- It's this generation's version of an emo girl.
They got rid of the Mo.
There's no Mo.
- We took the Mo.
Homo.
I got it. I wasn't sure if everybody got it.
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- You guys asked for it.
- Egirls!
- A bunch of people have done videos about Egirls,
like Olivia Neill, E Frazier.
We're going to do our own interpretation
of an Egirl aesthetic,
and then see how it works on us.
- Egirls, for those of you who are
over the age of about 27, are basically Hot Topic girls.
Straight hair,
and like Harley Quinn makeup.
You know, it's goth,
but a little more color,
little bit more like tailoring.
Much like every generation,
this generation's iteration
of the Hot Topic girl is a little cooler,
a little bit more sophisticated,
a little bit better drawing hearts
on their faces.
In the same way that VSCO girls,
they're called that because they
tend to use that app to sort of express their aesthetic.
There are a lot of Egirls on TikTok.
- I don't think I was an emo girl,
because my mom wouldn't buy me the clothes.
- My mom wouldn't let me do it either!
- No, she wouldn't let me buy the clothes,
but I was on the internet.
Like my MySpace was like
decked out.
- I basically wore high-waisted pants,
band T-shirts,
and like studded belts.
- I dressed like I loved Nordstrom's.
My mom refused to let me
dress myself 'cause she knew
that I would be emo,
and maybe into anime.
A little too much.
It makes me really happy that
young girls have taken this term
and reclaimed it
for their own purposes.
I think that's badass.
And you deal with this your whole life,
but I feel like especially when you're
a young teenager,
that's when you really start to realize
how much people project bull(beep) onto you,
and how much people are going to (beep) on your interests.
And so, the fact that these kids
at their young age are all ready
at a point where they're ready to like
to take (beep) back and like own their style
and own their looks.
That's badass. Some people don't learn that (beep)
'til they're in their adulthood.
- And I also just think that self-awareness
is a sign of autonomy,
and I honestly think that power is being autonomous.
Because I think sometimes, especially with Instagram,
or the digital age,
we think influence is what power is.
But no, power is having autonomy.
Autonomy of self,
and autonomy of self-awareness
and knowing what you stand for.
- Yeah. - Let them have fun.
Let us be able to have
a smidgen of the fun that they're having.
- Yeah.
- Give us that smidgen, Michael.
Give it to us.
- [Michael] Well, it's time to change
into your Egirl looks.
- Okay. - Okay.
- [Michael] So, - Love that
- [Michael] We're gonna do that now.
- I love that for us.
Okay, bye. - Bye.
- I'm preparing to be-wig myself.
- I look older.
This haircut feels old.
I'm gonna give myself space buns.
- [Michael] (laughs) Wow, look at
all this progress we're making.
- Honestly, I don't hate it.
- I kinda--
- But, the pigtails are like,
I don't think I've ever seen you wear pigtails before.
- No, this is also so much more hair than I've ever
had in my life.
My hair would never do this.
So this is actually kind of a fun texture journey.
- I gotta be honest with you guys,
I love this.
- I feel at home.
I feel at home.
What's the name of our girl band?
- Tears Stabbing My Pillow.
After lunch, we will be making ourselves up,
and then our look will be complete.
- Yeah.
- I feel like from here down,
this is not that weird for me.
- Yeah.
- I feel like here up--
- It's the bangs.
Honestly, I think it looks good too.
- Frame your face. - I'm having a lot of fun.
I feel like you look good.
I feel like I look good. - I think we look really cute.
- Yeah. - Yeah, we look really cute.
- Also, I will say,
these are all my clothes.
The only thing that's not mine is the belt and the wig.
So, maybe I've always been an Egirl.
- So, the boots are already mine.
The Deathnote T-shirt was already mine.
The striped undershirt
and the pants are new.
- Pants look great on you. - And the belt.
- This is all new
except for the fishnets I owned
and the boots-- - And the T-shirt.
- No, I didn't own this T-shirt.
