Transforming Myself Into an Emo Flapper (ThE RaWriNg 20s)
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it’s 1927, you’re all dressed up and on your way to your favorite speakeasy to listen to The Fall Out Gent Quartet and finally meet xXTheGreatGatsbyXx who you’ve been exchanging letters with for months. life is good
I’m dying Karolina, you’ve killed me
😭 these bots are flocking to all my favourite channels.
Omg this hits me on so many levels!!!☠🖤
god this just... damn ahahahahaha!
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Notice how many times she slips up with “I also remember” …. “I remember….” And then she says “I’ve done extensive research”. Yeah right. We’re onto you, time traveler.
Or immortal maybe?
@@xfakelucid6504 MY immortal
@@Sernyx_X rofl
@@Sernyx_X um
Time lord maybe?
As a former emo kid turned retro/historical clothing admirer, can I just say how much I appreciate this video and how truly deep it cuts in me. You can take the kid out of the emo, but you can't take the emo out of the kid xD rawr x3
hi i also followed the emo to historical dress pipeline. what can i say, i've always been an interesting dresser
lmao I feel the same but Im emo now XD
Former goth kid here and you are correct * adjusts giant oversized witchy sunglasses that I will never get rid of*
"how truly deep it cuts in me" is such an emo phrase in itself
Honestly, as a 28-year-old, I would still be going for the full emo look if I could afford it.
At most, I just wear skinny jeans with accessories these days, lol.
"I have some leftover liner which I'm just going to smudge and pretend it's supposed to look like that."
That's probably one of the most historically accurate parts of the whole outfit
"I miraculously found my concealer. Guess where, in my sister's room surprise" is such 2007 Emo girl makeup tutorial energy 😂😂
And then the "I also found her foundation". Found? More like revenge and drama at the dinner table with your siblings
I thought for a moment I fell back into 2007
Karolina: Complains about sister stealing concealer.
Also Karolina: Steals sister's foundation.
Karolina's transformations are the personification of "using the wrong formula but still getting the right answer" 😂
Where is the emoji on your username from, if I may ask?
@@Marina-tn1tz oh that? it's a badge if you're a member of Karolina's channel. :) it's really cool and has nice perks so come join the club :D
@@angerykitty169 oooh, i understand now. thanks! i might try to convince my parents to join ;)))
@@Marina-tn1tz no problem. :))))
Bad costuming science.
This outfit gives me these feels: you have conservative parents but you sneak your makeup/accessories/cool shoes in your backpack and get ready in the school bathroom. (And ofc frantically wipe off the eyeliner on the bus ride home)
Friend did exactly this.
Been there. Done that.
So accurate 🤣
pls literally did that the other day
And then the downstairs ladies room at school before first class, after a serious rainstorm. Washed out panda parade
Damn that was meeee - and I had so much fun sneaking it 🤪
She says the skulls with pink bows are historically accurate and i wanna cry at how right she is.
Her panic over the eyeliner is the most historically accurate part.
"Just make it bigger, it'll eventually look good" except it never did 😅
This is still me with eyeliner. The 'doing the eyes first because you will probably mess up the rest of your face' is an entire method AND mood.
Definitely. Back then that stuff wasn't even smudge resistant. Or really low quality. One walk to school in the rain and your face was instantly covered in black streaks.
🤣😂👍
PANIC at the eyeliner
The Great Gatsby but the green light is really just the shine of Daisy's lime green hair extensions and studded belt
"I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love" might as well be the lyrics to some vintage emo song that Gatsby heard... Just sayin 😂😂😂
Oh I had a lime green studded belt in 2007. I would have killed for matching extensions
The hot topic/gatsby crossover was very real for me in 2004
@@ohrats731 ME TOO, FOR BOTH
that could be cannon, the great gatsby is in the public domain
I love that you’re straight up discussing historical accuracy for 2000’s emo fashion 😂
She's the CEO of historical accuracy of clothing.
the thing that gets me the most is how similar the 20s & 2000s waistlines are - that belt slung below the hips is on point!
