My Favorite Non-Goth Youtubers

Hey you! I thought I'd switch it up today by starting my list of ungoth things.
Here are some of my favorite non-goth youtubers:

Buff Bunny/Heidi Somers

Coolirpa

Bubzvlogs

Buffdudes

Threadbanger (still, I've been subscribed since 2009ish)

TexanInTokyo (no longer active, cute videos though)

That's all for now. Of course there are many more, these are just the first that come to mind, and bring on the good feels!

Thank you for reading, I love ya <3

8 Goth DIY Tips

Hey! Today's post is targeted toward goths/alternative types, but these tips may help anyone of any fold. I have made a post or two about this before, this is more of a revisit.

 

To start, these tips are personal to me. They are based on my likes and opinions, only!

 

1. Thrift Shop

 

It is so underrated! Thrifting has been the most fun I have ever had while shopping! If you don't thrift, you should at least try it. Not every thrift shop is for everyone, just like any other store. Find one that works for you, fall in love with it, know their clearance days. For example, here in Tucson, the 3rd Saturday of every month they have a 50% off everything sale!

 

2. Sewing

 

I know sewing is a sensitive subject for some. Let me tell ya, I suck at it and I've been sewing for 6 years. I have even invested in a $200 brother serger! It doesn't really matter how bad I suck at sewing, I like my clothes unique and fucked up anyway. Plus, if you thrift some nice material, you can sew a whole new article of clothing and not feel too bad if you screw it up.

 

3. Print your own t-shirts

 

There are many methods of printing your own design on to clothing. I made video on how to make your own stencil:

 

 

 

As well as making your own stencils, you can make your own silk screen too. I plan on making a video on that as well, very soon. Acrylic paint is cheaper and more effective than fabric paints!

 

4. Clearance

 

I'm sure you are aware of pawing through every clearance rack in sight, and my mention earlier about thrift shops clearance days. What about clearance materials? I know, you may not like sewing, but you may not even have to touch a needle and thread. There are tons of tutorials on "no-sew" goth clothes and diys and such. If you check the Walmart craft section, they usually have "clearance" fabrics. If you buy fabric from Walmart, take it all (if this becomes a usual craft for you) because that specific fabric will never be seen again!

 

5. Studs and Spikes

 

Buying and applying your own studs and spikes can be extremely satisfying! Ebay is a great place for this. If convenience is what you are looking for, Michael's and hobby lobby usually have small bags of studs for a few bucks more.

 

6. Plain Black

 

By combining a few of the previous tips, buying plain black articles is a must! For example, I buy comfy, plain, black flip flops from Walmart. Now I can add anything to them. Studs, spikes, print, the options are endless.

 

7. For the care of your hair

 

Going off the path for a moment. I've had my hair so many different colors, I have officially touched the damn rainbow!

• Red: The hardest color to keep, yet, the hardest to get rid of! Louna (on youtube) has some great tips on how she keeps her hair red. The maintenance was too much for me, and every single time I dyed it red, it was never the same red as before! 
• Purple: The most laid back color of them all. Purple was easy to maintain, took forever to fade. Fades very well!
• Pink: Difficult! Extremely hard to get out of hair, especially splat. It fades to pastel, of course. Always fades unevenly for me.
• Blue: I hated blue on me. It never EVER wanted to leave! The green clung for far too long! If you go blue, avoid the dyes that contain yellow/green, unless that's what you are going for!
• Blonde: Hair death!! For me, it was harder to maintain blonde (My natural color) than black!

To care for your hair, I suggest using a nutrient rich, low chemical shampoo and conditioner. Personally, I use Miracle 7 Keratin (not sponsored) shampoo, conditioner, and deep conditioner from sally's. It has never stripped my color, my hair responds very well to this stuff! If you have natural/ethnic/porous hair, be very careful when bleaching! I'm no cosmetologist, but I am aware of the sensitivity of that hair type. DEEEP CONDITION OFTEN! There are a bunch of diy hair masks on youtube. I've never had much success with making homemade hair care, but I can tell you that Vaseline is NOT a moisturizer! Please don't put that garbage in your hair! Now, for the ultimate secret pertaining to this tip...
I guess we will number this one by itself, because it is one of my two biggest secrets/tips.

