Happy World Goth Day, apparently, although maybe wishing the happy bit doesn’t quite work.

It’s summer, the time of year where everyone is getting “beach ready” and wearing floaty summer dresses and all that. Except me. I’m the sort of pale that could have got a bit part in Twilight without needing makeup. Alabaster, a very kind friend calls my skin. But in any case, it leaves you few style options when everyone is going with sunkissed and tanned. So screw that, lets just go Morticia Addams.

I’ve already got myself the perfect spooky frock for summer from the wonderful Iron Fist. This picture also highlights the sort of pale skin we’re talking about here, so, yeah, no sun for me.

And onto the makeup! Now, as much as I love Carolyn Jones as Morticia, makeup inspiration has to come from Anjelica Huston’s Morticia. Basically, you need two or three colours minimum, plus a crapload of eyeliner. I chose a gold over the lids, a dark purple for the crease and winged out to the side, and then sparkly white for under the brow (and also tapped a bit over the lid). I used all three from the ELF Little Black Beauty Book Cool. Blending with your finger is also pretty useful here, to give it more of that smoky look. Line top and bottom with liquid eyeliner, and then the water line with a kohl pencil. I didn’t wing it out too far here, but you can do if you want. Then, as Enid Blyton* might put it if she was totally into makeup, lashings of mascara.

 – hazy shade of glitter

*yes, yes, she didn’t even say it!

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