That's so true! 2000s were not really emphasising curves and hips either
this is so funny cuz i kind of remember that 00s way of dress also being about a kind of boyish silhouette?? Like I remember having the shirts hang off of you in a cool way and looking "thin" (which, toxic, but y'know) was more important than having a lot of curves
@@emememememememememe curves didn't matter, but boy did breasts. Its like a loose hanging pink long sleeve shirt but super tight at the chest area. That was what I remember, and then younger guys looked like they were electrocuted (electructed, electracuted... I sincerely give up on trying to figure that out) with their hair, short and dangerously sharp. Like a dinosaur with loose shirts, really toned tan bodies, and pants..oh sorry, shorts.. that barely showcased where your knees started and ankle did. And the shirts for women were always heavy material at the shoulder, and then just a cascading nightmare that was stretchy and then of course women wanted to lift their shirts up which was easy because the shirt ended at the above belt section. I think you have enough of the imagery to get what I mean. Just bizzare looking, but we made it work, not me, but people at the time who were younger. I was wearing sweaters and collared shirts in almost every color of a dark thread material (forest green, maroon, mid orange/gold, 1940's yellow, etc etc etc.
It brings me IMMENSE joy to learn that Karolina was a wannabe scene kid that ended up being a vintage fashion adult, most relatable youtuber i've watched so far
I went from goth kid to classic lolita and mid century vintage adult and love this energy
I personally went from hot topic scene to home made goth, to edwardian goth, now stuck in a 1970s/vague vintage style. Dabbling in Edwardian fashion again. It makes me so happy that I'm not alone.
It's surprisingly common, I went from Goth/Gothic Victorian to 1940 and Victorian inspired vintage.
WHATT so many people went through this too? Nice nice
Loved this one. I wore 1940s clothes in the 70s when everyone else was wearing Indian flowing hippie clothes and punk in the 80s when I shopped in Kings Road in London.
"I'm gonna get emotional"
Now THAT is historical accuracy
So true. If you're not having a visceral reaction to MLP glitter extensions and a crap $2 wig, why even engage in historical recreation?
her genuine hype while she was trying the wig on and then being all smiley has me both wheezing and wanting to hug her
yes!!!!
I live in the middle of nowhere (Russia, Siberia) and I can recognize every accessory: our emo kids dressed in exactly the same way. In high school, I was kind of a "gothic girl" and wore the exact same belt. Awww! Thanks for this nostalgia, it's incredible :)
Bro if you live in the middle of nowhere, then I live in a void cause no matter where I go I can't find a single piece of emo/alt clothing 💀
I'm in the US and I remember all this from my classmates too!
@@max_punch where u live lol
@@user-ov2fc5sd1e Brasil. Idk if i'm looking in the wrong places, but I still literally can't find anything that could be considered remotely alt or emo. Maybe I just gotta DIY stuff
holy crap, can totally relate to the siberian-middle-of-nowhere emo kid experience :D missed the actual emo wave tho, i was a couple years too young to actually be able to wear all this stuff, BUT THE MOOD WAS STRONG
(and i still wear the plaid scarf, it survived!)
the "wanted to be emo, mom didn't let me" part is a whole ass mood and
well
been there, done that.
Mr. World-Wide?
@@pondwriter5944 Or maybe a fireball?
Same.
I wasn’t allowed to when I was younger, and even if I was, middle school me was was scared of getting bullied for dressing emo or scene.
I do also remember this one upper classmate in middle school, who dressed emo that I saw while at the nurse’s office. I remember middle school me thinking that they were cool, but also intimidating.
@@Spoopyu oh man, even the teachers would bully kids at my school for "dressing emo like a satanist". Good times
me except fairy kei ,, decora ,, and pastel goth and my dad
It is a well known fact that agatha christie wrote "My Immortal" in 1920's
"Avengers it's the best crossover ever". Meantime, Ohfishticks:
please i’m begging you i can’t handle this
I'm now envisioning Poirot as Dumbledore from My Immortal and it's extremely cursed
oh my GOD-
@@Ithilwen22 "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!"
It was..... Poirot!!!
I am French and 26 now, and it's so weird how trends were already a worldwide thing, down to studded belt and the scarf! So weird to see it on other people now
And the transparent mascara 🤣🤣
as a russian person going "what, seriously", it is weird
i remember the scarfs
Right? I thought they were just American trends until I saw this video
Same in Brazil, only without the scarfs. Too warm for thar lol
I mean yeah, there were flappers in colombia in the 1920s. There were emos there too in the 2000s 😭 I can vouch
I think most fashion trends of the European world spread across everywhere but at least most of Africa and some Asian countries as far as I can tell, but feel free to prove me wrong
i looked at the screen when she said “i don’t think emos are supposed to look terrifying” and honestly it looked like an a+ gerard way costume so like i think she nailed it
I think she was right about emos not necessarily looking scary. I mean, have you seen Patrick Stump and Kellin Quinn??
