Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Non ss? No problem #2

Being a non-ss is disappointing. All the gorgeous clothes, shoes and mainly the make-up are forbidden for the non-ss! That's why I decided to create these 2 outfits in order to help you out a little bit! 
Here we go:
 (sorry for the bad quality...)
1st Outfit:
  • Fallen Angel Gothic Pantyhose
  • Fallen Angel Wednesday Shoes ( Addam's Family-> I'll post about it another time!)
  • Fallen Angel Leather Arm Warmers
  • Fallen Angel Smoking Vest
  • Fallen Angel 20's Necklace
  • Pretty in Pink Extended Belt
  • Stardoll Check Print Skirt
  • Rio Metallic Bustier

To finish your outfit you may add some fake eyelashes from Sunny Bunny and some piercings from Whip My Hair store or Splendid! This outfit will cost about 35$+19$(I took the green earrings from Whip My Hair and the fake eyelashes from Sunny Bunny) for the make-up and piercings=54$.


                                                                2nd Outfit:

  •  Stardoll Waves Top 
  •  Bisou Sheer Gloves
  •  Bisou Skinny Belt  
  •  Stardoll Crushed Velvet Leggings
  •  Voile White Plastic Glitter Heels
To finish your outfit you can simply add fake eyelashes from Sunny Bunny and some piercings from Whip My Hair Store or Slendid! This outfit costs about 25$+19( I took the green earrings from Whip My Hair and the fake eyelashes from Sunny Bunny)=44$
Both outfit will take you over one month to buy all the pieces but I hope I can be helpful! 
                                                       ~Irene~
                                                
   

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Dark Valley Stardoll

Dear dark fellow members,
I was recently told about this blog by my friend Cazina (cebastars on stardoll) who is writing for it! In my opinion it's a great blog where you can find everything about Stardoll!
The writers happen to be:
At this blog I discovered a video, uploaded by Cazina, about how to make presentations! Well take a look if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aJthYMz6uY&feature=related and this the blog about presentations: http://sdspoilers.blogspot.com/2010/04/presentation-presentation.html. You need to use Mozilla Firefox and drag the text! I tried but I don't know how to open 2 sites at the Mozilla! How fool am I? :S Well you should take a look and try out!
                                                             ~Irene~

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Gothic (Christmas) Cards

  Dear fellow dark members,
Christmas has arrived, as you've probably noticed, and the Christmas spirit fulfils everything around us. Green, red, white, gold are the colours that exist all around! A fat man dressed in red and white ringing a bell is the main character of the Christmas! So here comes my question: Do these things really express the goth people? You know you can still celebrate Christmas but with your own gothic way.
  I found this site with some gothic Christmas ideas and some gothic cards, which I found really creative, extraordinary and unique! If you seem to be a talented person you can copy some of these to give them away to close relatives and friends. Wouldn't that be great!
  Here is the site: http://shop.oph3lia.com/cgi-bin/cardshop.cgi/greetingcards10 There like 52 pages full of amazing and hilarious cards you can copy! Not only this site has cards but T-shirts, calendars, clothes and lots of other stuff for all the occasions! Unfortunately I was unable of saving any photos because of the protection of the site! However you MUST visit it! It has cards with quotes, birds, cages, rats, dark shabby queens, skulls and a lot more! I was thrilled when I discovered it and I think you'll be too! I thought I would let you know...
                                                    ~Irene~
                                                        

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Friday, December 17, 2010

Non-SS to buy in Starbazzar

Is the world coming to an end? Stardoll just made something that was previously exclusive to Superstars available to everyone. (As long as you have over 500 starpoints and confirmed your email address)

It's quite rare we see Stardoll showing some interest in their non-paying members, but perhaps this is a sign of better things to come?

Anyway, you can now buy in Starbazzar if you are a non-Superstar. In the doll mail that they sent to us all, they claimed that they 'listened'. It is not every day that they make a major change like this. Yes, okay, perhaps when we tell them about clothes we want, they might bring out a new range, but this certainly is drastic.

They also changed the time limit on selling clothes;

Yesterday we reduced the limit of items Superstars can sell within a 24 hr period to 10 items. This wasn’t a popular change. So we listened (and agreed) and made a few tweaks…
There is NO LIMIT when you sell items that YOU HAVE DESIGNED (previously known as StarDesign)
For everything else, there will still be a 10 item/24 hr limit. This is to ensure that Stardoll continues to be a fair and safe environment for all our members – that’s ‘always’ our number one priority.

I must say, it amuses me that they put 'always' in quotes like that. It's the kind of thing that's normally only said by angry members.

So, is this one of many changes to come to Stardoll? For me, the best thing they can do now, is stop the make up running out while you're using it...