8. DIY purple hair dye
Hang in there, I'm almost done! This tip has been quite the life saver for me when I was fun coloring my hair!

Gentian Violet!
Mix just a few drops with conditioner and use as a toner. 6-10 drops as a dye. I've even had it so dark that it looked black for over a week. It fades so nicely, I loved this stuff! Add it to your red to darken the shade. Its an amazing additive, or a dye by itself.
You can find this stuff at Walmart for just a couple of dollars and it LASTS! Look in the first aid aisle, if you don't find it there, it may be hiding in the baby section.

That is all I have for you today. If I think of anymore, I will put it in a post <3

Thank you for reading, I love ya beauties!!!!

 

I Almost Shit My Pants!

Luckily...I made it home in time.

On the same subject, I have a story I would like to tell you via video, I just need to clean the rest of the mess I made yesterday. By the way, it should never take 2 human beings OVER 24 hours to clean a tiny room! But it did and that really worries me.

I'm going to get some of that yummy coffee I made and work on that...

If you haven't already subscribed to my youtube channel yet, please check me out! There are silly videos and diy videos all for you, just waiting to be seen by your eyeballs.

GIRL, THATS GHETTO!!

No video today…I am mad at myself. BUUT!! I do, however, have an excuse!

I spent my ENTIRE day working on a project that my female viewers can relate/laugh/question and of course, yell at me for! lol

I took some old kk hair that I knew I'd never use, duct taped it together and used the sewing machine to sew wefts.

WHAT COLOR DOES THIS LOOK LIKE TO YOU?!

 It was the most ghetto thing I've done in a LONG time! Even though it worked out perfectly and I got the clips on 'em AND re-dyed my hair…it still doesn't match. So, I pretty much wasted my whole day on something borderline useless. Story of my life!

 Moving on:

We are still doing the video, it will be filmed and edited tomorrow. It will be later in the day before we get it up on youtube, but I swear this one will make it worth the wait. Plus, we have like 3 skits to work on and a busy week ahead, we'll see how this goes.

We are saving up for a nicer camera, the camera that I've wanted for a long time now. Lucky for us, its price was almost cut in half. I'm really hoping my check next friday is better than the last, I was in tears about how small it was. If that is what I have to look forward to, I'm gonna need to rethink my priorities when it comes to my "free time"!

Oh, what I would give to be a successful woman! What person ever dreams about sitting behind a desk with a boss breathing down their neck?! Or, calling random people to sell them junk? I've tried retail, can't do it, honey. I've seen enough of this place to know that I need to work for myself and for my people!

Let me know what's been up with you, I love hearing from my lovelies!!

How DIY Goths FAIL! (warnings and tips from personal experiences)

Through SO many trial and error experiments, through bringing a dead girl back to life, how much can a DIY Goth fail?

I've tried to make my own things for years with so many mistakes and fumbles, I thought I was a hopeless crafter. But, I do have some pointers for the crafty bunch out there!

Mind you, these are opinions and experiments I've done, and I am no professional. Trial and error is the only way I've learned.

Now that everyone in the goth community knows how to make their own dreads, I have a suggestion for the girls and ghouls about dreads:

NUMBER ONE!!

Synthetic Dreads

Always make sure that when making synthetic dreads, you use KANEKALON! This was the first lesson I learned, whew, almost 5 years ago! Kanekalon is the fiber you want because of its shrinking properties. When steam is added, the tangled fibers shrink and tighten around each other, causing the lock to stay, well, locked.

NUMBER TWO!!

