The word emo is an abbreviation for emotional, which translates as "emotional". The subculture was born from the musical direction, but over time it "overgrown" with all the characteristics inherent in other social movements, such as its own ideology and style of dress.
How to determine what is emo in front of you
Despite the fact that the course of emo was initially quite serious, and its adherents could boast of a very different number of years lived, nowadays, the representatives of this subculture are mainly adolescents. Otherwise, they are also called emokids (from the English emo kid, or emo child). So, by what signs can you easily determine that you have an emocid?
Emo has long bangs that cover half of the face. One eye is completely covered, so it's not even entirely clear if this prevents the emo representative from looking around. The hairstyle usually has several strands of a contrasting color. Most often, emo dyes their hair black, and individual strands in white or pink. It happens, and vice versa, the hair is discolored, and contrasting strands are dyed in a dark color. Black, white, and bright acid colors are especially popular.
Emocks love facial piercings. Lips, eyebrows, nose: the face of a true emo is usually richly decorated with various earrings. Combined with special makeup, it really looks impressive. Emo makeup necessarily implies a bright accent on the eyes. They are summed up in black or another dark color, and, moreover, the eyeliner is not thin and delicate, but bright and rather dense. There is always a thick layer of mascara on the eyelashes. Not only emo girls, but also boys can paint their eyes. This does not mean non-traditional sexual orientation, but simply emphasizes the eyes, the "mirror of emotions", in the case of emo.
Emo clothes
The clothes that emokids prefer are usually pink and black. This symbolizes the ideology of the subculture, where black means longing and sadness, and pink means joy and positive emotions. The combination of contrasting colors in one image hints that you are an emotional person who can easily have sudden mood swings.
All kinds of emo clothing accessories are very popular. As a rule, they have something in common with the world of rock: these are wristbands, bracelets, amulets and various beads.
The silhouettes of emo clothes could be called close to casual, if not for their brightness. Skinny T-shirts, skinny skinny jeans, plaid shirts. An emo girl will not deny herself the pleasure of buying a beautiful fluffy dress to look like a real princess.
One look can easily combine decorations in the form of skulls and skeletons, as well as all kinds of bows and ruffles, children's or "doll" hairpins.
A characteristic part of the emo outfit is shoes. Sneakers, often with high soles, and always with bright laces. It is better if these are multi-colored sneakers, even if these are shoes from different pairs, but in extreme cases you can be content with different laces.