I picked this on a website for clothes.
- Wow, novelty - Oh (beep)
You gotta send me that link. (laughter)
- It's clothes.com.
I feel like I've de-aged by 15 years.
- It feels good.
It feels good to be
just getting my learner's permit.
I do feel like I'm going to an anime convention.
I am 19 years old,
I'm going to my first anime convention.
- You're going to Anime Expo.
- I'm going to Anime Expo,
I will meet boys ...
- I mean, I literally could go to Anime Expo.
- One time, I went to a concert
when I was 17 years old,
and I definitely wrote a huge passage
of fan-fiction I've written about
the band the concert was about
in glitter pen.
And I was like "Surely, this will win
me the affection of men."
- What band?
- It's Weezer, and I still have the T-shirt.
- Can we send this to Weezer?
- No.
- I just love that even though it's dark colors,
it is a bunch of different vibes.
- Yeah. Okay, we got a T-shirt,
we got the stripes,
we got the green.
- You're pattern clashing.
- I'm pattern clashing,
in a way that's kinda fun.
- But wait, there's more!
- There's more.
- We're gonna put on our makeup soon,
after lunch.
- Yeah.
- So we're gonna do these
Egirl makeup looks now.
Basically, the whole vibe,
seems like, from the small sample
of photos we have here,
it's either sort of shiny lids,
or red lids,
with a lot of highlighter,
and also a lot of eyeliner.
And then little hearts
and eyeliner right here,
which I'm very nervous about.
Because whoo, precision.
- Yeah.
These people also do their
eyebrows pretty dark.
- Yup, I did that already.
♪ Co co co co co co co cool ♪
- I'm gonna do my eyebrows dark
with eyeshadow because I don't have a,
oh, I actually do have a brow pencil. You know what?
Who was I kidding?
Filling in brows is really
hard to do well, I think.
- I mean, brows are sisters,
not twins.
- Yeah, mine are not even related.
(laughs)
Mine met at a Chipotle once.
- All right, so I filled in my brows
a little bit. I don't think you can really
see much of a difference,
'cause I didn't wanna go too intense
because I'm bad at it.
But they are more filled than they usually are.
Which, actually, I don't hate.
It's kinda nice to be able to give them a little bit more
texture and structure.
- I kinda get away with a lot more
eyeshadow stuff because I have really hooded eyes.
So, it's like even though it's like
there's too much.
Actually, not really.
- You can't see it.
- Because you can't see most of it.
- [Michael] The colors are actually
matching nicely with both of your wigs.
- My wig.
- My whig.
- Maybe some Egirls do wear wigs--
- Yeah, who's to say?
- But a lot of Egirls
we saw don't wear wigs.
We're just wearing wigs because
we don't wanna dye our hair for just this.
So, when you're done with that,
I'm gonna take it back.
'cause I need that brush, girl.
- Chris and I both have deep set eyes and so eyeliner
makes my eyes look smaller.
- They do big wings, but they don't do the bottom.
'Cause the bottom eyeliners work,
oh maybe they do.
- Some of them do.
- It's like painting a bedroom black.
I certainly can tell it's here,
Okay, this is like surgery.
Can she do this?
Who knows?
- I might cheat. - How?
You gonna get an Egirl in here
and have her do it for you?
- No, I have these from Cosmoprop last year.
These stick-on eyeliner things.
Well, yeah, I'm gonna use it now.
What better time?
- I'm going to attempt to do a bottom line.
(gasp)
So inspirational.
She's going to line the bottom of her eye.
- I'm doing a very, very,
very, very slight tip, wing tip.
So-- - Fine, I give up
on the sticker.
I'll do the eyeliner myself.
Jesus. - I think I did it.
She's a queen.
I don't know if it's good, but it is finished.
All right, but I threw
the little hearts though.
- It's just so hard because
my eyelids are wrinkly.
- I know - How do you that?
- That's one of those annoying things, happens when you get
a little older, your eyelids start wrinkling,
so it's a little harder to do eyeliner.
