FAQ

Where do you buy your clothes?

Unless you’re Chilean (Doubtful), I can’t suggest specific stores to buy clothes because I don’t buy online (Mostly because my parents wouldn’t trust their credit card numbers to an online store sobbu).

However I can suggest generic places where you could get nice clothes. I buy my clothes mostly from the supermarket, fairs, local small stores and thrift stores. Occasionally I buy from the mall. (Not counting the mall) They have nice prices, lots of variety, and excluding the supermarket, there’s clothes that are more unique not just in he sense that less people will be wearing the same item, but also you’ll find clothing there that you probably wouldn’t find elsewhere.

How do you do your make-up?

It’s a rather long process but it’s not something impossible or that only a pro can do, all it takes is practice and patience.

I start with a clean face, and then I use moisturizer, which IS extremely important, believe it or not; it makes the make up stay longer (Not because of the greasy nature of most moisturizers, but because when the skin is dry the make-up doesn’t stay).

When that’s done, we can go to the actual make-up:

I always start with the eye make-up because I use very dark eyeshade and he pigments always end up falling on my cheekbones, so if I already have the rest of the make-up done, it gets ruined.
I put primer on my upper lids. Primer is a sort of cream that can be either nude colored or have different colors according to the eyeshade you’ll use. My primer is nude colored. Primer is used to fixate the eyeshade and make the colors look intense. If you don’t have primer you can use moisturizer mixed with powder.
Choose the colors you’ll use. The minimum amount of colors you’ll need is three; a base color, a medium color and a dark color. Unless you’re doing something ore “experimental” or you’re going for bold, non blended colors (Like Razor Candi for example). Make-up is used to create shapes and volumes, much like colors when painting and shading. You can add more colors, but always thinking on creating shadows and highlights, aside from color.
Once I have primer all over my upper lids and the colors chosen I start by putting on the base color. I always go from lightest to darkest when applying eyeshade so as not to taint the colors. The base color is applied on the whole eyelid just like the primer.
The following color I apply is the medium tone. Usually I go for grey, and when I don’t, I go for purple, red, brown, or pink. This color is only applied in the zone of the eye I want to be shadowed, usually it’s not on the area of the lid that covers the eye globe, but right above it instead. I extend the medium color to make my eyes more almond shaped because I like my eyes to look cat-like.
The next color I apply is the darkest color. 99% of the time I use black. This is applied on a thin area of where the medium color is applied.
If you’re going to use highlight (Glittery, semi transparent and light colored shade), this is when you apply it. Right below the arch of the brows extending it to outside the lids, and if you want to on the area of the lid that covers the eye globe, or on the corner of the eye near the nose (This makes your eyes look bigger).
The next step is blending the colors. You can do it as you go adding the different colors, or when that’s over with. This is done with a brush, I use a soft brush with a normal/basic shape, but you can use brushes with different shapes to get different effects. The blending is mostly used to soften the “edges” of each color.
That done, the next step is the eyeliner. For the upper lid I use liquid eyeliner, and generally I go for the typical cat eye shape (The eyeliner that vintage pinups used to wear).
I DON’T put on mascara until the rest of the make-up is done, because, since I use very pale powder I end up with white eyelashes and brows, and that doesn’t look too good (Unless you’re going for haute couture-like make-up).
Next we apply the powder base for the face. This has got to be the lightest color you’ll apply on your face. Just like with the eyeshade, we’re trying to create shapes and different depths. Apply it on ALL of your face, even if you have bangs. The powder should not be more than two tones darker or lighter than your skin color, otherwise the difference between your face and the rest of your skin is too obvious and it looks bad.
Now we apply the blush. If your skin has yellowish tones (Whether your skin is fair or tanned), I recommend going for an orange, bronze or reddish tone. If your skin is very pale, go for pink. If your skin is very dark; brown tones. Smile. When you smile you know just where you should apply the blush. The blush, applied correctly, can help making your face look thinner making it look like your cheekbones are more defined. You can use a second darker tone closer to the ears to add more depth. I usually put just a little bit of blush on my chin.
Now, we shape the nose. The basic thing to do is to make your nose look thinner with blush (Which must NOT be applied as intensively as on the cheeks). You can make your nose look more turned up by applying some blush below your nose (Between the nostrils) and some highlights on the point of the nose.
Usually I also blend those colors with a big and clean brush, otherwise it looks unnatural.
If you want to add highlights to your face, this is when you do it.
Now, we’re going back to the eyes. If you want to do something to your lowers lids, this is when you do it careful not to taint the rest of your face. I recommend not making a thick line of eyeliner or with the eyeshade if you’re using your darkest shade, unless you’re going for a ~~panda eye~~ Taylor Momsen look.
Now we apply the mascara and work on the brows. If your eyes are round shaped do NOT apply mascara on the lashes of the lower lid, this makes them look more round. Try to always make the lashes of the exterior corner of the eyes longer than the rest. Now, the eyebrows. If your eyebrows aren’t think you can fill them with an eyeliner (Khol), either brown or black. I use mascara because I like my eyebrows to be very thick and it makes them stay where I want them to stay. You can use a small brush to shape them a little with some transparent gel, or you can use transparent mascara too. The idea is to make the brows look arched. I also line and extend them down on the part of the brow that are far fro the nose.
Now, the mouth. You don’t necessarily have to use lip liner, but if you use it, make it the same color or slightly darker than the lipstick of choice. This makes your lips look fuller. If you’re using transparent gloss, there’s also transparent lip liner that looks glossy. This is to decide the shape you’ll give to you lipstick and to be more precise.
Now we apply the lipstick. If you used lip liner you just fill inside the lines. The most recommended thing to do is to make the lower lip look a tiny bit smaller, otherwise the corners of the mouth point downwards and it looks bad. For the choice of color, think the same way you think when choosing the tone of blush, but you have more freedom when choosing lipstick.
If you used regular (Non glossy or shinny lipstick) you can put some gloss on the middle of the lips to make them look more pouty.