~Mess

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Movies Related to Christmas

Well as you've noticed Christmas is here! Like it or not! If you're froM the kind of people that they like to spend their Christmas at home holding a cup of hot chocolate and waching good movies then here you are. You know, just to find some peace and quiet! So in order to be satisfied you must have a good movie at hand! I'm presenting you some of my favourite films related to Christmas, hope you find one of them interesting:
  • Casper's Haunted Christmas. It might sound and look like it's some sort of stupid cartoun but it's not, in my opinion at least. The plot is simple: Kibosh, the King of Ghosts, decrees that Casper must scare someone before Christmas Day or he will be banished to The Dark. To make sure this happens, he confiscates the Ghostly Trio's Scare licenses and flings them to Kriss, Massachusetts where they meet the Jollimore Family. When Casper's good behavior starts to act up, the Ghostly Trio call in Casper's look-a-like cousin Spooky to do the job.

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's a classical movie for Christmas. Often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 stop motion fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to "Christmas Town". I adore every work/movie etc Tim Burton has released. "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is a must in my opinion.
  • I'm going easy on you. Thse are just cartouns. The next movie is more classical and has taken a great popularity since it was written. A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas'es Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. I've only read the book but it's still one of my favourites!
  • Last but not least, for the horror fans, I present you "Black X-mas", a horror movie. I don't really believe it's in the Christmas spirit but who cares? It's a nice movie. The plot focuses on an escaped maniac who returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.
I showed you a classic movie, a cartoun movie, a "must" movie and a horror movie to watch on Christmas! Hope you follow my advice and choose one of them to watch...if you haven't already!


   to all of you! (:
Irene(for short: Rena)

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL

I won't be writing for the blog for a VERY long time due to what happened last night. But I am hoping that my (awesome) writers would continue to make articles for the next few possible months. Thank you all for all your support. With much love.
*~Mystic~*

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Well recently I saw on TV the movie ''The Da Vinci Code'' an adaptation of Dan's Brown book. I know that it has passed a lot of time since it was written but that's not the point! Somewhere in the movie the ''Malleus Maleficarum'' came up! I was thrilled and really keen on it! So I decided to search a little bit more about it and I discovered that it was nothing more than ''The Witches Hammer''! I love everything about Middle Age and every medieval clothes, fashion or books. The whole witch thing, in my opinion, is really interesting and fascinating if you look through it. In order to let you know more I suggest reading the following:
  • The Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for "The Hammer of Witches", or "Der Hexenhammer" in German) is a famous treatise on witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, an Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and was first published in Germany in 1487.
  • The Malleus Maleficarum asserts that three elements are necessary for witchcraft: the evil-intentioned witch, the help of the Devil, and the Permission of God. The treatise is divided up into three sections. The first section tries to refute critics who deny the reality of witchcraft, thereby hindering its prosecution. The second section describes the actual forms of witchcraft and its remedies. The third section is to assist judges confronting and combating witchcraft. However, each of these three sections has the prevailing themes of what is witchcraft and who is a witch. The Malleus Maleficarum can hardly be called an original text, for it heavily relies upon earlier works such as Visconti and, most famously, Johannes Nider's Formicarius (1435).
  • Because the work deals with women as witches, some believe and claim that the Malleus Maleficarum is a work of misogyny. The treatise describes how women become inclined for witchcraft, claiming they were susceptible to demonic temptations through their manifold weaknesses. It was believed that they were weaker in faith and were more carnal than men. Michael Bailey claims that most of the women accused as witches had strong personalities and were known to defy convention by overstepping the lines of proper female decorum.
I don't want you to get bored so I'll just stop! If you want to know more take a look at the labels. I have put also a list of the executed people for witchcraft! Take a look I was thrilled O.O

Saturday, December 4, 2010

No SS? No problem.




Now many newbies (not noobs) that I met have said that they can't afford the Superstar subscription and they complain that they can't get the "good" kinds of clothes without being one. Since I was a member of Stardoll for nearly 4 years, I've learned that you have to be EXTRA crafty to be a dark fashionista without being SS.

Don't forget that ALL of the items seen in the picture is Non-SS.

Be unique.

*~Mystic~*

Christmas

Shops are decorated with trees full of gold and red balls, people are searching for presents and a fat man dressed in red, ringing a bell, says ''Ho-Ho-Ho''. I don't know about you but for me Christmas is an important celebration. Not only because I'm an orthodox Christian but also because it has something magical in the air. However let's talk a little bit about Stardoll that released the same old stuff as last year with only exception the golden tree, which last year was for FREE, now it's for sale for 60$! Insane!
Check them out:

Are you ready for Christmas in real life? In Stardoll? Do you celebrate Christmas? Too much questions? :P

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Whitby!!

The last post reminded me of something, I have to tell you guys about Whitby!

Well, over Halloween, I was having the time of my life at Whitby Gothic Weekend. It really is one of those 'you have to see it to believe it' kind of things. It really was surreal to see so many goths in one place. Whitby is one of those old Victorian towns with narrow cobbled streets, and there was one high street where you couldn't move for petticoats and wigs; it was so crowded it took us about ten minutes to make what should have been a two minute journey.

And now for some picture spam ;D




They did a Victorian funeral procession in the abbey, with horses, and an old-fashioned hearse and everything.

And I just wanted to add this one, because it's epically creepy. We had to look at these babies for ages before we realized they weren't real. I really hope they weren't real.

