cardigans. Same price - less than euro - for this bat wings sleeved (?i think its called like this?) cardigan, it has a transparent stripped pattern, which is nice, but doesnt affect the whole impression while wearing.

5. Dotted skirt
I fell in love with this dotted deep blue skirt, but now my ass is too big for wearing it, the lenght difference at the back is just too perceptible and weird and I just need to wait until my pelvis will be back in the normal. Less then euro again.

6. Black and white stripped skirt
I found this skirt month ago in second hand, I think the prices were same as this time - less than one euro for everything. I can wear it now so it's a big advantage of this skirt! It's elastic and it's wearable with almost everything.
The only thing is that since I have a dog, everything white I wear is dirty in the first ten minutes of wearing it :D

7. Laced top
When I bought this skirt, I bought also this laced top - i fell in love with the details on back and how it goes to the neck. But I don't feel good in it, the black fabric that is under the laced fabric hardly stick up over my brests and bra loooks bad in it, so I don't feel safe wearing it. I need to do something with it..

8. New pair of creepers
The last thing I thrifted on the internet is this pair of creepers. They were absolutely new when I opened the package and just for 11.50 € !! I needed some creepers since my old ones falled apart three years ago. Hope theese will live longer :) thank you, vinted!



Have you been lucky as me for last month while thrifting? How much does pieces in your local favourite second hand circa cost?
Have a great day and be lucky as me!
N.

June 2017 favourotes

Hello,
here I am with everything I liked and supported this month.

1.  Twin Peaks
no surprise. everyone is into twin peaks now, but I was a big twin peaks lover before this mania started so I was super excited when the new series comes out.

here's also my twin peaks tattoo drawing

2. Baroque & Philosophique Girl 
I found this band thanks to Unknown Pleasures Records and their free compilation (here). It's an awesome dark electronic band from Japan and if you're goth synth lover as me, you should give it a chance!

3.Theese weird thrifted pants

They are super elastic so I can wear them even with my super big belly! And they're so vampiristic, the red colour is shiny and the black print is dim, so it makes really weird effect. 

and my fav outfits of this month (i decided to not post many outfits now, cause i feel fat and ugly last days and it's gonna be even worst):

My new vampiristic elastic pants with witchy top crop and fake winklepickers. It's such a weird outfit, i feel like fat trans vampire in it and people are staring at me so much :D

shoes from Underground Youth, everything else is thrifted

White fairy whatever... I wanted to sell theese dress from India,  but now im glad i have them, cause they're comfortable and big enough for my enormous belly. I hate how positively and esoterically white they are, so I decided to wear it with some creepy bones on my neck and plastic platform jelly shoes. 

tights from Gate, everything else is thrifted

Any bands you discovered in June?
Or something special happend to you this month?

Hope you're having a great start of the summer :)
N.

My shoe collection

Hello.
I wrote an article about shoes I would like to own (here) and about shoes I hate and there I am with a new one - again measured on shoes.
I will show you my shoe collection - just to make this shoe list full. I don't want to flaunt with my ownership or something. I'll tell you how did I get which ones and I think it might inspire you.

The first thing I need to tell you is that I am really poor student/future mother, I'm gonna have as less money as I can when I give a born to my baby, cause as a student, I'm the same looser as every unemployed woman. I'm living with some money from my parents, but it's just for my basic needs. I'm trying to make some money with tattooing, illustration and graphic design, but it's not much.
So I can't spent much money for an awesome new shoes. But I'm trying to get as much coolnes as I can for the lowest price. And I think I am really good at it.

Fake winklepickers

Fake winklepickers
I bought theese about two weeks ago and I absolutely love them. The brand is Underground youth and I bought them on vinted. For a 7.50 euro including postage. I found them after almost 3 hours of searching under the label "extravagant" and i had to search throught 200 pages.
If the person tagged them as goth, they would be much more expensive and selled sooner. But it was tagged just as "extravagant" and I was lucky :))

Dr. Martens

Dr. Martens
I bought theese about six years ago when I was visiting Paris. I wanted to buy some creepers, it was a big boom of creepers at this time, but the store was unfortunatelly closed for a whole week. And I found an awesome punk second hand near the shop with creepers. So I bought my first and only pair of Doc Martens. They were worn out even when I bought them, now they look really shabby, but I'll wear them as long as I can. They are awesome for travelling, cause you can wear them for a long walks, in the rain, when it's hot and they're never uncomfortable.

