Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn

She is my favourite artist because I think that she is incredible because it is able to do a lot of things in a perfect way: she is violinist, singer-songwriter, writes novels and poems and plays harpsichord.

Her music goes from victorian industrial to classical music, crossing other styles like dark cabaret and medieval and fantasy songs.

Photo from EA for Opheliac album

Photo from EA for Opheliac album

She has four studio albums (“Enchant”, “Opheliac”, “Laced/Unlaced” and “Fight like a girl”), a recopilatory album (“A bit o’ this & that”) and some EP’s and singles.
Also she has done some contributions to other artists and some soundtracks.

An anecdote which was so curious for me was that she had a conflict when she was a child about eat or not eat meat because she couldn’t understand why it was possible to eat animals from a farm but not pets and that is the reason why she is vegan.

Emilie Autumn, Enchant Album

Emilie Autumn, Enchant Album

One of the most important moments in her life, the most impact for me and know for her fans, was that she was raped when she was young and she is marked by it but she does not talk about it usually (but there are songs that talk about it like “I Want My Innocence Back”). She is a great defender of the women rights and it is possible to find references to this point in songs like “Fight like a girl”. Also she has denounced the pederasty in the song “Gothic Lolita”.

I identify with her in some points because she has some psychiatric problems (she is bipolar, has insomnia and sound hallucinations) and she has tried to commit suicide, but she has gotten over and that is one of the reasons why I admire her. She talk about it a lot in her songs “Manic Depression”, “Swallow”, and “Misery Loves Company” from “Opheliac” album.
In her last album, “FLAG”, there is also one song about it, “Take the pill”, which is one of her best songs for me.

Emilie Autumn, FLAG Album

Emilie Autumn, FLAG Album

It is possible to find a autobiographical novel whose name is “The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls” which wrote during her hospitalization in a psyquiatric hospital.

In her concerts he is with some girls which sing, dance and interact with her songs doing gestures, taking tea or even kissing her. They are called “Bloody Crumpets”: Lady Joo Hee, Lady Aprella, Captain Vecona, Little Lucina, The Naughty Veronica, Ulorin Vex, Captain Maggot, The Blessed Contessa, Little Miss Sugarless. They members of this group have changed a lot during these years and currently there are only two.

Bloody Crumpets: Veronica and Maggot

Bloody Crumpets: Veronica and Maggot

I love her style which could be possible to define as a mixture between “punkatorian” (non real word which she has created to say punk+victorian) and “burlesque”.

During a period of time she has designed her own clothes and she had a page where it was possible to find fashion and accesories which have been created by herself. Nowadays it is only possible to find merchandising in her shop inside her site.

Remember:

“The Plague.

Get it. Feed It. Spread it.

Sluts.”

Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn

Update 2nd February 2014: The Bloody Crumpets have changed their name and now they will be named The Soggy Biscuits.
The Soggy Biscuits

Links:

http://emilie-autumn.wikia.com/wiki/Emilie_Autumn_Wiki

http://emilieautumn.com/site/

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie_Autumn

Aug 30, 2013 | Posted by in Music, Personages | 1 comment

Sunscreen

At this time it is very important that we protect our skin of the sun effects. It is not matter our color skin or our tolerance of the sun.

Personally I am very pale and it is the usual that to be gothic you should have a pale skin, but it is possible that you have a dark skin since you was borned or that you like a sunbathe.

Goth girl on the beach

Goth girl on the beach

It is proper to visit your doctor or go to a pharmacy to know what phototype we have, before to use any sunscreen.
If we do not want or we do not have enough time to do it, I am recommend you that it is better more than less because if we use less than we should use it, we will burn. Maybe it seems that if we have a pale skin we should use a higher sun cream and the opposite if we have dark skinned but that is not correct because our resistence does not depend of it.

Prawn under sun

Prawn under sun

As well as to be burned as a prawn under sun is a bit ugly and later begin to peel like a snake, it is not healthy. In that moment it seems that everything is okay but some brush with the burned skin because it sting, but really we can finish with dried out and wrinkled skin, or even with a skin cancer (melanoma).
We have to watch for moles, especially in summer, checking if they grow, change their form or fester and if some of these sympthons appear, go as soon as possible to the doctor.
Take care about it but remember that if you go quickly to the doctor it is possible to remove it or manage it with medication.

