Tish and Snooky Bellomo

Meet manic panic's sister act

If you have been having to pay focus on the fashion runways recently, you realize colored hair streaks are huge. Before there have been Proenza Schouler, Altuzarra, and Hakaan, there is Bellomo. That'd function as the siblings Tish and Snooky (having a "y") Bellomo, the founders of Manic Stress. "We would have liked to complete an alternate type of beauty items for individuals like us," Snooky states of the trademark they began in 1977, smack-dab in the center of the East Village's burgeoning punk scene. By "people like us," she means Darlene Harry, the Ramones, the Cramps, the Dictators, and also the Dead Boys. The Manic Stress store on St. Marks Place was their go-to place to go for music badges, original styles (a Boy of Mike T-shirt with realistic bullet holes and bloodstains, anybody?), and, obviously, hair dye.



Manic Panic Purple Haze

"We'd go to England all of the timebring stuff there to market or trade, like vintage rockabilly jackets and sunglassesand we'd find things they did not have here. Hair color was certainly one of individuals things," states Snooky. A complete type of in-house cosmetics adopted within the nineties, getting neon nail polishes, glitter lipsticks, and whitened foundation to a different generation of punks and anybody seeking a geniune dose of counterculturethis reporter incorporated. (Coating strips of my raven locks using the brand's semi-permanent classic cream hair color formula in Crimson Haze like a 12-year-old was among the determining moments of my existence to date.) With a brand new makeup line on counters this month, the siblings talk CBGB's (R.I.P.), the indelible link between music and elegance, and "everyday medieval glamour" for Halloween and beyond.