effy stonem really out here being relatable to mysterious girls who boring teenage boys think are deep but are in reality just traumatized and mentally ill. shoutout to effy for being a coping mechanism for me when i was manic and dissociating at the same time. real icon.
I feel you lmao I definitely used Cassie to cope with my anorexia, I watched Skins a lot when my eating disorder was at its worst and tried to convince myself that I was just quirky and dainty and troubled but in an ~aesthetic~ way like her lol. Mentally ill teens projecting onto or getting super attached to fictional characters is pretty common 😂
absolutely same. It was almost scary how accurate my life was to hers. Even the whole shroom trip that triggered her and she ended up in the clinic, it felt like watching my own story over again (I mean I didn‘t have a therapist who was obsessed with em and killed a friend but yeah the rest pretty similar)
@@josefinebliss2801 I had close friends really try to emulate her, ending up hurting themselves, and now I’m like mad traumatised because I’d have to take plastic pencil sharpeners away from them so they wouldn’t break them and use the blade IN PUBLIC to hurt themselves because it made them “beautiful and mysterious”
I also think that she chose Pandora as Pandora seemed to be really the only person who didn't expect something out of Effy. They just enjoyed each others presences.
actually i felt the opposite. i never understood why pandora would keep being effy’s friend when so often she wasn’t treated w respect. but i guess pandora sees good in all people🥰
@@sleepykuromi exactly. I agree with you. I think it was because regardless of the disrespect that Pandora still saw the good innEffy that it gave Effy hope that she was still worth any good coming her way
Catch me dressed like a Roman statue, with metallic sandals and the pearl head band, flowy fabrics with bright colors. With that blond wavy hair next to the fruit aisle.
The fact Effy gets under so many people's skin for multiple reasons shows how fantastic Kaya is as an actress. The fact people can separate Kaya from Effy as if Effy is her own person shows again how incredibly talented Kaya truly is at portraying the character. No wonder she went on to be in many huge films and be so successful.
YES. Too often I see actresses get sooooo much hate for viewers’ inability to separate the actor from the acting. Thankfully Kaya blew right through that and even though she has gone on record to say she never wants to resurrect the character again, she is still able to look back on that era of her life happily and not cringing
This is exactly why I wish they had cast her as Katniss Everdeen in Hunger games. Missed opportunity ! Guess she wasn’t A-list enough 🙄 Hollywood sucks!
@@Thevintagebootgirlyeah but Jennifer Lawrence was great in those movies. It’s a shame Kaya was saddled with such a hatable character in The maze runner movies
YES. How the 7th season just blew past all the character’s pasts and answered no questions...it was so wrong. I get it’s like real life, how we don’t always know what happens. But Cook knew. And everybody else should’ve known as well. I remember the exact moment I watched that part, how shocked I was that it was just so out of the blue. At least in the 3rd gen we got to see the characters coping with Grace’s death.
cassie's pure was also pretty poorly made, no questions were answered and there were even more mysteries... also it was such a blunt sexualization of cassie's body image
Honestly Effy’s friendship with Pandora was really toxic. Effy was friends with her because she didn’t see Pandora as a threat. Like when she asked why Pandora thinks they sre friends, Pandora immidiately responded ”because you are the coolest ever, and i’ll totally do anything you say. And cause none of your men would bone me because i am useless.” That sentence showed the sad reality what was going on with them. Effy was friends with Pandora because she wasn’t considered ”cool or attractive” so no one would take interest on her instead of Effy. Another great example is her reaction when she found about Panda and Cook. She wasn’t angry because she was jealous, no Panda was right when she said Effy doesn’t really want Cook, she was shocked how someone ACTUALLY got with Panda after her and how she tought Pandora started become potential rival to her.
im not sure why so many people romanticize effy, i mean i see the reasoning but although effy is sensitive, that makes her selfish in many ways. Yes she might be mysterious and cunning, but most of her actions were for personal gain or entertainment. I always felt Pandora was the one helping effy and effy was always messing it up. great show tho
@@anjalifigueiredo1736 yes, but she's not sooooo complex, you talk like she was a diamond. Hell no. ALL characters had this complexity just like you and me, effy wasn't the great exception, she is pretty and that's why people like her and even though that's the point of her character, why do we give so much credit for that kind of people? And I liked her brother more, at least Tony had an evolution, effy didn't. And her friendship with Pandora was very twisted, effy was friend of pandora because she wasn't a threat, she could manipulate her, effy was very insecure. I agree with the main comment.
The difference is effy forever stayed trapped into manic pixie dream girl trope and didn't flesh out as a character even when she grew up which is writer's fault but Cassie eventually grew to have more depth in her that made her more human, she was a full-fledged character that sort of broke the mpdg tag in season 2 with her reacting differently to the things happening around her (although they did sexualize her again in skins pure, the ending was very cathartic and wholesome)
i know it may not be the most popular, but i would love if you did a style analysis on katie and emily- i think costuming played a big part in showing how emily became her own person when she started to accept her sexuality, really hope you consider this it would be so interesting!
That would be great! One of my favourite moments is when Emily dresses like Katie to take her exam, and I think it's JJ who kind of smirks because he knows she's Emily. I think it's a cute moment, and good at showing how different the two really are
Rebecca Dodd always loved that moment, hated that their friendship was all but abandoned in season 4. another favourite moment is the dance at the end of s3 when emily wears the same dress as katie but takes it off after publicly declaring her love for naomi, it’s so symbolic if not a little cheesy!
