[dynamic electronic music]
- Hello, my name is Spooky Kid.
And today I'm gonna show you how I get ready.
So to start, I'm gonna cover my face with primer,
and then I'm gonna go all over it with my white foundation.
I try to protect my skin as much as I can with primer,
but still it's not really enough.
I grew up in France, in a very small town in the country,
close to the border with Switzerland.
When I was a really young kid
I would keep my distance with the other kids,
'cause I was not really
that much interested to play with them.
So I would stay by myself and draw a lot.
Drawing like monsters and witches.
It was kind of scary for the other kids,
but I kind of love that.
I would just paint distorted bodies,
altered humans, and then do it on myself.
I think when I was a teenager
I was really influenced by goth culture.
I used to have black hair, do black lips, very white face.
I remember once I was at school and a teenager told me,
oh, you look like Marilyn Manson.
And I was like, who's that?
And he was like, oh, it's just a weirdo
killing chicken on stage.
And I was like, oh, I need to check.
I loved it.
Yeah, I was just fascinated by the makeup
and how he would perform on stage.
The visual of his music videos and everything.
I would just be fascinated
because I've never seen something like this before.
So I was like, oh my god, that's fabulous.
And before to be called Marilyn Manson,
the name of his band was Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids.
So I was just like, okay, I'm a spooky kid.
And I've just decided to take this name.
Well, I was just feeling good with myself
when I would dress like this.
I wouldn't really care about
people telling me if it's good or not.
When you are isolated
and you're bored with what there is around you,
you just gonna create your own world to escape, I guess.
I recently moved in this room.
and I've just painted on the walls
to make it look more like my space, my own world.
So now I'm just gonna go around my eyes with eye shadow.
I love to use red eye shadow
'cause I look like I'm very tired and I've got red eyes.
Well growing up as a queer kid in a small town
I was dreaming to move to a big city.
So I just decided to move to London
'cause I felt like here I could be free
to just do whatever I want to do.
London has a great story with the punks, the Blitz Kids,
everything, the New Romantics.
I always felt really attracted by the city, I guess.
Well, now I'm going to add blush on my cheeks.
I'm gonna go with pink and orange, and kind of mix it.
I moved here in London just with a bag.
And I had to learn English, and find a job.
And well, I just started to really go out a lot,
meet a lot of people.
To be honest, there is a lot of different parties.
There is more like goth parties, techno parties.
'Cause obviously at the beginning
I didn't talk English properly, so I would just dance a lot.
And then I started to make friends
more recently, to be honest.
I'm just going to add a bit of highlighter on my cheeks.
One of the first look I created for Halloween,
I was walking in Compton, and I've seen this girl
who was wearing one of these huge inflatable suits.
And I was like, oh, this is amazing.
I need to wear this, but I need to put fabric on top
so it looks more like a garment not a costume.
So I just decided to buy one on eBay.
And a few days after I was doing fabric shopping,
and I found this beautiful fabric.
And I thought it was really beautiful,
so I just decided to use it.
So that's how I created my look
where I'm just like stuffing a top,
with huge sleeves, with balloons in my chest as well.
I love to do my lips in this shape
'cause I think it looks a bit futuristic,
and it make my lips looking very different.
I don't think that what I do is really fashion,
but I'm definitely inspired by some fashion designer.
I usually watch runways of designers,
like Rei Kawakubo, who creates these garments
with huge shapes and play a lot with the human proportions.
I'm also really inspired by Leigh Bowery.
I think he really pushed this art
of dressing up to a point where he would
just go out and he would feel physically uncomfortable
in the costume he was wearing.
And because wearing what I do is like a performance itself,
I think I'm gonna start to work
more on performance in the future.
Living in London when I go out in the party,
it's like going to an exhibition
'cause everyone is dressing extreme,
and they're all like the sculptures and the art pieces.
Well now I'm going to draw spots all over my face.
For this I'm going to use eyeshadow and eyeliner.
I've seen Michael Alig doing spots in the '90s,
on his face, and I really loved the way it looked.
So I've just decided to do it, but in a different way.
Looking more like a skin disease, or like chicken pox.
So now I'm just using white liner
and a very small brush to kind of draw the spots on top of.
Now I'm going to just do my hair.
I'm just going to get my hair wet
and I'm gonna use wax to make it straight.
Well, I used to do horns with my hair.
I used to back comb my hair.
Something like this.
Horns, like a demon, kind of like this.
That's what I used to do at the beginning.
But then I just got bored.
I just feel like in life with whatever you do
you're always happy when you make something new.
When you do something that is new to you.
But then if you keep on doing it,
you're just gonna get bored,
so you need to do something else.
I started to create what I created by going out
and turning look to go to a club.
And of course when you start to do it
it's very fun and exciting
but I don't want to keep on doing that forever.
And because I want to break into a new practice,
not just like turning a look to go out,
but more like create performances.
I think my next idea is really like to
work on the interaction between different bodies.
Take few people in a room, and give them a new body,
and a new experience of themself.
And just see how they interact between each other,
like newborn babies kind of.
Well, so I'm pretty happy with this makeup.
So now I'm going to put on my lenses.
So basically this is like a small lens
that I'm wearing on top of a bigger one.
So it just creates a new lens, kind of.
I usually move the lens a bit on my eye
to make my eye used to it.
Usually people react in a good way.
They don't really understand what is it.
They're like, oh my god, what is it?
This is amazing.
It's like once I remember, was just sitting in a bus.
I had this really big outfit stuffed with balloons.
And a woman was very surprised,
and she asked me, is it the way you dress every day?
And I was like, yeah, that's a casual outfit.
And she trusts me.
So that was kind of funny.
Well, so everything is done.
The hair is done, the spots are done.
So now the last part is just to put on the lashes.
I don't think that I want to do body modification
'cause I think that I prefer to keep my body
as a fresh canvas that I can use whenever I want.
When I was a teenager, I used to feel a bit bad
about my body, to see my body changing
and becoming the body of a man.
At the time I was kind of scared about it.
So that's when I started to do paintings
and paint distorted bodies.
It's more like I'm creating a character
where I can project what I have inside myself.
You just project your fears,
and you just create a caricature, or you make it extreme.
Just really express what you have inside yourself
and you can deal with.
It always helps you to make you
feel better about it, I guess.
Well, I'm happy with my makeup.
So, now I'm gonna look for something to wear.
[dynamic electronic music]
Well, I'm gonna take a couple of my friend
for a walk 'cause I feel like
they need some fresh air after the lockdown.
If you are a very young queer
living in a country far from a big city
and you want to express yourself well,
so just go for it and don't be scared
of what people are going to think about you.
'Cause the most important thing
is what you think about yourself.
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