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

Black Friday Haul!

Hello Everyone!

Its me May again. This quick post is mostly for the fact that I went to the mall yesterday and got some goodies and wanted to share them with you all. So you can see the stuff I got at good bargains! I am super happy I got this stuff, some I had been wanting for a while and now I finally have!
Ok, first up is this satin like black blouse I got at Burlingtons. Which I got at $15, I know that isn't exactly a bargain but its much better than paying $25 for one like this at other stores. Which I did see one for $22 in another store in the same mall, it just didnt have that cute black lace detailing on the back.

 It has a black lace detailing in the back.

I am going to remove the annoying belt that came with it. Its not really my thing. I asked my mom if she wanted the belt and she did. At least the belt isn't going to waste.
This is another blouse that I also got at Burlingtons. Its a nice deep burgundy color that is quite lovely in my opinion. This one was at $13.

I really love the collar this blouse has, it kind of gives it that vampy vibe to it. As for the belt I did like this one, since it is much thinner and its made out of that PVC looking material. It will go very nice with the Doc. Marten look alike boots I have.
The last item I got at Burlingtons were these super cute hair pins. These were $3

The next store I went to was Claire's. And they had a whole clearance section. Most of the clearance was on jewelry and Justin Bieber stuff. But, I bought two lovely necklaces from here. This first one has black chain, and black and blue stone for decoration. It is stunning, this one is the one necklace that I had been eyeing a while back and now I finally have it! Yay me!

As you can see what that originally costed. And the bargain I paid for this little gem was $2. The second necklace I also got from Claire's was also $2.

This one just looks so exquisite and was a definite eye catcher for me. This one is perfect for special events like Sweet 16's, Quinceaneras, and weddings. Since I do go out often to events such as those. I also loved this one because when one wears a nice black dress this jewelry piece goes lovely. Now that I mention it, this necklace has this sort of princess-y feel to it, which I adore. The last store I purchased stuff from was a store called Rainbow and in this store I pretty much stocked up on tights. I literally bought 3 packs of this regular fishnet pantyhose pattern.

These were 3 for $10. I literally cried when I saw this price! I usually have to buy them for like $5 to
$10 each at other stores. The next pair of tights are thin vertical stripes.

These are small vertical stripes, which are so lovely! Sorry the lighting is kind of bad in here, but I hope you can still see it. I had been wanting these types for a long time and finally there mine! The next ones are of thicker and bigger stripes.

I also really loved these too. Its good to have variety of stripes. I have also been wanting some of these for ages! And now I have these as well! The last pair of tights I bought were horizontal stripes. These are pretty thick and are also of solid/sheer coverage.

Now that I finished showing you all the tights I got. This was the last thing I bought at Rainbow, the same store I purchased my tights. Its this really cute wallet. It has hearts and star prints, and it has a shiny silvery glittery surface. And its not that type of wallets where the glitter falls off. I also loved that it has double zipper sides. This was for $6

On closer inspection.

I hope you liked the stuff I showed you. Because I am in love with my new stuff! I can't wait to wear those new tights to school! And not to mention those blouses too!
See you soon,
May

Introduction, Getting to know me



Me on New Years Eve

Hello Everyone!
My name is Mayra Celeste Robledo and I am just beginning to write my very own first blog! I am so excited to write in it!This is my very first post, its a bit complicated to use but I hope to get better at blogging real soon. I am not your not so average Goth girl. I am 19 years old and I graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School in 2011. I live in Houston, TX in the United States. But I plan to live in Paris, France in the upcoming future. Because I plan to live in Europe. ^-^









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For my career goals I plan to get a major in Architecture. Because I love Architecture. I love how everything is made and I love the historical side of it with a burning passion. I am a college student, and I attend a community college in my local area. I am currently attending Houston Community College. I also do plan to get a minor on Fashion Design because I love Fashion! I love everything to do with it! I love to put on cute and groovy clothing and I really love to give makeovers haha! What I also love about Fashion is that you are in control of how you want your outcome to look like. I'd say that is where the beauty of Fashion really is at. Unless you are paid to do a certain look, but you also taking control of what that person is wearing as well.   










