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Must-Have Makeup Book For Those Inspired by Vintage Makeup

Oct 082010

Femme Fatale: Famous Beauties Then and Now by Serge Normant

Chic, sexy, and sophisticated, Femme Fatale pays tribute to a century of feminine glamour.

Invoking not only iconic beauties like Jean Harlow, Brigitte Bardot, and Marilyn Monroe but also the looks that defined each decade from the 1900s to the new millennium, celebrity stylist Serge Normant crafts clothes, setting, hair, and makeup to transform today’s most beautiful women.

He re-creates Julia Roberts as Louise Brooks, and Cindy Crawford as a forties glamour goddess, a savvy paparazzi-stalked nineties superstar, and a twenties ingenue.

Elizabeth Hurley frolics as a flower child and vamps as Mata Hari. Isabella Rossellini is a curvaceous fifties pinup and an eighties punk.

200 color photos.

Excellent gift for you or the vintage make-up lover in your life!

How to Do Burlesque Make-Up Using Affordable Cosmetics by Pixiwoo

Classic, Vintage Makeup Tutorials

Oct 082010

My favorite youtube makeup gurus, pixiwoo, have done a burlesque makeup video tutorial (for channel4, not youtube) using some pretty affordable makeup.

Sam Chapman from Fashionface.tv and Pixiwoo demonstrates the art of 1940s make-up in this video tutorial. Learn how to apply false eyelashes, how to do burlesque red lips and how to pencil in the perfect retro eyebrows.

The Products

Rimmel Renew & Lift Foundation
Pixi – Eye Beauty Kit
Max Factor 2000 Calorie Mascara in Black
Sex in the City False Eyelashes
Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipstick in Diva Red No. 500
MAC 266 Angled Brush
MAC 227 Brush
Louise Young LY38 Tapered Shadow Brush
MAC Studio Finish Concealer
Lancome Artliner
Ecotools Blusher Brush
Too Faced Pinch My Petals Blush
Urban Decay Razor Sharp Ultra Definition Finishing Powder

Sexy Lace & Mesh Naturally Close Plus Size Body Shaper

Vintage Inspired Lingerie

Oct 072010

Simply Be Naturally Close Control Body

Sizes up to 42F.

Available in Standard Length (pictured) or Long Length!

Mesh bodyshaper with lace detail to cups and front
Foam-lined cups
Spot powernet front panel with medium control
Keyhole detail to back
Can be worn with or without straps
92% Nylon, 8% Spandex

Vintage Southern Belle Lingerie, Costumes Like Bette Davis in Jezebel

Pin Up Girl Costumes, Vintage Lingerie

Oct 072010

25 days ’til Halloween…

Why not dress up like a Bette Davis Southern Belle in the 1938 movie Jezebel?

Bette Davis in Jezebel 1938 Giclee Print

Maybe you’d rather be a Southern Belle in the boudoir?

Vintage Southern Belle Nightgown Set with Gloves

Southern Belle For The Night?

The low price for this gorgeous vintage lace and chiffon set is really a steal! You’ve got to adore the beautiful lace gloveletts, which attach to the finger and extend to the elbow in all of her lace splendor! Scalloped hem with triple lace and satin rose accents just welcome you with a touch of Southern hospitality. Dusk colored and elegant, this strapless beauty has ruched fabric accents along the drop waist and top. I have yet to see another one like this, and I am a vintage fanatic! I had this up on a photo sharing site that just got bombarded with requests about how to get one a year ago. I’m listing it now in time for Halloween. She’s so Scarlet O’Hara! The price is rock bottom because, despite the fact that all you have to do is look at chiffon wrong and it will crinkle, her chiffon does have some crimps. There are no tears to note or holes. The crimps are there, but her overwhelming beauty makes this a steal! She is priced 75% lower than she otherwise would be! Perhaps you’ve thought of being a Southern Belle for Halloween? Or maybe you have your own special occasion to wear it for. Whatever the case, enjoy this absolutely fabulous, and, (despite how much I try to avoid the words “rare” and “stunning” in my listings…you know what I mean by that? Those words on the internet buying sites are like those songs you used to love until the radio station played it six million times…), this really is a rare piece.

But if you’re really going to play it like Bette did in Jezebel.. you’ll have to decide if you’d rather look angelic in white -

or go bold for the show stopping RED satin dress!

Bette Davis Jezebel 1938 Giclee Print

Ellen von Unwerth photographs What Katie Did Lingerie for GQ!

Vintage Inspired Lingerie

Oct 072010

Just in the nick of time, a couple of days before the next issue was published, we found out our Hollywood lingerie was in GQ magazine. The photography is by Ellen von Unwerth no less who included our lingerie in a shoot for Italian Vogue a few months ago. More, more, please Ellen!

~What Katie Did

Pictured: The Hollywood Suspender Belt and Hollywood Bra.

About the WKD Hollywood Collection: Put a little more glamour into your ‘me’ time with a slinky slip or gown from our Hollywood loungewear and lingerie range. Available in elegant eau-de-nil or decadent black satin.

Stockings and Romance Showgirl Girdle and Seduction Corselette

Vintage Inspired Lingerie

Oct 062010

Stockings & Romance ‘Pin Up Lingerie’ takes inspiration from the 1940’s and 50’s era, combining burlesque, vintage and retro lingerie styles. Our collection includes shapewear, corselettes, bullet bras, girdles, suspender belts and fully fashioned nylon stockings, all designed and manufactured in-house in the UK.

Two of my favorite pieces from Stockings and Romance!

Stockings & Romance Showgirl Girdle

Showgirl is the first in new range of unique ‘Pull on, printed girdles’ from Stockings & Romance.

This brand new addition to our range appeals to the young and old alike, from Pin Up girls to Burlesque Performers!

Showgirl’s pink and black stripes ensure this striking girdle turns heads.

Made from heavyweight spandex with contrasting hand made satin bows and contour stitching. A Pull on Girdle with 6 ‘V’ shaped straps with the now Stockings and Romance standard metal buckles and clips.

Stockings & Romance Seduction Corselette

With Seduction Corselette, its glamour all the way with our stunning new sheer bodyshaper.

A gorgeous open bottom all in one corselette, ‘Seduction’ will tantalise with its transparent body panels and beautiful high sheen satin looks.

Seduction corselette has soft sheer mesh cups and bra adjusters, plus six metal clips and buckles to hold stockings up. Manufactured in the sheerest powernet in sumptuous satin this Seduction can create a ’glamour girl’ look.

Beau Dame Supports Breast Cancer Awareness

Lingerie News

Oct 062010

Online lingerie boutique Beau Dame is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month by donating 10% of profits from the sale of all Cupcake Panties from now until Christmas to The Christie cancer charity. The positively delectable briefs come in pink, purple and fuschia, with slogans such as “Sweetie” and “Eat Dessert First” making them the perfect cute stocking-filler.

The cotton spandex panties come in packs of three, each with a different cupcake-themed design and are packaged in a silicone cupcake cup, which can be used for baking afterwards, all wrapped up in a pretty gift box with a ribbon-bow on top for the cherry on the cake!

Lingerie specialist, Beau Dame, hopes to raise awareness for breast cancer but also for ovarian cancer during this time where the spotlight is on women’s health and the importance of recognizing the signs of potentially fatal cancers in time. Beau Dame chose to donate the profits raised to the Manchester-based charity at The Christie, which supports one of Europe’s leading cancer centers.

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