Twitter, Tumblr and other festering pits of social media-ism have been blowing up this month over Gothy bath products, a large and generally untapped market that I am surprised no one stumbled upon sooner. Heading up the charge is this black bath bomb by Bella Muerte, which costs just £3 and is guaranteed to make…

Whitby is of course a town familiar to pretty much every Goth everywhere in the world, being as the town is good enough to host the famous Whitby Goth Weekends twice a year. This tiny, otherwise sleepy seaside town tolerates a mass influx of Goths and alt folk twice a year, and it is also…

When I’m out and about getting my Goth on, few things delight me more than stumbling upon an interesting stall or even better, market of alt and Gothy themed stuff. You can never have too many chunky pewter rings or cheaply made skeleton bags, after all. So with this in mind, I have trawled the…

Wigs. My mother had a wig when I was a kid-she also had perfectly good hair, and yet clearly decided that when she was feelin’ it for curls, the easiest way to do this was by faking it. I have no idea where she got this wig from or even really why, but I used…

It occurred to me this week that it’s been a while since I scoped out what’s new in Goth events and entertainment, and when I asked around and trawled the interwebs, I found that there are a fair few events coming up over the next couple of months that are worth a look. With this…

Fellow unicorns! I bring you glad tidings of great things. We are all one step closer to our eventual evolution into mystical horned wonderbeasts-thanks to an amazing new makeup invention in the form of a powder highlighter. So, this miraculous new product is made by a small, indie makeup brand called Bitter Lace, which was…

I have previously blogged about my love for all things rainbow and unicorn, along with a picture of my majestic as fuck unicorn mug, which lives in my local caff-come-office. Nobody is allowed to use it other than me, obvs, and the café crew just know to start making my tea, with my mug, when…

It is nearly the end of May already, and summer is just around the corner. I have finally succumbed to the razor and relieved my legs of their winter coat, which was not only traumatic but also costly in terms of the amount of square inch-age that I was able to get through before blunting…

It came to my attention this week that for all of the makeup-related posts that I have written in the last couple of years, I have yet to write a post on one of the Goth staples, being how to white yo’ face. I am aware of course that not everyone goes full white these…

Making crappy pasta pictures is about as far as my creative streak goes-I do not have the soul of an artist, other than when it comes to my makeup, in which case my styling is so sharp it might cut a bitch. However, I seem to be in the minority there, and most Goth folk…

Every now and again, I hear of a new-to-me subsection of Gothing that I either was previously unaware of, or didn’t realise was actually a branch of Goth rather than part of the general melting pot of black, gooey tar. A good example of this is my post from a couple of months ago on…

Korean skincare is something that has taken off in a big way in the USA over the last couple of years, but the whole whirlwind of wonder is only just beginning to trickle down into the UK recently, not least because Korean skincare products can be confusing to UK folk given the many ways in…

There is a group on the dark side of Facebook, named “Mate in a State.” If you’re not really into vomit, other bodily fluids and near-fatal levels of intoxication, my advice is to steer clear… But if that sounds like just the average night out down your way, fill your boots. Frankly, given the amount…

I’m going to assume that the vast majority of Goths are into Game of Thrones, either the book version or the TV show. However, one thing that is pissing on the collective bonfire of many of us is the fact that George R. R. Martin seems to have stalled in his writing somewhat, to the…

Way before I was a babybat, I had a marked penchant for horror stories, be they on TV or in books, and yet for many years I found Stephen King books kind of filler, and not as distinctive as they are generally perceived to be by horror fans and the world at large. At some…

So the clocks have gone forwards and the April weather is unseasonably fine this year-yes, spring is well upon us, and I really am going to have to face the unpalatable reality of shedding my second skin of leggings and shaving my legs, which is frankly a terrifying idea, not least because of the amount…

Have you ever been having a conversation with someone or just sitting around in company when you remember something funny and you laugh or snigger loudly enough for your mate to think that you’re a bit special, giggling away to yourself at nothing? Well, that happens to me all the time. I am a bit…

Being as I live alone, I usually find cooking to be more hassle than its worth, and I’m not particularly competent in the kitchen anyway. Plus I find that preparing my own meals takes up valuable time that could be better spent drinking or vegging out. However, I recently learned about a thing called squid…

I’m mainly working on the assumption that pretty much all Goths know about Creepypasta, but if not, here is a quick primer-Creepypasta is a type of story that is designed to be creepy and get spread widely across the interwebs, the name being a vague portmanteau of copy/paste. The now-infamous Slender Man myth/tale started life…

I am rather more twee than perhaps I should be about my home décor, and I like to arrange all of my open shelves in the kitchen into colours, sizes and other pointless filing methods that do little other than to silence my inner OCD demon. I have a black shelf too of course, and…