@@dtsotm Yeah, some of the minor friendships were my favourite. And that moment is great! It was a really good way to show her stepping into her own life and personality
As someone who is expressive and sometimes too talkative, I used to be jealous of how reserved and mysterious Effy was. But I guess that inability to express your emotions isn't something to strive for and ultimately led to her downfall. Everyone wanted to be like Effy to appear a certain way to others, but isn't being happier and brighter like Pandora, despite being perceived as annoying or "too much", more fulfilling.
Yea, growing up I wanted to be mysterious and cool but it made me more sad, growing into my character and ending up like Pandora was awesome for my mental health
Yeah. I had an incredibly conventionally attractive, model - beautiful friend that was mysterious and reminded me a lot of Effy. Everyone had a crush on her. She was a DJ, very talented and charming in a mysterious way. I always envied and glorified her for being able to be so calm, seemingly cold and collected, never complaining about personal problems, captivating everyone’s attention, etc., but down the line she developed extreme addiction issues and I realised the wasn’t „calm and collected“ at all, she was just suppressing her emotions to a point that made her very sick. I‘m sorry for envying her and not realising she needed help.
me too! i love it so much but i feel as though it was part of my teenage/chilldhood. i'm 27 now and i just don't know if i should move on or watch it again.
i loved this especially the ending!!! people tend to say effy is overrated bc they only see her as a mysterious & manipulative party girl but she's so much more than that & you covered it so well thank you!!!
speaking as a fan of this channel, loving all the content, being sincere, I feel that effie thing only works to be stylish because of her appearance. This style just looks good because her face and the storyline/interpretation. Dont get me wrong! I recognize that there is this chic gothic style like jenny in gossip girl or even avril lavigne girlfriend era. I can’t see a “ordinary” girl wearing this effie style and dont looking unpolished and cheap.
Looking like her physically definitely would help but in the end I think it comes down to attitude. If you don't own your look it just won't work. She could even possibly look cheap if her personality didn't match.
True but that's why it fits her character so well, I feel like it really accentuates the fact that Effy can do whatever she wants just because she's beautiful and everyone is inexplicably in love with her no matter what she does or what she looks like. She doesn't have to care about looking polished etc, she's already beautiful and people already love her. She could be wearing a garbage bag and guys would still lose their minds over her lol
Definitely, the writing and actress brought Effy to life. No one else could have executed the character like Kaya Scodelario. The fashion was an extension of the character that complimented the actress well to create the look associated with Effy.
Her wearing a sid and nancy tshirt could also mean something. Maybe to indicate that her relationship with freddie isn't going to end well/work out in a subtle way.
I love combining both masculine items and feminine items into one outfit. Even one item can be both feminine and masculine at the same time. I miss dressing more messy like I usually do, but it also feels nice to be put together
I think she doesn’t speak a lot as she feels no one listens anyway, thus she thrives in her appearance of “bad girl”. How could she care when no one else does. Or at least she feels. Shes stoic bc at home, her pain is never the spotlight. No one seems to pay attention at home except Tony, and even then, it’s like an alliance of “we’re both coping and fucked, I understand and have your back.”
Agree but also see it as a control/punishment mechanism for her. The only power she feels that she has is to withhold her voice especially with characters older than her at the time. A lot of the characters in Skins could be seen as reactions to feeling lack of control: Tony manipulates and is self-centred. Cassie controls her eating and weight. Jal works hard in hopes of achieving success. Chris tries to escape/ forget it through partying. Sid bumbles around. Michelle rebels against her mum and horrid stepdad and tries to keep up appearances. It’s not the only way to look at the characters and there’s probably many that don’t fit but it’s something I always think about.
10:32 Also, the graphic on the tee is a picture of Sick & Nancy, the embodiment of toxic relationship. It was interesting to me, as a teenager, watching this references that were so obvious.
i love this analysis, effy is an amazing but very misunderstood character, i love how you don't try and simplify her like so many people do, also im so glad someone else notice how expressive her wardrobe design was, from her double life, to her using her sex appeal, to when she started to get better and stop caring so much about her facade it's always complementing her story so well
skins is an amazing show but the scenes (especially in the first season) where they practically taught viewers how to make it seem as if you’ve eaten untouched food or how to smoke really rubbed me the wrong way
Minus the partying, drugs and sex, I surprisingly relate a lot to her, right down to the bpd, self harm, psychotic depression. People generally only value me as some kind of fantasy but I’ve never had a real boyfriend, hardly any real friends, and I’ve only tried to pretty myself up more and more hoping people would love me more but nobody does beyond the surface
I watched the first few seasons multiple times as a teen but never watched the adult effy season, so excited to just rewatch everything now that I’m an “adult” and can also watch the adult season 😍
Well it s not a season, they made only 3 episodes 1 for Effy (I didn’t like the Naomi storyline and the absence of Tony) 1 for Cassie (she is really different though) and 1 episode for Cook (I didn’t watch it) Every episode is split in 2 parts You can watch it on UA-cam
Same, but I think I was always like this, and I just felt seen by her character, and how the writers romanticized the struggles that I didn’t even realize other people experienced.
So many people in the comments are hating on the character because she wasn't a role model when the show never intended her to be one. She was supposed to be a mess and unlikable. Not every character in a show, book, movie, or any piece of media is created to be loved or looked up to. Sometimes they're a cautionary tale, a mirror that shows us the flaws within ourselves that we need to work on or a road that we should never take.
effy reminds me of an aspect of myself in a way but i was never like her.. effy was probably idealized and sexualized as a child. she just learned how to “empower” herself by embodying what everyone already thinks of her. it’s a defense.. but you realize it isn’t actually empowering. instead of feeling subjugated by others u subjugate yourself.. pls do cassie. i always loved her style. i love thé 20/30s élément in both their styles!
just wanted to say that is is the first video i've watched that has kept my FULL attention the whole time without looking at my phone in a LONG time. so interesting and well-made
It's not that I ever idolised Effy but that she was already so much like me in looks, style and temperament that it shook me. People around me noticed. She's relatable. I think there's a bit of that Effy magic in all of us.
