The ghost look is an unusual variation of the gothic look. This is a guide intended for girls/women, although some aspects might work for boys/men

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[edit] Steps

Dye your hair black if or bleach your hair platinum blond. Flaming red may also work. Grow your hair as long as you can. While you're growing your hair out, only trim it when you start to get split ends. Braid it every night before you go to sleep to prevent it from tangling. Try to keep the shine low. If you have pretty dark skin, keep your hair black put it in ringlets.
Spread foundation two shades lighter than your skin tone with a plastic makeup sponge over your face (If you have dark skin, don't get a foundation 10 times lighter than your actual skin color. This is really tacky). Then spread moisturizer over your face to smooth out your makeup. Apply a foundation one shade darker than the foundation you are wearing under your cheekbones.
Draw a heavy, thick line at you're lashline on your eyelids and under your eyes with a wide, black eye pencil. Spread charcoal or black eyeshadow over your lids and slightly over your eyecrease if you have an eyecrease. If you don't have an eyecrease, spread it to the middle of your eyelid.
Apply black lipstick if your skin is dark. If your skin is medium, apply bright red lipstick. If your skin is light, apply pale pink lipstick. Put on black or red contacts on if you want. Grey, light blue, pale pink and overly bright natural colors work well also.
Paint your nails white, grey, black or light pink.
Tear up your tights and hose if they are plain or lace. If they are spider web, spider or skeleton, leave them as they are.
Sew patches on any tee shirts other than logo tees.
Discard all logo tees other than Emily the Strange or Corpse Bride shirts.
Wear skirts and dresses with obvious stitching up the side. Wear clothing that would be underwear in another era as outerwear, such as bloomers as shorts, petticoats as skirts, slips as dress, corsets as tops. Wear socks and hoodies with bones on them.
Wear Ghost jewelry. Lockets, wilted roses as pins, barbed wire hearts are very Ghost. Onyx, jet, gold, fake gold and amethysts are best. Imitations are great too.
Listen to Goth, black metal, horror punk, classical, doom metal, death metal, and symphonic metal.

[edit] Tips

Colors to wear: black, grey, white, mauve, purple, lilac, light pink, ivory, lavender, tawny, red and navy blue.
Google "Victorian mourning clothing" and copy the elements except for Crepe.
Anything gothic lolita works for Ghost.
Fake tattoos that have pictures of spiders and spiderwebs or roses are very nice.
Listen to gothic, emo, grunge, and classical music.

[edit] Warnings

Do not wear crepe. It may have been used in Victorian times for mourning veils but there is a reason it was discontinued! It causes lung disease when inhaled.
People may freak out when they see you!