00:00I love my goth style but it's been causing problems with me finding work so
00:03today I think there needs to be a change. My cousin Laura is helping me by finding
00:07the perfect outfit. Today I've got an interview but will I finally get a job
00:10after my transformation? Three, two, one, what the hell?
00:15Do you think Lainey will get a job with her new look?
00:22Hi! Hello. I'm here to transform you today. Okay awesome come in. Thank you. My name is
00:35Lainey. I love everything supernatural. I love zombies, vampires, ghosts and I like
00:41dressing up as some of those creatures. My day-to-day look is a combination of
00:47gothic, vampire-esque and Victorian. Presenting the way I am with piercings
00:52and tattoos makes it more difficult to find work. I actually have a job
00:56interview later for a hair receptionist position at a hair salon but usually when
01:01I go for jobs like that my external look with my piercings and tattoos kind of
01:05scares them off. So I'm hoping that if I get transformed into something much more
01:09toned down they'll see past that and actually see who I am on the inside.
01:13To help me with my transformation I've asked my cousin Laura to help me find the
01:17perfect outfit but I'm nervous what she's gonna find. Hey. Hey. Thank you for coming.
01:23Of course. So I have a job interview today and I really need you to pick me out an outfit.
01:28Of course I will get you the perfect outfit just wait right here. When I think of
01:32corporate and professional I'm thinking of blazers, skirts, neat hair, neat and tidy,
01:37minimal makeup, minimal tattoos, minimal piercings.
01:48How many different personas do you like to be? I like to put zombie makeup on.
01:54Zombie? And how long have you been dressing up like this? A few years at least.
02:01Before I started dressing goth I used to just wear neutral colors and keep my hair neutral,
02:07blonde, very basic teenage girl clothing because I wasn't really allowed to wear makeup or change
02:12my hair in a permanent way. When I was 16 I think I put my first white base on and did
02:17sort of a traditional gothic look that I'd found on the internet somewhere and I really
02:22enjoyed doing that and I realized that it was something that I wanted to wear more and I found
02:27that the community I made along the way is just something that I really enjoy being a part of.
02:33I felt like I've gone to a point where I can finally express my creative visions in my day-to-day life.
02:41We're just using this Sephora eye cream here. It's an eye tightening eye cream. It's going to soothe the
02:47eyes after removing the makeup and prepping it for the concealer and eyeshadow. So we're going to make you look
02:54very natural but glowy and bringing out your natural features.
03:01This is the Napoleon lip service. It preps the lips for the lipstick. So we'll be going with a nice
03:08natural pink lip to suit your natural lip color. Definitely different to your vampy makeup that we
03:15had on before. Yeah. I have been judged both in public and online for my style, particularly around the
03:23suburban areas of where I used to grow up. I get called out on the street and I get comments on my
03:28page saying, oh you're emo. There's a lot of very hateful pushback. Something I find funny is that
03:34sometimes people will try to discreetly record me but they'll leave the flash on so they'll walk past
03:38me with the camera like this and it just makes them look stupid. They don't even realize what they're
03:42doing. It's hilarious. So this is an actual tattoo cover-up palette from MAC. It's a waterproof
03:50tattoo cover-up. So we basically go with the more orangey tones to cover the darkness and then we
03:57neutralize it with the skin tones. And Lainey's quite light so you can imagine vampires don't get much sun.
04:07Do you ever go out in the sun? No. So we're going to use the Natasha Denona I Need a Nude palette.
04:15We're going for quite a nudey, clean, corporate-y colors to suit her professional look.
04:22And bring out the green in her eyes so anything with a nice pinky peach undertone with a champagne
04:29is quite professional and elegant. I have decided to do this transformation because I would really like
04:34to see what I look like toned down and I hope my employers would like to see the same thing.
04:39We're using the MAC shade in Yash. This is quite a popular corporate shade.
04:50You look so pretty. You ready to see your reveal?
04:543, 2, 1. Oh my gosh. What the hell? Oh my gosh. I look like a bride star.
05:08Yeah. Stylish bride star. I'm ready to go to work now.
05:12You'll get the job. I'm ready to go to my interview.
05:13This looks awesome. Wow. It's so different to how I usually dress myself. It's just...
05:21I can't believe that's me. I'm all tanned up.
05:26You look really pretty. Thank you.
05:28Really pretty.
05:32I like the makeup. I like the way you've made me look very tan and a nice natural complexion.
05:39Because I probably have an extra pale complexion from just not going in the sun.
05:43So I've got nice normal skin, nice normal hair. I've got eyebrows.
05:48Yes.
05:48That's different.
05:50I've got nice eyelashes on as well. Oh, I feel so pretty right now.
05:54What do you think your boyfriend will say?
05:57I think he would not recognize me totally.
06:01It's very different.
06:03I love Leni's goth look. I think she's very creative.
06:06I love how she expresses herself.
06:07I think she's going to look very formal.
06:09It's definitely going to be very interesting to see without piercings and dressing up as a vampire,
06:14a zombie, but it'll be interesting.
06:21Bruh, what?
06:24What the? You're normal.
06:25I'm normal.
06:27Yeah. What?
06:28I'm normal Leni.
06:30Nice to meet you.
06:30Nice to meet you. Very formal.
06:33I'm ready to go to work now.
06:34What do you think of how you look?
06:36I mean, um, it's interesting. It's an interesting look.
06:40I think it's very different from what I'm normally accustomed to.
06:43Is it a shock?
06:44Yes.
06:47Doesn't even look like me.
06:48No. No, it doesn't.
06:50I'm liking the hairstyle as well.
06:52I'm like new and improved.
06:53And then the blondes, new and improved.
06:56New and improved.
06:57You go to work.
06:58Yeah, it's how I got to work now.
07:00So why the transformation?
07:01Because I have a job interview and I need to ace it.
07:05And my gothic look just isn't going to cut it for a receptionist position.
07:09Yeah.
07:10Do you think Leni should keep this look for the foreseeable future?
07:13No, please.
07:14No? What's wrong with it?
07:16I like the vampire look. It's cool.
07:18Do you think Leni will get a job with a new look?
07:21Oh yeah.
07:22I always get a little bit nervous before every interview.
07:24Good luck.
07:25Take care.
07:25But I'm hoping that my transformation will help me ace it.
07:31So the interview went well, but as you can see, I'm back in my goth style.
07:37The corporate style isn't really suited towards me.
07:40And I think I'm better off finding a job who accepts me for who I really am.
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