Thank you, darklings, for the beauty brand suggestions in yesterday’s comments. Have you heard of Medusa’s Makeup? I quite like their products, and the name’s appropriate: whenever you wear these bold electro eye glitters, onlookers will stop dead in their paths.
Medusa’s Makeup specializes in Day-Glo colors for electro New Ravers, but there are plenty of venal shades for Goths and Goth Lolis (top row, $6 each). To achieve a whiter shade of pale, try applying the light mineral Geisha foundation ($14) with the Kabuki brush ($14).
Medusa offers a pro eye shadow palette ($119, first photo) that looks like it was stolen from the Fauvists’ studio. I like the outlook it suggests: that makeup isn’t for covering up imperfections, but for creating human works of art. For a Malice Mizer Rococo pierrot look, try these pressed eye shadows with micro sparkles ($9). Medusa only offers eyeliner pencil in black ($6) – because seriously, what other color would you need?
DJ Chihiro, who spins at Tokyo Dark Castle and other J-Goth club nights, is master of just-rose-from-the-grave makeup. He’d enjoy Medusa’s Eyeliner Seal ($8 ), an elixir that turns eye dust into long-lasting facial paint. The suppository-like Stick It! ($7) is in fact a natural wax primer for the eyes and lips.
All of these items can be ordered from the Medusa’s Makeup website. Check out the customer photo gallery – it’s an electric shock of inspiration!
