How to Be a Gangster Girl
Have you ever wanted to look like this:Well now you can! Female gang
members dress in similar color schemes and styles as their male counterparts; the style used will represent the gang you are a member of.
Appearance
- Wear appropriate clothes. If you are on a tight budget, you can buy part by part. Some clothes are available at stores in the sale so look around. Go buy a cheap but, nice looking hat, and a necklace. Go to the cheaper shops round your area and get jeans and a hoodie, and go from there. The usual clothing include tracksuits (not the ones from your team), jeans and hoodies (not skater hoodies). Brands such as Ecko, G-Unit, Apple Bottoms, Baby Phat, House of Dereon, Sean John, South Pole, Fubu, Davoucci, Mackavile and DC are popular with gangsta chicks. Also try the stores Nike, Reebok or Adidas for shoes. If you can, sneakers should be low-top kicks, with brands like Bathing Ape, G Unit, DC, Nike, and other popular but more expensive kinds.
- Learn your gang’s colors. Dressing accordingly will help. Wear jewelery. Chains, bangles, hooped earrings, and cute sunglasses are popular. You can have different styles of hooped earrings, and a nice pair for special events, for example, plain big silver for school, twisted ones for shopping, and gold bamboo hoops for looking your best.
- Be ghetto. Their houses are usually in a ‘hood or Cul de Sac and are clean and tidy (often expensive), but looks effortless. you should also try to look effortless. If you’re going to the store, throw on a necklace, messed up hair, a pair of sweats and a T and just to go. Don’t forget the flip flops if its a nice day. Don’t care what people think about you and don’t forget your cell phone.
- Wear make-up. Keep it light and natural around your face, don’t cake it on. Glitter around your eyes looks cute but don’t go overboard. There are two parts of your face you should focus on: your eyebrows, and your eyelashes. Try to make sure you get your eyebrows are waxed or plucked. You’d never see a ‘hood gal with a mono-brow, would ya? Also, wear mascara and eyeliner whenever you go out, even if you wear nothing else!!
- Take a shower every day. This will stop you stinking. Guys hate a girl with body odor. Also, try to shampoo and condition your hair every other day, unless you’ve got a weave, hair extensions, or have Afro-Caribbean type hair. If this is the case get your stylist to advise you on products you can put in to keep your hair nice in between washes.
- Choose a style for your hair. A lot of gangsta chicks have weaves or extensions to give their hair a thicker look. This is also popular amongst Afro-Caribbean girls, although wearing your hair in an afro is also gangsta to the bone. Some styles which are also popular are braids, cornrows (only get them done by people who know what they’re doing), dead straight hair with bangs, or just casually down with natural-looking, flowing waves. Depending on your hair type, you could:
- Apply gel or mousse or baby oil.
- Get honey-colored highlights in your hair, or get low lights if your hair is really light to give it depth.
- Colour your hair either chocolate brown like Rihanna, sandy blonde like Tyra, platinum blonde like Gwen Stefani (do NOT dye your hair this colour if your skin is a very pink tone, it won’t look good), or black.
- Wear sunglasses on your head, or wear a really thick headband that matches the shirt you’re wearing.
- Wear your hair down, afro, corn rows, braids, or dead dead straight.
- Wear your hair in a low ponytail or braid in microbraids.
- One word - CELLPHONE.
Reputation
- Be known for being tough. DON’T cry or show weakness in front of others. This does not necessarily mean you have to whoop someone’s behind with a Machete, just being known for not taking bull from anyone.
- Listen to rap and hip hop. If you want a girlier image listen to the newer artists like Chris Brown and Ne-Yo. If you want a tough-girl rep listen to 2Pac, Biggie, Jay-Z, The Game, Ashanti, Eminem, G-Unit, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, Bow Wow, 50 Cent, Usher etc. Also try using the phrases “fo real” “Dat aint even funny” “Yall askin fo the drama” as often as possible and you could refer to your mom as your “OG” or “moms” and your friends as “Homes or Homie”
- Learn: Singing and Dancing are good things to learn. If you cannot do these try to work on your other talents. Everybody has a talent they are good at.
School
- Be smart. Gangsters (both mobsters and street gangsters) are traditionally known as being really intelligent people involved in crime, both organized and random. Choose your actions wisely. Getting involved in crime can land you in jail or kicked out of your house or dead. You may end up living in the streets. See article on How to Become a Hobo.
- Decorate your mypspace, bebo, bedroom, house etc. with gangsta stuff.
Social Life
- Socialize. Try and make friends with as many people as possible, but not the emos, scene kids, and goths. Don’t even give them the time of day. Just walk straight past them like they ain’t even real. Be nice to geeks, though, because you never know, they can be useful to have around, and could even become a lawyer and be bailing you out one day because you stole your next door neighbor’s car.
- Party, have fun and be fun to be around.
Tips
- Don’t do it just to fit in but instead think of it as a lifestyle.
Warnings
- Dressing and acting this way may cause the people around you to assume you are gang affiliated and treat you accordingly. This means that dressing this way can lead to a bad experience in the wrong neighborhood. Also, although many are opposed to the use of profiling by the police, it is still a common practice. You will be profiled by the police if you dress this way and you will be more likely to be stopped, searched, questioned or just be given a hard time, than if you did not dress like a female gangster.
- Don’t use drugs. Although drugs have historically been associated with gangs, using drugs is illegal.
- Don’t run away from home.
- At least do as your parents say
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