Archive for October, 2010

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We know that sometimes you get busy and forget about stuff like … Oh crap! What am I going to wear for Halloween?!? You’d like to get some kickass Lip Service but you’re probably thinking it will NEVER get to you in time for the weekend.

Think again! You want Lip Service for Halloween? We have you covered … literally!

Since we have a soft spot in our heart for you guys, we decided to make it easier for you to have the badass Lippy you want for your costume in time … AND WITH NO EXTRA CHARGES!

Yes, that’s right … WE’RE GOING TO UPGRADE YOUR DOMESTIC GROUND SHIPPING TO OVERNIGHT … AND IT’S ON US! Just use the promo code HWEEN2010 when you check out.

Even if you qualify for free domestic shipping already, so long as your order includes over $100 of regularly priced Lippy (non-sale items), you’ll get a free upgrade too … Free shipping, free upgrade … Damn! We must fucking LOVE you!

Here’s the deal …
– You need to place a Domestic order over $100 of regularly priced Lip Service from the webstore.
Now, you can order some extra sale styles, but they don’t count toward the $100. Neither do your tax or domestic ground shipping charges (if you don’t qualify for free domestic ground shipping already). Sorry, rest of the world … we’ll have to make it up to you later.

- Your order MUST be completed by 12:00 PM Thursday, October 28.
That means, no procrastinating and waiting until the very last minute. If you’re just selecting styles at noon, it’s too late. The entire checkout process must be finished by the cut-off time. There will be absolutely no exceptions, so please don’t ask … it will only make us sad.

- Promotional code HWEEN2010 MUST be entered into the promo code box during checkout.
Please make sure to enter the code when you’re checking out, because we can’t apply it later. Re: exceptions … Please see above.

and one last but not least thing …
- Orders using the shipping upgrade code may be returned for exchange only.
Since we’re investing in getting your new gear to you, all we ask is that you not return for refund. Any orders tagged with the HWEEN2010 code will be exchange only.

Now, get out there and ROCK YOUR LIPPY HALLOWEEN COSTUME!

Did you think we’d get tired after just one contest? Oh, no! We’re just getting geared up! We’ve got a brand new contest we think you’ll enjoy.

Want a $250 Lip Service Gift Certificate? Yep, thought you might!

Do you adore your new Lip Service costume, all packaged and ready for some Halloween sexiness? We thought so, too.

Want to show off how hot you look out with your friends in your killer Lip Service Halloween costume? We figured you would.

Now, bring those all together and you’ve got the Lip Service Costume photo contest for Halloween 2010!

Here are the details:
First you must get yourself a packaged Halloween costume from the Lip Service Costume Vault 2010 collection. And, we know many of you already have (which we LOVE about you!). Then, you go out for a night of fun and perhaps debauchery with your friends and take some photos of you in your Lippy costume. Pick your absolute favorite, the one you REALLY want to show off to everyone, and post it to our Lip Service Facebook Fan Page. That’s it … that’s all you’ve got to do!

From there, we’ll check out all the photos posted and pick our three favorites. The 1st will receive a $250 Lip Service Gift Certificate. 2nd will receive a $100 Lip Service Gift Certificate. 3rd will get a free costume of their choice, so they can rock an extra look whenever the dress-up urge strikes!

The nitty-gritty:
- Only photos including a Lip Service Costume Vault 2010 packaged costume will be included. (Costumes include: Black Panther, Captain Blackheart, Gangster Vixen, Maid of Lace, Major Mayhem. Midnight Vamp, Molten Metal Devil, Night Nurse, Officer Vice, Queen of Hearts, Roaring Flapper, Sassy Sailor, Teacher’s Pet, Troop 666 Scout, and Wonderful Alice.)
- Contest is open now, so no need to delay in posting your entry pic!
- Photos must be posted by no later than 11:59 PM November 1, 2010 (Winners will be selected and announced 11/2)
- Please, no multiple photos per person or multiple entries for a single photo. If you’re in a group, please select a unique photo for each participant.
- Please reference the Lip Service Costume Vault in your photo description comments!
- Winners will be announced (by FB user name) via our Facebook Fan Page and the Lip Service webzine.
- Please … keep it clean and within the Terms of Service for Facebook.

Have fun and best of luck, everyone! Happy spooky, sexy Lippy Halloween!

‘Black cats and goblins
and broomsticks and ghosts
Covens of witches
With all of their hosts
You may think they scare me
You’re probably right
Black cats and goblins
On Halloween night!’
-Children’s Rhyme

DAYS ARE SHORT…SHADOWS ARE LONG.
-A Holiday Burning-

Like I said earlier this month, you all are gonna get another dose of Halloween mayhem … And I’m in the mood for some John Carpenter.

“The descent to Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day; but to retrace one’s steps and return to the upper air, that is the toil, that the difficulty” - Virgil

I’m writing this from being inspired by the original ‘The Halloween’ movies.

Days are short and shadows are long. The earth tilts further on it’s axis and the seasons hang suspended between autumn and winter; when the very light seems to change and colors deepen mysteriously…

You know what it’s like.

