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How to become a theatre technician
Theatre jobs: Theatre technicians are the rebeles without applause. Behind the scenes, lighting, audio and backstage technicians are brave and talented gremlins who make the show happen...
How to move in with a partner for the 1st time
Co-habiting tips: If you're moving in with your boyfriend/girlfriend for the first time, sharing a bed, decorating tastes and other housemates can be daunting. These bijou co-habiting tips may help.
Knitting ideas: Curious cat toy
Arts and crafts: Knitting ideas and knitting patterns - Knit this little pink cat as a charming and quirky knitted gift. Have we mentioned it's knitted?
Indie / goth clothing guide for tall women
Tall women clothing: Hello! Our clever style guide to tall womens clothing should help happily tall indie / goth girls dress flatteringly - and we source heavenly tall tights and size 8+ shoes.
How to celebrate St Patrick's Day mook-style
St Patrick's Day: Never mind binge drinking & silly hats on March 17. Here are 10 mooky ways to celebrate the Day o' the Irish, from baking green goodies to having a potato party.
Win 3 x Julie & Julia DVDs!
UK competitions: Win a copy of Julie & Julia, starring award-winning Meryl Streep, on DVD. We have 3 DVDs to give away!
Competition closes 04 March 2010
Goth prom dresses - shopping guide
Goth clothing: Find punk, retro, indie & gothic prom dresses online with our list of unusual prom dress shops. Plus we give prom dress advice on how to really feel your dress and how to buy it online - tears-free.
How to write a haiku
Writing exercises: There's more to haiku that meets the eye. We give you 65 - yes, 65 - creative writing tips for writing haiku as tiny and slender and powerful as a shard of glass, with haiku formats and examples. We're not mucking about.
How to get work at festivals
Summer jobs: There's nothing like planning ahead. If you're a festival junky who needs their fix but can't afford the tix, our guide to volunteering at festivals will get you into your favourite festivals for free.
Epilator deathmatch!
Health and beauty: Our intrepid journalists try out two of the latest epilators - one girl a seasoned veteran, the other an epilator virgin. So... who's going to win?
Peter's guide to British garden birds
How-to guides: Truth is not facts. Truth is BEAUTY! The editor-at-large of Nuts magazine for boys gives us beautiful truths about British garden birds while feeding a seagull tenderly.
Celebrate Record Store Day!
Riot Grrl:Like giant pandas and baleen whales, indie record shops are a dying breed. Let's join Amanda Palmer, Spoon and Jack White in dishing love to indie record shops on Record Store Day!
10 Indie romcoms for perfect comedy romance
Indie romantic comedies: Let's take the alternative route to love with these 10 quirky, offbeat indie romcoms. What girl doesn't want imagination, mental hospitals and the afterlife along with the sweet comedy and romance?
Life and love advice
Advice column: We make every effort to answer your questions. Love advice, health advice, career advice, 'my kitty is a catnip druggy' advice - it's all here.
Is describing a girl as having an hourglass figure an insult?
How to apply false eyelashes
Eye make-up tips: Professional make-up artists show you how to apply false eyelashes. Get the effect you want & save money by re-using your lovely false eyelashes again and again!
All my friends are superheroes
Fiction reviews: What's it like to be normal in a world of superheroes - like Copycat, who steals your style so well you're the one who looks like the imitation? Tom knows, and he wants to share his story with you.
Radio Tuna - free online radio
Free internet music: Radio Tuna gives you real-time search for free online radio. Choose from thousands of free internet radio stations and listen to free music without downloading...
Zombina and the Skeletones: Interview!
Band interviews: Female-fronted bands are often still given a rough ride, but fresh out of the graveyard, the fiendish B-Movie obsessed Zombina and the Skeletones give us the lowdown on music, touring and of course, all things horror...
How to create an imaginary world
Creative tips: We show you how to create your own imaginary world and become a regular Tolkien. World building tips for writers and artists.
GodsGirls - alternative models interview
Alternative models: Alternative. Girl. These two words conjure up piercings, tattoos, dyed bright hair and clothes that aren't high-street regulated. But can you be alternative without body mods? We asked two GodsGirls...
Your first tattoo
Tattoos: What really happens at a tattoo parlour? Mandi guides us through her first tattoo experience - from researching tattoo artists to getting her design inked, pain factor and tattoo aftercare...
Kitchen magic 101
Kitchen magic: Mix recipes with a pinch of hearth magic to focus magical energy. From blue fairy cupcakes to passion-filled strawberry daiquiris, explore the magical possibilities...
Blood Red Shoes
Grrrl rock: Like a far more gorgeous yet bizarre White Stripes clone from Brighton, Laura-May Carter and Steve Ansell of Blood Red Shoes are cartwheeling up the charts and performed at Ladyfest...
Fashion activist: Punk shoelaces
Indie fashion: Indie / Punks / Goths unite! Achieve this through style... and shoelaces. Why call it a shoelace when it can be worn around the neck, wrist, as a belt, as a bow and fashioned into hair art?
How to get pale skin
Gothic beauty tips: Do you despise tanning? Or, like me, do you burn instead? Fear not darlings, no matter what they say, pale skin is in!
Gothic Lolita wardrobe staples
Gothic Lolita: Gothic lolita fashion is a Japanese style that emulates Victorian dolls. These are your gothic lolita wardrobe staples to save money on gothic lolita style - everything from home-accessorised socks to petticoats to parasols...
Grunge fashion: How and why
Grunge: Grunge fashion was led by music, poverty, apathy and social alienation. And pretty Kurt. And scary Courtney. We give you the key elements of grunge fashion and how it applies today.
Which scenester are you?
Personality quiz: Are you Grrrl? Emo? Goth? Electro? It's so important to know which scene you're in, and Mookychick is here to help. Find out which scenester you are! Reveal the dirty truth!
WRITERS: MOOKYCHICK NEEDS YOU!
Mookychick is on the lookout for super-classy writers who have something to say. Our writers are sharply intelligent, informed, sweet, ballsy and damn funny. They write about genetics, astronomy, Gothic Lolita, wicca, feminism, music, the perils of being a woman and the joys of having the world at your feet. Could this be you? We want to read your wonderful bitchin' words! Find out more...
Mission statement
Mookychick believes that climbing trees and riding giant turtles is more fun and girly than worrying about make-up. But if you want to worry about make-up instead of turtles? Fine by us. Be you feminist, riot grrrl, kitten, punk, emo, indie, goth, witch, harajuku, vegan, horror junky, intellectual, corset queen, geek, unicorn, burlesque, gothic lolita, sea monkey... be you into gothic clothing, holistic health, wicca, paganasim, xtianity, comics, anime, j-pop, harajuku or jock culture... we will always love you.
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