It's actually embarrassing how many times I tried to recreate Effy's iconic Make-Up look that you showed as the first image of her in this video and how I failed every single time lol-
OMG I'm so glad you guys have decided to do your analysis on Effy Stonem! I love your style analyses, and I had hoped you'd do Effy next, she is just such an icon!
Watching this made me wanna re-watch the whole series. That scene when Effy and Freddy are laying on the grass at the park. It breaks my heart every time. So beautiful. Or when Freddy sees her with Cook for the first time. Oooffff
What an amazing analysis. When I was a teen I was such a mix of Effy and Cassie (not because I wanted to be but because I had stuff going on), skins helped me greatly since I felt at least in a fictional world someone was a bit like me.
@@carolinexoxo1403 I think what she means by that, there is a thing where girls (I want assume young girls in middle school or high school who does this) try to seem like they’re the prettiest girl in the classroom. They may go through lengths of seeming mysterious to attract attention. I remember this happening in my time when I was in middle school. It was cringey 😬.
Especially the parts of the show where people (boys and girls) would meet Effy and her friend (the girl from season 1 or Panda) and people would ALWAYS ignore the friend like they don’t exist, people would even laugh at them sometimes including Effy herself. It kinda puts this idea in your head that you are way less valuable and less interesting if you aren’t as pretty as the girl next to you
I'm 25 and I think this still impacts woman, specially woman who are pretty and always have this need tk compete. It's sad, but for woman beauty is status and power
The way you explained and articulated this and tied her character and experiences throughout the show is so amazing I hope you will do a analysis abt cassie soon
TBH i think that effy could have been a revolutionaire portail of autism. That put a way that a highly intelligent person could cope with her different working brain. How her hypersensetifity causes her to keep distant and afraid of the intense emotions that comes with taking a leap of faith into people. How her intellegence makes her able to see and understand things that are unnoticable for others and makes her able to calculate how to portrait herself and what to say. The constant unexplained feeling of being on their own and lost. Idk i just saw more in effy than in JJ
i saw that too (also reflects how it's just not considered in the same way for women as men. JJ is much much more overt about it, which makes him more classic for the diagnosticians).
This was an amazing breakdown on the person that was, to me, the most relatable human in my adolescence. In watching your video I also understood a lot about myself. So thank you ❤️
i would love to see one of these videos about camille, by emily in paris, even though she is a secondary character, her style and personality are captivating and glamorous
Gosh do I adore the excessive jewelry 🤩 I would love to play around with this style. The eye makeup is also amazing and makes her blue eyes pop amazingly ✨
i didn’t really like Effy lol In the first season i did, because she had Tony to balance her out, but in the second gen i just didn’t like her that much
I've watched this video 5 times, I do not know why everything is so soothing : the voice, the content, the music & the images. I completely forgot about Skins until I somehow stumbled upon this video, this show was really something else ! Anyway this video is amazing:))
effy is my favorite skins character along with cassie and mini, but i don't love her just cuz she's pretty or "cool", she's just interesting, complex, intriguing, her character's really well writen, i liked the way they wrote her lost childhood and how her defenses were weakened when in love, i think most characters of skins are quite interesting and well writen, but mostly effy, she's on other level of complexity.
For me that's giving her way too much credit. All the other characters from gen 1 and 2 had a strong evolution but I didn't got the same from effy, she was just pretty and as she was like that, she could get anything she wanted. I always perceived it as unfair, that's why I never liked her. I know you didn't ask me, either you love effy or you hate it .
I just LOVE your videos! It's so cool to see a fashion video that goes deep and explores beyond the obvious when it comes to the different elements of fashion. Yours definitely became one of my favourite chanels!
I've always related to Effy. Putting on a confident front when in reality, I'm depressed, scared and struggling yet it's hard for me to admit it until it hits me like a bus. I wish people didn't glamorize her. Dealing with your issues through drug abuse and s3x isn't fun, it kills you inside.
Your content is amazing and unique! Would you consider doing an analysis on "Confessions of a Shopaholic"? I think it's such an underrated movie - there's lots of passion for fashion in Rebecca's character. Keep up the good work xx
She was working in the City/ Square mile or Canary wharf. The people that work there are RICH RICH and as a result even junior staff get paid way more than the average London salary let alone UK due to the nature of businesses that are there. So for me it's kinda believable. Esp if she was working in a boutique firm.
It's pretty believable, she works for a leading hedge fund company. Also, around this time is when a lot of those rent designer companies really started coming into the spotlight.
@@inspiredby624 Herve Leger dresses are not lucky second hand find, and that colorblock version was from that season (I looked it up because it was so stunning, but noped at the price, even though it was on sale).
It's nice to revisit Effy and the fashion that I was obsessed over when I was younger. You did so much work on this video and it shows! My only critique is the vocal fry- it's very distracting.
ohmygawd too true she might as well be the poster child for skins, like i know, there are other characters and yes, they are interesting too. but i got really intrigued by the edits i saw of her in the gram that i started watching skins, only lasted until season 3 tho
when you wanted to be effy or cassie...
*and you ended up being Sid*
I wanted to be my own person and ended up as Effy by the time I turned 14-15 by complete accident. And I don’t mean style wise🙃🙃
a Pandora at 15, a Pandora at 30.
"Hi, I'm Pandora, I'm useless"
you didn't have to be this loud.. lol
i ended up being jj but he’s the best so i don’t mind
The twins were amazing.
I feel like so many girls either wanted to be Effy or Cassie
I loved Cassie, I hope this channel covers Cassie.
