I’m seriously considering writing up a tutorial for finger waving using your actual hands and a comb and not pincurls. I don’t have any problem with finger waves using pincurls, but I find that they don’t have the a very authentic look and authenticity is part of what I love about all this fun vintage stuff! Here’s a crappy picture… (more…)
I’m helping set up an episode for a radio show where they interview, basically, fun people with no real following. But on Monday they’re going to interview Dean Martin’s daughter Deana – live! Agggh, that somehow six degrees me away from Frank Sinatra, doesn’t it? Ugh, swoon! She’s going to be on the show talking about her A Dinner &… (more…)
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Welcome, Chickadee's, to Victory Girl: The Life and Times of a Modern Patriotute. I'm your Ghost Host, a 30 year old vintage lady who walks the line between jazz baby and khaki wacky.
I'm new to this whole vintage thing, but I'm a big fan of homework and that's all I've been doing for the past three years - homework. Everything from silent films to vintage books, old and new interviews, tutorials on the web and plain old common sense. Once I know anything at all I'll be posting my own tips, tricks and tutorials, but for now this is just my mad, mad life in 1941.