This is incredibly cursed and I love it so much
Shoutout to any other folks in the venn-diagram intersection of Meme Mom subscribers and Sarah Z subscribers!
@@brendanmooney7607 the intersection being called "long videos about the beginning of XXI fandoms"
Hey, I like you
100% meme mom blessed
I know my taste is getting better all the time when I keep seeing Sarah Z comments on more and more videos from the RUclipsrs that have been climbing up my favorites list :D Wonder what it would take to get Meme Mom on Nebula so I can watch you both there!
Hearing a costume analyst break down the “historic” fashion of 2007 was truly An Experience
I feel ancient now, I was also 14 in 2007 lol.
@@user-is7xs1mr9y Honey, no need for that. I was 29 in 2007 😉!
Right!
@@user-is7xs1mr9y I was only 6
Not be stopping recognizing the dean album pfp
Why was the final reveal *actually* so good?? If I didn't get past my emo phase and still grew to love historical fashion, I'd LOVE to wear this!
I’m South African and as an emo/scene girl back in the day, we dressed exactly the same way. The scarfs, the belt (I didn’t have one 😢 but I had the bracelet 🥲), the coloured hair (dyed the under forth of my hair BRIGHT red and it eventually fell out after a while 😅 but it was worth it), I had the fake piercings - I even tried to give myself a lip piercing at one of my friends houses. Man, what a chaotic time. 😳😭🥺
It manages to be kinda great and kinda horrible all at the same time. Impressive? I don’t know.
Geaouehfth ehdueiw eufy whxu shisoqbt?🤔🤔
I believe the word you’re looking for is “blursed”
The "Edwardian" shoes with the neon laces, I would absolutely unironically wear the hell out of those.
Meeee too ❤️
Do it!
Me tooo
Me to
was just about to say that. btw, where to get those shoes from?
When I saw that pin, my 31 year old brain had a mini meltdown trying desperately to remember who it was, only to comb through several mental files of FOB, P!atD, MCR, EtF, and more indie emo/screamo bands than I can name, only to find they had all blended together into an amalgamtion of pasty skin and smudged eyeliner in my memory and I couldn't remember the names of a single member.
Ahh, nostalgia is a strong drug.
Edit: Oh, watching you struggle with the eyeliner brought more memories back like a freight train. I'm biracial (black/croatian) so I couldn't do the "pale vampire" aesthetic without looking like a circus clown, so you'd best believe I made up for that with the thickest, darkest black eyeliner/ eyeshadow I could manage on my non-existant, teenage budget. If I didn't look like I'd just gone three rounds in the ring, I wasn't leaving the house.
Emo, the lollipop version of Goth. Isn't weird that the 2000's are now a historical era as remote as the Middle Ages.
Wow and it wasn’t even that long ago, wonder in 20 years the style from now is an historical era as well haha
I think you mean scene
So we know now, the young versions of famous costubers:
- Karolina: emo wannabe
- Bernadett: Tim Burto trash
- Rachel: hippie/emo wannabe
Costube is wild. On the one hand, we've got Cathy spendIng MONTHS figuring out each piece of a pattern for a single dress and on the other, we've got Karolina just going for it with everything.
So much dedication. We just can't help but love it.
Who's Cathy?
@@gilly_axolotl Cathy Hay. She's been working on replicating the Peacock Dress precisely for the past decade (although she really committed completely to it this past year). Seriously an awesome series to watch. She just a great job walking you not just through the technical parts but also the history of the dress, digging up a lot of forgotten/ignored history about it.
Don’t forget Morgan cutting her hair on camera for historical hair styles and Mina spending hundreds of hours to machine embroider a recreation of a single jacket. It’s a wild and varied group when it comes to content.
And Rachel’s own brand of delightful chaos (Rachel Maksy, not totally sure if other people count her as part of costube? But I do and love her content!)
Honestly 2007 emo meets 20s is actually a pretty great crossover and works really well.
You did great on the makeup. Remember most "scene" kids were just that: kids. They didn't know how to do make up well! I remember seeing girls at my highschool with eye makeup EXACTLY like yours. No even exaggerating! 😆
The fact that you have done significant "historical research" between "Scene" and "Emo" styles I hope makes a whole generation of people feel as old as I did when the music I grew up on started being considered "Classic Rock"
Oh it did....
Sure did. I refuse to accept that as classic rock. Classic rock is AC/DC and Kansas. Anything else is a lie lol
*Sigh.* Yup.
