Few creatures are harder to understand than the modern teenager, and this can make shopping for them nearly impossible. Let the following seven ideas inspire you to give a gift that is appealing and even meaningful to the teen.
1. The Green Stuff. The first thought most people have when they hear the words "gifts for teens" is cash. It's true that money is one-size-fits-all, but giving cash all of the time can become boring. Still, cash gives teens the ability to purchase what they would really like. And you can personalize a cash gift by enclosing the cash in a creative way that suits the recipient, or by including a card in which you share personal sentiments (tell the teen why you admire them, for example). And you can always include a small gift that they can open, as well. All kids (even teens) love to unwrap a gift.
2. A Gift Card. For a variation on the standard cash gift, you can try giving a gift card to a specific mall or a store where you know the teen enjoys shopping. This way they will know that you put a little bit of thought into the present, but you also provide the freedom of choice that cash allows. Along similar lines, you can get gift cards to popular online retailers that will allow the teen to buy online.
3. Take an expert along. If you're completely clueless as to what the teen is interested in, it never hurts to ask! Call the parents and see if they have any advice on gift giving. If you have a teenager yourself, you can take them on the shopping trip to help you pick something that's cool. Trends change so easily that it's a good measure of protection to take along another teen expert to help you. Something that was cool a few months ago may be completely out of fashion now.
4. Go Brand Name. It's often a good idea to stick with brand-name items for teens. For many in this age group, nothing is more embarrassing for them than to turn up with a knock-off of something all their friends have. Today's teenagers are very brand conscious. If they ask for an iPod, don't get them a cheap discount MP3 player. If you can't afford the brand name of what they want, get them something else entirely.
5. Let Them Create. Get them something that allows them to show their creativity. Teenage girls may appreciate a kit that lets them make their own handbag. Boys may enjoy a skateboard embellishment kit. Personalization is the name of the game and if your gift allows them to put their stamp on the world, they'll definitely appreciate it.
6. Pamper Her. Take this opportunity to spend some time with the teen. For girls, take her out to lunch and then get manicures or pedicures at a local salon. Teen girls may also enjoy the latest new beauty products, which you can find online or in specialty boutiques.
7. Think Sports. Don't discount the power of the teen's favorite sport or team. Ask someone close to the teen which sports, schools or teams he or she follows and purchase a related gift. You can never go wrong with a sports sweatshirt, hat or other piece of memorabilia. Just make sure that you get the team correct!
Kamis, 26 Oktober 2017
Selasa, 10 Oktober 2017
Scene Queen and Alternative Modeling Trends Growing
Look at any major metropolitan school and you may see an abundance of similarity in fashion style. The biggest trend in fashion and music throughout the turn of the decade has been emo, a generalized title for emo, punk, and scene personal fashion styles. Emo also carries its musical counterpart, the emo-style indie rock, screamo and techno-rock preferred by the majority of the genre.
Hot pants, swoop-back bangs and heavy makeup are very popular in youth from pre-teens to well into and after college. As age increases, sexuality is included in the emo and related styles. However, emo has also been controversial at best, with allegations of strong reliance on depression, suicide and self-mutilation as visual concepts of the makeup and clothing fashion.
Scene, often considered an offshoot of emo, has become a bigger influence on youth, with the emo stereotypes purposely avoided to instead focus on innocence and playful youth definitions. Black dyed hair and an entirely black wardrobe has been replaced with a rainbow of loud, bright colors. Clothes purposely clash and accessories accentuate youth, such as candy bracelets and lighted pacifiers.
The entire point of emo, and especially scene, has been attention. This is why youth are more prone to sporting the style, an age level that desires to be an individual and the attention that provides. With social media giving access to hundreds of millions of potential friends, personal profiles on MySpace, Bebo and LiveJournal blogs have become a beacon of personal style for aspiring scene kids ("scene kids" has been the most popular title for people who follow scene fashion; "scenesters" has also been used a lot online).
From this cultural development that hit the social media networks since about 2006, a new genre of modeling has similarly become popularized. Enter the scene queen, a professional or amateur female model who follows the fashion trends of scene/emo style and has a following of fans in online social networks. Most models are teens or in their early twenties and come from different backgrounds and geographic locations. These models are idolized for their sense of style and overall beauty. Many scene queens are alternative models who model for clothing and accessory lines.
Christian Koch of The London Evening Standard discussed the trend of scene kids and their affect on commerce, mentioning "scene kids" as a movement to embrace kawaii, Japanese for "cute" (1). Scene queens commonly adorn themselves with cute and adolescent fashion items such as bows, candy bracelets, simple hair bands, star and heart body art and small, simple icon tattoos. Models usually keep their real hair short but model in long, high-contrast color hair extensions. Makeup is natural except for the eyes, where false eyelashes and heavy, colored makeup is key.
Scene queens specifically create a look that is unique, such as the coontail hair striping, said to be popularized by scene queen Kiki Kannibal (2). These unique looks are showcased in photos and YouTube videos posted by the model or a promotion affiliate. Models also give tutorials and how-to videos describing how to achieve the unique look. In this way, models have exploited the sharing aspect of social media for their benefit, increasing exposure of their personal brand by allowing anyone to replicate it.
