It’s the 25th Episode! And to celebrate, Sylvia and Allison will dive deep into their psyches to answer hard-hitting questions from viewers like you!
Episode 24: Datin’ Satan: The Video Game
Who hasn’t slept with Satan?
Sylvia and Allison manage to put Animal Crossing down long enough to try another game. Obey me! #Shall we date?
Episode 23: Taking “Goth” Quizzes in Quarantine
While hiding out in their secret bunker, Sylvia and Allison decide to pass the time by searching for hard truths on the gothest of websites: Buzzfeed.
List of quizzes: https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurengarafano/goth-aesthetic-dark-soul-quiz https://www.buzzfeed.com/luisdelvalle/black-white-aesthetic-emo-goth https://www.buzzfeed.com/luisdelvalle/goth-quiz-af https://www.buzzfeed.com/sleepylovette/which-gothic-icon-are-you-42yxtmjg8n https://www.buzzfeed.com/adamellis/get-out-of-my-room-mom https://www.quizony.com/what-is-your-goth-name/index.html
Episode 22: Which Witch is Which? Allison’s Trip to Salem
Allison’s history report as she tells Sylvia and the audience all about her weekend in Salem!
List of sources for this episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_of_the_Salem_witch_trials
Locations, Shops, & Excursions:
https://www.crowhavencorner.com
https://diewithyourbootson.shop
http://www.salemghosttours.com/index.html
Brands we Stans
Due to some technical malfunction the audio recorded for our makeup brands episode has vanished. Instead of recording another 3 hours of how much we hate Jeffree Star for, we decided to make it a blog post instead. Here you can find our recommendations as well as other brands we recommend you avoid.
- NYX $
- Large selection
- Easily accessible
- Cheap price point
- Quality products 85%
- Key products:
- Setting Spray
- Liquid Matte Eyeliner
- Can’t Stop Won’t Stop Foundation
- Control Drops Foundation
- Jumbo Eye pencils
- Wet n Wild $
- Great collections
- Easily accessible
- Cheap price point
- Quality products 90%
- Key products:
- Highlighters
- Eyeshadows
- Maybelline $
- Wide shade range
- Easily accessible
- Affordable price point
- Quality products 75%
- Key products:
- FitME foundation
- Super Stay Foundation
- Mascaras
- elf $
- Cheapest and best quality (for the price)
- Easily accessible
- Super affordable (items starting at $1)
- Quality 80% (older products are more 50/100)
- Key products:
- Primers
- Eyeshadows
- Concealers
- Skin Care
- Essence $
- Cheap underdog
- Only at Ulta (some other stores popping up)
- Very affordable
- Quality 50%
- Key products:
- Princess Lash Mascara
- SugarPill Cosmetics $$$
- Staple of alternative fashion, bright colors and super pigmented eyeshadows
- Online only (some products in Ulta)
- High price point
- Quality 90%
- Key products:
- Eyeshadows
- Liquid Lipsticks
- NARS $$$
- Prestige brand
- Basic makeup stores; Ulta, Sephora, bluemercury, etc
- High price
- Quality 90%
- Key products:
- Foundation
- Concealer
- KVD $$
- Kat Von Dee minus Kant Vaccinate Dem kids
- Basic makeup stores; Ulta, Sephora, bluemercury, etc
- High price
- Quality 90%
- Key products:
- Liquid lipsticks !!!!!!!!!!!
