Hairstyle is a Lifestyle

Just started working. Sitting and waiting, ready to deal. I feel good..I felt good. Suddenly I hear: 'What have you done to yourself!?!'.
I'm puzzled. 'hmmmmm... n-nothing.(?)' Regular customer in front of me. His pressed lips and shaking head expose disapproval of the landscape before him. 'Yesterday you looked so beautiful!!! what did you do!?!' And he's leaving truly concerned still shaking his head. What did I do? or what didn't I do. I did not make my hair. Just put it flat together with some slight wave which was suppose to give some vintage 'something'. As I really like louis vuitton hairstyle in this particular show, this gentleman decided... it's a shit.

So what does the most create this vintage something?
Seamed stockings, high waist, dress length, hats, gloves, petticoats, eyeliner, red lips... well, no.

Hairstyle.

Dita von Teese is using hot rollers - only small ones - that for me are a waist of time. It's heavy, uncomfortable, takes a lot of time and doesn't keep the curls. I have thin and flexible hair. Many women get up, brush their hair, throw it backwards and they look astonishing.
I haven't been born with those extra features so I do pin curls.

It takes practise but in the end it takes me 10-15min with eyes shut, going to sleep and brushing in the morning, kilo of hairspray and done.

In my second- day- hair (I wash it every second day) I put some conditioner before brushing out the hairspray that tends to break my hair and still make pin curls but much bigger and rather carelessly since I discovered it tends to style much easier and effect is more smooth.

Hairspray is essential. Things I like are :

CHI Royal Treatment Hairspray, unavailable easily in Europe...
and

Fudge membrane gas Amazing !!! available everywhere online in UK and in hair salons. 
Both with a nice scent and great hold.
But I do load tones of conditioner before brushing hair after the long day to prevent breaking it. 
Haircut is a great help! This what I took to my hairdresser who has no knowledge of pin curls:

So pin curls based hairstyle is a Lifestyle.

When you finally get experienced, get to know what you have - most women can't do their own hair - you find out how easy and quick and glamorous it is.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Practise pin curls patterns and angles. Get straight bobby pins; straight, no ridges !!!

I did upload vintage instructions:

pinup-life.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hair-setting-and-pincurls.html

So cheap, so handy.

I do it always... better or worse, more or less precise and it always works for me.

But can you look good in it? Judge yourself. When my Love said 'You would look good in short hair' looking at completed hair set, I thought he went mad.

Good Luck !

Tibi has his birthday

It's Tibis birthday. 

No, not today, on 25th, but nothing can possibly collide (f.ex. Mr G's visit)    with this date which is just as National Holiday, so just in case I celebrate it earlier and so this is my Gift...

I fallow his instructions - he forced me not to buy him any presents since Life with me is the biggest thing he could ever had (yes Ladies! My Man is really romantic). So as always obedient I decided to give him this..

I guess I've never told him how much he makes me happy and how important he is in my life.

I've never met anybody who could be so perfect in space sharing as he is. That's definitively the basic secret of our relationship. I appreciate so much his sense of order and organization. 

And all those little things he does...

• Sometimes I wonder perhaps he thinks I'm disabled since no man ever took care of me the way he does. In spite of my wide knowledge about cartography that I had during my studies he will still draw a clear route (if I want to go shopping) on my map and huge cross to point our flat so even if I try, I can't get lost. 
• He knows how much I hate to get up in the morning...and at any other time so he will always call me (if can't do it personally) from wherever he is and make sure I'm up at required time.
• It's enough to mention what I like to eat, to find kilos of it the next day. And he will always make sure it's there in huge amount... always and forever.
• When I have so-so-day, suddenly I find my favourite wine chilled in the fridge.
• He is not drinking, has no knowledge about alcohol but after all this time he practised and can  find so tasty wines that I started to wonder...does he get help from out of space.
• When I'm sick he will make sure I have all medicines I need.
• I never carry or lift anything if he's around. With my growing heart I'm looking at him, bended under tons of shopping bags and backpack, and I want to take something just to help him since I have only a clutch bag, and he's screaming at me to leave him alone because all this heavy weight 'helps him to keep the balance'.
• Sometimes he's shouting that he will throw out my two guys (cats) after one of them pees or vomits here and there, but secretly I know that he loves them a lot.
• He pays attention to what I like and dislike.
• He brings me flowers !!!
• He's not smoking because of me.

He is a good person. You don't find many people like this nowadays. Sometimes I do feel like a bad one next to him; ignoring red lights, putting back everything not on it's place, plotting, being 'a bit' vicious; but must admit I get over it quite fast so we can stay in a happy balanced relationship. (and don't you ever try to use this against me!)

He learnt to tolerate me looking quite strange sometimes. And he still likes me best from the 'kitchen side' of my look. He will always be honest and tell me that 'I'm wide in this as a bike road', 'I look in this like a man' (it made me very angry once) and in that as 'russian babushka' or 'cleaning lady'. 

He's my Love, my Today and Tomorrow.

That's why I love to spoil him. He's always happy as a small boy. 

Because I want only this what's the best for him (I hope it's good) I made a cake with his favourite cookies that he's obsessed with recently.

For you My Love, I did it all by myself, only for you. 
It does tastes better than it looks for sure!

Thanks Agata ;)
I couldn't help it! I treated delicje with your Zubrowka...

While you're chewing, afterwards or in between your poker tournaments, look what I found for you.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton The Coming Race (1871)

Book that was an inspiration to occult group Vril, that inspired Nazi, that inspired Hitler, purpose of WWII. 

