Hollywood Makeover

Who's never bored with oneself? 
So long time passed since I've had black hair but I still aim for something new. I'm not so keen on testing everything on myself so I got ecstatic when I found 

Hollywood Makeover 

on InStyle website !!!
It allows so perfectly to fit  a hairstyle that it's breathtaking.
Though...I wouldn't rely on blonde there. Unless you're after carrotish yellowish orange shade. Anyway black is black, brown is brown but blonde may be many things.
Not only hairstyle but even make up, eyebrows, lances and so on... particular products available on market. All Dior lipstick shades!!!

Amazing thing! true makeover but not always Hollywood.

Even my man started to appreciate blonde hair that he so hated not longer than a week ago. 
I've always wondered perhaps I'm like hidden Dita and total change can only be better.

well...

No Dita but an old hag would fit me better. Definitively it could improve my drinking image.

And in the morning without a drop of makeup and unbrushed eyebrows I would glow among greyness of British weather.

Maybe a bit lighter but still 'natural coloured' I thought...

It's just like Jessica Biel in Tall Man. 

Some misunderstanding for the movie requirements but never on the street. But fortunately soon in November again brighter in Hitchcock.

With no makeup -sometimes scary- but essential since you'd have to live with it. And dark brown, as many people think after giving themselves rights to advice, 'would look so much better on you!!!' Once I even heard 'your face is like your hair, both yellow. You have to change it to get a contrast.' Putting on the side a question Why do we live in times of peasants who think they can comment negatively and in public looks of others - strangers? 

I checked how lovely I would shine every morning.

So I thought well...maybe red then on my row face which is basically blue and pink - summer type features.

This application is great! totally fulfilled my need for Red Mad Man. Maybe in my second life.

Because my aunt is coming so soon I already stated relaxing process since I know she will again insist on 'short and easy-to-do geometrical hairstyle' and that makes me wonder How come I encourage people to give me advices I don't look for.
In the morning...

with a bit of decency... (personally I don't get it how women can leave home even without a bit of concealer or mascara or regulated eyebrows or unbrushed hair)
unbelievable program!!!

It's the only option I've never even considered that appeared to be flattering especially with a glass of wine. Can you still roll pin curls here ???

But perhaps just as Jessica in Easy Virtue should keep that image ...

I should just stay as always I am.

It is so great to be a woman and so dull to be a man !!! - I would imagine...

Vintage Swimming Suit

Summer is over, there's only waiting for winter now. 
There's no point to write about swimming suits, what I'm going to do and no point to shop for one, what I just did.
All vintage Lovers, who doesn't like bathing costume shape from 40s and 50s ?
Showing less than more, especially hip area, sometimes with stiff boning. My man hates the way it looks from behind. Well, did it ever stop me from buying it?
Makes me shiver but since Brazilian Waxing hasn't been born yet, so built up costumes helped to hide what's inevitable. 

That's original photo by Andre De Dienes - surprisingly I've found some photoshoped versions.

Anyway... My boyfriend has mixed feelings towards the one I have...
From acceptance to hate, sometimes even aggression but still finds some power to ask me 'please never wear it again'.

In the end he felt relief when I showed him Lady K Loves vintage swimming suits reproduction that he found most disturbing. I did as well.. think it looks pretty glamour-less. 

Some Vintage just should stay in Vintage.

Except For Luna that is so adorable !!! so burlesque and so colour-and-contrast and expensive obviously.

Quite quickly I found on eBay, obviously, genuine two piece bathing suit, made of cotton from early 60s with original labels that cost me just few pounds. Bra is bullet bra shape and it's based on a long one piece wire that you can't bend so forget about comfortable and efficient holiday packing system. I will have to tighten the strap around bust and neck and fix few stitches. Apart of that it's just perfect but perhaps still too old fashioned at the back for my man but he'll have to find this out next summer since I'm filtering reality to him ...sometimes.

I have no idea about other men but I'm afraid that it can be the case... one piece 40s50s shape may be just out of sexy look for male side. Other option means it's me, I'd rather not think about it.
and it doesn't mean I don't like it.

and two piece bikinis that finally became more popular and accepted...

I was always wondering what to do with your head since bathing cap is absolutely out of question. Pin curls and rollers out of logical sense. 

Exceptionally scarf may be in use...

And this is where I'm getting to The Tattered Dress from 1957 that's only valuable because of Elaine Stewart and her swimming pool hairstyle.