- Urban Decay $$
- Well known alternative makeup brand
- Basic makeup stores; Ulta, Sephora, bluemercury, etc
- High price
- Quality 85%
- Key products:
- All Nighter Setting Spray
- Black Moon $$$
- Beautifully packaged makeup brand
- Online only (few products in Ulta)
- High price
- Quality: not tried by us personally
- Key products:
- Lipstick
- Eyeshadows
- Lunatick Cosmetics $$
- Goth aesthetic packaged
- Online only
- Medium price
- Quality: not tried by us personally
- Key products
- Coffin and horror themed pallets
- Manic Panic $$
- Makeup and hair dye brand
- Online only (possibly in select stores)
- Medium price
- Quality: not tried by us personally
- Key products:
- Hair dye
- Lipsticks
- Complexion
- Rituel de Fille $$$
- Online only
- High Price
- Quality: not tried by us personally
- Necromancy Cosmetica $$
- Goth aesthetic cosmetics
- Online only
- Medium price
- Quality: not tried by us personally
- Key products
- Eyeshadows
- Colourpop $
- Well known online brand, wide range of products
- Online only (few products in Sephora and Ulta)
- Low price point
- Quality: 78%
- Key products
- Liquid lipsticks
- Eyeshadows
- Highlighters
- FENTY $$$
- Changed the game with shade ranges
- Sephora
- High price point
- Quality:
- Key products
- Foundation
Bands we would not recommend!
- Jeffree Star
- Multiple offense racist, sexist, and manipulation
- Drug use with large young audience X
- I also want to take a moment to say that whoever is Jeffree Star’s PR manager, they are amazing. Everything I tried looking up sources for, he has a product related to that. So instead of finding “proof” of his drug use, instead I find his lipstick “Drug Lord” and his smoking accessories. Same with “problematic” and “tea”
- Too Faced
- Kat Von D
- Anti-Semitic
- Anti-vaccine
- Tarte
Episode 21: Glamor, Horror, Filth: A Review of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula
This week, Sylvia and Allison dive into the world of alternative drag shows with a series that’s half Drag Race, half Fear Factor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(clothing)
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/vbyjm3/dragula-is-loud-weird-and-pisses-on-heteronormativity
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/08/dragula-first-reality-drag-competition-us-feature-drag-king
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul’s_Drag_Race#Critical_reception
https://www.vogue.com/vogueworld/article/salvjiia-personality-on-instagram-to-know
http://www.thebelfry.rip/blog/2017/6/28/trans-visible-goths-cemetery-confessions
Episode 20: Goth Prism Power, Makeup!
Get ready to have your ears annihilated, because today, our hosts rant and rave about their number #1 passion in life: makeup!
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-goth-girls-wear-white-foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_whitening http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/13/asia.whitening/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color https://web.archive.org/web/20180913054647/
http://www.naacpldf.org/brown-at-60-the-doll-test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Paper_Bag_Test
https://www.healthline.com/health/skin-bleaching#side-effects https://www.reddit.com/r/goth/comments/bcfw55/do_you_apply_white_foundation_on_your_body/
http://gothic.lilithezine.com/Gothic-Makeup.html
Episode 18: Love is Dead, The Ghosts of Valentine’s Past
In honor of the Day of Love, Sylvia and Allison sit down and tell some scary/romantic ghost stories. How romantic!
List of sources for this episode:
Greenbrier Ghost:
- Southern Gothic Podcast: Episode 028: The Greenbrier Ghost
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbrier_Ghost
- The Generation Why Podcast: The Greenbrier Ghost – 208
Longfellow’s Wayside Inn
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113777264/jerusha-howe
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy
- Ghost Adventures – Longfellow’s Wayside Inn
- Ghost Adventures- Ancient Ram Inn
Sylvia’s Ghost Bride Series:
https://www.bulbapp.com/u/legend-research-ghost-bride
Headless Bride Ghost of Old Faithful Inn
Episode 17: Facing the Music
The time has finally come for our brave hosts to tackle the single most divisive topic in all of gothdom: M U S I C
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Music by Creep-P (@ItsCreepP on Instagram and Twitter)
Icon by @motomiyasucks on Instagram
List of sources for this episode:
http://www.whatisgoth.com/pages/Goth-Music.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_rock
https://goth.fandom.com/wiki/Gothic_music
Episode 16: Tim Burton, A Retrospective/Roast
Today, we do a deep dive into goth patron saint, Tim Burton! Join us as we somehow admire and roast our childhood hero at the same time!
List of sources for this episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton’s_unrealized_projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton
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