What Are My Goth Influences?

Hello everyone!
Its me May again and I am writing this weeks weekly post. I decided to write about this topic because I thought it would be a fun topic to write about. Plus, I think it would be a great post so you can all know more about me as well. I don't think the introduction post was that informative. As for this weeks post will be about what are my Goth influences. Every single Goth is different. We all like different things. Just like "regular" people have different tastes and opinions about things. Were all humans, and we are all different people. Just like none of us look the same, we all have different features that makes us who we are.
Now, getting on with today's topic I actually have quite a few Goth influences from the Gothic subculture. In this post I am going to talk about my fashion inclined influences. Il'll write about my music inclined ones in another post. Please note that I am writing on these influences fashion wise and not music wise or subculture wise. Getting back on track, let's get started with the list now.
First up on my main fashion influence is Gothic Lolita. Why Gothic Lolita? Because its very cute and very girly, like me. And also probably the fact I look good in this clothing too, probably due to my Asian ancestry. It is the main style component in my clothing. Gothic Lolita clothing consists of detailed black dresses with a lot of lace and a whole bunch of ruffles. It has a type of a doll-like dress to it. Kind of like the dresses that you see that porcelain dolls wear, but with a dark twist added to it. Acessories consist of roses, lace gloves, lace chokers, top hats, chunky bracelets, silver jewelry, and chunky platform lace up boots. It also has a sort of Victorian styled influence to it as well.




Gothic Lolita

Gothic Lolita 

Another big influence to me is the Gothic Victorian/Victorian Goth. This fashion is beautiful in fashion, furniture, and architecture wise. I find this look beautiful and inspiring. The way this style looks just screams glamour to me. The thought of how people wore clothing like this on a daily basis is just amazing. Kind of makes me think "Why can't we dress like this to this day?" And I am meaning not just me, but everyone in the world. If you ask me, the Victorian era was the era with the best fashion. I mean have you taken a look today's outrageous fashion? The Victorian fashion's components consist of embroided laced corsets, long skirts, bustle skirts, petticoats to give those skirts an extra oomph. This style is now looked as a vintage look for anything classy and this style also has a romanticism look in it as well. The acessories consist of lace gloves either short or long, top hats, bonnets, vintage jewelry, pearls (I think pearls are somehow romantic inclined), lace up boots, small heeled shoes (I never see anyone wearing huge heels with this look), pretty much a look that consists of vintage glamour from back in the 19th century.

Victorian Goth

I think these two are the influences that I have on my fashion style. Since I dress in lace all the time. I don't really have any other style of dress. I do add other elements to my style. But for the most part these two styles are my main ones. What about you? What are your styles of dress? Goth or not? Share your style, I would love to know as well!


See you soon,
May

Remembering to What I Used to Listen to...

Hello everyone!
Its May again and it has been quite some time I have updated anything in here. I figured I should update and not keep this blog abandoned any longer. I just haven't had any time since school started again for me and I have been quite busy, getting used to my classes, and just out and about in town with friends. but, I will update every friday from now on to make weekly posts in here. So there will be weekly posts from now on.
Now getting to today's topic, its going to be about music as the title says it all. It was just a thought that came into my mind a while back, and I felt the need to post about it. I didn't post it earlier since I didn't have any time until now. I am going to admit being a Goth for a few years has changed me a whole lot, and for the better. But, now I am just remembering about my high school years and the type of music I used to listen to back then. Just the thought of it makes me freak out and never want to mention it to anyone but, at the same time it gives a nostalgic feeling and with a part of amuse added to the side as well. It also gives me a feeling that I grew up a whole lot these past few years that have passed by very fast.
Now getting to the part about sharing to you all about this teeny bit embarassing fact of what I actually listened to (Don't laugh!). This band list consists of: Evanescence(The one band on here that is not really that embarassing), Paramore, ACDC, 30 Seconds to Mars, Metallica, System of A Down, Avenged Sevenfold, The Offspring, Avril Lavigne, Children of Bodom, Atreyu, Cradle of Filth, Eyes set to Kill, Ozzy Osbourne, Slipknot, Breathe Carolina, Linkin Park, Slayer, The Fray, Kittie, Simple Plan, Korn, A Day to Remember, Pantera, Kill Hannah, Breaking Benjamin, Green Day, Three Days Grace, My Chemical Romance, Bullet For My Valentine, The Used, Suicide Silence, and the Japanese anime music that I used to like back when I was super into anime. You get the point, pretty much alternative music. This is just a short list, since my brain is fried and I cannot think about any other bands. :/

Evanescence

 

 

Paramore

 

 

Eyes Set to Kill

 

 

Avril Lavigne

 

Like I said earlier this just makes me freak out and it makes me want to dig underground and never be seen ever again. But now that I think about it how much I have changed so much on my music tastes. It almost feels irrational to me. Once again time is a factor on how much people can change. And I am just an example to prove this. I am getting off topic here, getting back to the subject. I really don't know if I am the only one that feels this way when I think about the bands that I used to listen to when I first got into the alternative scene. But another thing is that I am also thankful for these first bands that I listened to, because they got me into the alternative scene. And then later in time I kind of strayed away from this and I was wondering in the different type of alternative scenes, seeing which one was more exciting to me. And overall when one gets into the alternative its mostly because its like something one has never experienced before and you just want more. But thinking about that now I like different music and the other day I gave a go to Paramore and Evanescence on my ipod, it just wasn't the same anymore. I didn't feel it anymore. That feeling when you listen to a song and you love it. I didn't get that feeling anymore, I don't know why if its one of the bands I loved back then like 4 years ago. Sure, I liked the song. But, the spark for alternative  rock music isn't there anymore. Am I the only one that is going through a nostalgic moment? I really hope not! What about you? Have you felt anything like this about music you have liked a few years back?

See you soon,
May