The morning sun arcs away across the sky, the afternoon rushes impatiently toward dusk, the cutting edge of darkness like the blade of a sundial pointed and turning under eaves and porches. A time of dampness and slow, flaking rust, of barking dogs that are never seen, of creaking lampposts and pale neon signs, of power lines that crackle as if underwater. Of distant traffic and laughter of children fading behind you and in front of you all at once; of the broken moon drifting like a gauze covered face. Of dripping condensation in chattering drainpipes, of the clutching of wings in the roofs of mouldering garages. Of frost on glass. Of litter dropped in gutters melting into paste, of laundry strung out to dry wilting before it can be folded, of labels bucking from jars in the musty cupboard and of your own white breathing, alone at midnight, glazing the window and then slipping out through the screen to meet the cold steam settling in the flowerbeds below…

It’s October thirty first… It’s very late… Once again, it’s Halloween.

…

The movie Halloween was one of the most successful low-budget horror films ever made and it spawned a whole sub-genre of inferior stalk ‘n’ slash imitations in the late 70′s and 80′s. This film is a staple to this holiday of doom. Set in a small Illinois town, it follows babysitter Laurie Strode as she is menaced by a masked killer, returned home after 15 years in a mental asylum. Director John Carpenter stages the brutal (but pretty bloodless) killings unrelentingly and his psychopathic protagonist, Michael Myers, is finally revealed as a wicked menace ( I still don’t know if he’s supernatural or just unstoppable) during the gripping climax when he keeps miraculously returning from the dead. You know the damn story … And might think it’s stale … But I don’t.

“Nowadays, violence is so commonplace,” agrees Carpenter. ‘It seems so random; it happens all around us, in every place. People seem to be seeking reassurance in the movies. I suppose that the time is over for the kind of movie Halloween is. It’s time to move on, to tell other stories.” … This quote was obviously before Rob Zombie’s outstanding re-make came into play. John’s film, which was originally going to be entitled ‘The Babysitter Murders’, was too powerful to move away from.

“Movies don’t make people kill. It’s life that does it.” - John Carpenter

The Boogyman is gonna get you…

It’s human nature to be fascinated by the horrible and the forbidden. We fear death and dismemberment, we fear pain, insanity and loss, we even fear sexuality, and it’s only by addressing these fears we avoid living in a state of constant trepidation. Horror can speak of such things in a way a more realistic or naturalistic genre can’t.

Horror is a leap of faith and imagination in a world where the subconscious holds dominion, a call to enter a territory where no image or act is so damnable it cannot be explored, kissed and courted; finally – why whisper it? – embrace.

If any time of the year, now is that time … Or if you are like me … Every day is Halloween.

Well, well, well … All is crazy, all is cool, all is shakin’ for this rock-n-roll fool! The Last Vegas are currently in the studio still working the graveyard shift on the music you love to get down to. It’s going to be MASSIVE!!! … Of course.

On top of that, we are also working on a new video for our soon to be released single ‘Apologize’. Stay tuned, stay wicked and stay sexy in your Lip Service style. Ya Dig?

-Chad Cherry- The Prince of Skynrd Punk.

Halloween.

Happy almost-Halloween! I’m glad you have been enjoying La Carmina’s Global Gothic tour of the world’s darkest fashion capitals. Please keep the feedback coming; I’ll gladly answer your questions in upcoming columns.

A reader wrote: “My best friend has been living in Korea and I want to go visit her. She said most of Korea is still like 1950s America… Do you know if there is a Goth scene in Seoul? Where can I go for alternative fashion and shopping?”

La Carmina: First, can you tell me a bit about who you are, and what you do?

Kit Ten Ita: I’m an amateur bellydancer, has-been blogger and passionate about improving my photography & consuming more music, a polyglot, and general oddball misanthrope. I define myself by my context, having lived in 6 different countries, moved more than 21 times before the age of 21. I lived in Korea for 6 years, participated in nearly all the BRHF goth parties (except for 2 summer parties when I was revisiting Switzerland) My involvement has ranged from dancefloor participant, dark fusion performer, drunk bartender, helpful decorator and supportive volunteer. I am currently pursuing a degree in Interactive Art at LASALLE.

La Carmina: How did you first become interested and involved in Goth / underground subcultures in Korea? Which cities and areas are hotspots?

Kit Ten Ita: My first interactions with the culture were with music when I was in my early teens – starting with Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Aphex Twin, and of course NIN. Many years later when I first arrived in Korea, my first contact was a metalhead named Sungwon who introduced me to both the Death Metal and Korean Goth scene. I had a Goth MeetUp Group and Counter Culture Forum and brought in the expats to the local scene.

Seoul and Busan both have a scene to my knowledge Seoul has a large population, but I hear the one in Busan has better attendance. But I could be incorrect about that since I’ve never been to the parties down South.

La Carmina: Can you tell me how the Gothic scene in Korea originated and evolved? Are there aspects that are distinct to the country?