Accessory and Jewelry making

When you decide to make your own accessories, make sure you know exactly what you are going for. Try to avoid bursting your own bubble, but go hard, jump to it! It took me 2 years to figure out the proper way to create a mold and to make my own charms, and to be honest...its almost not worth it :(

I went out and purchased the mold maker mix, $14. The apoxy jewelry maker (you pour it into your mold and leave it sit for like 24 hours and it gets hard, pop it out, got your charm.) which was almost $20. Jewelry wire (optional, if you want your charm to dangle) $10 for a spool. Then what ever else, like glue, ribbon, sparkles, gems. That was a $40+ dollar trial and error!! OUCH! So, unless you fully plan to mass produce something that will go for 15 to 20 dollars a pop, the hit and miss for your personal uses almost isn't worth it! FAIL! I'm not saying this will happen to you, I'm just sharing my failureness with you :) I won't hold you back!

NUMBER THREE!!!

Corsets

When buying corsets, be aware of the cheapies! My mom used to buy us both the cute corset shirt things from hot topic, NO! Be warned, if you suffer from short torso-itis, be careful buying boned corsets in general! The corsets from HT had plastic boning, cost $50 and with our short torsos, the plastic boning got all wavy and deformed!  These are not meant to make thick girls look smaller! If anything they made my shapely, shortness look much wider than I am. Instead, go for slim fitted tees or something.

GET CRAFTY OR GO HOME...WAIT...usually I'm crafty at home, only.

When crafting elsewhere 

You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose!

When crafting at someone else's house, please clean up your messes! Don't leave anything permanent on their walls or floors. Don't paint their little one's bodies with non-toxic paint and tell them to play hide and seek. Its just never a good idea!

Silly, Fun and Positively Amateur! *photo dump*

My heart is screaming with excitement today!! I finally have a chance to check out that Goth store thats like an hour from my house! I may even possibly do a photoshoot with my beautiful mother this week.

Now, with me, its totally amateur modeling and photography but we have SO much fun and thats what counts. To see what I mean, the photos below are many I am proud of:

Okay, maybe not that last one, lol.

So, yeah! I love playing around like this, even if I look ridiculous <3

~Love Zaney~

To Cheer Us Up

Lately i've noticed a few things about myself:

• I've ben a bit stir crazy due to the fact that I do not have a driver's license even though I'm 21
• My interest in my own life keeps taking sudden nose dives without warning
• I'm not taking the steps to fix any of my problems
• I have been literally avoiding myself

 This is somewhat of a personal subject, but I need to address this in the only way I know how, by burying myself in knowledge and information, class and talent of other people, beauty and bizarre.

When I'm feeling down, or bummed, I love watching videos of confident people. I love finding out more about this person, internet famous, Hollywood famous, or not any kind of famous. My findings lately have been kind of small. Could it be that your either are or you're not?! hmm, well, I know how hard it is just being a person. A person trying to make ends meet, to find somewhere we belong, but this is getting a bit off topic, here are some of my favorite people:

The Shaytards

I've been following the shaytards for 4 years. They are a beautiful example of an all American family with loving parents, wonderful children and real lives with real problems and lots of patience!

Watching their videos ALWAYS cheer me up, their videos also provide positive insight and mindset.

Jenna Marbles

ah, we love jennamarbles, ah

AdoraBatBrat

Adora has been a wonderful role model for young baby bats and adult goths of all sorts. 

These crazy people always cheer me up ^.^

I think I might try vlogging again...But I love text sooo much more!! If anyone could give me some advice on video editing programs for an old mac, it would be very much appreciated!

~Love Zaney~

Recycling Accessories-Goth DIY-Studs

Got an old studded belt that fell apart and is no longer functional? 

                            

I got just the thing!

You will need one of these:

• needle nose pliers
• hemostats 
• butter knife

Depending on which of these tools you have will greatly impact the outcome. In this case, I have needle nose pliers:

Now, get to the back side of the studs and pry the claws upward and try not to let it bend out of shape too much.

Just pop it off and set aside.

Now decide what article of clothing or accessory you want to relocate the studs to. Now would be a great time to have pliers.

Just press the stud into the fabric until it penetrates through to the other side.

Using Pliers or crimping tool of some kind, bend the claws down inward and now you have a great start to a new project.

Recycled studs can go a long way. Be as creative as possible and really enjoy this project!

If this version was not sufficient enough, and you would like to see this tutorial in video form, Please comment on this post and let me know. Any questions or suggestions are always welcome.

~Love Zaney~