Velvet platform sneakers

Velvet platform sneakers
I bought theese about four years ago in H&M. I don't remember the price, but it was a normal price for a mainstream shop. They still look good, I guess I don't have a destructive gait as some people.  They're really comfortable, I wear them for a long walks.

Black sneakers

Black sneakers
Pair of normal black sneakers. They're from some random mainstream shop, i bought them three years ago. I wear them a lot, they're black, they're comfortable, they're everything I need for everyday living. I guess they'll be soon unwearable and destroyed and then I'll buy similar new ones.

High platform shoes

High platform shoes
Theese are my favourite "special occasion" shoes. I can't wear them normally, they're too high for me, but I love to wear them occasionlly. They're also from vinted, I think the price was about 7 or 8 euro. The truth is that when Im wearing theese, i always get drunk :D

Fake pikes

Fake pikes
not so "piky", but they remind me some of the old traditional winklepickers. I guess the story behind theese is almost the same as the first ones, I get them, again, really cheap, i guess the price was about 6 or 7 euro. Vinted again, long time of browsing and searching... I don't know the brand.. I love them so much, they're so witchy and trad goth! For such a low price!

Silver oxford shoes

Silver oxford shoes
Haha, im so proud of theese, but they're not very comfortable - the insole is too flat. But I bought them for about 2euro in tesco. Im wearing them for a special and weird occasions, as carnivals, concerts, parties, but I wore them on two weddings too!

Transparent boots

Transparent boots
I wanted theese for a long time and I found them on vinted for about 6 or 7 euro - my favourite price for thrifted shoes, I guess. I was so happy that I bought them so easily and not from abroad. I think I found them under "transparent" tag. They're great for a rainy weather, but terrible for a long walks and hot weather. They're hazy when it's hot :D But if you're fan of funky socks as me, you need theese!

Platform jellyfish shoes

Platform jellyfish shoes
Vinted again, price about 6-7 euro again, the tag "platform" and many many hours of browsing. They're beautifull, but unfortunatelly the platform is not very stable. I bought them this spring and I wore them twice, and once I was walking our dog. And it wasn't easy to tame the dog and walk in theese. I hope I'll wear them more and I'll get used to the platform.

Traditional grunge sneakers

Traditional grunge sneakers
...some cheap store, my basic equipment since I was ten years old. Im buying theese every two years and wearing them to decay. And I wear them often. I think theese're not gonna survive the summer and I'll buy new ones soon. For about 4 euro. And as usual - I'll hate them at the start for being too new, shiny and clean :D

White lolita shoes

White lolita shoes
I wore them once, I bought them for about 3 euro from vinted, four years ago. They're too big and too white. I'm plaining to paint them black, mabye add some spikes and buy an insole so they'll fit. Hope I'll do it soon, I should shoot the proces and show it to you.

Winter platform boots

Winter platform boots
Theese are from CCC and I bought them for a normal price at mainstream shoe shop... I love them,  but they are my only winter shoes, so I am a bit bored of them after at least three months of wearing.


And that's all! I have a big wishlish on vinted full of shoes and many of them are cheaper than 8 euro and if you're able to save 4 euro per month, you can buy new shoes every two months :) 
I hope it inspired you to get some cheap new ones. I like to search things under the tags "original", "extravagant" or "platform",... It's ofter much better than searching under the tags "goth" "gothic" and "punk".
How do you buy shoes? Do you have some tips for getting cheap shoes? I saw some DIY tutorials for platform like-creepers. Do you have some DIY shoe tips?

xoxoxo
N. 

Non-black hair goth tips

Hello.
I've been trying to solve my non-stylish hair problem without any result, but I think it's just problem of mine and I found many many ways of how to have a awesome goth hair without using permanent black hair colour.

