Goth makeup 

Make up was as important for Goth boys as it was for girls. They both shared the limited colour palette of black and purple on a white pan-stick face. Drawing heavily on make-up worn in silent films and the early 1930s horror films, the effect was to give a striking nocturnal palor.

Brighton Goth Angela Charles recalls the makeup that was an essential part of the Goth look:

'When I first became a Goth, if I went to a club, I'd put all the white make-up on, black lipstick, black eyes, absolutely go over the top with the make-up. I loved my black lipstick. I'd take it everywhere with me just in case a little bit came off... My eye make-up, I'd have like a massive chunky eyeliner and it would go on. Then I'd put black eye-shadow on and try and merge it all in and just looked like I'd been whacked in the face. I loved it. My cheekbones I'd put some of the black lipstick and like rub it in, so that you'd get this like grey sort of shading underneath my cheekbones so they'd looked even more sort of angular than they are. I just must have looked so thin.'

Oral history interview in Brighton & Hove Museums' Renegade collection.

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