I often wondered what my style influence was when i was a teenager and this was it- a combo of Effie and Cassie
I was a Cassie girl
I wanted to be like effy so badly when i was 11 that i turned out a cassie
Cassie❤️
effy stonem really out here being relatable to mysterious girls who boring teenage boys think are deep but are in reality just traumatized and mentally ill. shoutout to effy for being a coping mechanism for me when i was manic and dissociating at the same time. real icon.
I feel you lmao I definitely used Cassie to cope with my anorexia, I watched Skins a lot when my eating disorder was at its worst and tried to convince myself that I was just quirky and dainty and troubled but in an ~aesthetic~ way like her lol. Mentally ill teens projecting onto or getting super attached to fictional characters is pretty common 😂
@@mkgirl19 I was so attached to both of them for the same reasons holy shit ahahah
@@alicegilchrist-miller3034 it was like effy was my darker side and cassie was lighter
Jkk
absolutely same. It was almost scary how accurate my life was to hers. Even the whole shroom trip that triggered her and she ended up in the clinic, it felt like watching my own story over again (I mean I didn‘t have a therapist who was obsessed with em and killed a friend but yeah the rest pretty similar)
The way young girls idolised Effy scared and still scares the shit out of me
did you see that one episode where they taught their whole audience how to smoke? by EFFY? fun times
Same. She's extremely toxic and self involved
@@josefinebliss2801 I had close friends really try to emulate her, ending up hurting themselves, and now I’m like mad traumatised because I’d have to take plastic pencil sharpeners away from them so they wouldn’t break them and use the blade IN PUBLIC to hurt themselves because it made them “beautiful and mysterious”
I personally know girls like her and they’re just tiresome and push people away for no reason
I was one of them, I let my mental state degraded because I thought it was cool... So dumb of me. I spent too much time on Tumblr.
People thinks Effy life is perfect but it’s so sad. It’s so sad. She was so scared to love Freddy only to lose him in the end
Lol people who think this way must have not watch the show wtf
F in the chat
Actually everyone have scare from being in love
She literally tried to kill herself too
@Caroline Boyden maybe not thought that her life was perfect but definitely idiolized her life and wanted their life's to be just like hers.
You are so right I was always confused by Effy chose pandora to be her friend. Pandora symbolizes childhood for her
I also think that she chose Pandora as Pandora seemed to be really the only person who didn't expect something out of Effy. They just enjoyed each others presences.
Exactly. Pandora represented the innocence that she had long lost.
@@matchaleche exactly. Their were no expectations. Just life.
actually i felt the opposite. i never understood why pandora would keep being effy’s friend when so often she wasn’t treated w respect. but i guess pandora sees good in all people🥰
@@sleepykuromi exactly. I agree with you. I think it was because regardless of the disrespect that Pandora still saw the good innEffy that it gave Effy hope that she was still worth any good coming her way
“They will often dress for happiness” me whenever i go to the grocery store
Same, catch me buying some fruit in my 4inch knee high boots and ysl mini tuxedo shorts
Yes! It’s me every time I go to the supermarket
Catch me dressed like a Roman statue, with metallic sandals and the pearl head band, flowy fabrics with bright colors. With that blond wavy hair next to the fruit aisle.
Yes, especially during this pandemic
Imma be wearing heavy makeup just to the grocery store
Wait hahahha 😂😂💀💀💀
The fact Effy gets under so many people's skin for multiple reasons shows how fantastic Kaya is as an actress. The fact people can separate Kaya from Effy as if Effy is her own person shows again how incredibly talented Kaya truly is at portraying the character. No wonder she went on to be in many huge films and be so successful.
YES. Too often I see actresses get sooooo much hate for viewers’ inability to separate the actor from the acting. Thankfully Kaya blew right through that and even though she has gone on record to say she never wants to resurrect the character again, she is still able to look back on that era of her life happily and not cringing
shes a brilliant actress
This is exactly why I wish they had cast her as Katniss Everdeen in Hunger games. Missed opportunity ! Guess she wasn’t A-list enough 🙄 Hollywood sucks!
She needs better roles
@@Thevintagebootgirlyeah but Jennifer Lawrence was great in those movies. It’s a shame Kaya was saddled with such a hatable character in The maze runner movies
Skins Fire not addressing Freddie's murder and how it affected Effy will forever be one of the worst mistakes for the series.
YES. How the 7th season just blew past all the character’s pasts and answered no questions...it was so wrong. I get it’s like real life, how we don’t always know what happens. But Cook knew. And everybody else should’ve known as well. I remember the exact moment I watched that part, how shocked I was that it was just so out of the blue. At least in the 3rd gen we got to see the characters coping with Grace’s death.
cassie's pure was also pretty poorly made, no questions were answered and there were even more mysteries... also it was such a blunt sexualization of cassie's body image
kaya actually did an interview about this a long time ago and said effy never knew about freddys death
@@jlucille that’s even worse bc it makes no sense that she would be so okay after the one person who said they wouldn’t leave her just disappeared.
@@jlucille wtf
You should do Cassie Howard also her styling sense is so angelic
Who's Cassie?
@@kendelaigarner2174 she's the blonde skinny girl from first two seasons of skins
isn’t it cassie ainsworth ?
@@jadedagwood sorry I mixed euphoria Cassie to skins Cassie both are blonde and cute
@@raquellawlitet2992 ohhhh lmao, they sound almost the same on paper hahaha
Her face was so naturally perfect that looked like it was sculpted by an artist
she was like 15
@@F16-y4s his other comment on the Beth video is equally creepy
U guys need to grow up
Agree
Unpopular opinion: if effy wasn’t attractive nobody would like her character
Edit: can everyone stop repeating the same thing 😭
agree
agree
obviously.. but u could say that for any female (and most male) character on the show
This
I dont think it's unpopular
we either wanted to be Effy or had a crush on her in middle school
Or both 😆
both lmao. effey was my gay awakening
both
Not really. I pitied her but she was interesting in a very non positive way.
