~Most people think that to be goth you have to dress absolutely and completely black. This is not true. White is a good colour to add to your ensemble, maybe black and white striped leggings or armbands. A choker adds length to your neck, and you can add studs or stripes if you want. Besides white, you can use a pale version of just about any colour. Pale pink and green work best; blue not so much. You can also use deep rich colours, such as red or purple. Laces and straps in your contrasting colour work well, especially along edges and on the front of your clothing, like a corset lace or a zipper, or even a black and white shirt with a black jacket.
~For accessories, try a headband in black, or white, whichever one contrasts with your hair the most. For the classic goth look, you can add a skull or a small bow. If you want a necklace other than or with your choker, try a large chunky one with the optional charm (skull, cross, heart), or one long chain wrapped around and around and around and (you get the point) around your neck. Either put on a bunch of leather bracelets running up your forearm, or use one huge bangle on each wrist. Either way it should be black to emphasize how pale your skin is. If you don't want the bracelets and are wearing a tube top, corset, tank or anything sleeveless, you can use a plain armband about halfway up your upper arm. If you want your legs to seem longer, try some anklets with a knee-length or higher skirt.
~Platform shoes or boots give you the classic goth look, but they tend to be uncomfortable. Try plain black sneakers that fit well to your feet, with or without white laces. Black Converse high-tops are a good example, and now they have shoes just like that, except they go all the way up to your knees. If you can't get your hands on a pair of those, just try plain heels that cover your entire foot, or black flats.
~People think that to be goth you have to paint your face completely white with huge black circles drawn with sharpie around your eyes and oodles of black lipstick. I'll tell you now, that is definitely overload. You hardly have to do anything to your face, just touch up any spots you see. You can powder your face so it's slightly paler, but if you do that, you'll have to make all the skin that shows paler as well. Instead of the sharpie circles, try applying dark eyeliner to the rims of your eyelids, and just some dark eyeshadow in your contrasting colour to your lid-eyebrow area. You can use black lipstick, but a deep red works just as well.
~And finally, hair. You don't have to have it completely black as a rule. You can dye it white, or any colour you want, really. Dark brown and light blonde are good colours if you want to look natural. For styles, you can tease it by bringing a comb backwards up to your roots and leaving it our or putting it into a loose bun, or for the emo/scene look, bring your part way over to one side, straighten and tease, leaving a fringe over your eye.
-Scorpio
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