...and...

Leedskalnin writings (1945)
The man who created Coral Castle, who supposedly knew how pyramids were built.

...and maybe...

...just maybe I'll take you to the cinema.

Happy Birthday!

Dita's secrets in British Metro

I guess it's not the most suitable for broken blood vessels on the face like mine. This fun cost around 200 GBP.

Diorsnow is definitively something to look into. It's just a feeling that La Mer is rather overrated. Refissa cream you can get only if you have prescription. But on eyecream.org you can read about Veralyze eye cream which is easier to get..in US. But what about Europe? I guess there's only one place to buy it veralyze.com. 

Detox Solution

1 1/2 cups water

1 head organic romaine lettuce, chopped

3-4 stalks organic celery

1/2 head of a large bunch or 3/4 of a small bunch of spinach

1 organic apple, cored and chopped

1 organic pear, cored and chopped

1 organic banana

Juice of 1/2 fresh organic lemon

Optional:

1/3 bunch organic cilantro (stems okay)

1/3 bunch organic parsley (stems okay)

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...

Marchesa Luisa Casati

'She became a being of her own invention - not one of any particular sex, or time, or size, or shape.'

Marchesa Luisa Casati has been the most entertaining part of Italian High Class. The most innovative and creative woman ever lived! Even though her most spectacular years were 1910 - 1920 and when 20s brought new flapper style and ready made dresses she still kept her style of past splendor and sparkled.
Much less understood and accepted by the crowd Luisa couldn't care less about disapproval she caused.
' Count Etienne de Beaumont had planned a ball and the Marchesa Casati decided to appear as an electrically equipped Saint Sebastian. She was to wear armour pierced with hundreds of arrows, each studded with glittering stars that were to light up when the Marquesa appeared. In the morning of the ball in a little side room (...) she arrived with her host's permission, bringing a fleet of servants, an electrician, and stoves for boiling water to make cups of tea or coffee while the elaborate preparations for her appearance were in progress. At last, her maquillage complete, her hair fixed in an aureole of ringlets, the Marquesa was pulled into tights and the armour was fixed on her with padlock. But at the moment of being plugged in a disaster took place; the costume was shortcircuit and instead of being lighted up with thousands stars, the Marquesa suffered an electric shock that sent her into a backward somersault. She did not recover in time to appear at the party, leaving a note (...) "milles regrets".' 
Yes. It was in 20s.

Once she attended a mask ball where she arrived and dined dressed as a serpentine having on her side naked woman and naked man - Adam and Eve, those two were just and only part of her costume.
With time she went 'mad'.

' Eccentricity is tolerable only in it's first freshness. Cherished until it has gone stale, it becomes unbearably pathetic and at the same time alarming.' Maurice Druon.

But once it was fresh...
Luisa Casati had a Style. 

Some say that she just poped out from Gabriele D'Annunzio's head, Italian poet and novelist, her lover and friend for few dozen of years until she's sent him last note asking for money and that note has never been answered until D'Annunzio's death. 
Luisa went a step forward. She not only created herself, she created from basics, her surroundings. 

She liked to:
- have servants dwarfs, usually black, and paint them in white and dress in gold clothes
- dye birds, black pigeons or white peacock
- all animals, she basically owned a zoo in her villa, in her every single villa
- stuff her beloved animals that reached the time of death
- choose dogs to suit her dress, f.ex. grey or black foxhound
- electronic toys, she had an electric tiger welcoming guests, lightning and making sound
- do some drugs
- stay in bed, in full make up and fully dressed having drinks for breakfast
'she found Marchesa in bed, fully made up in the old vamp style, covered with a rug of black ostrich feathers, eating a breakfast of fried fish and drinking straight Pernod while trying on a newspaper scarf.'
- wear heavy make up; black eyes - sometimes she glued pieces of velvet to her eyelids, red lips, white skin and all this with red burning hair - till the end of her time
- visit unexpectedly first painters, then photographers and ask for a portrait or a photo
- dress in orient, Alladin pants, gold and huge pointy hats.
- have plenty of lovers who never compete with each other
- have her interiors all in white or all in black 
- organize amazing balls ended with her I'm-naked walk through her gardens with fleet of guests fallowing her
- occultism, source of beloved Black and purple flowers together

Her marriage has been only a fiction. Her only daughter has spent her life first in catholic school, later busy with her husband.
Luisa's granddaughter knew it's forbidden to title her grandma 'grandma'. Luisa divorced in her 40s and fought successfully for her title and name; Marchesa Luisa Casati.

'She wasn't beautiful - she was spectacular.'

She became a Muse of her epoque. 

Never predictable; 'if the public can predict you, it starts to like you'. That's the last thing she wanted. Her goal was to incite. And through all this extravaganza she was very shy person. 

Never had a good hand for money. She ended in poverty and tried to squeeze money from all friends and people she's met. 

'The Marchesa seemed to have a genuine horror of money. One day , one of her younger friends, Cecil Beaton, admired the collages that she amused herself by making out of old engravings. Like everything the Marchesa touched, these 'scraps, had a strange charm. He proposed that she prepare an exhibit of them ... but the moment she had to work toward a lucrative end, inspiration fled, and the Marchesa touched her scissors no more.'

'In today's age, everyone must be useful, independent, practical. To that I say, 'What a tremendous bore!'' Quentin Crisp.

Galliano, in his great times, inspired by Casati created most amazing pieces for Dior.