I didn’t like her at all
Honestly Effy’s friendship with Pandora was really toxic. Effy was friends with her because she didn’t see Pandora as a threat. Like when she asked why Pandora thinks they sre friends, Pandora immidiately responded ”because you are the coolest ever, and i’ll totally do anything you say. And cause none of your men would bone me because i am useless.”
That sentence showed the sad reality what was going on with them. Effy was friends with Pandora because she wasn’t considered ”cool or attractive” so no one would take interest on her instead of Effy.
Another great example is her reaction when she found about Panda and Cook. She wasn’t angry because she was jealous, no Panda was right when she said Effy doesn’t really want Cook, she was shocked how someone ACTUALLY got with Panda after her and how she tought Pandora started become potential rival to her.
im not sure why so many people romanticize effy, i mean i see the reasoning but although effy is sensitive, that makes her selfish in many ways. Yes she might be mysterious and cunning, but most of her actions were for personal gain or entertainment. I always felt Pandora was the one helping effy and effy was always messing it up. great show tho
yess effys character is so complex and even how her friendship with pandora is safe and i hate that it is glamorized
@@anjalifigueiredo1736 yes, but she's not sooooo complex, you talk like she was a diamond. Hell no. ALL characters had this complexity just like you and me, effy wasn't the great exception, she is pretty and that's why people like her and even though that's the point of her character, why do we give so much credit for that kind of people? And I liked her brother more, at least Tony had an evolution, effy didn't.
And her friendship with Pandora was very twisted, effy was friend of pandora because she wasn't a threat, she could manipulate her, effy was very insecure. I agree with the main comment.
I never realized just how thin she was in this show
It's also because she was super young. She started this show when she was 14.
She is thin. It's her bodytype. She has always been elegantly slim with curves.
I mean half of the girls in this show look unhealthily thin except for Jal
@@ramonapiercesalvatore5917 it's not though. Kaya filled out and gained weight and became thick later in life.
@@redhairedhoe it was the fashion at the time in the uk. I was in high school then and we were literally all starving ourselves.
Early 2010s everybody in catholic school in the after class dressed like Effy, Cassie or Blair, even if it was just the heavy makeup
Queens
Whos blair?
ilana clarke the main character of Gossip Girl
@@Ilovemiwandkublaikhantx Blair Waldorf from gossip girl
the struggle of trying to pretend like you didn't go to catholic school lolol
Effy - gothic / emo / bold / seductive
Cassie - pure / angelic / soft / innocent
Yeah, so basically I was a mix of those two in high school. Although, I was keen on Michelle.
@@red___cemetery8554 yeah it said i kill emo kids lmao
Both otherworldly/unattainable cool & mysterious vibes tho
Well Cassie could be harsh by times in season 2
The difference is effy forever stayed trapped into manic pixie dream girl trope and didn't flesh out as a character even when she grew up which is writer's fault but Cassie eventually grew to have more depth in her that made her more human, she was a full-fledged character that sort of broke the mpdg tag in season 2 with her reacting differently to the things happening around her (although they did sexualize her again in skins pure, the ending was very cathartic and wholesome)
i know it may not be the most popular, but i would love if you did a style analysis on katie and emily- i think costuming played a big part in showing how emily became her own person when she started to accept her sexuality, really hope you consider this it would be so interesting!
That would be great! One of my favourite moments is when Emily dresses like Katie to take her exam, and I think it's JJ who kind of smirks because he knows she's Emily. I think it's a cute moment, and good at showing how different the two really are
Rebecca Dodd always loved that moment, hated that their friendship was all but abandoned in season 4. another favourite moment is the dance at the end of s3 when emily wears the same dress as katie but takes it off after publicly declaring her love for naomi, it’s so symbolic if not a little cheesy!
@@dtsotm Yeah, some of the minor friendships were my favourite. And that moment is great! It was a really good way to show her stepping into her own life and personality
I love Katie‘s style and her episode in series 4 (I think? The one with the a wedding planning and hen party etc) is my fav
I feel. Like the narrator *just loves her own voice*
But the vocal fry is cringe
I had to stop watching
this is so specific yet so true
A perfect fit for the subject matter
@@laheysdog1093 I was looking for this! I actually feel like it’s getting worse with every video... 🤦🏻♀️
As someone who is expressive and sometimes too talkative, I used to be jealous of how reserved and mysterious Effy was. But I guess that inability to express your emotions isn't something to strive for and ultimately led to her downfall. Everyone wanted to be like Effy to appear a certain way to others, but isn't being happier and brighter like Pandora, despite being perceived as annoying or "too much", more fulfilling.
Yea, growing up I wanted to be mysterious and cool but it made me more sad, growing into my character and ending up like Pandora was awesome for my mental health
you are spot on.
Yeah. I had an incredibly conventionally attractive, model - beautiful friend that was mysterious and reminded me a lot of Effy. Everyone had a crush on her. She was a DJ, very talented and charming in a mysterious way. I always envied and glorified her for being able to be so calm, seemingly cold and collected, never complaining about personal problems, captivating everyone’s attention, etc., but down the line she developed extreme addiction issues and I realised the wasn’t „calm and collected“ at all, she was just suppressing her emotions to a point that made her very sick. I‘m sorry for envying her and not realising she needed help.
this has made me want to watch skins again
Many rewatches over is great for life experience and remindings for both lots of direct and indirect life advice.