And that’s pretty much it.

Are you a virgin/are you waiting until you’re married to have sex/are you sexually active?

Yes, yes and no.

And no, I do NOT think that people who have premarital sex are going to hell or that they’re immoral, and the reason I’m waiting is NOT religious. I just want to wait, and just as I fully respect the decisions of others whether they choose to have premarital sex or not I expect my decision to be fully respected as well. My choice of sex life is NOT a threat to you.

Do you feel that your faith and your lifestyle (Being a goth, bisexual, feminist, etc) are in conflict?

No.

The church - Meaning, the group of people and the institution of my faith - are against homosexuality, but the faith itself isn’t. Jesus never said anything about homosexuals, but what is said in the bible and in the tradition of the church is that God is love and whoever has love in their hearts have God in their hearts. and since according to our faith God is love it’s against his nature to hate anything, so no, God DOESN’T hate “fags”. Also, if being homosexual was a sin, God wouldn’t make any homosexuals, and being gay is not a choice.

About being a Goth. It does NOT contradict my faith or any faith in any way, because Goth is a music and fashion subculture. There’s no religious or political ideology, and there are Goths of many different credos; atheists, agnostics, christians, buddists, pagans, etc.

Finally, about being a feminist, God made us all equals in rights, so it doesn’t contradict my faith either. About abortion, that’s a complicated issue for me, and I have my conflicts with it, but legalizing abortion does not mean that everyone will get abortions, nobody’s forced to get an abortion.

When/how did you get into Goth?

As cheesy as it sounds, I’ve always had an interest on dark and spooky things, in mysteries and the paranormal. I’ve liked vampires at least since I was 6, and when I was very young some of my favorite cartoons were Beetlejuice, The Addams Family, and I liked some other spooky shows that I don’t particularly remember right now. I had a certain idea of what goth fashion was (Big hair, boots, dark colors, fishnets, sober clothes, red lips) and I found it fascinating.

When I was 6 I remember seeing a goth girl in the supermarket and it impacted me highly. She was dressed with fishnets on her legs, big platform boots, a spiked collar, a leather miniskirt and a leather overbust corset. Her skin was pale, her lips dark red, she had her hair tied up on a pony tail.

As I grew up I forgot a bit about it, but when I was extremely depressed in 2006 (14 years old) I was into Evanescence, and I got into female fronted Metal and Rock, along with dark, romantic and melancholic imagery and romantic goth fashion. By the beginning of 2007 (15 years old) I had moved to Dark Electro and Synth Rock (The so called Industrial Rock) and I was starting to dress Goth. By the early months of that year I found Goth and Deathrock music and then I never looked back. My first bands were London After Midnight, The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Inkubus Sukkubus and Christian Death.

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