Miss Naked Beauty 2008 was nearly a GOTH!!!!!

I have been watching Gok Wan's Miss naked Beauty for the last 6 weeks and Goth dad and myself have been cheering on the very lovely Dawn (pictured); 6 ft 2 of Glaswegian Bolshiness. We really couldn't believe it but she kept going through to the next round.

In the end she was beaten by Shona (pictured below) by 7 votes and we didn't mind because Shone is also lovely, but very much smaller and more celtic.

It is great to see Gok doing this series, looking at how women see themselves and how each of us can be beautiful without a whole heap of slap (not that I don't love the slap given the chance), and it has been great to see such a wide range of women being shown to us on prime TV as beautiful, desirable women who are all passionate about the female form.

So to all my lovely lady readers...

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, if you believe this and own this the world is your oyster.

Positive neglect - a parenting position

I just read this and found that I was blessed, as they put it, by being ignored by my mother. My brother & I used to amble out of the back door to go and play out and come back when we were hungry, or it got dark whichever came first.

I try very hard to ignore Little Miss as often as possible, while still of course listening to her every move; she is only 3, and she is a stuborn, strong minded little madam. Excellent, just what I have been working for.

Shopping Paradise

I've been building an Amazon Store. Please support this blog if you can and treat yourself to a fab goth present.

OK, I know there isn't much in there now but give me a coupel of days....

Radio 6 music saved my sanity

Compare these two track listings


Duffy - Rain On Your Parade
Gabriella Cilmi - Sanctuary
Girls Aloud - The Promise
James Blunt - Love, Love, Love
Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight
Jordin Sparks - Tattoo
Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown - No Air
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
Lemar - If She Knew
Leona Lewis feat. Akon - Forgive Me


The Cranberries - Zombie
Soup Dragons - I'm Free
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
Incubus - Are You In?
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine
Fall - There's A Ghost In My House
Ladyhawke - My Delirium
David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome
Metallica - Enter Sandman

On of these would make me insane and not nice to be around. One helped me do a huge pile of washing up on a Sunday morning and put a big ole smile on my face. The first is from my local radio station's playlist ARGHHHHH!! the second Radio 6 music. Oh how I love my Digital radio.

goth eye makup

As a Corporate Goth girl I have to say that my eye makeup is a key part of my look and my identity. Obviously when I go to work I don't wear quite as much makeup as some of these lovely ladies but this little smudge (below) is pretty close to what I try to get going at 7am most mornings.



It's fairly normal (if a little biased towards grey and purple) except for the black eyeliner which MUST by heavy and smudged. In a black suit with boots and some simple silver jewellery, all complete with dark eyes and a bit of lip gloss, there really isn't too much doubt that 'Miss' is a bit of a wierdo.

This is the lovely AndromedaX who is this gorgeous at 7am on a Wednesday morning and 1am on a Saturday night.

I would like to point out that she doesn't go to work looking like this (bit of a shame really, but no one would ever get to work on time if we had to slap on all the war paint every morning) but still manages to look very goth without looking like the dolly girl below.

So, I guess the key point to this post is that if you can give a girl black eyeliner she will either hang herself and end up looking like a macabre clown, or she will make it her own and remain a Glam Goth Goddess, no matter how modest or corporately she needs to dress.