Scene kids are like a colourful take on the emo culture. Apparently the culture was originally a "white persons" (sorry i dont mean to be racist) interpretation of the harajuku dolls in Japan. Although scene and emo have the same concepts, they are very contrasting, not only are they more colourful, but often very over confident and enjoy being the centre of attention without being mopey as emo kids are often stereotyped.
Scene kids are also pretty much infamous for their sneakers/skate shoes and their tight colourful jeans, often they get around in Nike's, Macbeth's, sometimes converses (although to me that's more likely amongst emo kids) and whatever scenish shoes they can find. All of their t-shirts have bands, icons (hello kitty, nightmare before Christmas etc;) or other scene associated things on them. Belts are popular amongst scene kiddos, usually studded in some colour combo. And i forgot to mention they like to wear rave bracelets and wrist bands, in bright colours or to a rave kid "candy" "candy" are just pony beads strung onto thin elastic.
As for hair, their hair is the SEX of the culture, girls mostly like to tease their hair into a sideways fashion friendly mow-hawk with their bangs hanging half way across their face. Guys tend to tease up the back and keep their fringe down or have an emo styled hair-cut. They dye their hair either black or white blonde and put a random selection of colours such as pink, blue, green, and red in their hair. To scene kids, hair is a way of expressing their personality, a bubbly confident girl may have Blonde hair with pink in her bangs and orange (neon) streaks around the back. A more shy/down to earth girl may have black hair with the odd bit of blue dip dye around the side of her face. Sometimes to ad an edge to their hair. scene girls in particular use "coon tails" which are pretty much like stripey streaks of hair, the coon tail part usually a dirty blonde or darker brown. As for makeup, girls prefer the winged eyeliner, mascara and an opaque face.
In terms of interests, their lives, like many alternative cultures, pretty much revolve around music. Amongst scene kids, there is quite a broad range of music they listen to, although from what ive seen, each individual tends to become faithful to a certain genre. the most common genres for scene kids are probably hardcore, electronic and indie. I also know that quite a few scensters are drawn to bands such as Attack! Attack, hey Monday, paramore, Escape the fate, Porcelain and the tramps, Amy can flyy, blood on the dance floor etc;
From those bands, i must admit i do like porcelain and the tramps, they are an industrial band that come from Brisbane, Australia, and each member is well recognised and probably idolised by any scene girl.
Scene kids use the Internet as a way of getting their name out there, every scene kid likes to have scene minions that idolise them. Some of the better known scene kids (that I'm aware of) include Alex Evans, brookelle bones, kiki kannibal and emilie villanueva. As part of the Internet identity, alot of scene kids tend to alter their names, Usually so its catchy and memorable, their last names are often made to rhyme with their last name, or the use of xXx is also common.
All in all, scene culture is another way for one to express themselves by a creative means. Its certainly not my forte but it makes plenty of people out there happy, and its helping to broaden the minds of our modern unaccepting society.
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