The subculture emo is connected with emo-music, and it also has an influence on appearance, behavior, and outlook on life. If you wish to join emo, here is the best way which you should follow. It’s the way for those who really realizes who he is going to become.
Some approximate steps.
1. try to understand what exactly emo is. Like any style, any fashion or culture, exact definition is disputable, and often depends on personal perception. The word "emo" is connected with an emotional conditional and fate of a person. it’s its most exact definition. The biggest part of emo loves the underground, indie music.
2. Study music. Emo boys – are usually the main representatives of the emo music, which usually consists of the emotional lyrics and unessential "screamo". For many years this musical genre has been usually considered as an underground. That assurance has made emo music more popular nowadays, than ever. If you listen a great number of emo-groups, you will probably like one of them and decide to choose a special one for yourself, for example a bass, or a guitar.
3. Check up yourself. Try to listen emo music. If as a result you become a passionate admirer of this style and you cry and sob each time after having listened different emo music albums, then possibly you are a real emo. You’ll achieve an internal emo only if you has this feeling of being emo inside or no.
4. Dress up. After you have already found out an internal emo, try to walk around different emo shops looking for new clothes. emo style was born after the punk and goth culture. Put on some narrow jeans, fitting T-shirts with symbols of emo-groups on them, belts with thorns, and old, black worn out pair of jogging shoes.
5. Change a hairstyle. Repaint your hair in black. Cut off your hair shortly, but leave a long bang, put it only on one side of your head and forehead. Your bang has to hide one eye under itself. Shorten a nape, and don’t cut your hair in the front to let it become long. You can also paint your bang in a lighter colour, than the rest of the hair is.
6. Catch mood. Most of the time emo guys are in a touch of bitterness, depression, insult and uncertainty. But, as a matter of fact, you can be emo boy, because you are sensitive, introspective, thoughtful and silent.
What can and will definitely help you:
* Use an eye-liner for your eyes. it is not condemned, and it does not matter, whether you are a boy or a girl.
* A frame pins and badges are very important things to have.
* Do not tell people that you are emo, or that you are trying to become emo, they can tell you that you’re just trying to pay their attention on yourself. But you know that it’s not true.
* You can be criticized badly by yours not-emo friends, and it is possibly that the majority of a society won’t understand your ambitions too.
Things that will be necessary for you to have:
* An eye-liner for eyes ;
* special footwear ;
* A belt with thorns;
* support of really true friends ;
* narrow T-shirts, a tubule trousers, special footwear;
* T-shirts with symbols of emo-bands;