I myself am too lazy to do something with my hair. I wear ponytails all the time cause it's comfortable, sometimes I'm wearing buns and if I'm occasionally going to goth party, I'm colouring my hair with weird colours.
It's a good start and I myself am happy about this minimalistic method for lazy alternaive girls.

So for having an awesome goth hair without colouring them black, you can..:

1. Backcomb!
As much as you can in any way you want. It's not good everyday routine if you're lazy as me, but great for a special occasions.
Good example of blonde goth who backombs just a little but is still very stylish is a youtuber Snowy Lowther.

Photo from "Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace" book

2. Deathawk
You don't need black hair to be proud owner of super cool deathawk. Few moths ago, a blogger Louise La Fantasma had super cool orange deathawk and orange is a colour you can easily get even just with a henna colour.

From Pinterst, I don't know original source.

3. Buns
Buns are my favourite thing to do with my hair when I want to look good but I don't have a time to do anything special. It's more nu-goth style than trad goth, but whatever, lazyness is lazyness. You might also add some accesories as bone shaped hair clips, eyeballs,...

from Pinterest, I don't know original source.

4. Colours
Goths with colorfull hair looks great! If you're blonde, you're lucky - they producing l'oreal colorista colours now - they are not pernament and you can use them occasionally for concerts or goth parties. You can also bleach your hair and use some directions colours - but this is not for lazy people as me. Or you can have pernament red or something like this. 

From book "Some wear leather, some wear lace"

5. Messy whatever
My favourite way of hairstyle is this grunge messy whatever is on your head. It cost no time - you just need to spend some time with details as makeup and whole outfit.

Jerina Eufemia is my favourite messy-hair blogger

You don't need to spend your whole time and money to have an awesome raven hair. We are all unique and beautiful as we are and there is no rule for perfection.
Here are some more inspirative pictures (source is mostly "Some wear leather, some wear lace" book or unknown tumblr, im sorry) :

Inspiration - alternative maternity fashion

I don't want to became one of that terrible blogging high-funcional mother who posts everything about herself and her child, but... The problematics of alt maternity fashion is something I am now going through and I myself am desperately searching for something that would inspire me.
Here we go.

So. My wardrobe is starting to be limited, I can't wear shorts, my favourite tights are too small for my big butt, all my super favourite t-shirts are too tight. I don't want to buy new expensive pieces just for a few months.
So the main thing that I learned is that you need to pay more attention to jewelry. Don't be afraid to add some more elements than you used to.

Simple but stylish.. Jessie batt

The main routine for me is some chocker and one or two silver pendants as my ankh, hamsa or moon. I would also love wear some chainlet harnesses cause I think I need to decorate not just a neck part, but also around brests or belly.

Next thing I've learnd at this time is that I can wear whatever I want - if it fits. So I forgot about my old doubts "isn't this too much? isn't it too girly/provocative/masculine for me?"
I started to wear fishnet tights and leather jackets again. I am not afraid of stupid catcalls casue the truth is that if you're visibly pregnant, almost nobody will catcall you - and if yes, they are 100% idiots and it's not your problem. 

I'll have super-mega big belly in summer, so I am not so interested in cloaks, jackets, sweaters etc. The thing I am absolutely passionate about is TOP CROPS.
It's a big trend now, you can buy it everywhere. You can wear black harness-like top crop, psychedelic printed top crop, some super dark-evil printed top crop, whatever. 

I myself am proud owner of this witchy top crop. Now it looks so funny with my belly - it's like the witch is hexing my child down there :D 

Another thing I'm plaining to create is some laced oversized something that is wearable on bra or top crop. Something like this:

you can buy it here

It shouldn't be hard to sew it, but I need to find a good black laced fabric.

You can always wear any black over-sized black dress or dresses with typical maternity pattern, you can wear any black t-shirt, skirt with rubber waist, whatever... and than you can add whatever you want. Everything is about details! It's also good to play and combinate materials as leather, lace, velvet etc., but it's not a new information. 

But honestly.. I myself am just too lazy to goth-up myself, so I am wearing whatever I find comfortable. 

inspiring pictures..