So! I often get requests for new video tutorials, but I do find them hard work to film as it invariably goes like this. Film it, realise I’ve ballsed something up, refilm it again, refilm another bit, cobble the good bits from the 3 takes together, faff about with transitions and music…you get the picture….
Tag: makeup
Colour Consultations x Vintage Girl
Do excuse the very unstylish hangers… and the fringe isn’t back – I took these a while ago! Colour is a very important thing when it comes to clothing. I’ve written about it here before, because it’s probably even more relevant to vintage as it is to modern fashion. Back in the 40s and 50s,…
Ps and Qs. Mostly Qs
Manners are very important. I was brought up to be a nice girl and always say please and thank you. And, as this blog grows in popularity and readership, I often get sent things, or invited to things; and so quite a few thank yous have been in the pipeline and it’s time I addressed…
Maximum Glamour
If I had a mere English pound for every remark I’d heard about not having the time to be glamorous, I could retire and simply just be glamorous without having to work. But the truth is, that as an inherently quite lazy person, my secret is to look like I’m high-maintenance, without actually putting in…
A morale-boosting ‘Vintage Face’ giveaway!
I’ve written on these pages before about how lipstick has long been recognised as a morale booster, since the long, dark days of WWII. Many ladies went to work for the first time, driving ambulances, working in factories and on the railways; proper, manual labour, the likes of which I’ve never had to endure in…
News & a truly peculiar Halloween…
Hello good people of the inter-tubes! Another lengthy absence from me – how does time fly so fast? A few nice things have happened to me recently. I went on a very fancy boat for the SS Atlantica party, followed by a day of vintage ships, fashion shows and swing music at the Thames Revival…
Kiss Me Katie
It’s been hard to escape the incessant doom and gloom of recession and the turmoil that’s blighted this country in the past few months: economically, politically and environmentally! Especially when it’s plastered all over the newspapers and beaming out from every television set. The good news is that there are a few products which can…