- How, and some girls can do this in the car--
- I don't know how anyone - As they're driving ...
can do it in the car. - All right, I'm gonna
freehand draw a heart now,
so pray for me.
(humming)
Okay, maybe your prayers could be a little quieter.
- Oh (beep), that was actually pretty cute.
And then now I'm looking at my first one
thinking it's trash!
- Now I gotta do one on the other side?
- It just doesn't look like a heart.
- Oh no, oh geez.
It's a blob, it's a blob.
- My heart is looking sad.
Especially when you have a wheel
as your liquid eyeliner,
not a brush.
I think I might just wear this wig all day.
'Cause the look isn't the look without the wig, ya know?
- Feels like a little blush on your nose too?
- Yeah.
I'm a little blush.
- Like you've been drinking.
- [Michael] Hopefully not, 'cause you're 12.
- Yeah, don't drink.
- Don't drink yet.
- I'm done.
- Oooh.
- I know, I'm looking at myself in the mirror,
and I'm like "What is going on?"
- Actually, I like the beanie on you.
- I really do.
- I don't look like me.
- You literally look like
you have a Snapchat filter on
your face right now.
- Need a TikTok and a picture
at the same time.
Because I'm a multi-faceted person.
And I can do both.
- Okay, so look, Egirl.
Look different, you know?
Look cool, but look angry.
(laughing)
- Great.
- Our first TikTok, and it's of Devin.
- Learning how to use TikTok - Pose
- On the fly.
- I think we got it.
- How's it look?
- Scroll through.
- Oh yeah, that's very Egirl.
- Okay, that's 15 seconds, go!
- It's actually really fun.
- I don't know what it is about a TikTok camera,
but it makes you look really--
- Weird? - Beautiful.
- Oh, Devin these are funny. - Aren't those fun?
- Thanks Devin.
- Yeah, we got good pics.
- [Michael] Yes!
- Second TikTok.
- Second TikTok ever-- - And it's Jen.
- I love that.
- Yeah, gimme something crazy.
Flip your hair.
- Crazy!
- Yeah.
TikTok, baby.
We're still TikToking.
Oh, no we're not.
- Wow.
- This is cute.
- Yeah.
Egirls, we did it!
We Edid it.
- We Egirl'ed our way
to the Eworld.
- We deeed it.
This is actually a really cute look.
I'm definitely impressed with how well it came together.
I kinda look like
Muppet baby's Harley Quinn.
- I'm definitely keeping this beanie.
I'm definitely keeping these pants.
I already owned the shirt.
- [Girl] So keep that, girl.
- [Michael] What were some of the reactions
you guys were getting around the office?
- People were like, oh, I didn't recognize you.
Is this the dark side of Devin?
And I'm like maybe.
I'm definitely keeping this wig on and this makeup on
for the rest of the day, 'cause I like it.
- The thing about working at our office
for a long enough time is that eventually
people just stopped reacting to you.
(laughter) They're just like,
we've seen you in everything, and nothing.
We don't care.
- They're like, oh, can you pass the La Croix?
- We also did very, very rudimentary
(beep) TikToks for this.
- We didn't know what to do. - We were just kinda like
"Uhhh, TikTok!"
- This took work.
Like putting the makeup on took work,
assembling the clothes took work.
Having the wherewithal and the
head strength to wear a wig all day.
- A lot of work.
- It's a beautiful aesthetic though.
- I think Egirls are pretty cool.
- Teen girls are so creative and cute.
If ever you're (beep)ing on
Egirl or VSCO girl culture,
what you're really doing,
is you're (beep)ing on-- - Young girls.
- Young girls.
Let girls do stuff that they enjoy.
- Eventually they'll grow up
and be just like us.
And who doesn't want that?
Trying Egirl looks for a day.
- Lady tested.
- [All] Lady Eliked.
- [Girl] We love you and we try.
- [Woman] We're your Emoms.
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