I would actually argue that the eyeshadow looking bad is more historically accurate
nobody knew how to do their makeup in 2008
@@burdistan honestly, people will probably say the same about today in 2030
@@burdistan most scene kids were like 12 anyway lmao
If memory serves I only knew like 3 girls who knew how to do the eyes correctly but I was also a teenage boy so I don't think I knew what I was looking at
The historically accurate method is using your index finger, get as much eye shaddow on there as possible on there and swipe it across your eyelid, if you're fancy you use the eyeshadow brush, but blending wasn't really a technique that's historically accurate
And now Karolina regularly adds in “2007 vintage” to her vintage rotation.
I DESPERATELY need a movie with this type of costuming. I want Great Gatsby adaptation where this is what everyone's wearing and I want it to be played straight and treated like 100% 1920s accuracy
imagine living in her town and seeing the vintage woman become an overly accesorized emo timetraveller
She lives in Łódź if im not mistaken. Im avoiding this city as plague. Some say its not that bad BUT IT IS. Its Eastern Europe of Estern Europe.
@@qzg7857 she lives in Kraków and I pass her on the streets sometimes lol she always looks wonderful and she’s taller than I thought!
@@qzg7857 Its not bad i was there and it was nice, but i don't think she is from lodz .
@Bobbie Deniker this made me giggle ngl 😭
The eye makeup being messy and smudgy is SO spot on. You didn't wash it off, you just added more in the morning.
THIS WAS EXACTLY ME!! The fact that I didn't get an eye infection is a miracle.
This! The cheap $1-3 eyeliners (cuz your parents refused to buy the good $7+ eye pencils because you were so wasteful with it), had this crazy property of rubbing off when you slept. The shit just disappeared except for a faint stain that was left around your eyes. We didn't need the eyeshadow to form the gradient effect that was from weeks of rubbing in eyeliner during showers/sleeping.
The craziest thing I remember about the scene look were the bleached raccoon stripes ppl did at home and then tying shoelaces into their teased hair because we didn't know about extensions and clip ins 😂
@@clueless_cutie +Errin Wellman:
How have I forgotten about all of this until now?! Great memories, that really brought me back. Thanks, hahah!
I was a competitive dancer back then, so I was used to wearing makeup. My mom didn't think much of it when I started wearing makeup to school in 6th grade. Her friends gave her hell about it, but by comparison to my weekend competition stage makeup, it was pretty minimal. Just a little colorful eyeliner and lip gloss. Sometimes some powder or concealer. Her friends would make comments about how girls who wore that much makeup hung out with a "rough crowd" or had "promiscuous habits." Mom and I thought that was hilarious because I was an honors student, played violin, dressed super preppy, was a ballerina, and spent 3 days a week at church. I was even in my middle school's Fiddle Club. but oOoOhHh sOoOoOoOo "rough" and "promiscuous" and "dangerous" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's so silly how makeup and clothing style gets tied to promiscuity. I got called a "whore" by my classmates because I wore fishnet tights one time, even though I was the most well-behaved kid who never got into trouble and had literally never even kissed anyone.
@@Niobesnuppa It truly is wild. My teen years were so strange to me because it was a trend to show your bra straps but showing cleavage was unacceptable. fishnet tights made you promiscuous, but fishnet fingerless gloves were cool and punk. You could wear distressed ripped jeans but not ripped tights. So much hypocrisy. I just wore what I wanted and what made me happy. kids and teens will criticize one another no matter what so I may as well be comfy while the others call me a ho, right? 🤣
You're the cousin we were all compared to.
@@x_.mizuki._x3231 thank you.
the neon laces on those shoes are INCREDIBLE i think you've actually hit on an aesthetic
I know I really want those shoes they look so cool 🤣
Miss Tatternickle's niece just blew all her allowance at the mall...
"No blush, because blush is inappropriate for this era." LOL I am dying!
I used to use my blush as eyeshadow 😆
@@IntentionalObserver I think I did too.
@@IntentionalObserver I used to use lipstick as a base eyeshadow 😄
@@wendykroglerova7494 or how about using an eyeshadow that is obviously way too dark for your lighter colored eyebrows as brow filler?
@@skeinofadifferentcolor2090 thanks god I never did that, quite the opposite - it actually took me way too long to start using anything to fill in my eyebrows, so I lived in the "eyebrows? what eyebrows?" era longer than most girls around me... 😅 At least my brows are naturally quite dark on their own 😄 To ditch the black eye-pencil, that is a different story though... 😅
this is just so, Yes!!!! My daughter is watching with me and giggled and squeeled at how awesome she thought the look turned out. She dreamed of being a scene kid too and thinks that this looked 💯% like an authentic myspace upload. She says RaWr to you and that now she must make herself into a nostalgic scene kid just for fun!!!!
you are a great mother. :)
This was so great, it killed me. The nostalgia, cutesy skulls, Pete Wentz, and raccoon liner had me flashing back so hard.