Kit Ten Ita: To my knowledge the BRHF started with Hye In and Dosu, who are an indomitable pair in charge of organizing the Goth and Metal festivals. They had quite a challenge in trying to please all the participants from the ones who wanted somewhere to be entertained, have somewhere to sit and chat, to the ones who wanted to dance. But with an influx of people who wanted to dance, that soon changed. And it has transformed once again the past year…

The musical choices have usually been more thrash and metal, though now through cultural intermingling we are seeing more and hearing more EBM. But the musical choices are still generally more thrash and metal, and the culture is laced with death metal philosophies and antichristian rhetoric. It makes sense, considering Korea has the the highest number of Church attendees and Christian devotees.

What makes Korea special and particular is the prolific smoking and drinking culture, and after most concerts there are after parties that are open to people to mingle with the band members. An interesting fact to note are the laws against skirts above the knee and men with long hair (both of which are prevalent in the scene). Only recently has the former been amended. The tattoo culture was never really big until 2 years ago and since then it has really exploded. Stars and words are common. The piercing culture is very normalized with university students and it’s common to see very drastic piercings on very unassuming people. Androgynous men are viewed with a great degree of appeal.

La Carmina: How would you describe Gothic fashion in Korea? Which styles, brands, looks are popular? Has it changed over the years?

Kit Ten Ita: Gothic fashion in Korea is similar and influenced by Japan – whether aware of it or not, the Lolita look was extremely well adopted and popular in early 2000. But often with minimal makeup. These days the people in the scene are becoming more and more adventurous with their clothing choices, makeup choices and are more prone to putting on more makeup, predominantly thanks to a doom and Alex. Alternative fashion always goes into the mainstream so zippers, black and have become trendy post 80s fashion revival the past few years. But with the younger local goth crowd they tend to dress really pretty and sharp, new and clean clothing.

La Carmina: Can you recommend some Korean Gothic clothing brands, designers and shops?

Kit Ten Ita: Beetlejuice is perhaps the most well-known in both local and expat circles. They’ve held quite a few fashion shows. It is also the most-easily found and most well-priced, unless considering a Japanese import. The owner is a woman in her thirties who decided to bring back some of her designs influenced by being in London. Unfortunately for anyone above a UK size 14 or US size 12, which includes me, will have difficulty finding clothing that fits. Unless you have close connections with the tailor. The shopping areas of Ewha, Sinchon, Dongdaemun, Apgujeong all have affordable punk and Goth influenced wear, especially accessories. And imported clothing from Japan. So you really gotta explore the little nooks and crannies.

But if you’re interested in having tailor made boots, they start from 60 to as much as 250 dollars. Just make sure to have them redo anything you’re not happy with. There are several leather shops, and Dongdaemun for fabric if you make your own clothing or need new drapes. There was a place in Dongdaemun that had a variety of platform shoes but I’m not sure if its still there. (Address: Migliore 7th floor #122-126 02 3393 1995)

La Carmina: If I came to Korea and you were my tour guide, where would you take me? What is the club scene like?

Kit Ten Ita: Seoul is limitless in terms of how many places there are to go, the number of distractions, entertainment and festivals, multimedia and interactive installations throughout the city – but to get a whole experience you would definitely have to experience the PC BANG (internet and gaming cafes) JIMJILBANG (public baths and saunas) NORAEBANG (karaoke) DVDBANG (rent and watch DVDs in your own personal stereo surround room with projector) and check out a MOTEL. All of these places are practically on every corner of the city.

As for shopping, university shopping areas such as Ewha, Sinchon, Hongdae provide a suitable variety of affordable clothing and shoes (both under American size 8) and more upscale areas in Cheongdam and Apgujeong. As for parties and events, there is a limit to the scale of parties in the Goth scene. There is a great availability of trendy clubs playing house, RnB, techno, rock, etc. Keep an eye out for posters on the streets of Hongdae – there are usually several in a row. And keep an eye out for plastic surgery and prostitution! There’s plenty of diversity as well in Itaewon – where homo hill and hooker hill (near a shopping area commonly populated by tourists and local American army base people) lead to a mosque on top.

For Goth parties in Seoul, check out BRHF Blood Red Halo (Hallow) Festival. Hye In is THE organiser for Gothic/Industrial events, and Sungwon (Bilingual & Biracial) is prominent in the scene.

As for music, I recommend a doom (Pain’s Goth Rock Band), KOM-POUND (EBM/Electro/Industrial) and Dosu & Oathean (Dosu’s Death Metal Band).

La Carmina: What do you predict for the dark fashion / scene in Korea? Is it growing, changing?

Kit Ten Ita: As for the people within the scene itself, makeup usage and experimentation in general has usually been limited in the past to simple eyeliner and powder, but I’ve seen them experimenting more and more recently thanks to external influences, such as our Korean-fluent German friend Alex, which have made theatrical makeup more accessible and acceptable. I’ve also seen more and more people modifying and tinkering their clothing rather than buying it ready-made. This particular feminine style of Gothic fashion itself has always been appealing and as people enjoy dressing up it’s more than obvious and likely that both fashion and the scene will continue to grow – especially with better exposure through bloggers. ;-)

La Carmina: Thank you to the lovely Kit Ten Ita for the comprehensive answers! As for me… I’m continuing to blog every day on www.lacarmina.com/blog. And I’ve launched a Japanese TV fixing & coolhunting business: La Carmina & The Pirates. Translating, connecting, consulting, production coordinating for TV crews — we do it all. Already, we have a mission… NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is flying us to Tokyo to host and arrange a TV show. So we’ll be celebrating Halloween in spooky Japan — can’t wait.

