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    My Mother Says...

    My mom and approve of each other's styles in waves. Right now, we're doing pretty well. She likes me in vintage/classic styles and she fully supports my shoe and compact addictions. She greatly prefers it to the acid washed-jeans, cowboy boots and ridiculous gobs of black eyeliner I wore in high...
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    Eyebrow Grooming

    I also have to trim a little now and then. I use the same strategy as SayCici and it works to keep them tamed. Please excuse my ignorance...what's threading?
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    When did you first start wearing Make-up?

    Nail polish was always allowed. I remember my mom painting my nails when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I started wearing eye shadow and mascara in junior high, 7th or 8th grade. By 10th grade I was wearing WAAAY too much black eyeliner. By senior year I had dialed back on the eyeliner, when I...
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    Show us your vintage-vintage inspired Engagement Ring!

    One of the things I like best about vintage-inspired rings is that they tend to reflect the people involved in the relationship more than the third diamond from the left at the jewelery store at the mall. I'm on my second marriage. First engagement ring was from an estate jeweler, it was...
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    Pollys and Spring-o-lators!

    Deco Dahlia: I have complete and total shoe envy! Such gorgeous colors! To all the other large-footed ladies out there: Is it truly harder to find vintage shoes in size 10 than in, say, size 6? Or am I not looking in the right places?
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    The Pinup Thread

    I love the variety in this thread...what a great mix of beautiful ladies celebrating different decades! And I love the different outfits, hair, make-up, settings, and professional vs. amateur vs. self-portrait shots. So cool. You all inspired me. A few self-portraits I took this weekend...I...
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    Grooming: From Low Maintenance to High Maintenance

    In high school, I was disgustingly high maintenance. Then I went to college, stopped curling my hair, scaled way back on the make-up, and kind of got into a quick morning routine. Once I graduated college, I bobbed my hair. I can be dressed, showered, made up and out of the house in about half...
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    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    I found these a few years ago at DSW Shoe Warehouse. I have size 10 feet, so whenever I find shoes I even remotely like that fits, I buy them. I wear these all the time and they're remarkably comfortable for the height of the heel.
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    Beauty accidents...

    Helysoune, Why is it that makeup sticks where you don't want it and fades where you want it to last? Hope the new lipstick comes off your hand soon. :)
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    Beauty accidents...

    I'm something of a beauty disaster. Thank god I can laugh at myself. :) I've had countless curling iron burns on the forehead, ears and neck, and I poke myself in the eye with a mascara wand about once every six months or so. In high school, I decided to color my light brownish/dirty blondish...
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    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    Last weekend I was at an antique store and a woman there told me she loved my look. I had my hair tied back in a red bandanna and I was wearing a cute white sundress with a red print and red wedge heels. I get mixed reactions when I go out in a vintage-inspired look. I wear a lot of...
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    Show Us Your Purchases!

    You ladies and your gorgeous dresses are making me reconsider my reluctance to buy clothing I can't try on first. With E-bay I usually stick to compacts and furniture. A recent buy I'm hoping will show up in today's mail:
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    What is your favorite red lipstick brand/shade?

    Now I want to leave work on my lunch break and cruise the drugstore for new lipstick colors. Darhling, I'm interested in the Maybelline superstay. About how long did it last? The color near the center of my mouth tends to fade or come off so I'm left with color just around the edges (ugh...
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    Vintage eyebrow shapes

    When I was 11 years old, one of my grandmothers told me that I had her eyebrows and made me promise never to get rid of them. Naturally, at the time, I thought she was nuts. Now I totally get it. :) I pluck stray hairs that migrate past the ends of my brows or too close to my eyes and I...
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    Show Us Your Compacts . . .

    So many lovely compacts...it's like a preview of heaven. How do you date compacts without any sort of maker's mark or writing on them? My mom found this in her attic recently and I've been scouring the internet looking for similar ones, but haven't found anything. It's enamel with a jade...
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    That one thing that you need to feel like yourself

    Bangs. Every time I see a picture of myself without them I think, "who's that?" Coffee, shower and lipstick (in that order) are necessary if I'm going to leave my yard.
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    New Ladies and Gents Step Forward

    I wandered into the lounge while trying to date some vintage lipsticks and rouge compacts I received as a gift. I've been impressed with how friendly everyone is and at the wealth of information you've compiled. Stuff I love: kitchenware from the 1940s and '50s, mostly rolling pins and...
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    A question for the red heads...

    I like the Clairol Perfect 10 Auburns. I used to go with the light auburn, but found the medium lasts longer and looks better on me. My hair is naturally a medium brown, but miraculously doesn't get really visible roots as it grows out when I use these colors. I have to leave it on the front for...
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    What is your favorite red lipstick brand/shade?

    I love Clinique's Long Last Soft Matte lipstick in Red Hot. I also like Rimmel's Ballistic, which is more of a blue-red (and nothing like the color the Rimmel web site shows). Lately I've been wearing a fun orangey-red I found at Kohl's called "Fling."
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