Google's Trends tool shows an increase of three times the search volume for terms like "scene hair" from 2007 to 2009, and Google's Keyword Tool shows "scene hair" being searched 1.5 million times per month as of February 2010 (3). The results of these searches often produces the tutorials and photo showcases that make scene queens famous. The emergence of global interest in scene on sites such as BuzzNet, where Audrey Kitching is a correspondent, has created a string of international fan sites and fashion portals.
Rising stars in scene models and scene kids in general, as well as the scene queen elite, can be found predominantly on the following social networking and blogging sites:
MySpace
Bebo
LiveJournal
Facebook
BuzzNet
Stickam
Blogspot
Flickr
deviantART
Polyvore (clothing)
Famous Scene Queens
Audrey Kitching
Kiki Kannibal
Dakota Rose
Hannah Beth
Dani Gore
Brittany Kramer
Zui Suicide
Jac Vanek
Jeffree Star
Racquel Reed
Miss Mosh
Jenn Curbstomp
Being a "famous scene queen" is characteristic by the number of views you have on video sites like YouTube and how many friends you have on social media like MySpace and Bebo.
Often, models choose a name fashioned from the internet surveys from early years of social networking that gave you a "punk rock" or "emo" name, which was usually a random conglomeration of a normal first name and a fashioned last name. The last name was commonly full of emotion, such as angst or sickness.
Hot pants, swoop-back bangs and heavy makeup are very popular in youth from pre-teens to well into and after college. As age increases, sexuality is included in the emo and related styles. However, emo has also been controversial at best, with allegations of strong reliance on depression, suicide and self-mutilation as visual concepts of the makeup and clothing fashion.
Scene, often considered an offshoot of emo, has become a bigger influence on youth, with the emo stereotypes purposely avoided to instead focus on innocence and playful youth definitions. Black dyed hair and an entirely black wardrobe has been replaced with a rainbow of loud, bright colors. Clothes purposely clash and accessories accentuate youth, such as candy bracelets and lighted pacifiers.
The entire point of emo, and especially scene, has been attention. This is why youth are more prone to sporting the style, an age level that desires to be an individual and the attention that provides. With social media giving access to hundreds of millions of potential friends, personal profiles on MySpace, Bebo and LiveJournal blogs have become a beacon of personal style for aspiring scene kids ("scene kids" has been the most popular title for people who follow scene fashion; "scenesters" has also been used a lot online).
From this cultural development that hit the social media networks since about 2006, a new genre of modeling has similarly become popularized. Enter the scene queen, a professional or amateur female model who follows the fashion trends of scene/emo style and has a following of fans in online social networks. Most models are teens or in their early twenties and come from different backgrounds and geographic locations. These models are idolized for their sense of style and overall beauty. Many scene queens are alternative models who model for clothing and accessory lines.
Christian Koch of The London Evening Standard discussed the trend of scene kids and their affect on commerce, mentioning "scene kids" as a movement to embrace kawaii, Japanese for "cute" (1). Scene queens commonly adorn themselves with cute and adolescent fashion items such as bows, candy bracelets, simple hair bands, star and heart body art and small, simple icon tattoos. Models usually keep their real hair short but model in long, high-contrast color hair extensions. Makeup is natural except for the eyes, where false eyelashes and heavy, colored makeup is key.
Scene queens specifically create a look that is unique, such as the coontail hair striping, said to be popularized by scene queen Kiki Kannibal (2). These unique looks are showcased in photos and YouTube videos posted by the model or a promotion affiliate. Models also give tutorials and how-to videos describing how to achieve the unique look. In this way, models have exploited the sharing aspect of social media for their benefit, increasing exposure of their personal brand by allowing anyone to replicate it.
Google's Trends tool shows an increase of three times the search volume for terms like "scene hair" from 2007 to 2009, and Google's Keyword Tool shows "scene hair" being searched 1.5 million times per month as of February 2010 (3). The results of these searches often produces the tutorials and photo showcases that make scene queens famous. The emergence of global interest in scene on sites such as BuzzNet, where Audrey Kitching is a correspondent, has created a string of international fan sites and fashion portals.
Rising stars in scene models and scene kids in general, as well as the scene queen elite, can be found predominantly on the following social networking and blogging sites:
MySpace
Bebo
LiveJournal
BuzzNet
Stickam
Blogspot
Flickr
deviantART
Polyvore (clothing)
Famous Scene Queens
Audrey Kitching
Kiki Kannibal
Dakota Rose
Hannah Beth
Dani Gore
Brittany Kramer
Zui Suicide
Jac Vanek
Jeffree Star
Racquel Reed
Miss Mosh
Jenn Curbstomp
Being a "famous scene queen" is characteristic by the number of views you have on video sites like YouTube and how many friends you have on social media like MySpace and Bebo.
Often, models choose a name fashioned from the internet surveys from early years of social networking that gave you a "punk rock" or "emo" name, which was usually a random conglomeration of a normal first name and a fashioned last name. The last name was commonly full of emotion, such as angst or sickness.
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