Please keep the comments and emails coming; let me know which country’s Goth scene you’d like to see featured next time. Have a wonderful Halloween — I’ll be rocking my skimpy Lip Service Goth Nun outfit!

† Dark Wishes †
LA CARMINA

Hey Everyone,

For this month’s Design & Daggers we are bringing you updates of our new Halloween costumes for next year!!!!
The pictures are of what we currently have IN STOCK!!!!

There are even more to choose from online including: “Sassy Sailor”, ”Captain Backheart”, “Maid of Lace”, “Troop 666 Scout” … etc.

We are currently working on a “Space Girl”, “Ringmaster”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Gypsy”, “Grecian Goddess”, “Ladybug”, “Doctor”, Were-Wolf” and MANY MANY MORE!!!!
These are fully packaged costumes which come with lots of accessories, including hats, gloves, cuffs, masks, goggles … you name it.

Anything you wanna be you haven’t heard yet??? Let us know!!! We are always open to your fashion freak suggestions!!

Which Lippy Costume will you be?? [You can take the Lethal Style Haloween Costume Quiz-a-matic to find out!]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!!
MAUHAHAHAHAHA!!

Love …The Design Team

Lip Service has new Halloween Costumes!

This year, Lip Service created a new collection of affordable Halloween costumes, all ready to wear, in one easy package! Choose between the sultry Midnight Vamp and playful Major Mayhem … or sweet Wonderful Alice and naughty Teacher’s Pet. They’re all good for gearing up for Halloween in über-sexy form!

Check out all the Lip Service costumes for Halloween 2010! Available costumes are: Black Panther, Captain Blackheart, Gangster Vixen, Maid of Lace, Major Mayhem. Midnight Vamp, Molten Metal Devil, Night Nurse, Officer Vice, Queen of Hearts, Roaring Flapper, Sassy Sailor, Teacher’s Pet, Troop 666 Scout, and Wonderful Alice. Enjoy!

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Now, we’re guessing you’re probably asking yourself, “Where can I get my hands on one of these killer Lip Service Halloween Costumes?” We’ve got you covered there, too. Below is a comprehensive list of authorized Lip Service costume retailers, USA first (by state) and then International (by nation then city). There are also some web-based retailers, too, in case you don’t have a shop nearby.

Happy, spooky, Lippy Halloween, Fashion Freaks!

USA

Alaska

THE LOOK
ANCHORAGE, AK

Arizona

Adam & Eve Tempe
Tempe

HYDRA LEATHER & MORE
TUCSON

California

A Touch of Romance (web)
www.atouchofromance.com

Condom Revolution (web)
www.conrev.com

A Touch of Romance
Brea

Condom Revolution
Costa Mesa

CRYPTO TECHNOLOGY
El Cajon

VALENTINO’S
FRESNO

BED BEHAVIOR
HOLLYWOOD

ELECTRIC CHAIR
HUNTINGTON BEACH

party city HUntington Beach
Huntington Beach

song bird
Long Beach

bizzy b
LOS ANGELES

Velcrokitty
Los Angeles

A Touch of Romance
Orange

hee be jeebe store
Petaluma

A Touch of Romance
Riverside

Party City Riverside
Riverside

Skates on Haight
San Francisco

CAMOUFLAGE
SANTA CRUZ

cognito
Santa Cruz

the dungeon
santa rosa

cc’s Pirate Treasures
South Lake Tahoe

incognito
Ukiah

Connecticutt

The Lady and the Leopard
West Suffield

Florida

Ded Goth Girl

http://stores.ebay.com/DEDGOTHGIRL

The Party Shop
Jacksonville

playthings
miami

Miami’s Vice
Miami

FETISH FACTORY
OAKLAND PARK

FAIRVILLA MEGASTORE
ORLANDO

flirt
flirtcatalog.com

KICKS ON 7TH
TAMPA

Hotty Costumes
HottyCostumes.com

Georgia

JUNKMAN’S DAUGHTER
ATLANTA

selkets
stores/ebay.com/SELKETS-STUFF

Illinois

TABOO TABOU
CHICAGO

Kansas

LC DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
WICHITA

Louisiana

WICKED ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS

Massachusetts

NEWBURY COMICS
BRIGHTON

itza party
PEMBROKE

Maryland

MDG Enterprises Inc
Gathersburg

Michigan

NOIR LEATHER
ROYAL OAK

Sky Limited / Couples Corner
Southfield

Fantasy attic costumes
YPSILANTI

Minnesota

Halloween Costumes.com
MANKATO

Missouri

cryoflesh
Polo

CHEAP TRX
ST. LOUIS

New Jersey

TOO FAST
toofastonline.coml

Spirit Halloween.com
Egg Harbor Twp.