On the things that I like to do is mainly go shopping to get new clothing as accessories. Because you can never have too much clothing and accessories! Mainly the things that I shop for have a Gothic inclined look and a Gothic Lolita flair. Or also something with a Victorian style to it as well. I am also a bit into the visual Kei look as well. I also love to hangout with my friends, but lately I feel as if I really don't have any friends at all. So if you live in the Houston area we so have to hangout! I also really want to get to lean how to play violin because I am in love with classical music. I absolutely adore how classical instruments sound when they are played. I also feel whenever I am hearing classical music is that you are in a great ambient whenever you listen to it play. So that is my drive to leaning how to play violin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for my style it varies from day to day because one day I can just wear regular "Goth" clothing and the other day I am wearing Gothic Lolita clothing. As for colors I wear a lot of diverse colors. One day I can wear all blue, the other day I can wear all purple, or the next I can wear all black. For me it just depends on the outfit that I wear actually. I like to go well matched everywhere I go haha.  But keep in mind that this is my personal style and that I do not go by the usual Goth stereotypes. Because where is the fun and creativity in looking like how you want to look! And trying out many fun and different things as well! =)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for my music tastes well lets just say that I listen to so many different genres! I listen from the traditional Post Punk, New Wave, Synthpop, Deathrock, Darkwave, and to the many genres of  Industrial to the funky and groovy Trance, Pop, Electronic, KPop, and Japanese Visual Kei music. I do occasionally listen to some Rap and R&B music but most of that is pretty late 1990's and early 2000's. Pretty much the stuff that my friends go and say "wow that song is so old!" And I just give them the stare and say "I listen to much more older music than that!" lmao XD Some of the other music genres that I rarely (pretty much never) listen to nowadays is the music that I used to listen back in high school. Those genres include Alternative Rock, Heavy Metal, Trash Metal, and Death Metal. And a little bit of Emo Hardcore. To be quite honest I feel quite uncomfortable when I listen to that. So it sits untouched on my very much loved iPod.

 

 

 

 

 

So now getting on to the topic on what this blog is going to be about. This is an update for this post. My first post was quite lame. And it was sort of vague and didn't really talk much about myself. I am still having trouble with BlogSpot. Which kind of sucks actually. I thought I would take less time getting the hang of it. But the only problem that I have is the adding captions thing. And when I do add them the pictures all come out together on the same line and prevents me from moving them and that is so not cool! This picture was taken on 3/27/2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From what I have actually have been doing in this blog is not much...Sorry everyone! But I do update every week with a different topic. I do have rambles in this blog. I haven't had any time to do haul posts because they are so time consuming. And because I buy too many things to actually put those many things in a blog haul. I think I should maybe make a YouTube channel to post those. Which I am planning to but until I get a good quality camera! So I have no idea if this is going to be a rambling blog of some sorts. But I will make an accessory post on what types of things that I wear with my outfits! Picture taken on 4/17/2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did I forget to mention how much I love video games?! I pretty much love Nintendo games. I loved games since I was a little kid. I remember when the Nintendo 64 came out and I used to play games like Super Mario 64, Super Samsh Brothers I, Pokémon Stadium, Pokémon Snap, Donkey Kong 64, The Legend of Zelda games, and the Tony Hawk games. And lets not forget the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance with the Pokémon handheld games! Those are so much fun to play. I actually have Pokémon Yellow to play in my cellphone ^-^  And lets not also forget when the Nintendo Gamecube came out. I remember Super Mario Sunshine, The Legend of Zelda the Windwaker, Luigi's Mansion, Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness, and Mario Kart Double Dash, and Super Smash Brothers Melee II! Picture taken on 4/18/2013

 

 

 

 

 

So that is my new introduction, I hope you all got to know more about me through this intro. And I hope it wasn't as vague as my first introduction. And I hope you all like what I mentioned in this introduction. I tried to write about the most basic things that you all should at least know. Like hobbies and things that I like to do. And what are my interests. Comment down below and tell me about yourself I would like to know about you as well! If you want to follow me on both Instagram and Tumblr its moonlitmidnightmay. I use this username for pretty much everything. Well I hope you like this revamped post of my introduction! ^-^ Picture taken on 4/18/2013