Miss that show in 2021
me too! i love it so much but i feel as though it was part of my teenage/chilldhood. i'm 27 now and i just don't know if i should move on or watch it again.
same 😕
omg omg omg, didn't expect that
one of my favourite characters ever
sometimes I feel I stuck in 16yo phase, I am 26
you're not the only one. I'm 25 and can relate :D
23 can relate
I’m 25, also stuck in this phase.
My neck, my back, my anxiety attack
I'm 26 too and I'm definitely stuck there. not complaining though 🙃
29. Sadly.
i loved this especially the ending!!! people tend to say effy is overrated bc they only see her as a mysterious & manipulative party girl but she's so much more than that & you covered it so well thank you!!!
actors are a crazy breed they turn into these characters so well, i don’t even know how to be myself lmao.
speaking as a fan of this channel, loving all the content, being sincere, I feel that effie thing only works to be stylish because of her appearance. This style just looks good because her face and the storyline/interpretation. Dont get me wrong! I recognize that there is this chic gothic style like jenny in gossip girl or even avril lavigne girlfriend era. I can’t see a “ordinary” girl wearing this effie style and dont looking unpolished and cheap.
I agree, it looks good on her because she's thin and very pretty
Looking like her physically definitely would help but in the end I think it comes down to attitude. If you don't own your look it just won't work. She could even possibly look cheap if her personality didn't match.
You're right. It's not an accessible style at all, in that sense.
ikr her figure really fits it, also idk why but i feel like her dark hair, pale skin, and icy blue eyes really help fit the style too..
True but that's why it fits her character so well, I feel like it really accentuates the fact that Effy can do whatever she wants just because she's beautiful and everyone is inexplicably in love with her no matter what she does or what she looks like. She doesn't have to care about looking polished etc, she's already beautiful and people already love her. She could be wearing a garbage bag and guys would still lose their minds over her lol
I don't think Effy's style was what made her so amazing, it was the way the writers wrote the character and the actress's beauty
Definitely, the writing and actress brought Effy to life. No one else could have executed the character like Kaya Scodelario. The fashion was an extension of the character that complimented the actress well to create the look associated with Effy.
Definitely! But this video focuses on her style.
The style analysis of Noora from Skam would be interesting. I absolutely love her sense of style.
i cant look at her without being overwhelmed with infatuation lol
yeaah it look so effortless yet fashionable
Yessss i love her style
yessss
yesss plissss
You really hit the nail on the head with the analysis of her character and psychology. I feel like she has so much depth it’s hard to understand her
The visuals, editing style, your calm voice, and psych analysis are always extraordinarily mesmerizing! I’m always in awe while watching your videos!
Her wearing a sid and nancy tshirt could also mean something. Maybe to indicate that her relationship with freddie isn't going to end well/work out in a subtle way.
Jup! I thought the same!
At which timestamp is she wearing that?
I think it's also to show that she romanticized things that are toxic.
That awkward moment when you grew up as a combination of Effy and Cassy but you didn’t mean to and it probably means you needed a lot of therapy 😂
I feel attacked😂🙃
I feel like I progressed from cassie in my teens to effy in my twenties... messed up either way.
i swear to god when i was 14 in 2009 EVERY girl wanted to be effy and thats terrifying
OMG! I was literally just binge re-watching Skins and SKAM.
same
skam omg yes
where can you can watch skins now? its no longer on netflix
@@lunaesmsp8934 it's available on UA-cam
@@lunaesmsp8934 Channel 4 website ! im not sure if its only available in UK though
"Effy is a genuine and caring person."
Effy: Why bother... caring about people?
"You don't fool me" said Tony
@@justinekmy6023 - So textbook disingenuousness?
@@jpaxonreyes Yes, but no. She cares, but doesn't want people to know. Vulnerability is a weakness to Effy.
@@Aster_Risk - But I was talking about Effy's sincerity. She's not "genuine" if she hides her consideration for others.
@@jpaxonreyes Well none of what Effy is is genuine. She’s always performing
I love combining both masculine items and feminine items into one outfit. Even one item can be both feminine and masculine at the same time. I miss dressing more messy like I usually do, but it also feels nice to be put together
I think she doesn’t speak a lot as she feels no one listens anyway, thus she thrives in her appearance of “bad girl”. How could she care when no one else does. Or at least she feels. Shes stoic bc at home, her pain is never the spotlight. No one seems to pay attention at home except Tony, and even then, it’s like an alliance of “we’re both coping and fucked, I understand and have your back.”
Agree but also see it as a control/punishment mechanism for her. The only power she feels that she has is to withhold her voice especially with characters older than her at the time. A lot of the characters in Skins could be seen as reactions to feeling lack of control: Tony manipulates and is self-centred. Cassie controls her eating and weight. Jal works hard in hopes of achieving success. Chris tries to escape/ forget it through partying. Sid bumbles around. Michelle rebels against her mum and horrid stepdad and tries to keep up appearances.
It’s not the only way to look at the characters and there’s probably many that don’t fit but it’s something I always think about.
omg this is such a good analysis. like everyone does these things to take some control over their lives
@@anjalifigueiredo1736 belated thank you 😊
Kaya Scodelario is so gorgeous😍😭
Great video!!
10:32 Also, the graphic on the tee is a picture of Sick & Nancy, the embodiment of toxic relationship. It was interesting to me, as a teenager, watching this references that were so obvious.