Can we pretend that Gatsby in the night sky is like a shooting star?
I could really use a hot date for my flapper party right now.
gods no please not that song…
now you’ve got 💜💙 in my head ;-;
@@saturnisgay69 I see no issues here
🎶Black dress, with the slip underneath, I’ve got the breath of a last cigarette on my teeth🎶
@@k80_ 🎶Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else
Gets me frustrated🎶
@Alice Art
You’re just missing ONE THING for it to be perfect: way too many spike bracelets
Those are called “pieszczocha” in Polish which means an item used to… caress. I always found it amusing.
@@boskee They're not DANGEROUS spikes, they're GENTLY CARESSING spikes!
and we can’t forget the unsung hero that is silly bands
And two more belts with the clasps on the side.
I still have mine somewhere and the little black rubber ones!!!
The camera quality at the end is so on point, it really took me back to my first flip phone XD
Ah yeah flip phones! Ah I want one again now, I always loved to flick them open haha
The wig actually made it. It turned out better than it had any right to be XD
The short hair was striking with her high cheekbones : She looked like a model!
This feels like the aesthetic of a Monster High character
Hm, the 1920s was roughly the period of our guy Lovecraft, so maybe she's the offspring of some eldritch abomination from outer space.
Cthulhietta Mindcrush or something.
OMG ur right
@@johannageisel5390 I love that so much
@@johannageisel5390 Cthulhietta Mindcrush, oh my godddddd 😭😭😭 Amazing, spectacular, if I were a doll artist I'd be trying to make one.
You're so right!
The real Great Depression kids were the ones who survived Rawring 20s
This.
This makes me feel old but also man I wish we could go back to those days. Life was only hard because we were depressed. Today we are depressed and also facing apocalyptic-esque events and adulthood. I had friends back then and we were all outcasts and it was just so beautiful. That turned out amazing and I'm emotional!! 😭
omg so true! we were all depressed but at least we got our interesting friend groups back then!
this! 💯
and now I truly believe: there is no fashion style existing that Karolina couldn't wear and not look amazing and nothing cringe that she couldn't make c o o l
Seeing her giggle and be so happy to try on the things she wanted as a kid is just so wholesome
Agreed :))
It's so funny because we forget how much these things were important to us. But then of we ever get the chance to do them, it really brings up a lot of emotion. I think we underestimate just how much these things mean to children
The best part of the video, how wholesome that was!
What sells it is the drop waist! Like the long ass early 00s torso fits the flapper look too and I've ASCENDED
Yeah, I mean NGL, the aesthetic actually works.
Ikr, it was supposed to be cursed, but it actually worked! I NEED to do this, I was also emo back in the day. I feel like this is the natural progression, you know? "fashionable">emo>lazy-casual>vintage. I think that was also the case for Rachel Maksy, the emo phase at least lol.
I was Emo in 2006-2007 in grade 9 and 10... And oh my GODS hearing the words HISTORICALLY ACCURATE referring to my teens is like oh gods, haha! So so fun. Memory lane for SURE
This video sent me BACK. I almost teared up from nostalgia when the video quality changed to 2007.
Screwing up the eyeliner until the black circles got bigger and bigger was actually a pretty essential part of putting on make up. Also, I was waiting for you to do the flapper dance the whole video, so happy you included it at the end!
I love how you said "historically accurate" when referring to be the 2000's. I mean it is technically history, we just don't think about it in that way.
How fitting that you release this on the anniversary of Welcome to the Black Parade coming out 😂😂😂
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HEYOO good job noticing that! You're right!
My most beloved album ever!
Thanks for reminding me that I'm old
Really? The Lucifer series finale just aired couple of days ago and they used that song there! 😲
My friends were all emo/scene, but I wasn't brave enough to ask my mom to buy the right stuff for me to do it, too (and we probably couldn't afford it anyway.) Since I'm currently going through my quarter-life crisis, and I've been thinking about doing it anyway, this video might inspire me to take the plunge and do everything I wanted to do in middle school.
If you don’t have the Nerve in your 20’s, you never will ; or shouldn’t!
I'm 30 and I'm gonna do it.
That little Charleston dance at the end cracked me up. Something about an emo kid dancing like an old-timey flapper makes me laugh.
