Pastel Goth (not to be confused with Gurokawa, Nu-Goth, or Soft Grunge) is a fashion and aesthetic that originated on Tumblr in late 2010. The fashion entails taking the basic elements of dark goth style and mixing it with pastel colors.
Reccuring Aesthetic Themes
- Inverted crosses
- Skeletons and bones
- Kawaii offensive text and kawaii pixels
- Mean Girls quotes
- Shaking food gifs
- Gradients
- Dripping things (like dripping fonts, dripping leggings, etc)
- Bats
- The yin yang symbol
- Pastels
Common Fashion Elements
- Pastel Hair (for example: soft mint green, flamingo pink, light turquoise, salmon red, baby blue, and lavender)
- In some cases, hair color can be split into two different colors
- Wigs in same colors as above
- Leg garters
- Fishnets
- Platform sneakers, Doc Martens, Chuck Taylors, or doll-inspired shoes
- Button up shirts and blouses
- Spiked Headbands
- Creepers
- Pastel pullovers
- Anything made by creepyyeha
- Spiked chokers
- Black lipstick or pastel lipstick
- Eyeball-patterned, black, or pastel bows
- Corsets in dark and baby pinks and purples
- Skull leggings or pre-torn stockings
- Black snapbacks or bonnets
- Flower headbands
Lifestyle
Many pastel goth images and graphics espouse individualism. Blogging is often accompanied by a cute, personalized pastel background. Pastel goth bloggers are usually teenage girls that take a lot of pride in their individual lifestyles, blogs as well as their wardrobe.
Music
- pastel goth Spotify playlist by Alex Wheeler
- Pastel goth music Spotify playlist by Kitira Bailey
- Pastel goth Spotify playlist by Foxtails
- Pastel Goth Spotify playlist by Demi Gray
- Pastel Goth Feels Spotify playlist by Larissa Weathers
- Pastel Goth🖤🍭 Spotify playlist by yasemin.ozut
- Pastel Goth † Spotify playlist by 12177486409
- 💀💖Pastel Goth💖💀 Spotify playlist by Kylie Underwood
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