Just a quick update!

Hi everyone!! I just wanted to update you all.

I took off that blasted word verification from the comments. I know what a pain in the butt it can be when you just want to leave a comment so I hope this will encourage my dear readers to start leaving comments again. I do miss reading your replies!! Please come back. :)

I can now be found on Instagram! I am really enjoying having an account there and sharing pictures that may not be worthy of a whole blog post. Mostly though, I enjoy seeing and perusing other vintage lovers' photos! So if you have an Instagram follow me! I am TheLolitaHaze.

The weather is maybe starting to spring up here in this less than desirable town. As great as that is... my heart is still longing to move to Vegas. I am getting closer to saving up enough to move... so hopefully that will happen sooner than later!

I finally finished a blouse I started months ago using fabric I bought 7+ years ago. Hahaha nothing like a timely finished project. Starting to sew again has brought me a lot of self motivation and I am enjoying the creative outlet and spill over it has been giving me.

I will share with you my next project! I bought this dark navy (almost black) sheer fabric with white polka dots and red bows. I found two styles of dresses that will be perfect for the material. I know I want to add matching velvet(een) bows so both of these styles would be nice. Trying to decide between the two, I think I will go with the colored one on the left. I also like the ribbon belt it has. Now I don't have patterns for either of these dresses, so I am going to just try and draft my own. By draft, I don't mean anything fancy with fancy sewing skills... I just mean try to figure it out with what sewing "smarts" I already have. Which will mean many muslins and many months til completion!

So that is about all I have to share with you at the moment. I hope people haven't abandoned me completely. I do enjoy sharing with you all and being inspired by you!

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HOTD Easter Sunday

Yesterday was lovely. I spent the evening having dinner with Perry. Since it was also Viva weekend that we were obviously not attending, we decided to watch Viva Las Vegas with Elvis and Ann Margret.

I only had time to set my hair for a couple of hours so I decided to do a loose wave set with a high arching front. I was afraid with only 2 hours my hair would fall straight, but thankfully a nice wave formed and with a little bit of hairspray my hair was set.

My outfit was a blouse I made last year from a 40s pattern and vintage fabric given to me. My slacks were my good ol pair that I made years ago from a 40s pattern. A simple outfit. Nothing fancy, but with spring trying so hard to get out from under the covers of winter, I just had to have something light and bright to wear. Being that it was just spending time with Perry, there was no need to get Easter dressed up.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

 

Betty Grable hair : Pin Up Girl

Knowing that today I had the day off, I searched the net last night for hair inspiration. I knew I want to practice my pin curling so I set off looking for sets. Instead I happened upon this picture of Betty Grable. It is from the movie Pin Up Girl (1944). I have never seen the movie so I only had this picture to go by. I decided on this style because I knew on my day off with no where to go, I'd like to have my hair in a ponytail and from the looks of this picture, it was just that!

Right off the bat I was afraid my bangs (fringe) would be too long and the rest of my hair too short, but I thought what the hell I will try for it anyway. So I looked at the style and tried to figure out what to pin curl and where and what to just simply put in rods. I originally wanted to do everything in pin curls, but quickly gave up that idea.

With a combination of pin curls and rods I put my satin hair cap on and went to bed. I picked this cap up at an estate sale for 50 cents and it has turned out to be a wonderful styling aid when sleeping. The satin slips and slides like satin pillow sheets and doesn't pull at the clips keeping everything pretty much where it started.

So first thing after waking up and letting out the dogs I set out to take out the set and style my do. Sure enough, I was right, my bangs were too long and my hair was too short. Being that my bangs are too long, the pin curls didn't form properly and the wave wasn't hitting at the right part. Plus the curl at the ends didn't flick correctly so I actually had to roll my bangs under creating a rolled faux bang in order to shorten then. Which caused a problem with the esthetics of it. So what I had to do after doing the side rolls and the front fringe curls was to reshape the bang part, I forced a S wave on top and a deep wave at the front with clips and combs and let it set for 20 mins. I then combed and shaped the main bang to what you see. By this time I was so over this style so I just called it a day.

There you have it. My Betty Grable Pin Up Girl hair done on the first and a half time with bangs too long and hair too short.

What do you all think?

Have you all been playing around and experimenting with your hair lately?

Blame it on the Rain

Sorry I have been quite. The late season snow we have been getting has kept me home bound and rather bored. Which means I have nothing exciting to post about.

Tonight I went to dinner with my sister and had a great time, but didn't take any photos.

I did however want to take a picture of my hair, but when I got home it had fallen from the rain. So here is my hair after the rain got to it. Turning my tight waves and curls into loose waves and curls. Ho hum. Blame it on the rain... yeah yeah.