This Saturday I’ll be guest hairdresser at
Lemon Poppy Seed.
Get your appointment for a total ’50s makeover NOW!
ETSY shop on AIR
Hello all,
Finally my ETSY shop is activated! You can find some vintage clothing and really soon you will be able to see
all the brand new Dazzlin’ Gal spring collection… So gals stay tuned!
Have a very Merry Christmas
Guys & Gals best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Lucky 2013.
This is probably my last post for 2012… So in case of an emergency vintage hairstyling & makeup you can find me:
23/12 at the Tiki Retr-o-Market
31/12 at the LemonPoppy Seed (Pin Up Day)
Promises for a more creative new year, lots of vintage Hairstyling and Make Up…. See you next year!
Ps. All you gals that have a vintage hairstyling & make up emergency you can always find me here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dazzlin-Gal/142654115832489
Style me Vintage: Tea Party
BY LENA
The fourth book in the Style Me Vintage series, which has so far featured fashion, make-up and hair, Tea Parties offers plenty of practical advice on how to throw a vintage party. The book not only gives useful hints and tips on how to plan a larger event but also suggests some interesting themes from a Victorian Afternoon Tea to a Fifties Street Party. Each theme comes with lovingly researched ideas for decoration as well as a few recipes for food and cocktails.
While some of the suggestions (“hire an Edwardian house for an Edwardian Breakfast”) seem fairly impractical and over the top for a simple party, if you’re planning a larger event such as a wedding or special birthday, you will find plenty of inspiration and very useful tips such as how to write the perfect invitations or how to choose the right venue.
Sadly, the dressing up sections for the party themes are disappointingly fancy dress rather than vintage – your host might be quite offended if you’d turn up to their Twenties night in a joke shop costume as suggested.
Also, lovers of post-Fifties vintage decades will be disappointed that this book has nothing to offer when it comes to the Sixties or Seventies themes, a surprising oversight as the other books in the series all included later decades up to the Eighties!
Book review VIA http://www.queensofvintage.com/book-review-style-me-vintage-tea-parties/
If you wish to read more about the previous Style Me Vintage Click Here
Style me Vintage: Clothes
A GUIDE TO SOURCING AND CREATING RETRO LOOKS BY NAOMI THOMPSON
Indeed a handy guide, all about clothes, that helps women either to completely overhaul their vintage look, or just recreating vintage inspired looks. The detailed photographs showing classic looks from the 1920s to the 1980s make this book just perfect for anyone who wants to make a start and introduce vintage into their life. The book features a mixture of stock photos and beautifully shot images of models handpicked by Naomi (including the entire Vintage Mafia). The book also features reproduction clothing, links to top vintage blogs, online vintage shops and addresses of stores.
Naomi Thompson is a vintage expert who works as a vintage stylist and vintage personal shopper who runs acclaimed website vintagesecret.com. She has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times Style, the Telegraph, Vogue, and theGuardian’s “What’s Hot” list; has written for Queens of Vintage magazine and the Vintage Guide to London; and works closely with BBC Homes and Antiques magazine.
Following the Style Me Vintage: Hair and Style Me Vintage: Make-Up this book is the last of the Style Me Vintage series.
Currently available on Amazon or in http://topvintage.nl/en/brands/style-me-vintage
10 weird facts about Lipsticks
Whether you only wear it for special occasions, or you apply it religiously, lipstick has been around since ancient times and shows no sign of becoming any less popular than it is today!
1. Wearing Lipstick During The French Revolution Could Get You Killed During the revolution wearing lipstick of any kind was taken as a sign that you sympathized with the aristocracy and could get you sent to the guillotine. This ended the era of men wearing lipstick.
2. Lipstick Will Make You Sane In 1928, a beauty parlor with a full line of lipsticks was installed in a New Jersey sanitorium. It’s still used a theraputic technique in many instutions across the world.
3. Lipstick Will Make You A Star During her heydey Elizabeth Taylor was so known for her siren red lipstick that, on certain movie sets, no one else was allowed to wear the color.
4. Pigs Aren’t The Only Farm Animal You Can Put Lipstick On Elizabeth Arden’s obituary read “she treated women like horses and horses like women.” That may have stemmed in part from the fact that she was said to have painted her signature pink lipstick onto all her horses’ mouths.
5. Lipstick Creates A False Impression In Kansas in 1915 wearing lipstick could get you arrested for “creating a false impression.” Like a super-awesome ineffective disguise!
6. Lipstick Is About To Get Medieval On You The first recorded use of the word lip stick (Lippa Sticka) is from approximately 1000 AD. Because I guess, as Holly Golightly says, there really are some things that a girl just can’t face without her lipstick. Like the dark ages.
7. Lipstick Will Make You Look Like A Corpse Cosmetics giant Max Factor began life as a servant to Czar Nicholas. Max wasn’t that into that. He needed to find a way to escape from the Royal household, so he used tubes of lipstick to make himself look sickly. He was taken to the infirmary, from which he escaped, and made his way to America.
8. Some Lipstick Is Fit for A Queen Queen Elizabeth II has her own special lipstick which was made to match her coronation robes. It’s called The Balmoral Lipstick.
9. Lipstick Is For Witches In the 1700s, it was believed that women wore lipstick to bewitch men and trick them into marriage.
10. Lipstick Is Also For Dudes George Washington? Yeah, he wore it.
Check this out: http://www.amazon.com/Lipstick-Celebration-Worlds-Favorite-Cosmetic/dp/0312199147
Did you know?
- The first popular use of lipstick came from Cleopatra, who had her lipstick made from crushed beetles that gave it the red color and ants, which made the base.
- A beauty parlor with a full line of lipstick was installed in a New Jersey sanitorium in 1928. Putting on lipstick is used as a theraputic technique even today!
