Queens of The Wild Frontier

Bethezda's Preoccupations for picking my blog as one of your ten to pass this award on to :) 1. Post the award picture with a backlink to the person who nominated you.2. Answer the ten questions.3. Pass on the award to ten more bloggers. Questions: Favorite Color: Royal Blue Favorite Animal: Cats of all kinds...Big cats, small cats, black cats, white cats, lions, tigers etc, they're all my babies as far as this crazy cat lady is concerned :) Favorite Number: 3 Favorite Non-Alcoholic Drink:...

*phew* the last of my epic THREE POSTS in one day! Anyhow the theme this month is flowers, not really something you think of straight away when you think goth? But I have a few flowery things :) The JSK I made is covered in flowers...Blue Roses! My favourite corset has skulls and roses on it too My Rose Melody dress has roses on it as well (noticing a theme here? Roses the ultimate Goth flower?) When I was in second year at uni I had to do a project on flowers...I chose white lilies...

NEW SOCKS! So a few weeks ago I joined a sock swap on /r/Random_Acts_of_Socks and these are the socks that were sent to me. They're so cute :D I totally encourage anybody who likes postal swaps (and socks of course) to try sock swapping :) (of course you give your address out at your own risk and if you live with your parents ask their permission first)

Bad pun is bad...I'm not sorry ;) My hair inspired by this tutorial (my hair isn't quite long enough yet...And I'm not sure turquoise is historically accurate! Oh well I used hair pins anyway instead of sewing it so I guess that doesn't matter so much anyway...).

So I've been doing a little bit of research into Gravestones for some artworks I'm working on and it's pretty fascinating stuff. I've mostly been looking into the symbology of Scottish stones (Scottish Gravestones are really pretty in my opinion). Scottish gravestones (particurly the ones from the 1700's) are often covered in carved symbols, sometimes skulls and crossed bones (often mistaken for symbols of piracy, when on gravestones these represent mortality), tools of the deceased's trade...

Photo by Allyson Smith Lately I have been a BAD blogger and not finding time to talk about the awesome things that have been happening so today you get a picspammy post so I can catch up. Angel Grinder photo by Kev36663 So on Friday We had Eisenfunk, Surgyn and Angel Grinder in Legends. Surgyn Eisenfunk (photos also by Kev) All three bands were great, I had a really awesome night although I'm really covered in bruises and left wondering if a child's paddling pool was filled with vodka, and...

From the front. To celebrate my hair now being at the longest it has ever been I've been playing around with it a lot, trying out different hairstyles that I've never been able to try out before. Side I've recently fallen in love with the big, piled Edwardian styles, although my hair isn't quite long enough to do them properly just yet. Other side. But with a few small adoptions I can get something quite pretty :) Back needs work though!

So I'm trying to not look like "a hippy at a funeral" while the warmer weather comes in...Do I win? I went for a bit of a Greek thing with my hair today, quite liking it :)

Sorry about having two hair posts in a row but my hair dye came. So my hair at the moment is inspired by some of my horror heros, Lily Munster, The Bride of Frankenstein Cruella Deville and to some degree Dave Vanian I didn't manage to toally bleach out the henna though so for now I have red bits, I will probably wait a few months to let it recover before I attack it with bleach again because I don't want it to dry out. Not really sure why the black looks so blue in some of these photos lol.

Monday: Retronaut: STORYVILLE STREETWALKERS, NEW ORLEANS, C.1912 featuring a pair of spectacular stockings! Tuesday: Bad Wisdom Photography: Leeds Steampunk Market lots of photos from Leeds Steampunk Market Wednesday: Madame Guillotine: The Wicked Lady An intriguing tale of a dandy Highway Woman Thursday: Frankensteinia: Shelly's Ghost in New York Friday: Great Artists' Mews: Improving Classical Paintings with Cats! Never shall I look at The Mona Lisa in quite the same way again! Saturday:...

I got a new postcard and a six page letter from Carrie in Hong Kong yesterday :) I tried to find out who the artist was because I really like the image (it's so weird I LOVE IT :D).The back says "Wun Ying" but there are like a billion search results for Wun Yin, none of which seem to be the same person :( There was also a web address though which lead me to what appears to be Hong Kong's answer to The Gadget Shop/Red 5, they have some pretty cool stuff, not sure if they ship overseas though...

Monday: The Dreamstress - Rate this Dress: Plaid in 1840 beautiful/ugly (you decide) plaid, silk dress from 1840 Tuesday: Dustjacket Attic: Couture at the Ritz Fantastic Rococo inspired photos of Kate Moss at the Ritz Wednesday: Siouxsie Law: I guess if you’re going to have hate crime legislation at all, it oughta include protection for goths Thursday: Artwork by Living Dead Girl Nicole: Spring in my wonderful creepy world Etsy Treasury Friday: Madame Guillotine: Marie Antoinette's Beauty...

Today's Tuesday Tutorial went a little bit wrong :/ However in the interests of proving that I am in fact Human (shocking I know) I decided to keep it, so this week's tutorial will instead be a little silly! As regular readers will know for most of last year I had dark red hair, which I was dying with henna. I always made sure I bought body art quality pure henna because not only does it give a better colour, it isn't padded out with any of the potentially nasty additives that are sometimes...

All of my reviews are based on personal opinions and experiences. Described as "The Darker Side of Nails" and aimed at those of us who are between manicures I was interested to try these nails. It is no secret that I have previously not had the best of experiences with false nails, I tend to find the ones that stick on with a kind of sticker "ping" straight off again and acrylic nail glue left my nails in a terrible state, so I was quite sceptical of these. The nails come in three colours,...

Photo by Hackenbush Regular readers will have noticed I did another disappearing act on Saturday, I had meant to mention that I probably wouldn't be around to making an entry, but funnily enough I didn't get around to it...Oops! Anyhow I was in Leeds. I suddenly discovered that there is a 7am on Saturdays 0.o I travelled down with Queenie (does this make me Nursey? FETCH THE UDDERS!) to help out on the Forever in Black stall. On the way down to Leeds we passed several rather strange things...