I’m really glad so many of you like The Tribe as much as I do. If you’re looking for something to do over the long weekend you could do worse than head over to the Tribeworld store and buy all the DVDs and sit there in your Tribe t-shirt and just cry at how great life was in the 90s.
Kind of timely then that Lime Crime Makeup is coming to England. Blue lips ahoy, wahoo! Get yourself down to Camden Locks for some Cyberdog and we’re gonna be all set for my big Tribe party. Thanks to Jade and Clare for blogging about this, the news seems to have totally passed me by. It’s OK, it’s not like I write about makeup for a living and have often discussed how shit it is that their blue lipstick isn’t more readily available. Whatevs.
It’ll be on sale exclusively through Space.NK (uuhmmm I know, my thoughts too) from April, priced at £14. That’s right, £14. You know how it costs $16? Yeah well it’s £14 here so enjoy that. Grumbling aside, this is genuinely happy news so makeup fans, make a note of that.
I’ve been intending to write this post for about three years, but there’s just so much to say that it’s hard to know where to start. Phew, here goes.
When I was younger I was obsessed to a frightening degree with The Tribe. Yeah, this is a post about The Tribe, the Australian post-apocalyptic tv show. For some reason it’s been on my mind a lot lately so I figured it was time to take the plunge and just do it. Here’s the opening titles to get us all in the mood;
I think it started when I read The Last Children as a kid. I don’t (and never did) have any desire to live in a world without adults — we’ve all read Lord of the Flies, after all. I think I just enjoyed reading about it. Anyway, the appeal of The Tribe clearly wasn’t just the whole living in a deserted shopping centre without grown-ups, it was about how fucking cool the guys in the show were. Independent, intelligent, funny, self-sufficient… stylish?
Obviously. Amber and Bray were clearly the best characters but even the baddies were awesome, with their braids and Cyberdog silver trousers. Writing about The Tribe today, obviously my focus for this post is on the hair and makeup. The face paint side of things gets a bit much after a while but I still think they look fucking ace and can completely understand why my teenage brain cut out all the pictures of the characters from the Radio Times and kept them on my wall.
Again, the whole look does get a bit Cyberdog at times but it’s not like I’d wear any of this head to toe. Unless I had a Tribe party. Wait, why haven’t I done that? Oh right, ‘cos no-one would come.
So this is Amber. Before I go any further I should give mad props to Tribeworld, which is the most insanely indepth website I’ve ever seen. It makes weirdo Star Wars fans look normal. There are so many pictures, so many videos, so many facts. You could spend all weekend on there. Would you judge me if I did?
Anyway, Amber is the best character for many reasons, one of which is her hair. On this page of the afore mentioned site, there’s even a MAC-style cheat sheet to get her makeup. Yegod! I particularly liked it when she put it in Bjork-ish knots.
This is Ellie. She started out life as a farm girl but by the time she’d spent some time with the Mallrats, she was more stylish than any of them. Kind of a riot grrl thing going on with her wardrobe?? And that hair, the hair so many teenage girls dreamed of in the late 90s… aided and abetted with one of those acrylic hair extension scrunchies.
Cloe and Patsy. Always the best hair and always time for some blue lipstick. Swoon. Both of these guys were supposed to be pretty timid and kind of outsiders until they made friends with each other, but I ask you — how can you be shy when you look as good as this?
Trudy was probably the most 90s person in The Tribe, with her baby bangs/occasional wonky fringe and purple hair and combat trousers. And face stickers. Her baby was pretty cool too, with lime green hair if I remember rightly.
Later when she was a tribe leader she wore a lot of capes and wizard-ish gear. Not so down with that.
And finally Ebony. Ebony the badass with her braids and black and red leather and black bandito eye mask. She is literally the baddest of the bad and although I was vaguely obsessed with her, it was more like that girl from school that you’re scared of and a bit in awe of at the same time. Word of warning, you might want to put safe search on when you Google ‘Ebony The Tribe’. After page one, image search gets a bit confused and, uhm, ‘ racy’.
OK, that’ll do for now. I could bleat more but I’ve spent most of the weekend on Tribeworld and I feel the need to reconnect with the real world. If you want more, just read the pages and pages of in depth discussion here. There is literally an answer for everything.
I have no idea if this is absolutely hideous or actually really nice. I’m so confused! Help? Obviously you’d have to put it on a much longer chain but even then, is it really ugly? I mean obviously it is, but is it doable? I can’t decide at all and I’m not sure why it’s bothering me so much.