To be prepared next time.

Mint Comeback in Saint Tropez by Dior

I haven’t written a word for a long time because life forced on me Amish lifestyle.

...maybe not that much….

 Blogger without internet. I also stay without a mobile reach since my new flat isolate me from the rest of civilization. I’m happy I do have electricity though.

It makes me so excited! Living in Edwardian Church lifts me at least spiritually! and brings down financially.

I read somewhere that the biggest stress is your partners death, second - marriage and third  - moving. I guess I slide on adrenalin rush since I’ve moved with all my things, clothes, books and cats like 10 times, twice changing the country. 

The rule is 'home is where I am'.

Advantage that I always 'find' my old 'lost' clothes and discover them from the beginning.

While I haven’t been here I started my deep interest in blue/mint nail polish and ended up buying Dior Saint Tropez.

 Searching for some confirmation in 40s 50s fashion since that’s my guideline I’ve found this:

And some proof in old British film 'I am a camera' from 1955:

24th min

- Why do you say that I out shock? 

- Why do you paint your fingernails green for example? 

- To attract men. That's why. You know... to feel their eyes running up like mice.

Very fast I bought Dior Saint Tropez Nail Polish and started to cultivate it with half moon. It does make skin look whiter and whatever makes me look whiter, I’m in.
It's actually so annoying! Dries extremely fast so it's hard to apply carefully, especially if you have to shape half moon as well. Brush is kind of square shape that's suppose to help to apply much easier. Well, horror for me. I have to be definitively Sober when I do my nails with Dior Saint Tropez. Otherwise I could stick myself to the table with this amazing, swimming pool blue like, colour. But it stays forever! Treats my nails gently and healthy. I hate it but can't stop loving.

My Uniform - 40s trousers

I am working on adjusting my uniform to my personal norms and still keeping it in 'what's right' and on the edge of 'what's wrong'. Some are disappointed with working hours, some with wages... no matter how it sounds, I am very disappointed with my new uniform. 
I arrived in pencil - verypppencil - black skirt and black seamed stockings just to hear that only trousers while they handed me polyester formless creation. 
I nearly fainted, decided no to sleep and went shopping the next day.
Unfortunately it is impossible to find in shops for ordinary mortals trousers made of cotton +-mix with high tight waist and wide legs means Swing 40s Trousers. By tight, I mean 12-13 inches difference between hips and waist. 
For today's standards I should definitively get few litres of filler on my belly. I tried, moving buttons, creating gathers with not 'so so' but only 'so' effect.  
I travelled through miles of Clothes Reproduction websites and Vintage Online Shops.
Sure you can find 40s trousers, but black? no.


There's Vivien of Holloway, 55GBP my first choice.
I've called, I've been there and I've written few times and they don't expect to produce black cotton trousers in the nearest future however once a month they have this kind of inquiry. Vivien of Holloway makes the best waistline ever !

Tara Starlet stick only to non black production for crazy 60 GBP.

Heydays almost fulfilled my dreams. I was ready to pay 55GBP - a lot! and accept polyester viscose mix but then they don't have my size. Even though Ms Helen insisted brown chock is oh so dark! I didn't proceed. However they expect to have more sizes in stock quite soon.

Lady - K - Loves poly viscose mix with a lot of stretch in black for kind 35GBP. Again not in my size... coming soon!

...it does look strange this front view...

Then after digging in Etsy I found a girl in US who is so willing to make 40s trousers from any fabric with any details I want. But for 80GBP plus 20GBP delivery and 3weeks of constructing it and around 2 weeks of delivery and possibly xGBP for tax. I'm still not sure if ever I should go for it.. it's expensive, I assume it should be worth it, but what if there are some changes necessary? another 3 months of shipping and waiting.
so....no

hmmmm... I have to start collecting beige clothes...

There is a family business very active on eBay. They create 40s clothes from genuine vintage patterns. Few years ago I considered some shopping there but I didn't like they do use tones of polyester. Desperate I wrote emails asking if there's a chance to get one black pair in cotton mix. 'Maybe later, not now, soon..' and then suddenly I got a paypal invoice and the package one day after payment. And there it was... black 40s 100% nice cotton trousers made from pattern in my size! I moved buttons a bit and here it is, perfect just as I wanted!! for 35 GBP.

...definitively, if not in motion, looks awkward...