I love me some makeup, I mean really. There’s nothing I won’t buy or try, and I am particularly enamoured of Korean makeup and skincare, because it is so varied and different and interesting. I get a couple of different Korean beauty subscription boxes each month because I need a bit of direction in terms…

One thing that most Goths have in common is a love of makeup in various different forms, and the art of using colour, shading and drama to create your look. I am a massive makeup fan myself, as you can probably tell by the liberal splattering or makeup-related blog posts I have put up over…

Another month, another monthly blog roundup from your resident bloggiest me-Lady Gothique-to catch you up with the latest news and views from my world, and that of some of the best and most readable Goth bloggers out there. Not a lot has been happening with me, other than that I did finally get my new…

Every now and then, I rifle through the darker corners of the internet to find out what’s being said in the news relating to Goth culture and so on, and do a quick round-up of it to share with them as reads my blog. The last few weeks have been pretty hot with a couple…

I have plenty of ear piercings, but all of the small kind-I don’t have any plugs or stretchers, and I’ve never been overly tempted to go down that route, not least because I often have problems with my piercings for quite some time after having them whether I DIY them with a Caflon gun while…

Whether you live at Goth Towers, 666 Goth Street Gothsville or are the only Goth in the village and all of the towns for miles around too, there is one thing that virtually all Goths have in common-having come across hate, bullshit and misinformation at some point that attempts to piss on your Goth parade…

I’ve gone straight from “it’s summer” to “I have mad sunburn” in one day, and now my left shoulder looks as if it’s been attacked by a swarm of angry bees. Working outside on my laptop is apt to do this to you-you cook on one side, and have to sit the other way around…

If you don’t read my blog regularly, you may not be aware that I live on a boat, which has consequently led to my treating the café of the local boatyard as my office. I work on my laptop from there pretty much every afternoon and have done for the last six or so months,…

As I mentioned in a post some time back, I have made it my mission to seek out and hunt down all of the various subsets of Goth styling and lifestyle, learn a little about them and post a quick intro or 101 to each style I can find. Whilst Googling other stuff, I found…

By luck rather than intention, a lot of my immediate neighbours and the people I run into regularly are Goths and ex-Goths at the moment, which brings with it a kind of comfort in the familiarity of being around your people, which is a refreshing break from getting eyeballed by grannies who are sizing up…

So the UK has voted to leave Europe-actually I am fecking tired of hearing that bullshit. Only a hair over half the population of England and Wales voted to leave, whilst Scotland and NI came out as the common sense areas to which we should all consider moving like, now. I get that there are…

Yeah I know you know what I’m talking about… Pokemon Go. As a yoof, I never had anything to do with Pokemon, and other than being aware of things like trading cards and Anime cartoons, I never really got to grips with what it was all about. Enter Pokemon Go, which just dropped in the…

The Goth community’s relationship with Christianity is often perceived as an odd one-graveyards, pewter cross imagery and darkness, combined potentially with elements that many Christians would probably find inappropriate. The ties between Goth culture and Christianity go back a long way, to the earliest gothic churches-but given that Goth today generally means something quite different…

While spending a summer evening bitching about life in general and Goth life in particular, my crew and I also had a conversation about the Gothest jobs ever, largely as a result of watching too many episodes of shows like Ice Road Truckers and Bones. Much like any normal conversation in the civilised world, we…

Donning my Kevlar vest for this somewhat, I had a long conversation with some of my real-life Goth mates this week about shit that annoys all of us, and it became very clear very quickly that we could not reach a general consensus on very much at all. One man’s bullshit was another man’s secret…

It’s summer! I’ve got my legs out and everything. The catnip patch that I planted last month is threatening to take over the whole of the bank beside my mooring, and my cats have started to become less productive and spend a lot of time sitting around eating snacks and saying “dude” to each other….

One thing that I really like about the Goth community as a whole is our diversity in terms of looks and styles, and the fact that Goths of all shapes and sizes can buy clothes that fit them and look good on them as well. Goth is, in that respect, one of the most tolerant…

While we all probably wish that we had an awesome Gothy bathroom like the one pictured above, most of us are likely making do with generic cheap white fixtures and fittings in rented flats, probably with an edgy as fuck floral shower curtain and everything. Assuming that you are a Goth on a budget and…

I’m going through a bit of a phase of trying to jazz up my home a little bit, which chiefly involves buying lots of bits and bobs of small, inexpensive accessories to add an edgy touch or otherwise break up the monotony somewhat. I’ve already covered the bathroom side of things, which was fun because…

Ah, the magnificent Goth in its full plumage. Resplendent in the very darkest of midnight black from head to toe, with multiple layers of ever-darker hues of more black. However, when all of your black togs start turning fifty shades of grey from repeated washing and drying, things become much less awesome. There are few…