I owe this post entirely to a woman Joe and I saw this past weekend while running some errands.

The woman in question was in her 60’s (or so). She had long, stark white hair with a severe fringe cut across the forehead, pale skin and the oddest blue-purple lipstick I’ve ever seen. I see lots of odd fashions around Vancouver, so her style of clothing and hair didn’t seem particularly strange, but as I remarked to Joe; what would make a person choose a lipstick that makes them look cyanotic?

Is there a market for looking corpsified and gross? I think maybe there is! So, in about 15 minutes I came up with a line of cosmetics to make you look fashionably dead. I decided to call the whole line Tish - after Morticia Addams who makes looking dead pretty damn attractive.

Here is a brief list of the colour palette that would be available:

Lips

  • Cyanotic - eerie blue-purple in honour of the white haired lady.
  • O-positive - bright arterial red
  • B-negative - darker wine red
  • Lacrima - clear and shiny lip gloss
  • Hallow’s Eve - deep purple-black (limited edition available in October only)

Eyes

  • Wednesday’s Revenge - mossy green
  • Grave Dust - pale grey
  • Twilight - purple-blue

Skin

  • Foundation with powder ranging in colour from Bone to Fresh Earth to give all skin types that ethereal glow.

It goes without saying that all products would be 100% vegan - no testing on animals or draining the cuteness from puppies.

If you’re going to buy premium makeup, you may as well have something stylish to carry it in, so there would be attractive and simple black travel bags well as larger hard cases for serious makeup lover. All cases would be made from recycled materials and could be recycled. Same for all the lipstick tubes, and powder compacts. Everything can be recycled so long as it is cleaned out and taken apart. 

That would be my makeup line, but it’s already been done by Bloody Mary- they have some neat looking products (I’ve never tried them - but they do look cool). Failing that, everyone I’ve known who dressed goth bought their makeup at Shopper’s Drugmart and it looked just fine.

In my head, the Tish makeup line has done very well and spawned a magazine dedicated to goth fashions, music and books and my makeup has been used in films that did really well at the box office. I have also been interviewed by lots of cool magazines.

Life in my head is pretty busy and glamorous.