Nevada

INFECTIOUS THREADS
Incline Village

rack
Las Vegas

chocolate walrus
Reno

ROMANTIC SENSATIONS / CENTURIAN
RENO

New York

PHASE ID
Amherst

Live fast
New York

PATRICIA FIELD/ HOTEL VENUS
NEW YORK

vampire freaks
New York

Gothic renaissance
NEW YORK

TRASH & VAUDEVILLE
NEW YORK

Halloween Wearhouse
Staten Island

Ohio

THE MISSION
LAKEWOOD

Oregon

dysfunctional doll
Portland

Metro BODY PIERCING
PORTLAND

Pennsylvania

Halloween Adventure
GARNET VALLEY

LE CHATEAU EXOTIQUE
NEW HOPE

planetcoustume.com
PHILADELPHIA

Crash Bang boom
PHILADELPHIA

passional
PHILIDELPHIA

South Carolina

EXCHANGE FACTOR
CHARLESTON

Texas

SECRET OKTOBER
Austin

nine tails
san antonio

TRUE IDENTITY
SAN ANTONIO

Utah

pibs exchange
Salt lake City

Virginia

the underground asylum
Portsmouth

Halloween Express
Fairfax

Vermont

OLD GOLD
BURLINGTON

Washington

LOVER’S (web)
www.loverspackage.com

LOVER’S
Everett

LOVER’S
Kirkland

LOVER’S
Tacoma

LOVER’S
Tukwila

Wisconsin

AMSTERDAM
MADISON

BuyCostumes.com
New Berlin

International

Australia

UNDERWORLD REALM
COOPERS PLAINS Queensland

Austria

frontline/MEDUSA
WIEN

Belgium

Fans
Antwerpen

Asher
GENT

Canada

Detox
Burlington

jack d clothing
Comox

Millennium (#2-Metropolis)
Edmonton

Millennium (Edmonton)
Edmonton

nightshade corsets inc.
edmonton

rowena
edmonton

SANCTUARY
EDMONTON

Out of the Past
Hamilton

CRUELLA
MONTREAL

Fetiche Store
Montreal

sexe cite (st hubert)
Montreal

TRIVIUM
OTTAWA

Amazing Party & Costume
Toronto

Borderline Plus
Toronto

Original
TORONTO

Hell’s Belles
TORONTO

HE AND SHE GALLERY
TORONTO

SHEREES
TORONTO

archetype
Vancouver

venus and mars
Vancouver

sinn fashion
Vancouver BC

Hands of Time Inc.
wasaga beach

DELIRIUM
WATERLOO

Denmark

black no. 1
copenhagen

LUST
COPENHAGEN

England

Dark Side (Dow Jones Ltd.)
London

SO HIGH SOHO
LONDON

Finland

MORTICIA
Helsinki

Batz Oy
Helsinki

NIGHT SOUL/BACK STREET
TAMPERE

Germany

rock’n’roll alley
Berlin

paranox
BONN

ABADDON
dresden

BUGS
MUNICH

XTRAX Gmbh & co. kg
NEU-ULM

Italy

HYDRA II
ROME

Japan

NUDE VAMP
FUKUI, JAPAN

epicurean garden
KITAKU NAGOYASHI AICHI

Mexico

Cicatriz
Planta Baja, Centro Mty

Netherlands

babashop
MAASTRICHT

Dark-4-Leafs
Middelburg

Norway

manillusion
OSLO

ragnarakk
TRONDHEIM

Portugal

Androm
Lisboa

Switzerland

BOUTIQUE MEPHISTAUNDERGROUND FASHION
Bern

antishop
GENEVA

Fact! People like dressing up for Halloween. Fact! People like taking quizzes on the Internet. I have come to this conclusion since I block TONS of them from my Facebook feed on a daily basis. They’re poorly written by kids aged somewhere in the neighborhood of 16, they don’t apply to me (Sorry, but I don’t have a favorite Evanescence song), and hello, backdoor viruses anyone? Frankly, I don’t really need to display someone’s stolen picture or an Amy Brown fairy graphic on my page that badly. I mean, for Christ’s sake, you really don’t know “What minuscule subdivision of any given scene that you self identify with” you allegedly belong to by now? You didn’t know you were a “romantigoth” by simply opening your closet doors? I’ve seen people in their 30s post their results and get mad that a quiz told them they were “an emo” or “a prep” instead of “bad ass metal head”. Shit son, me thinks an existential crisis was afoot and that those folks needed more answers than a social networking site app could provide them with.

Alas, sometimes one still doesn’t know just what the fuck they’re going to wear come October 31st a week and a half before the big night. And some are in dire need of a time killer at their 9-to-5 in between dealing with their co-worker’s bullshit. So, I’ve decided to author a little non-Facebook based distraction, designed to throw some costuming ideas in your general direction. No fairy graphics. No backdoor viruses. No promise to reveal the meaning of life.

Obligatory Disclaimer (in case the intro paragraph wasn’t enough): Lethal Style isn’t trying to tell you how to dress, “put you in a box”, nor force you into any high school-esque clique against your will in any shape or form. You’re all unique snowflakes and I would never dream of taking that away from you. This silly little quiz was created for entertainment purposes only and isn’t proven to help you find your identity or cure cancer.