Indirect references and Easter eggs make this show such a great work of film!
i love this analysis, effy is an amazing but very misunderstood character, i love how you don't try and simplify her like so many people do, also im so glad someone else notice how expressive her wardrobe design was, from her double life, to her using her sex appeal, to when she started to get better and stop caring so much about her facade it's always complementing her story so well
skins is an amazing show but the scenes (especially in the first season) where they practically taught viewers how to make it seem as if you’ve eaten untouched food or how to smoke really rubbed me the wrong way
Minus the partying, drugs and sex, I surprisingly relate a lot to her, right down to the bpd, self harm, psychotic depression. People generally only value me as some kind of fantasy but I’ve never had a real boyfriend, hardly any real friends, and I’ve only tried to pretty myself up more and more hoping people would love me more but nobody does beyond the surface
God why is this so relatable and true
ouch
I watched the first few seasons multiple times as a teen but never watched the adult effy season, so excited to just rewatch everything now that I’m an “adult” and can also watch the adult season 😍
Well it s not a season, they made only 3 episodes 1 for Effy (I didn’t like the Naomi storyline and the absence of Tony)
1 for Cassie (she is really different though) and 1 episode for Cook (I didn’t watch it)
Every episode is split in 2 parts
You can watch it on UA-cam
you captured her so well thank you for understanding her character
i wanted to be her so bad but then i actually became her & now i hate it
same.
Same, but I think I was always like this, and I just felt seen by her character, and how the writers romanticized the struggles that I didn’t even realize other people experienced.
Mood
bad time but yo sinjin drowning viewer :0
@@ley6748 AYEEE🙌🏻
I am sure she had borderline personality disorder rather than just depression. But back then this illness was probably not well known.
I have bpd and I can relate with her in other aspects but I don’t think she has it. Cassie definitely has it
idk but she didnt just have depression, she had psychotic depression which may share some similarities with bpd
I have bpd and I think that she has too
I think repressed trauma can have similar symptoms to BPD.
Please make a Cassie style analysis too! I'm still obsessed with her shoes
Yes the gold ones omggg still deseperatly hunting for them
@@palissovski1829 same, that whole outfit is so iconic
So many people in the comments are hating on the character because she wasn't a role model when the show never intended her to be one. She was supposed to be a mess and unlikable. Not every character in a show, book, movie, or any piece of media is created to be loved or looked up to. Sometimes they're a cautionary tale, a mirror that shows us the flaws within ourselves that we need to work on or a road that we should never take.
Well said
The vocal fry kills me
omg u should do mini mcguinness- aka freya mavor's character. she has such a big background and definitely has a special style
omg yes! mini had so many interesting outfits :)
she was my favourite character from gen 3!
Yes mini is SO underrated!!
effy reminds me of an aspect of myself in a way but i was never like her.. effy was probably idealized and sexualized as a child. she just learned how to “empower” herself by embodying what everyone already thinks of her. it’s a defense.. but you realize it isn’t actually empowering. instead of feeling subjugated by others u subjugate yourself..
pls do cassie. i always loved her style. i love thé 20/30s élément in both their styles!
just wanted to say that is is the first video i've watched that has kept my FULL attention the whole time without looking at my phone in a LONG time. so interesting and well-made
Girls watching the show wanted to be either Effy or Cassie.
I wanted to be like Jal. Talented. Determined. Loving.
It's not that I ever idolised Effy but that she was already so much like me in looks, style and temperament that it shook me. People around me noticed. She's relatable. I think there's a bit of that Effy magic in all of us.
I cried watching this video! Effy was my favorite Skins character. Freya is second. Thank you for analyzing her fashion so well! xx
Hands down this is the best character- & fashion analysis of Effy I have seen so far🙌🏽
you know every show i loved growing up
this is one of the best Effy analysis videos I've seen online + you have a very soothing voice
Please do skins as a series! Would love some coverage of other characters 🥰
It's actually embarrassing how many times I tried to recreate Effy's iconic Make-Up look that you showed as the first image of her in this video and how I failed every single time lol-
I wanted to be Effy so badly in high school (still kinda do)! Also, your voice is so soothing and the video was so well put-together!!
i can not overstate how impressed i am with how well put together this video is!!
OMG I'm so glad you guys have decided to do your analysis on Effy Stonem!
I love your style analyses, and I had hoped you'd do Effy next, she is just such an icon!
Watching this made me wanna re-watch the whole series. That scene when Effy and Freddy are laying on the grass at the park. It breaks my heart every time. So beautiful. Or when Freddy sees her with Cook for the first time. Oooffff
I usually love this channel but I can't handle the vocal fry and the way you narrate your videos, especially in this one.
Me too!! I don't get why she drags each word out
Same 😢 I love the content but it's just too hard to listen too
I lover her voice tbh . It’s soft and calming ✨
i can’t watch unless i put the speed at 1.75x
Ik it stresses me out 😭
Finally someone made a good analysis of her. Congrats!
What an amazing analysis. When I was a teen I was such a mix of Effy and Cassie (not because I wanted to be but because I had stuff going on), skins helped me greatly since I felt at least in a fictional world someone was a bit like me.
Everyone is talking about the subject of the video but I just love the person talking. What a great voice!
No wonder our generation is plagued with “Prettiest Girl in the Room Syndrome...”
wait can you explain this?
@@carolinexoxo1403 I think what she means by that, there is a thing where girls (I want assume young girls in middle school or high school who does this) try to seem like they’re the prettiest girl in the classroom. They may go through lengths of seeming mysterious to attract attention. I remember this happening in my time when I was in middle school. It was cringey 😬.
Especially the parts of the show where people (boys and girls) would meet Effy and her friend (the girl from season 1 or Panda) and people would ALWAYS ignore the friend like they don’t exist, people would even laugh at them sometimes including Effy herself. It kinda puts this idea in your head that you are way less valuable and less interesting if you aren’t as pretty as the girl next to you
I'm 25 and I think this still impacts woman, specially woman who are pretty and always have this need tk compete. It's sad, but for woman beauty is status and power
The way you explained and articulated this and tied her character and experiences throughout the show is so amazing I hope you will do a analysis abt cassie soon
Effy reminds me a lot of Agnes, a side character from Gossip Girl.. 🤔
I can def see it.
