Going Goth

For Halloween 2009, my siao onz frenz decided to have a major get-together and dress up similarly in a group like in 2006 for the reason that "we are not young anymore".

When this sms came, I thought to myself, "Shiet! You mean another year has passed?"

It seems like it wasn't too long ago that I dressed up as Pian Pian the pernicious Chinese ghost.




For the past 2 years, we went in smaller groups.

We didn't dress up in 2007 at all.

As for last year, I was more into the broken dolly, Corpse Bride look or anything Tim Burtonish.


Ideas that poured in included:
- Revenge of the nerds
- Fallen cupids
- Dark theme

Nerds are cool but it's halloween, not fancy dress. Most Singaporeans tend to treat Halloween as a fancy dress party. Unless we go as dead or gory nerds, then I would be fine with it. Hollers to evan,

I JUST MADE A PAIR OF NERDS SPECS BTW!

As for fallen cupids, we can reuse our wings from 2006 but how to depict "cupid" and "fallen"?

I asked tif if we are gonna be dressed in diapers with a droppy wing or both wings with feathers plucked off to show that we're cupids and to be covered in cuts and bruises to show that we've literally "fallen". Tif thought the fallen bit was good but added in a matter-of-fact tone that we could get raped by going in diapers.

-_-

Diaoz

I didn't wanna spend too much on costume... just wanna play around with various make up effects and so insisted on my dark theme. I was rather inspired by my colleague who dressed up as L from Death Note for our co's D&D recently.

So I went surfing around for ideas and pictures of goth make up.


I love such goth eyes!






And I love the fallen angel tattoo on this girl.




Aww... what a sweet little goth girl!




This isn't gothic but I do think that this lady is so beautiful. There's this air of melancholy around her.




Ok so I was playing around with my limited cosmetics that I have over here and the result is this...





Not very gothic and certainly pales in comparison to all the goth make up above. However, it's worth the try. I'm missing with fake spidery eyelashes and talcum powder for the ghastly pale look.


Since we're on the topic of halloween, we could actually employ these techniques taught in the Samsung ad and morph from ugly to beauty when we snap photos.



With lotsa hearts and hisses,
(Trying to be) Goth Jo


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Edited to add:

Seeing that many of you stumbled onto this post while searching for gothic make up, you may be interested to check out my friends' and my 2009 and 2010 Halloween look.