(1) You can have my first, second and third born child if you only bring back:

• A- Rosary’s Garden
• B- The Fashionista Resistance
• C- Rockabilly Rumble
• D- Easy Rider

(2) Ahhh…October. Bonfires, candy corn, cheesy haunted attractions, and people who don’t know any better stocking up on 99 cent black lipstick at their local drugstore. And naturally, the time for a fresh crop of autumnal apparel vying for real estate in the closets of Lippy Addicts all over the world. Which Fall 2010 line were you most psyched about?

• A- Blacklist…duh.
• B- Cyber Sniper
• C- Pin Me Up
• D- Nevermind Fall 2010…give me Python Addiction already!

(3) Typical Satuday night out; your fab self is seizing the night at your alcohol-serving establishment of choice, dressed to the nines, with your equally fashionable crew in tow. Trolling for men isn’t high on the agenda, but you’re willing to make an exception for the right male specimen. Bonus points if he’s wearing a:

• A-Step in Time Dress Coat but always in black, never in brown.
• B- Dead Nation Death in the Arena Military Jacket
• C- A Service T-shirt and a gravity-defying pompadour.
• D- Only a vintage Radioactive Chain Reaction God of Thunder Sleeveless Shallow V Top would do. I love nothing more than seeing a man rock the hell out of a skin tight metallic gold shirt!

(4) Ohmyfuckinggod!You just won Lippy’s Halloween Costume Photo Contest.Gonna put that shiny new $250 gift certificate toward:

• A- A splurge on a Wicked Winter Long Coat with Faux Fur as an “I’m worth it” present to yourself. You’ve earned it by dodging the bait of getting sucked into the latest round of Facebook scene drama.
• B- Stocking up on Circuit City closeouts.Gotta look hot at Kinetik 2011.
• C-Treating thyself to Fall 2010’s select sexy Pin Me Up styles in the red and black colorway, but saving a good chunk of change for winter’s Nocturnal Rendezvous collection. It’s just what you need to spice up your burlesque act.
• D- Buying out every last thing in the lingerie category . You never know-Bret Michaels might just do a fourth season of Rock of Love and if so, you’ll need a winnin’ wardrobe.

(5) Musically you just can’t seem to tire of:

• A- As cliché as it sounds, Bauhaus. You just can’t seem to kick that Murphy habit of yours. You even overlook his most recent “I can’t believe the peoples’ hero guest-starred on Dawson’s Creek with vampires“ fiasco. Peter Murphy in Twilight? Nope never happened.
• B- Tactical Sekt
• C- Zombie Ghost Train
• D-RATT

(6) Holy shit! Somehow after a night of Jager-fueled debauchery you magically manage to travel back in time to 2005. You wake up naked next to a handsome stranger, not entirely sure if the reality currently unfolding before you is nothing more than an elaborate hallucination. You opt to ask questions at a later date, since your initial train of thought is that you’ll only be able to make some semblance of sense out of this clusterfuck once your body has been properly dosed with caffeine. But first you must retrieve your crumpled up garments located somewhere on his bedroom floor. What are you looking for?

• A- Flowers of Evil Ballgown
• B- Air Raid Sirens Ruffle Mini Skirt in Camo (with a Skinny Puppy patch haphazardly pinned to the side)
• C- Greaser Seduction Chick’s Capri Pant
• D- Lyck my Lycra Off the Shoulder Dress

(7) Fast forward to New Year’s Eve 2011. Survey says you’re most likely to be found at:

• A- An invite-only masked costume gala adorned in a metric ton of ruffles, black lace and a cameo carefully pinned to the collar of your blouse.
• B- Yelling at the DJ at the local club for only playing new Wumpscut. Who does that guy think he is? He needs to get the fuck out of *your* scene.
• C- The annual Old Hollywood with Zombies themed swing dance. Not a hair out of place.
• D- Dropping acid to the tune of a Whitesnake cover band.

(8) Your well connected fairy Godmother allows you to raid the wardrobe closet of any Hollywood production you want. You’re practically bursting at the seams with excitement at the mere prospect of being able to wear:

• A- Winona Ryder’s decadent red bustle ballgown from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It’s pretty much haunted your dreams on a nightly basis since 1992.
• B- Leeloo Dallas’ iconic barely there white bandage ensemble from The Fifth Element (Your singular desire is to live in Hollywood circa 1997’s version of the future!)
• C- Elsa Lanchester’s gauzy getup in 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein. But only if you can take some scissors to it! It’s a fine frock, but it certainly calls for an updated, slightly more deconstructed edge. Your look is that more of the Bride after a bar fight.
• D- Fuck Tinseltown! A female version of Metalocalypse’s Dr. Rockzo would be fucking hilarious! You already have the 8-ball to go with it.