And finally, this is me with my friend Katie, who I love so much for coming with me. (I'm on the left)

Whitby is such an amazing experience for anyone, goth or not. And if you are goth, even better, you'll love it! If you can make it, I really recommend that you go. There's loads of markets, different events, and you WILL be asked to have your photo taken!

~Mess

Goth Stereotypes Part 2

As you have probably guessed this is the second part of the stereotypes I wrote a few days ago.Were you looking forward to it? Hope some of you have read them! Here we go then:
12) It all began when the Goths started growing up and having to find jobs. They wanted to work in an office (you need a good income to afford all those clothes and CDs after all), but they still wanted to retain their “gothyness.” The result? The creation of “Corporate” or “Corp” Goth. These Goths attempt to find a balance between clothes that are “Goth,” and clothes that conform to the dress code at work.
13) One of the biggest influences on Gothic fashion has been the imagery in Gothic literature and their movie counterparts, particular that of Victorian writers such as Edgar Allen Poe and Bram Stoker. Victorian fashions like corsets, lace, frock coats and pale skin are popular throughout the scene, but maybe none wear them with as much style as the Victorian Goth. This category is my my favorite but I don't want to have an influence on your judge!
14) “Gothic” is normally used to refer to castles, cathedrals and other such ancient masonry, hence the prominence of Goths who have a particular interest in all things medieval. Dressing in garb (loosely) based on that of the medieval period, you may find these Goths at Renaissance Fairs or re-enactment society events. Of course, their dress and activities do not have to necessarily be strictly “Medieval:” blending with Tudor or Celtic elements seems perfectly fine too.
15) Where Metalheads fit in the Gothic spectrum is an incredibly complicated issue, and a controversial one. On the one hand, many Goths (and Metalheads) point out that the two subcultures are separate entities, having different origins and music tastes, and other disparities in clothing and habits, and that the common confusion between the two is merely the fault of an uninformed public.
16) Although the term “Emo” has been around for over a decade or so to describe a particular genre of Punk, it has recently become a buzzword of the 21st century to describe the features of the contemporary youth fashion movement. Visually a hodgepodge of many different styles including Punk, Retro, a touch of urban Japanese and Goth, it was inevitable that Emo would start demonstrating crossovers with Goth at some point. In my opinion this category is useless! Goths are not emos! I find it insulting in some way!
17) Pale, brooding, adverse to sunlight and attracted to strange period clothing. It’s no wonder that Goths became so strongly associated with vampires as early on as Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” Naturally, there are Goths out there who take their love of vampires one step further. They’re the ones who might don black capes and sunglasses when they go out during the day, join “vampire societies,” and whose bookshelves are filled with Anne Rice and White Wolf rule books. They’ve watched all the Dracula movies out there and are planning on visiting Romania next summer (failing that, Whitby). And they’re very partial to red wine, but not so keen on garlic.
18) Essentially, all Goths are Geeks. After all, how can one devote so much time into dressing up, reading old literature and collecting obscure music without being somewhat Geeky? You will hence find typical Geek traits in all Goths, but some will be more Geeky than others.

19) What do you get if you mix Elvis Presley, The Cramps, a bunch of old horror movies and a splash of lounge?  Bizarrely, you get Gothabilly - a rare and exotic breed of Goth with rather eclectic tastes in both music and wardrobe.
20)
The sexy, extravagant world of cabaret and burlesque is a natural partner for Goth; indeed, corsets, garters and black suits have been a Goth staple for many years. Hence, the birth of “Dark Cabaret” was perhaps a natural inevitability.
The look, feel and sound of Cabaret Goth is typified by the Dresden Dolls, although there are many other bands and artists who have toyed with burlesque imagery and music: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Voltaire, Sex Gang Children and the infamous Tiger Lillies, to name but a few. Even “goth” metal artist Marylin Manson has flirted with burlesque (quite literally, if we count Dita Von Teese).
21) The antiquated, refined elegance of Victorian Goth and the rough, edgy futurism of Rivetheads may seem a completely incompatible combination. But, thanks to a particular genre of fantasy, the two have been successfully wedded to create the Steampunk Goth.
Steampunk is, in essence, science fiction that takes place the low-tech setting of the past (very often the Victorian era). In Steampunk, you may find steam-powered robots, clockwork computers and complex contraptions made from wood, brass and wheels.
22) There are Goths who like vampires, Goths who like zombies, and then there are Goths who are drawn to the mysterious world of the faerie. Blending elements of Romantic and Hippy goth together with a dusting of New Romantic, the Faerie Goth style conjures images of fantasy and folktale. Just add wings and glitter for a final touch.
23) In the past, “Tribal” Goth was a vague, rarely used label for Goths who flirted with primitivism - bone jewellery, dreadlocks, beads, braids, heavy body modification and anything else “ethnic.” In a way, this Goth is perhaps closest to the original Goths - the Visigoth tribe - from which we get the scene name. However, in recent years, “Tribal” Goth more often refers to a highly specialised and distinctive Goth type - the Gothic Bellydancer.
Well, these were the categories. Some of them are amazing and some of them are just irritating and boring! Hope you can find yourself somewhere!
                                            ~The End~