Goth makeup is a whole universe of its own, and there are virtually no limits in terms of what you can do and experiment with. Even a look gone wrong can turn into an angle and perspective in it’s own right, and as a yoof I used to love the fact that you could potentially spend two…

April is now upon us, and this month has seen me “starring” in my cat’s uncle’s April Fools skit video, complete with bad French accent and chain smoking irony. My cat’s uncle-David, to anyone who is not my cat-is a fellow boater who used to be a TV newspresenter, and who now pootles around the country…

February is in my opinion, the crappest month of the year. It is usually the coldest, drizzliest (will you believe that spell check accepted that as a word?) and most miserable, and I also find that it is the time of year when me and my squad are the most likely to have no cash…

I don’t think many Goths were exactly expecting happy things from the Trump presidency, but then I also doubt many of us could have predicted the mortal shitshow that his term of literally less than two weeks so far has actually become. If you’re feeling like all of your worst fears have been realised, let…

2017 is here at last, and I think I speak for all of us when I say thanks to whatever deity is listening for the fact that 2016 is done. I mean, what a total shitbag of a year, dudes. First of all, it seems that “dying in 2016” is the new 27 club; even…

As I think I have mentioned before, TV as in the actual unit of a TV itself with a dish or aerial or whatever you need these days to get a signal is a bit of a mystery to me, as I haven’t had an actual physical TV for about ten years. Back then, there…

It’s that time once again, minions-the real Christmas, the one that’s not Halloween. Whether you’re all about rocking the crappy sweaters or like to hide away until the whole thing is over, very few of us get through the whole seasonal hoopla untouched, so it seemed only fair that I dedicate a post to Gothing…

I haven’t done a big-ass roundup of what’s been happening in the news relating to the Goth community and what other Gothy bloggers are up to for a few weeks now. However, being as the shitshow that is 2016 is now in its death throes I am going to dedicate this post to a quick-and-dirty…

As I have mentioned several times before, I have a major penchant for subscription boxes, which are becoming an ever-bigger phenomenon in both the UK and America. These started off as beauty subscription boxes, which send you around five different bits of makeup a month-usually comprising a mix of full size and trial sized offerings,…

I like to think of myself as the reigning queen of bad decisions, as well as being entirely too freely led by my inquisitive nature. This combination of traits is what saw me downloading Tinder a few nights ago for the first time, despite my only real experience of hearing about it involving a lot…

Back in September, I wrote about the surreal day that I came out of my boat half-asleep to head off to the café that I use as my office, and promptly found a tortoise just blatantly wandering along the towpath, just not giving one single fuck. No fucks were given that day. Anyway, yesterday I…

I appreciate that when it comes to the Goth community, people are fairly divided in opinion when it comes to Harry Potter. To all of the haters out there, I have two words for you: Severus Snape. Or as I like to refer to him, THE GOD OF SEX. Anyway, apart from Harry Potter (ok,…

Most people make their New Year’s resolutions in the traditional manner-ie., at New Year. I, on the other hand, like to do things differently, and around six weeks ago suddenly got this urge to actually get on and do some of the things that I have long had at the back of my mind as…

So, the clown thing. I know you know what I’m talking about, but if anyone can fill me in on why it is happening, I’m all ears. In case you have been living under a rock for the last month or have the natural sense of self-preservation necessary to avoid dark alleys and shady underpasses,…

This year, I have decided to head back to London to spend Halloween with my old Camden crew, and just a quick glance through the Time Out listings and other sources of info informs me that for Halloween 2016, London is going to be the place to be. Halloween falls on a Monday this year,…

I generally find that the Goth collective divides into two distinct sections come Halloween-those that like to mix it and get messy with a night out, party or woodlands rave, and them as like to be on their own and enjoy the night in their own way. For the latter, I have found that on…

Summer means a lot of things happen, some good, some bad. The heat can fall into either of these categories depending on how you view it and how miserable it makes you. One thing that is a universal annoyance in the hotter months of the year, however, is bugs-the biting, flying itching kind, and some…

I am one of those people that seems to attract weird shit like a magnet, and I am fast coming to the conclusion that this seems to happen the most on the days when I have planned to sit quietly and write some blog posts for the coming month. Last month, I was sitting minding…

So the Olympics have been happening over the last couple of weeks, an event that largely passes me by in the main part (apart from the London one, as I was living in London and got free tickets). However I have watched a bit of it this year largely because I spent a couple of…