(9) Besides your smart phone (obviously), keys, a pack of gum and wallet you feel naked without:

• A- An authentic Victorian mourning brooch
• B- A circuitboard necklace
• C- Skeleton hand hair slides
• D-Your lucky leopard print bra

(10) The most blood pressure raising rumor regarding your personal life you’ve had the displeasure encountering, within the realms of the cesspool known as the Internet, stated that you:

• A- Look this way due to pop culture’s obsession with vampires
• B- Are a raver
• C- Apparently trying to be just like Bettie Page due to an interest in cheesecake modeling
• D- Got hepatitis from Tommy Lee

Now tally that shit up, see which letter was the most prevalent and scroll down for the obvious answer.

A – Goth with a Capital-fucking-G

You enshrouded yourself in layers of black tulle petticoats and funerary lace when those fucking kids ruining all your clubs with their Combichrist requests were nothing but a glimmer in the eyes of two intoxicated rednecks in the back of a Camarro. You die on the inside just a tiny bit any time that a mallgoth bedecked in chains, spikes and an oversized “I <3 vampires” T-shirt engages you in conversation under the guise that you two have something ... in common. Favorite past-times include: smoking the now contraband cloves, pining for the good old days and sneering at those clueless cybergoths. You wish that the rave scene would reclaim those goddamn human highlighters since it’s clearly where they belong.

Costume Suggestions

Dandy Vampire a’la my friend Meagan Kyla in Fetish Aristocracy, because let’s face it, you probably already have something similar in your closet.

Celebrate your campy side with the flirtatious flair of a Horror Hostess. It’s not like you haven’t been compared to Vampira or Elvira in the past. You know what they say, if the shoe fits…Peruse El Chupacabra for styling ideas.

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B – Industrial/Cyber Dancefloor Dictator

Drink hard, dance harder! Sissy goths best get out of the way, or get their asses stomped back to 1985. You have no time for Andrew Eldritch’s whiny, self-serving pretentious bullshit when there are Engrish songs about WAR to be danced to. When not beating the beat, you create your own music in your home studio. The best things in life consist of: World War II documentaries on the TV, Ogre on the Ipod and William Gibson on the bookshelf.

Costume Suggestions

Zombie Nurse- Industrial music and medical fetish go together like Chris Hansen and sexual predators. Zombies go with absolutely everything at all times. Try a Looks That Kill Naughty Nurse Mini Dress and just add gore.

If the idea of wearing a nurse dress on Halloween feels just too sorority skank-esque for your discerning taste, perhaps you’ll find that giving the zombification treatment to militant apparel to be more up your alley. Check out Meagan’s take on soldier chic in Kommandante Kyla for inspiration. Then apply blood, guts, and fake half-eaten brain matter liberally.

Cyber Geisha(as seen in Exit Ritual)- Because flailing kimono sleeves will hit those foolish enough to dance close to you in the face. I speak from experience. If you value your dancefoor space, this can prove to be advantageous.

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C – Something or other “a-billy”

Somewhere between Morticia Addams and a Stepford Wife lies a vintage enthusiast with a soft spot for spooky, whimsical kitsch. You know that cleavers serve a dual purpose; preparing a delicious, hearty meal for your loving family and fucking a hooker up if they get out of line. Pinups, classic cars (or better yet, classic hearses), burlesque, swapping cookie recipes, stiff tiki drinks and B-movie 1950’s shlock horror are the hallmark of a fulfilling existence.

Costume Suggestions

Sassy Sailor– Because who doesn’t want a hot boy waiting for them in every port?

Fly the friendly skies in sultry stewardess style featured in Mile High Club.Perfect for gals who want shy away from leg-baring cuts without sacrificing their sex appeal.

Hosting your own Samhain soiree? Have you thought of playing the part of the homicidal hausfrau, my friend Meagan portrayed in Shrunken Heads for All Occassions.

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D – Hair Metal Harlot Extraordinaire

Paris and Lindsay could learn a thing or two about partying from you. Never one to be deterred by jealous haters, you proudly embrace the “You only live once” philosophy closely followed by “There’s plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead”. In your world there’s no such thing as a heel too high, a skirt too short or hair too voluminous.

Costume Suggestions

Kelly Bundy

You will need:

• 25 Years Off The Shoulder Dress
• Teasing comb and plenty of Aqua Net for that perfect 80′s cock rock groupie rat’s nest
• Push up bra
• Fuck me pumps or Lucite stripper heels

“Shout at the Devil”( Crüe or GTFO)

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Happy Haunting!

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Vanity Kills

“What Fear Fears Most,” is the slogan for this year’s Universal Halloween Horror Nights. This annual event has people flocking from all over the world to attend for a night or, if you’re lucky and live local, with a pass that guarantees multiple days of horror.

I get a pass every year for a few reasons: 1) The lines often take up so much time you can’t get to everything! 2) A pass makes it much easier to go with friends when you want. 3) It’s so much fun you’ll be dying for more!

This year, like most others, there are 5 haunted mazes including:
-Nightmare on Elm Street with new Freddy Krueger
-Friday the 13th with new Jason Voorhees
-Saw featuring horrific new traps
-House of 1000 Corpses in 3D Zombie vision
-Vampyre: Castle of the Undead

multiple scare zones featuring:
- La Llorona
-Nightmarez
-Klownz
-Lunaticz
-Freakz
-Pigz

The Terror Tram: Chucky’s Revenge

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure

Most of the main rides are open, too.