I relate so much to wanting to be emo but not being able to go full out. With me it was more because I was really insecure, and because "emo" was an insult thrown around at school, so I was worried about being bullied for it, and also whenever I saw something I wanted, my sister and my mum would call it tacky, so I just wore regular clothes in dark colours and put necklaces on my belt to try and make it look like the belt chains that were in at the time, and of course panda eyeliner. It's pretty funny looking back, I did not look emo at all, but I so desperately wanted to be one. And of course, now I'm 29 and I wear as many studded belts and spiky collars as I want, 'cause 29 year old me is much less afraid of judgement than 15 year old me was.
Saying historically accurate when talking about 2007 scene is OBLITERATING me 💀💀
I am DYING imagining my kids/grandkids researching 2007 scene style and going off. It was a wild ride, lol.
Lmaoooo I was a baby then
@@agirlwholovesgoats4583 In that case, I was about your age then! The internet is very cool.
@@agirlwholovesgoats4583 2
@@Nicole-zy4vb can you imagine historical fashion youtubers in 2050 sourcing original vintage emo garb. and making tutorials for the most ~ historically accurate ~ eyeliner techniques
Karolina referring to the styles of my youth as "historically accurate" makes me feel sooo old lol
Your struggle with the eyeliner and shadow was me every day as an emo teenager……the more I applied the worse it got, but I couldn’t stop…… just smudge and keep going…. lol 😉🖤
🙈 That explains an awful lot about the "panda eye" look that Avril Lavigne and others of her ilk were wearing! I wonder how many iterations of "just smudge and move on" their final results represent?? 😂
As a -overgrown emo- functioning adult who still wears their band T-Shirts and just bought a new studded belt cuz my one from high school broke, I LIVE for this. I'm definitely biased but you look unironically great lol
This is an outfit the scene kid would have worn to homecoming. Or to appease the mother who asks “why can’t you ever wear a dress?”. I LOVE this. I got such nostalgia ❤️❤️
Straight up would have worn this to granddads funeral 2008
@@sixgilled UH
"Why can't you ever wear a dress" was a MOOD
As an emo who also does historical cosplay..this is the best day of my life and I need to hug Karolina
Right!!!!!!! I’m totally digging through my parents attic soon to find my old studded belt lololol
*Karolina:)
Omg, I was laughing my tits off at this one. I love your observation on how nobody actually gave a crap about what their makeup looked like, it was just more about feeling like an adult. SO TRUE!! Also, you rockin that goth/emo look!!
Laughing your tits off? I'll be honest thats a first xD
I was actually emo back in the day and I am living for this. It's PERFECT
THE POSING IS SO ACCURATE I'm dead 😂😂😂😂 This is gold 👌🏻
Also editing to say: I vividly remember some of my friends in full-on chessboard print zip up hoodies, either black/white or black/red. It was definitely an option 😝 (
Omg i had an entire hoodie like that and i LOVED it.
I thought XD meant laughing so hard that you die from laughing 😭😭😭😭😭
YES I remember too! My friend had one where the hood had cat ears and bringt purple strings and I was SO jealous
Oh no lmao I use “xD” every second text hahaha
@@J_Kwan lmao same im gen z and grew up using XD all the time and me and my friends started using it again like 2019 or so? so maybe it will become socially acceptable again
This makeover is everything I wanted to be when I was15, living in Eastern Europe and having no access to cool Emo clothing
Lol coming from Italy but I totally feel the same. I had dreams about Hot Topic and going to Camden Town to purchase a whole new emo wardrobe back then, this kind of clothes were not available in most of Europe apart from UK I guess
Looks like we all lived the same life but okay. Even the see through mascara
the fact that someone actually told you to dress like this AND you went through w it... beautiful. i love it here
"I was trying to find the cutesie skulls..."
Oh, you mean that three yards of heart eye socket, hot pink bow wearing skulls swimming in glitter quilting cotton in my stash?
From one "well behaved" child with dreams of dressing emo and having raccoon eye make up in high school to another, I cannot stress how incredibly happy watching you realize your dreams made me. THAT WIG WAS EVERYTHING! Thank you sharing your dreams and memories of those special times!
