Look Funky

Looking funky sounds easy, and it is, for the most part.

Steps

1. Get your hair cut choppy. If you like long hair, give it layers, texture, and chop it up. If you want it short, chop it up. If you don't like choppy, at least get it dyed. It should be black or blonde (one of the two extremes) with one complimenting neon shade accenting it. Straightening looks really good with these two descriptions of hair styles. Put in a little shine serum to make hair look healthy after frying it with dye and the iron. Absolutely no ponytails.
   • If you want to fully embody this new style, get used to waking up early everyday to shower, style hair, put on makeup, compile a great outfit, get pumped with music, and eat breakfast :) .
   • To style, add a volumizing mousse when hair is wet because after its dry and straightened it can look limp. Run texturizing cream in hair to create definite pieces/ it brings out the choppiness if you end up styling your hair that way.
2. Invest in good quality make up.
   • Foundation matches your skin color and blush, if any, is nude (so it doesn't detract from your eyes or lips).
   • Eyes are done electric choosing two bold colors, like cobalt and lime, and playing them on your eyes with half a lid one color and half another. If only wearing eyeliner on eyes, its loud and colored doing the outer rims of the eyes the brightest. Sparkly eyeliner by Pop cosmetics or Urban Decay is great for only eyeliner looks. (By the way, Urban Decay is amazing makeup for the look you're going for. NARS cosmetics has some funky duo eyeshadow like the cobalt and lime and fuchsias and pinks).
3. Keep lips natural. Lips, like your blush and foundation, are close to natural color. To pull off funky makeup, one plays up the eyes or the lips, but never both. You want to look hot, not like a clown.
4. Make your nails a statement. Gunmetal silvers, bright greens, dark blues, tangerine oranges, blinding fuchsias, and any other shade; feel free to express your hands. The thing about these colors is they only look good on short rounded nails and they have to be solid, smooth, and unsmudged to work. If they're glossed and neat they look cool if they're not they look like trashy funk.
5. Get a more edgier funk for the days you want to wear eyeliner. Wear skinny jeans - dark denim or color. For hippie funk days, wear ultra flare jeans in lighter washes. For those normal days, boot cuts in fall and winter and slight flare in summer.
6. Use straight skirts. They are great in blacks, silvers, bright reds, and bold blues.
7. Wear cool tops. Tops with peace signs, tops with cartoons, patterned tops, colorful tops. Cool tops that fit well into your outfit and match your shoes and accessories.
8. Add shoes. Shoes are contrast black and white, color, shiny, or sequined.
9. Accessorise with gaudy, colorful jewelry but use one per outfit. The point is to look funky but without clashing statements. Colorful or studded belts are awesome, too. Don't forget a cool, colorful hat to finish the look!
10. If you wear glasses, make sure they're plastic rimmed in black. A designer alongside of them is great.

Tips

• Just because you look funky doesn't mean you have to listen to funk or jazz. Techno is the hottest thing ever, old school rap is amazing, Alternative and classic rock is the all time fave, and everyone needs the newest hits for party playlists. Experiment with the music world for yourself :D
• Sequins are really big now and they have sequined shoes that look really cool. Check out H&M. Otherwise, classic black and white checkerboard Vans and black and white low top Converse look great. Vans makes some really funky contrast color shoes and everywhere you can find really interesting flats.
• Deals on finds. Target spotlights a famous fashion designer in the women's section and the designer's clothing line is usually out of the norm and bold. In Target's accessory section look for big colorful cocktail rings and sunglasses.
• Get your hair colored if you can afford it, stick with natural colors but multiple colors. Pink, blue, or green hair isn't funky. Long hair can be funky too just do it in layers.
• Wear real jewelry like golds and silvers and also wear those big gaudy statements that way you look like you have style but you don't look poor either. That also goes for the makeup. It's very easy to look run down and poor with all the cheap jewelry. Those attention grabbing colors on your face better be well done with shimmer and depth and smudging to boot if you're (subliminally) asking everyone to see them.
• Piercings and tattoos are cool. Tattoos are a little hardcore though. Options for good looking piercings that won't scare away people and actually look hot are: belly button piercings (HOT), nose piercings (HOT) (a small stud - no rings, as that's a different look altogether). Try also second ear piercings (hot) (they look really good with a small hoop on the inside and a a stud on the out, and a cartilage piercing (hottish, a little hardcore --like tattoos, you have to be your own persona to pull them off).

Warnings

• Clashing punk and prep (or clashing any subcultures) is not funky, and neither is dressing like a five year old.
• If you don't like some of the steps listed above, don't do them.
• Acting fake ticks people off; just because you look funky doesn't mean it comes with an act.
• This may cost you a lot of money in the long run.

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