@kibblewibble I didn't really mean the acting, I meant the look and fashion style.. they look really similar
@kibblewibble I feel like iffy would have drugged someone in the earlier seasons
I think people want to be effy because she seems as a character that doesn’t care and is free also her edgy , fun look is also probably why
Also I appreciate that you do so many different types of shows!! Thank you for your time, I’m a sub!
TBH i think that effy could have been a revolutionaire portail of autism. That put a way that a highly intelligent person could cope with her different working brain. How her hypersensetifity causes her to keep distant and afraid of the intense emotions that comes with taking a leap of faith into people. How her intellegence makes her able to see and understand things that are unnoticable for others and makes her able to calculate how to portrait herself and what to say. The constant unexplained feeling of being on their own and lost. Idk i just saw more in effy than in JJ
i saw that too (also reflects how it's just not considered in the same way for women as men. JJ is much much more overt about it, which makes him more classic for the diagnosticians).
This is so so beautifully done
Effy's clothes and her style were captivating! Everyone wanted to emulate those looks, nobody but models could, obviously.
Omg thank you so much for this video, it's so well put together and it has a great analysis
This was an amazing breakdown on the person that was, to me, the most relatable human in my adolescence. In watching your video I also understood a lot about myself. So thank you ❤️
i would love to see one of these videos about camille, by emily in paris, even though she is a secondary character, her style and personality are captivating and glamorous
I consumed this show as a teen, rewatching it so many times! I just loved how messy and raw the show was
Gosh do I adore the excessive jewelry 🤩 I would love to play around with this style. The eye makeup is also amazing and makes her blue eyes pop amazingly ✨
im here to say love u and ur analysis and graphics and ur voice! lovely as always michelle
Now I really wanna watch the show, Effie seems like such a relatable character
Update: I’m currently on season 2 and I’m loving it
ok am i the only one who thought that the narrator's voice is soo soothing and calm?
been waiting for this ! ❤️
this whole video is wow. thank you for this.
i didn’t really like Effy lol In the first season i did, because she had Tony to balance her out, but in the second gen i just didn’t like her that much
I've watched this video 5 times, I do not know why everything is so soothing : the voice, the content, the music & the images. I completely forgot about Skins until I somehow stumbled upon this video, this show was really something else ! Anyway this video is amazing:))
I would kill for a Katherine Pierce style analysis.
Just give me a name...😂
katerina petrova is my spirit animal
Yes!!!!!
YES! I love Katherine!
@@itznia_ok8069 mostly watched tvd because of her tbh
@@sabrinac8453 same. And for Bonnie.
effy is my favorite skins character along with cassie and mini, but i don't love her just cuz she's pretty or "cool", she's just interesting, complex, intriguing, her character's really well writen, i liked the way they wrote her lost childhood and how her defenses were weakened when in love, i think most characters of skins are quite interesting and well writen, but mostly effy, she's on other level of complexity.
For me that's giving her way too much credit. All the other characters from gen 1 and 2 had a strong evolution but I didn't got the same from effy, she was just pretty and as she was like that, she could get anything she wanted. I always perceived it as unfair, that's why I never liked her. I know you didn't ask me, either you love effy or you hate it .
The editing is amazing!! Looks like it took a long time
I just LOVE your videos! It's so cool to see a fashion video that goes deep and explores beyond the obvious when it comes to the different elements of fashion. Yours definitely became one of my favourite chanels!
I've always related to Effy.
Putting on a confident front when in reality, I'm depressed, scared and struggling yet it's hard for me to admit it until it hits me like a bus.
I wish people didn't glamorize her.
Dealing with your issues through drug abuse and s3x isn't fun, it kills you inside.
Your content is amazing and unique! Would you consider doing an analysis on "Confessions of a Shopaholic"? I think it's such an underrated movie - there's lots of passion for fashion in Rebecca's character. Keep up the good work xx
Omg I was just waiting for this
Absolutely love this analysis/editing such a great video.
Still having a hard time understanding how she could afford a Herve Leger dress on a beginner's office salary.
Maybe it was a really lucky second hand find?
She was working in the City/ Square mile or Canary wharf. The people that work there are RICH RICH and as a result even junior staff get paid way more than the average London salary let alone UK due to the nature of businesses that are there. So for me it's kinda believable. Esp if she was working in a boutique firm.
It's pretty believable, she works for a leading hedge fund company. Also, around this time is when a lot of those rent designer companies really started coming into the spotlight.
@@Belihoney Thanks for clearing that up! I was kinda annoyed at her mulberry bag and other designer items, but if the pay was good it makes sense.
@@inspiredby624 Herve Leger dresses are not lucky second hand find, and that colorblock version was from that season (I looked it up because it was so stunning, but noped at the price, even though it was on sale).
Brilliant analytic piece of fashion vs psychology. I love it. Very thorough and well explained.
loved this! can you do Maddy Perez from euphoria next?
yessss pleasee
oh and jules
It's nice to revisit Effy and the fashion that I was obsessed over when I was younger. You did so much work on this video and it shows! My only critique is the vocal fry- it's very distracting.
Yes I almost didn’t watch it... i feel bad to hold it against the narrator, but then again it’s not an inherent property of someone’s voice...
ohmygawd too true she might as well be the poster child for skins, like i know, there are other characters and yes, they are interesting too. but i got really intrigued by the edits i saw of her in the gram that i started watching skins, only lasted until season 3 tho