"and I was obsessed with hot pink" - a woman surrounded by nothing but neutrals (also same)
God same, before realising how terrible hot pink looks on me
As someone who still does "panda" eyes... the best tool of the trade is literally the XL black eyeliner pencil. It stays on better, more consistent black layers, and is a great base before eyeshadow 👍 (Also the set of piercings were called snakebites, I remember them bc I had a bunch of vampirefreaks photos saved exclusively of people with those piercings bc I wanted them so bad in middle school/high school 😂). Oh man the studded belt brought back war flashbacks I had this beautiful black and aqua blue belt that I had to give away at the start of high school because my hips came in and I never got over it honestly. Also the number of XxXx Username xXxX accounts i had ooooof. This is too relatable I never totally outgrew being an under-realized emo/scene kid and it shows
The excitement over the pink streaks in the bangs is so pure!
The only thing that could have made this *even* better would have been a bunch of black jelly bracelets.
"Emos did not have eyebrows." - A Well-Educated Historian
The unfulfilled emo girl to fashion history enthusiast pipeline IS REAL and I loved seeing you so excited about this! Thank you for sharing with the rest of us too
Yes! I have noticed this pattern too, I don't know what it is. I actually had a very similar style journey as Karolina.
I didn't dress emo per se, but that was mostly because I lived in the tropics and had a school uniform. The pipeline is real!
Reminds me of Florence Welch from Florence and the machine, she was emo punk as a teen and now shes like renaissance witch-pirate
@@jessica5497 She's honestly a fashion icon.
I remember the first makeup tutorial I ever watched - it was uploaded in 2009 and still exists - and it was called EFFY Stonem (from Skins). Walked up to a MAC counter in a department store as a shy 15 year-old to get the specific product recommended; could barely afford it, but felt so luxurious and grown-up and daring. Too nervous to put it on at home before school in case my parents said something, so I got the earlier bus in and put it on in the bathroom before class. I can't believe how well every detail and texture is imprinted, and this takes me right back to that clueless furtive innocence. Ahh.
ngl, a somewhat less emo and more glam version of this is how I dressed for so many school dances in the 00s. I had an authentic 1920s hat from my great-aunt's collection. It was this black lacy mesh band with bright red feathers on the sides and a partly torn off veil (because it had not been stored particularly well). I've always worn either empire or dropped waists, because my torso is so short that natural waists never look natural on me. I had this red dress with a dropped waist that was almost certainly actually from the 80s but pretty well could have been from the 20s, and I would wear that with my iridescent studded belt and my black fishnet fingerless gloves (which yes, were from Hot Topic). Also, I had this super long chain necklace with a red ribbon running through it, and pearls hanging off it. If I put on any kind of black makeup I would instantly look this pale: though I usually tended more towards a cat-eye look done with liquid liner instead of the emo panda-eyes. I would finish off the look with red silk shoes, black tights, a faux bob and red lip stain. I don't think it fit any particular aesthetic, but *everyone* loved the look.
I’ve never seen someone so happy to revisit their cringe stage, it’s actually so pure lol
Me who literally dresses like that every day:👁️👄👁️
Cringe? Best days ever!
@@KandEcain I’m so happy for y’all, I look back at when I dressed like that and my life back then is all regrets lol
8:36 the art school kid scarf...yessssssssssss 😍😭
Oh yeah, I definitely had one of these in middle school, and of course my elective classes were drama and theatre 😆
A bit of context - this style of scarf was originally inspired by traditional Palestinian keffiyeh. These were adopted in the west as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity. As happens, the style was appropriated and manufactured by fast fashion brands, and the cultural meaning was lost on the majority of people who wore them.
Yeah I remember seeing that scarf in middle school and I always wanted one
@@laurenw5191 yep, it hit me hard when I found out during uni/college that the scarf had a more serious meaning. I'm thinking it's possible that the trend got to emo/scene kids via the more (and older) punk influences, wherein you could probably find more politically inclined people, but obviously getting coopted by fashion brands as you said and losing its significance while keeping the aesthetic before reaching the younger emo kids. The fact that the pattern looks like checkers only made it easier to be assimilated into the look
Oh my gosh! I'm going to cry. I'm getting so much nostalgia from this. Hearing that music and the whole outfit made me feel like a kid again.
Those razorblade charms with the heart hole in the middle, is a symbol of the "Razoblade Romance" era of the Finnish band called HIM.
And the lil icon you put in the video is a reference to their song "Razorblade Kiss".
TELL ME THAT YOU LISTENED TO HIM!!!
Karolina is so pretty that when she does heavy black eyeliner/eyeshadow she looks like a ysl model instead of an awkward emo teen
Yes, so pretty
I thought the same thing
Super dramatic editorial makeup
That eyeliner slowly melting on your face is very historically accurate. I vividly remember the effect on 17 year old me.