- The first recorded use of the word lipstick (lippa sticka) is from approximately 1000 A.D.
- In the 1700s, it was believed women wore lipstick to trick men into marriage by bewitching them.
Source: http://www.wkrq.com/story/2012/08/07/lipstick-trivia
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Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos)
La Catrina, or Lady Death, stands in front of the Mexico City cathedral.
Dia De Los Muertos The History
by Carlos Miller
The Arizona Republic
More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico, they encountered natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock death. It was a ritual the indigenous people had been practicing at least 3,000 years. A ritual the Spaniards would try unsuccessfully to eradicate. A ritual known today as Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. The ritual is celebrated in Mexico and certain parts of the United States, including the Valley. Celebrations are held each year in Mesa, Chandler, Guadalupe and at Arizona State University. Although the ritual has since been merged with Catholic theology, it still maintains the basic principles of the Aztec ritual, such as the use of skulls.
Today, people don wooden skull masks called calacas and dance in honor of their deceased relatives. The wooden skulls are also placed on altars that are dedicated to the dead. Sugar skulls, made with the names of the dead person on the forehead, are eaten by a relative or friend, according to Mary J. Adrade, who has written three books on the ritual. The Aztecs and other Meso-American civilizations kept skulls as trophies and displayed them during the ritual. The skulls were used to symbolize death and rebirth. The skulls were used to honor the dead, whom the Aztecs and other Meso-American civilizations believed came back to visit during the monthlong ritual. Unlike the Spaniards, who viewed death as the end of life, the natives viewed it as the continuation of life. Instead of fearing death, they embraced it. To them, life was a dream and only in death did they become truly awake.
“The pre-Hispanic people honored duality as being dynamic,” said Christina Gonzalez, senior lecturer on Hispanic issues at Arizona State University. “They didn’t separate death from pain, wealth from poverty like they did in Western cultures.” However, the Spaniards considered the ritual to be sacrilegious. They perceived the indigenous people to be barbaric and pagan. In their attempts to convert them to Catholicism, the Spaniards tried to kill the ritual. But like the old Aztec spirits, the ritual refused to die. To make the ritual more Christian, the Spaniards moved it so it coincided with All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day (Nov. 1 and 2), which is when it is celebrated today.
Previously it fell on the ninth month of the Aztec Solar Calendar, approximately the beginning of August, and was celebrated for the entire month. Festivities were presided over by the goddess Mictecacihuatl. The goddess, known as “Lady of the Dead,” was believed to have died at birth, Andrade said. Today, Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico and in certain parts of the United States and Central America. “It’s celebrated different depending on where you go,” Gonzalez said. In rural Mexico, people visit the cemetery where their loved ones are buried. They decorate gravesites with marigold flowers and candles. They bring toys for dead children and bottles of tequila to adults. They sit on picnic blankets next to gravesites and eat the favorite food of their loved ones.
In Guadalupe, the ritual is celebrated much like it is in rural Mexico. “Here the people spend the day in the cemetery,” said Esther Cota, the parish secretary at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. “The graves are decorated real pretty by the people.”
In Mesa, the ritual has evolved to include other cultures, said Zarco Guerrero, a Mesa artist. “Last year, we had Native Americans and African-Americans doing their own dances,” he said. “They all want the opportunity to honor their dead.”
In the United States and in Mexico’s larger cities, families build altars in their homes, dedicating them to the dead. They surround these altars with flowers, food and pictures of the deceased. They light candles and place them next to the altar. “We honor them by transforming the room into an altar,” Guerrero said. “We offer incense, flowers. We play their favorite music, make their favorite food.” At Guerrero’s house, the altar is not only dedicated to friends and family members who have died, but to others as well. “We pay homage to the Mexicans killed in auto accidents while being smuggled across the border,” he said. “And more recently, we’ve been honoring the memories of those killed in Columbine.”
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/articles/dead-history.html#ixzz1lhxNpUGW
Day of the Dead as an inspiring Halloween Theme Make-Up
If you really want to try it check this Tutorial: http://youtu.be/JE4TS-f5WZQ
And here’s some of the Sugar Skulls I made:
Dazzlin’ Gal in QUEEN.GR
My Dear Christy thank you so much for the interview, great hospitality and stunning text of yours!
p.s. To be edited…
Dazzlin’ Gal for marieclaire.gr
Preview of the brand new site
On Monday 19 of December 2011, the official site of Marie Claire (Hellas) went on air and Dazzlin’ Gal from now on will be part of it. You can watch online, the first tutorial video on “How to wear headpieces” in just a few steps. The video is in greek but I guess it’s easy to understand what it’s all about. However, for those who have questions or it’s all greek to you, you can always send me your queries at dazzlingal13@yahoo.com
Dazzlin' Gal First Lesson: Accessories
Few words about this tutorial
Many girls frequently ask me how to wear headpieces, flowers, fascinators etc. in order to achieve a retro look. This tutorial shows you the easiest way to wear a headpiece with no requirement of heat, curlers or rollers. All you need is a comb, few bobby pins (that match your hair color) and some hair spray.
With model Ivy
Credits an special thanks
Place: I really want to thank Belle Epoque (Voulis 34, Sydagma)for hosting us.
Accessories: All accessories are handmade by Dazzlin’ Gal.
Song: Twenty-Four Hours A Day by Billie Holiday
Model: I also want to thank my model Ivy Adamopoulou for all her patience.
Video: And last but not least I want to thank Gerasimos Domenikos because nothing would have happen if it wasn’t for him.
Wearing a fascinator
Watch the video here
http://www.marieclaire.gr/video/beauty/
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Ps. I promise that next time I’ll include some backstage pictures…
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