You’ll be happy you got there on time when you’re waiting in line for both security and to get into the park. Finally, once through the turnstiles, you’re greeted by Freddy in the middle of the fountain and 2 smokin’ Freddy go-go girls. You know you’re inside, though, when you start hearing those chainsaws go off and the screams of scared tourists. All the rest of us can do is feel like we’re home and sit back to watch the show. Huge pyros go off above a clown ringleader and his army of evil chainsaw welding clowns. Of course, you can’t miss the giant jester towering over you.

Vampyre: Castle of the Undead is the first house you come across, being that it is inside Universal’s year-round House of Horrors. Not much is changed to the actual houses, just a bunch of vampyre girls and guys that actually make a nice addition. If you head toward the left of the park, you walk into “Lunaticz”, where the dangerous and demented asylum inmates have taken to the streets of London on a murderous rampage.

If you make it out of there, you come across your next task, making it through House of 1000 Corpses! Here you’re taken through Captain Spaulding’s and his Murder Ride, The Firefly house where you see Baby, Odius, and Tiny … all in Zombievision. The house is so realistic, you find yourself taking off your 3D glasses just to look at everything. Without even noticing, you exit into Paris where the “Freakz” have set up camp, anxious to get their hands on you food.

Next you come across Friday the 13th and the campgrounds of Camp Crystal Lake, where you see desperate campers in a bear trap and a sleeping bag. Various versions of Jason from the new movie come at you as you go through scenes such as the barn, The Vorhees house, Jason’s lair, the forest making you feel as if you were right there in it. As Jason chases you out, you come across the scarezone of La Llorona weeping for her children. They pushed this on the advertisements over the Vampyre House,why I will never know. It was a pretty big let down, with ghost children running around trying to scare you.

If the scarezone puts you to sleep, you’ll be right where He wants you in the next maze. The notorious Freddy Krueger is back in this new vision of Nightmare On Elmstreet where you see his world, the preschool, the highschool, Nancy’s room, and other familiar scenes from Springwood in the new movie. The sets are very well done, but I’m still a fan of the original Nightmare on Elmstreet editions.

The last main Horror Nights thing to do upstairs is, of course, the Terror Tram, where the legendary tram takes you and lets you out on the back lot. This has always been a thrill, featuring such big names as Jason, Leatherface, and Freddy. This year the theme was Chucky’s Revenge, with a huge hand from La Llorona. Besides the usual things they do to it each year to enhance the back lot (i.e. lots of dead bodies and Psycho with Normal Bates) the rest, sadly, was a disappointment and wasted a lot of space. La Llorona wasn’t scary and the Chucky guys were a little less than horrifying. Although the idea of Chucky being responsible for the fire there so long ago was really funny.

Downstairs more chainsaws, drawn by the ever-haunting Saw Pigs, come after you. The Saw maze awaits as you make your way through the fog. It’s became last on our to do list because of how similar it is to the previous year it was done and, of course, the horrible smells are sort of overwhelming. Although it’s cool to see a few updated traps and realistic set designs, I recommend it for first timers rather than frequent goers.

It is a fun night that keeps your heart pumping and you guessing what’s around every corner, nonetheless.

Remember, the crowds usually hit what they see first, then make their way to the bottom, so the lower lot is more packed later, leaving the front houses less full, with the exception of House of 1000 Corpses! Also, if you scare easily and show it well + happen to be female, they WILL chase you! Just a warning =]

Hope to see you guys there this weekend!

Horrific Dreams!
Rebecca a.k.a Sage Sin

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It is not an usual thing for the Webmaster or I to send along a stylist request to get some Lippy gear for a photo shoot, video, what have you. But, sometimes that request gives us a big smile, just knowing a project like the one we’ve just read about exists.

The Bloody Best Project is that very thing!

The project can be described as four horror fans on a mission. Photographer, Ama Reeves, Wardrobe Stylist, Autumn Steed, Make Up Artist, Melissa Pizzamiglio, and Visual Effects Artist, Roger Johansen, are artists who want to create their own horror images, using the faces and visuals they’ve loved in their favorite horror films. They recruit horror luminaries, actors, directors, you name it, and shoot some of the most beautifully bloody, gory, creepy photos we’ve yet to enjoy with them. How can gore freaks like us NOT love something like that?

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Fortunately, Lip Service was happy to offer some killer style help to The Bloody Best crew. So, now we have these superb images of Adam Green (“Frozen”, “Hatchet” and just-released “Hatchet II”) and his wife, Rileah, in Spring collection Step In Time as Frankenstein’s Monster and his bride. I’d show you a few more of their awesome photos, but would rather you give them some much-deserved traffic by checking them out on their site, TheBloodyBestProject.com. You can also get up-to-date news and the latest images through their (BloodyBest) Twitter and behind-the-scenes fun at their (BloodyBest) Facebook page.

We can’t wait to see what gruesome gorgeousness they have in store for us next!