Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The "Scene" Look

Ok, I'm going to tackle one stereotypical "look" at a time. First up:
The "Scene" look. I'm not talking about the music, or posers, or stupid myspace addicts, or anything like that. Strictly addressing what the "Scene" look itself entails.

This is a drawing I found depicting typical "scene kids" or "scenesters". Some of the fashions shown here are a usual factor of the scene style, such as: Fauxhawks (I used to have one), piercings (lip or nose, not just ears), tattoos, thick-rimmed glasses (I have them), band t-shirts, crazy colors in hair, bangs over your face (I have them too lol), anything from The Nightmare Before Christmas (which I love), spiked hair, and anything purple. Note that many of the aforesaid characteristics are also part of the "Emo" look.

Here we have a picture of some people dressed in the scene look. Note that they also like knee-highs, tutus, fishnets, and backcombed hair.


Their hair usually has one bow or more in it, or sometimes hairclips instead.


Their hair is usually backcombed/teased up on top, straightironed on the bottom, and the main color tends to be platinum blond or black with brightly colored streaks or platinum streaks- note that the streaks can be striped. Occasionally their hair will be short and spiked/fauxhawked or in a shorter version of the hair described above. Some people choose to dye their hair entirely blue, purple, cherry red, orange, or pink ala reigning Scene Queen Jeffree Star.
This, of course, only covers scene girls (or scene drag queens). Scene guys (in a short summary) wear girls jeans (or really tight ones at least), band shirts, and have short razored hair in black or platinum w/ streaks of color, spiked or hanging over one eye. Oh, and I almost forgot- thick black eyeliner and/or neon eyeshadow on both genders. And there you have it. One can admire the scene style without adopting the fake attitude.

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