How To Be Emo - How To Dress

How To Dress Emo

Emo dress can be both overly complicated and stupidly simple. However, this is a fine line, and may be hard to distinguish. You want to dress emo, but don't want to look like a tool (well, to other Emos at least). Here, we will attempt to help you find this line and walk all over it. After all, you have to look super good for those MySpace pictures.

Things you'll need

This list is unisex, it works for both emo boys and emo girls. Feel free to make substitutions as you feel is needed, but don't blame us if you look like a tool to your emo friends and MySpace buddies!

Eyeliner

Black fingernail polish. Pink may work also, but only if you're an Emo in a really good mood.

Converse shoes, Vans, or Airwalks

Studded belt and bracelet

Emo friends (or at least Emo sympathizer friends)

Overly tight t-shirts (Especially band t-shirts, cereal t-shirts, gaming t-shirts, carebear t-shirts, cartoon t-shirts, and any other t-shirts sold at Hot Topic.)

An undying love for Emo bands (Although I guess you could fake this, after all you have to be a really good actor to be Emo)

Tight jeans (This is a must, the absolute staple of all Emos

Black rimmed glasses (Even if your eyesight is perfect)

Arm bands

A MySpace account with a super Emo MySpace Layout

Tips on Dressing Emo

As stated before, the eyeliner and fingernail polish applies to you whether you are a boy or a girl. In the Emo culture, both genders share many similarities. Usually, liquid eyeliner is used on both the top and the bottom. Sometimes Emos may only paint a single fingernail per hand, because it makes them different and edgy. Feel free to accessorize with band pins or any other pins that relate to cartoons, have funny saings, cute pictures, etc. Stripes and checkers are big in the Emo culture, as are second hand clothes and worn tattered clothes. The biggest part of dressing Emo is not to copy others' styles. Emos are very opinionated, and may feel offended if you bite their style. It will most likely make them pretty upset, and they will cry, so just don't do it.

Tips for Emo Hair

One of the staples of the Emo style is your hair. It has to be long and partially hide your face. If not, it is not Emo... Period. If you are a guy, many times, you can achieve this look by just simply letting your hair grow wildly without any real styling. However, you may want to employ the use of hair gel to keep your bangs right where you want them, which is over your eyes. If you are a girl, you have to work a little more towards this, but you women are used to keeping your hair fixed up anyway, so this shouldn't be a big deal. Dye your hair black, which is a definite requirement, and if you'd like, you can incorporate a slight bit of blonde or pink into the bangs also. If you are a girl, you may possibly want to cut your hair to a very short bob-like hairstyle but keep your bangs long, swept drastically to one side and covering your eye. Or, for those who like Long hair, get many choppy layers and highlights. For a guy, you may want to spike up the back side, and pat down on the front side. You could also get your bangs/fringe dyed a lighter color than the rest of your hair.

If your school has a dress code saying that your hair can't cover your eyes, just cut your bangs at an angle to where there are pointing diagonally downward and just reach your eyebrows. For some exmaples of this, see our Emo Pictures section.
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