Alternative Style spotlight: Alexandra Metal Clown

by Carrie Wildman

Kawaii style alert! Style goddess Alexandra Merino (aka Alexandra Metal Clown) fashions harajuku-style outfits with themes ranging from ice-cream to MacDonald’s. And goes shopping dressed as a guitar. Watch her 87 YouTube videos...

Alexandra Merino (aka Alexandra Metal Clown) caught my eye when I found myself caught up in hair and make-up tutorials on YouTube (Not that I use them, but they're wonderfully distracting if you're bored). The 19-year-old has taken her wild imagination and style and paired it with her love of dressing up, somehow managing to create a lifestyle that can only be described as gloriously bonkers. Fans of DIY Harajuku fashion will be familiar with her fashion sense - Alexandra comes up with a theme and doesn’t stop working until she has a complete outfit (and I mean complete). From intricately designed nail art to brightly coloured wigs, Alexandra Metal Clown not only dresses to a theme but becomes a character, almost like a cosplay with characters who never existed before she invented them. In one of her videos, Alexandra decides to make a MacDonald’s outfit and goes so far as to turn a hamburger Christmas decoration into an earring (for just the one ear, mind).

I watched the first video thinking ‘who on Earth is this girl?’ and by the third I was hooked. I found myself watching almost all of her 87 Youtube videos just to see what Alexandra's life was like. Her creativity and self-confidence (she goes shopping dressed as a guitar) is thoroughly entertaining and a lot of the time quite inspiring. As she talks about getting negative attention, rude comments and even stuff thrown at her simply because she dresses differently, it really makes you wonder about the human race.

Have a peek; I guarantee that if you delve into Alexandra Metal Clown's lifestyle through her alternative style videos she might just make your day.

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