- If there was a scale of how emo one could be
this is zero, and this is me.
Hi, I'm Emily.
- I'm Farrah.
- I'm Nina and today we're gonna be using Hot Topic products
to recreate old emo looks.
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^- In high school, I was what the kids called a scene kid.
I used a lot of really bright eyeshadows.
^- I loved combining rainbow shadows and liner.
Here are all of the colors that my hair have been.
Pink, blue, black, orange.
^- When I was going through my emo phase,
^I would do eyeliner on the water line with a pencil.
All I really wanted to was just do
black, black, black, black.
^- I was such a huge fan of Hot Topic.
^I specifically liked going in there
^and looking at all the band shirts.
- Lots of hair dye,
lots of colored eyeliner.
- Those gloves that had the fingers cut out,
(laughs) my freshman year, I would wear those all the time.
- 2018 Hot Topic, I don't know what to expect.
Honestly, I haven't been into a Hot Topic in so long.
- This is interesting.
A little bit of familiar and a little bit of new.
^- These have little skulls on them,
^which seems very on brand for Hot Topic.
^- Oh my (beep) God (laughs)
I would've died for this when I was a kid.
- [Farrah] All right, here we go,
^we've got some bright colors to work with here.
^Metallic glitter body crayons.
^- [Nina] Intergalactic, I think the colors
^are really pretty, neutral.
- So the makeup look that I am going to be creating
from the past emo Farrah
is a very colorful look.
- So the photo that I'm gonna be recreating
is a mish mosh of purple and aqua blue eyeshadow
all over my eyes.
- Because I don't have any photos of myself
decked out fully emo,
I'm going to be recreating a look of Ryan Ross.
^He used to do these crazy, bold eye looks
^that were dark and weird and artsy.
- Oh yeah baby!
So bright.
- You really want to get it touching your eyebrow,
that's the look.
- I am actually really loving this glitter
and I wish that was an option.
- How awful, I can't ever believe
that I got used to this feeling.
I'm just stabbing myself in the lower eye.
- Now we get to do the bottom in green!
- If I was a teen nowadays,
this would be really good starter makeup.
- Part of why I feel like this isn't working
is that in this period of my life,
my hair was all black with blue bangs,
so I'm blonde today with brown brows
and it's throwing off the whole vibe.
- That's what's missing from all of this stuff,
where's the red?
Red is a very emo color.
It's black and red, I feel like,
the colors of the emo flag.
- Oh my God! (laughs)
this is really taking me back
to how I looked (laughs)
- Crazy is that I think that I could do a good job
with this with makeup that I actually have
and not Hot Topic makeup,
which seems counterintuitive.
Hot Topic should be making the makeup
that will make me look like Ryan Ross.
- This feels pretty light
in terms of consistency of the mascara.
- Come on, blend baby, blend.
It's like a fine line between having
a black eye and looking like a clown.
- Kind of interesting too
because we have all this makeup
and some of it's so similar,
and I ended up only using a few products.
I thought I was gonna go ham with the products.
- The final piece of this disaster look,
everybody needs their Monroe, their face Monroe piercing.
I'm gonna give myself a beauty mark.
- Look by parting
that heavy side part, you know?
- Basically you just find the farthest place on your head
and then you just bring it all over.
- I think that I'm done.
I think I've done the best that I can do
with the tools I was given.
There weren't quite the right colors that I needed
for this recreation,
so in that sense it was a little frustrating
because it made it harder
'cause I had to focus on blending
two different colors at once
to create the kind of look,
and they were two different textures of makeup
so that made it really hard to make the look
exactly what I wanted it to be.
- I think the Hot Topic makeup was decent,
but it just didn't give me that vibrant eye
that I was looking for.
With what I had right here,
I just don't think it was possible
to make that 2008 look.
- I think I'm done.
This look was inspired by 16 year old emo Farrah.
She wasn't shy and really didn't care
about putting bright colors on her face
even when people were looking at her.
- Well I guess I'm gonna go show people (laughs)
this look and hope they accept me.
^- Are you sad? - [Nina] I am.
^- Are you crying glitter?
^- [Nina] I'm emo (laughter)
^- Oh, is it 'cause Myspace is down? (laughs)
^- I could see you at a Panic! At The Disco concert
^living it up.
^Kind of warped, you know,
^the sorority girls who are into warped,
^not the full on scene kids.
- Oh cool, oh you look so scene!
- So scene, oh my God.
I look like I have two black eyes.
- But that was the look, right, wasn't it?
- It was the look.
- It's cool 'cause it's rainbow.
- You're trying to be emo. - I am.
- I think this is not as crazy
as just black all over my face.
But this is, you know, it's pretty,
^I feel like you could just wear this just because.
^- [Farrah] What do you think of my makeup?
^- Wow! (laughs)
^You look like you have candy stripers on your eyelids.
^- [Farrah] Does it remind you of anything in particular?
^- I feel like it's a preppy emo look.
^I don't really know if I could see you
^blending into Hot Topic super well.
- Is it emo, or?
Yes? - Yes.
Where I got the products from?
- Hot Topic. - Yeah.
You're right, wow, people are good at guessing.
- No I know I lived that life.
- Oh my God, you look like a 2006 scene kid from Myspace.
You have so many Myspace followers, that's the look.
Wow, no you need to do it from this angle.
There it is, there it is, work!
- They were decent in terms of quality,
I would definitely use them again
for my day to day look maybe.
The highlighters were cute and I didn't get to touch them
because they weren't what I was going for.
That's the thing,
there weren't a ton of dark colors in them.
So I would use them just to use them
but I wouldn't to recreate a true emo look.
- None of my coworkers could guess
what this look was supposed to represent today
and when I told them that this is what
16 year old Farrah wore as a scene kid on a daily basis,
they were shocked.
The only person who wasn't surprised
^was one of my best friends I texted from high school
^and I just sent her a picture of my face
^and asked what it reminded her of
^and she immediately knew
^that it was something we rocked back in '06 or '07
- I think that in 2008 this would have been
a very edgy look,
and I stand by my original photo.
But I think in 2018, it's a little too crazy for everybody
so even though I am still emo at heart
I'm gonna put this look back in the past.
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