Mussvital Macadamia +50

Mussvital Macadamia +50

In the past it was usual to say that sunscreen were so difficult to extend them because it oils our skin, but nowdays there are a lot of different types with different textures.
We can find them in atomizer, which are so easy to apply, especially when we are with few clothes, like on the beach or swimming pool. Also there are in cream format which there are not as oiled as before, because there are for dry, combination or oily skin types.

One of the things which more define me is that I like to be always make up and, if we put me a sunscreen, it is difficult to put correctly the make-up. Now it is not an excuse, because it is possible to find sunscreen with color or even some makeups with a part of sunscreen. These last types are better, at least for me, for Spring, but for Summer it is better a higher protection (higher SPF) because the ray sun affect directly over our skin.

Isdin SPF +50 fluid make-up

Isdin SPF +50 fluid make-up

I have always preffer to buy these kind of products in pharmacies because they can advice us about them.
Usually I ask for samples to have a small bottle in the handbag or, if they don’t have it, I buy a small bottle and fill it with the sunscreen.

My favourite brands are Mussvital, with they sun cream with macadamia oil of +50 protection. It is very nutritious, help to the elascity of our skin, protect a lot and smell so weel. The only problem is that it is so thick and a bit diffitul to extend it over the skin.

Isdin SPF 40 compact powders

Isdin SPF 40 compact powders

Other brand which a like is Isdin, with their products over +50. In addition, they have a new product: Gel Cream Dry Touch Color, a protector with color which it is so easy to extend and produce an matte effect. It is easy to absorb it and it does not have mask effect. If we do not like fluid makeup, we have the option of compact powder makeup, also from Isdin, with 40 sun protector.

Avene Couvrance SPF 30 compact makeup oil free

Avene Couvrance SPF 30 compact makeup oil free

If we want to have a strong pure compact makeup, for example for special event like a wedding, we can try with Couvrance compact makeup from Avene, with a +30 sun protector. There are two versions, one for oily skin and another one for dry skin; also there are different tones (usually I use the porcelain tone). It is a very good brand and it is valid for sensitive skins and it has a lot of products (I will talk about them in another post).
In this style we can find anothe compact make up with sun protector: the Capital Soleil SPD 30 of Vichy, which have two tones (gold beige and sand beige).

Vichy Capital Soleil SPF 30 compact makeup

Vichy Capital Soleil SPF 30 compact makeup

Aug 23, 2013 | Posted by in Cosmetic and Make Up | 0 comments

Daily Summer dresses

I think that it is a type of clothes which everyone should have in their wardrobe. There are a lot of posibilities: different patterns, different forms, etc but, to use daily, I usually like a simple tight dress, not so longer (above knees) and black or ecru color.

Black dress with skulls by Poizen Industries

Black dress with skulls by Poizen Industries

Lately it is easy to see a lot of different dress models of pin up style but we need to remember that to add a bit of volume, it is needed to include a petticoat under the skirt of the dress which provides more heat.

Tartan rock dress by Hell Bunny

Tartan rock dress by Hell Bunny

Depending of the preferences of each one, they can be used with boots or ankle boots, sandals or Mary Jane style shoes. My favourite option for walk is the last one because the boots give me a lot of heat and, I’m sorry but I don’t like sandals.

Iron Fist Siesta Skull Dress

Iron Fist Siesta Skull Dress

My favourite dress brands to use them daily are Innocent, Iron Fist, Hell Bunny, Poizen Industries and some models of Vive Maria.

Vive Maria Dress

Vive Maria Dress

From Innocent barnd I recommend their long t-shirts, which have beautiful patterns and it is possible to wear them with shorts, leggins, short skirts or, if we are very cheeky, without anything under it.

Innocent Long T-Shirt

Innocent Long T-Shirt

Also it is possible to use them with fishnet, lace or fantasy stockings, depending of the taste which everyone has about the temperature. Personally I link to use them with black lycra shorts with lace in the bottom.

Black Lycra Shorts with lace

Black Lycra Shorts with lace

Aug 5, 2013 | Posted by in Fashion | 1 comment

Welcome to my cardboard world

Hello creatures of night,

I am writting these first words to greet and introduce my project where I want to write about a lot of things which usually I cannot share with my near environment because my peculiar tastes, ocurrencies and reflections.

Without further ado, I show you this world which I hope that it evolve without pauses and you love it… Of course, all your comments and ideas are welcome.

Cotton candy kisses for you.

Aug 5, 2013 | Posted by in Thinkings | 0 comments