Updo number two

Ok, I thought I would give it another go, this time I slept with bendy rollers in the back and pin curls in the front, I then pinned the back hair up in a twist and then pinned the pin curls up separately towards the twist. I then pinned the fringe curl back.  I really think I could have done better but please give me some feedback.

New purchase - Pattern...

Check out my new pattern guys, it is pretty groovy eh?

Half moon nails

As some vintage gals may know, the fashion of the 40s (I am unsure of when it ended or indeed started, was to paint ones nails and leave the pale half moon semi circle by the cuticle unpainted.  Now I heard about this years ago in my 1940s hairstyles book which I brought when I was still re-enacting.  However I made a right hash of them and gave up.
Yesterday I happened to see a picture on the lovely Glamorous Housewife's blog of the fabulous Dita with her glorious red nails done this way, coupled with some advice on how to do this nail trick in the latest issues of Vintage Life Magazine.  I thought I may give it another go.  Luckily for me, this time I am armed with some nail art pens, the pens have two ends, one a narrow brush and the other a metal pipette.  I used the pipette to draw a border over the semi-circle and then painted up to the border...so viola!

So, not perfect my any means but not bad for my first go with the nail art pens.  What do you all think?

Another elephant in the room*

Dietrich - the sexiest genderqueer ever!

Patsy Kelly - very out

In this post you will find pictures of beautiful talented women from the Golden Age of Hollywood, women at their peak in the 30's, 40's,50's, an era that we laud in the Vintage scene.

Garbo

These women are the ones known to be women who love(d) women, there are many more, some like Agnes Morehead never really admitted it or some, like Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck or even Hattie McDaniel  were only rumoured, we will never know, they are long dead. Louise Brooks openly admitted sleeping with many women, but she claimed  curiosity, and did not believe she was bisexual.

Brooks - enjoyed women but only in bed

 But they were like I am a woman who loves women, I identify as bisexual because I love men too.  As a person who has spent so much time in the LGBT accepting Poly/Geek/Kink communities, I think I have forgotten what it is like to seem exotic and weird in other scenes, especially one I closely identify with as a part of my nature, never in my life have I ever felt attached to the era I live in, my imaginary life has been filtered through an historical aesthetic, forever!!

Bankhead - fabulously wild....

DaCosta

However I have been made aware that the vintage scene may not be entirely comfortable with my sexuality and that worries me, not only for my need to be completely open in this scene, but also just because it almost invalidates the lives and experiences these amazing women had

All B's- Baker, Black, bisexual, burlesque and beautiful....

Eva Le Gallienne

. It makes them invisible again, by pretending that the past was entirely heterosexual (and white, middle class and Christians) 

Lilyan Tashman - Jewish and Gay

I never really expected to be some sort of sexuality trailblazer in any scene, it was a pain enough to feel like some sort of token ethnic in reenactment, I don't want to be a token, I just want to be me, in the same way that people who have majority privilege get to be themselves without having to worry that people will turn their nose up at them or not befriend them.

Bessie Smith

Since the past equally belongs to us, well so does the Vintage communities that celebrate it.





*I wrote another Elephant in the room post in a Poly blog

Hair

Well last night I was too tired/lazy to curl my hair before bed so decided this am to try an updo with the mess I awoke with.....can I just say....NOT easy!!!!
How on earth did women manage, I really do not know what I am doing and I would appreciate some help (bearing in mind that water...cannot be involved).  I did pass by some fantastic blogs by some  vintage sisters but I seemed to have mislaid them, if anyone can help me out I would appreciate it.

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New purchase - Waist cincher

Ok, so I wanted a WKD waist cincher, for....ever...but could never justify the cost (I am a bit low on coin).  Luckily for me, I was in the Orlando Premium Outlet (don't blame, me, BF wanted to go in there) and there was a Maidenform shop....well, what do you think I found?  That's right, a black waist cincher*, at $23, that is like, a third of the cost.....I feel all frugal and proud of my good housewifery!!!!

So it is a pretty decent alternative for those of us who are lacking in funds....

Toodle pip...

N
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*I did not buy the one in the picture, it was not on the website.