I was making a ~moodboard~ earlier (don’t ask, don’t tell) and came across this image from my old site. It’s from a vintage issue of Vogue, presumably 80s, but I can’t find any further notes.
Anyway, it still makes me want lemon lips, although I doubt very much if that’s a buyable colour. Would be easy enough to knock together with other products but I don’t know how you’d get it so lovely and matte.
This afternoon I was sent some of the new Barry M shades at work which just so happen to tick all the boxes for this season’s ice cream tones. The Lemon Ice Cream one is obviously my favourite. Will do an IRL shot tomorrow as I’ve just done my nails with the new Revlon mint shade and am also wearing head to toe orange… Barry M also has a lovely pastel purple and blue out for spring which I’ll be trying over the weekend. Wonder if you could use it on your lips?? I jest, of course, don’t try that.?
New in at Nasty Gal… You’ve got the gloves (you’ve got the gloves, right?), now get the legs to match. Buy ’em here. One of the things I’m looking forward to most about my upcoming return to Sheffield is, as always, a trip to Rocky Horrors. Bet they’ll have something similar, more goth, cheaper.
I was just wondering what my favourite Etsy seller Aquanetta was up to… this apparently. Call me crazy, but I have a lot of time for these. Maybe this is the way for me to handle dabbling my toe back into the world of trousers? It’s basically a skirt, nobody but you know would know… The kind of Van Gogh print is all kinds of amazing. I dunno man, I’m behind it. These, white t-shirt, these Swedish Hasbeens. Sure, I’d be utterly repellent to the opposite sex but that’s sort of the look I go for anyway.
By the way, if you want your hand to look identical to my hand, today, right now, Aquanetta is selling the same bunch of rings that I’m wearing this second. I bought them last year and they still get more compliments than any other jewels I own.
A kindly reader (yo Marina!) sent me a link to an eBay store she thought I might like. I do! I’m as easy to read as a Martina Cole, I know. I know some people view sharing eBay sellers as akin to revealing your secret pub that’s always quiet, even on a Friday night, but still has a really good vibe and a wide selection of amazing ales (I’LL NEVER TELL) but…. where was I?… here goes. Thriftwares. Cheap, cheerful and good photography; the holy grail of eBay.
PS Pretty sure I dreamt about that leopard jumper once, it’s like Chloe Sev x OC but affordable.
Hideous or doable? I think it’s out of WAG territory because the print is just so over the top and kind of resembles book plates rather than just ye olde big wanky floral print. Fun fact; my mum’s carpet in the living room looks identical to this, just in case you wondered. With denim and some boots, I reckon this would be totally doable for summer but, alas, it’s out of stock so there’s no way I’ll ever find out. Miso Floral Antique Maxi Dress, £26.99 at Republic.
On the maxi tip, I’m also into this Full Circle (who knew they were still going?) dress that’s currently available at ASOS. How nice is that?
I’m so excited that my colleagues on Women’s Fitness are calling these bags in from ASOS for our next shoot together! I heard a while ago that Head had rereleased these retro bad boys but I don’t have much use for them in our magazines… The lovely WF girls sit just a chair’s trundle away so I will most definitely be sneaking a peek at these when they arrive.
I can’t imagine the Head 1989 will be any different from the originals, but we shall see. Pretty sure they weren’t called the St Tropez and the Monte Carlo in the old days either! Without wanting to attract too many weirdos, these bags just remind me of being in junior school when the girls got to get changed for PE in the cloakrooms rather than in the classroom with the boys because we had reached an age when it wasn’t OK to run around in your pants and vest together.
I had the lilac bag and it was my pride and joy, even though I only had a lunchbox to take to school and probably a reading book or something. Happy times! I’m pretty sure I got it from a jumble sale too, can’t imagine my mamma paying out for an overpriced holdall when I had so little use for it. My favourite ASOS model wears it so well, maybe I should buy one??
On a related tip, check out the colour of my nails today. This new colour from Models Own is called Beth’s Blue but it’s actually the colour of that lilac Head bag.
I’m really glad so many of you like The Tribe as much as I do. If you’re looking for something to do over the long weekend you could do worse than head over to the Tribeworld store and buy all the DVDs and sit there in your Tribe t-shirt and just cry at how great life was in the 90s.
