Muse - Nina Hagen

My mother told me that she used to listen to Nina Hagen in the early 80s. And after a trip to youtube and a search on google I have concluded that she is very original and inspiring! I´m especially inspired by her makeup, very over the top, but that´s the way I like it! I adore what she´s doing with her eyebrows, seems like a trademark of hers...

So now I have a liquid eyeliner in addition to my already somewhat impressive collection of dark lipsticks. You need at least one dark red, one dark brown and one dark violet. I´m thinking of bying a black lipstick as well, not to use as is but to combine with my other lipsticks to make them darker... I also have a bright red lipstick, which I never use, and a nude one, which is great for androgynous looks!

Still on the wish list: a quirky beauty trademark (my hat is my style trademark, I never go without it).

Outfit - 80s Inspired

I wore this outfit to town a couple of days ago. I felt quite 80s. A couple of weeks ago I found the blouse/jacket at a trift store for 5 €. It was a bit large, so I moved some buttons at the waist. I like that it is large at the top, over the shoulders and chest, and small at the waist. I also like that you can either zip it up all the way to the neck or leave it open like I wear it in the picture, it looks great both ways. I think it IS from the 80s actually...

I pulled upp the legs of my faux leather pants over the knee and wore with my overknee stockings. It was a bit uncomfortable, but looked very nice. I love my faux leather pants. Again a versatile piece of clothing! But very warm, not for summer really, perhaps for cold and rainy summer days? Those pants are great when it rains, they are seriously waterproof! I don´t have to worry about getting my ass wet sitting on wet benches or the seat of my bicycle. A great by for autumn I think.

Price tag: about 25 €, excluding the hat...

Wish list: faux leather jacket (or a cheap second hand leather jacket), black leather gloves (futile, my hands are to large, no gloves ment for female hands fit me, and gloves ment for males are too wide and my long thin hands drown!), anything in black leather or lacquer perhaps... (Never thought something like lacquer pants would ever be on any wish list of mine, scary).

Muse - Siouxie Sioux

She is a real goth icon! Simple, sexy and undisputedly goth. Her eye makeup makes her look very feline, and not a cute kitty, but a very sleek predator. Her clothes, her hair and her makeup all harmonize to create a look both edgy and timelessly beautiful!

On a side note I wonder if Neil Gaiman wasn´t inspired by Siouxi when he created the sexy gothic Death (character in The Sandman)...



Sometimes I really wish my hair was black, so I could pull of this kind of gothic look... At least I have an oversized bronze anch cross like the one Death allways has... That is some consolation at least... I enjoy the irony of Death wearing a hiroglyph meaning "life". I wear my anch with my more gothic style outfits in the hope that someone will realize that I´m mimicking Death... Sadly all teenage goths these days wear anch crosses... As a Sandman fan and an ex-egyptology student I still uphold my right to wear an anch cross without beeing cliché.