This is the Roarin' 20's P!atD was talking about 😂😂 also I very specifically remember checkerboard jeans, but they would only have one leg be checkerboard, the other would be a solid color, usually black or red but other bright colors was an option.
The thumbnail sold this look short. You looked so good! 😍 I was in my mid 20s, the oldest student in my class at uni, and a single mom during this era. And I had the scarf, the belt and chains added to it, so heavy my low rise, baggy, camo half pant constantly slid down. I started walking and standing different just to keep it up, but it helped show off my recent addition of a huge, heavy tramp stamp tattoo, which no one sees nowadays. And, of course, my belly button piercing. I dyed my hair black, hair stylist cut it so I had faux hawk, shaved sides and long sideburns and long in the back. Black eyeliner smudged outward was my onlymake up. But I had a fat eyeliner pencil (still black) with glitter in it for special occasions. I felt cool for the first time in my life. And its kind of sad that my droopy eyelids and career as a kindergarten teacher makes it difficult for my 42 year old a** to rock that style again for any occasion besides themed partys. Of which there are none at the moment. Sigh. I think you rocked it, for real.
What I expected: Karolina talking/memeing for 24 minutes about historical 1920s fashion and how to best integrate the 2000s emo/scene look
What I got: Karolina dying from nostalgia while adorably living out all her middle school dreams for 24 minutes (a million times better than what I was expecting!)
Everyone talking about an emo/scene version of The Great Gatsby: I believe that novel is now public domain if I'm not mistaken. So (re)write the scene novel your little hearts desire.
Then link it here. I want me some Great Gatsvy fan fic lmao
I just think that it’s already so emo lol
xXxGatsbihxXx
@@noblemelonie rewrite the great Gatsby in the style of my immortal for maximin psychic damage
@@DrDimwit "hi my name is gatsby dark'ness dementia raven way"
The way you lit up when putting the hair together 😂 so relatable! Those kid with strict parents feels, I'm glad you got to experience your inner emo kid.
7:13 - "it looks like it wants to speak to your manager" 💀💀💀
The eyes look accurate. The messier it was the better, the smudged makeup would give the impression of an "after crying make-up"
I also love the dedication to historically accurate emo/scene makeup, because the current day scene/emo scene has deffo mastered it looking more human, but you went NOPE, CONCEALER LIPS AND RACCOON EYES WAS HOW IT WAS, AND YOU WILL GET IT.
Lmao yuuuup
Seriously tho, as a punk, it makes me so happy to see a non alt person recognize the difference between the subcultures. It’s one of those things that irrationally annoys me bc I know it’s not realistic for a non alternative person to know the differences, but the fact that she took the time to DO A LITTLE RESEARCH goes so far
I think it looks like something that would be legitematly worn in 2007, goth and emo subcultures in eastern slavic countries hugely overlaped, and goth kids incorporated vintage silouettes in their looks since the beggining.
God, that unboxing. I so want to return to these days. I’m suddenly reminded of my mortality, which is of course very emo.
Not me ACTUALLY getting a little emotional seeing this, like seeing you all excited once the wig was on I felt that happiness of like "my child self would LOVE me right now" and that feeling is just fantastic. Karolina thank you so much for this, I didn't know I needed this but you did an AMAZING job. RaWr \*0*/ :]
Absolute same!
Yes!
exactly!!! that was so sweet
Yes!!
Exactly!! I was giddy right along with her and legit tearing up.
When you wrapped the checkered scarf around like it was 2007 again I literally rolled around my bed laughing because I felt the sting of self-cringe at my baby-teenage-self 🙈😅😂 also the neon shoe laces 👌 immaculate
Kafiah
Same but also I high key want the scarf again.
I felt out called 😅 had all of it... felt so extra with those neon laces 😅😎 except my makeup was pretty dark rouge and mascara only. Am pale by nature 😏 and my parents didn't allow anything 🙈
I had a lilac scarf. Need to search it. It's awesome still 😅
I LOST THIS SCARF AND I WAS SO SAD
@@hamsterbirthdaycake8565 Not kidding I still own that scarf.
I now usually use it when I go camping or hiking because it's comfy and I don't care if it gets ruined.
I'm watching you say the eyes are too dark but this is literally what I wanted too look like in junior high! I love that you went at this from a historian's perspective!
The snake bite sells it. Reminds me so much of a friend I had in high school, though this was a while later (which, now that I'm thinking about it, I love that she still fully went with the emo look like six year after it's heyday). And now I want to go into the look even more now that I can :D