Silent Film Sirens

         

                      Mary Pickford

                                Clara Bow

Korean Beauty Trend; Fat, Puffy Eyes

I've always loved Korean beauty products, even the weird ones, like under eye bags to look.....youthful. 

Here is a super weird tutorial on how to get those puffy eyes.
http://michellephan.com/blog/post/new-tutorial-puffy-smiling-eyes

This is a Korean Beauty Blog as well listing a how to and a ton of before and afters
http://www.soompi.com/2011/10/14/koreas-new-internet-meme-beautiful-female-stars-eye-bag-removal-and-addition/

The Ballet

I've never been a girl that wanted to be a Ballerina. Even as a kid when I did classes for a year or two, I was thinking, "uhh boorrring." I then went on to play softball, tennis (tennis summer camp hollar), cross country and soccer.

As I get older (forever young) I can now appreciate it for what it is, hungry girls dancing oh so pretty.

The Ballerina's also have some KILLA makeup. The article if your too lazy to click, states Ballerinas wear a think pancake base, two sets of false eyelashes and 100 pounds of eye shadow. So basically they wear what I wear on a normal day.

Black swan made the Ballet a little bit more mainstream, the makeup however is extreme, something that is perfect for Halloween.  It can also be super light and effortless when done right.

Shiny Happy People's Skin

If there was a power outage in NYC you would be able to find me by the moon reflecting off my oily, shiny face. Maybe not but I mean, maybe. 

I do have oily skin, so much so, a friends little sister called me shinny. 'Why is your face so shiny?" BECAUSE. I age better thats why! We do!

 New York City dermatologist Francesca Fusco, M.D. agrees: “People with oily skin just age better.”

Read more: http://www.youbeauty.com/skin/oily-skin-decoded#ixzz2XvcMFVtm

Anyways, Caudalie is a sample I got from Sephora. I tried it and it kept me shine free all day. So after trying cheaper versions of creams and serums that didn't work, i finally just bought it.  It's amazing!

Friday Funday Mood Board

The Women Behind the Music

There is something so glamorous about women who marry rock gods. They are always beautiful but seem to have that something extra. These four are my faves, whose looks I love to emulate. It seems it's all about big hair, dark lined eyes and light lips. 





Left: Edie Sedgwick
There's not much to say about Edie that most girls dont already know, tragic, a factory girl, a legend and beautiful.

(Below) Bebe Buell is a bad ass and mom to Liv Tyler. She was a model, a playmate and made a new reord called "Hard Love" at age 58.

  

(Below) Jerry Hall left Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music for Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. These are things you cannot make up. 

 (Below) Pattie Boyd, first wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton

Mood Board for May and June

I am not a fan of Pintrest or meme's but today, this week, this month, I've been in need of visual stimulation. I've needed beauty to look at. It's a nice distraction for yourself when you find the people and things in your life seem ugly and you need pretty STAT. 

It's only in hindsight I can really learn from the past. If i had only known. If only. Maybe I'd have kept more friends, my dog, some part of my past. I've lost everything is some aspects. Breaking up shouldn't be a war zone where people make sideline comments and can step back and forth over the line. You shouldn't be extorted for money to see your own dog and never get to see said dog. You shouldn't HAVE to break up countless times only to have it fall on deaf ears.

When your miserable, leave. Leave fast and don't look back. Don't try and fail because you feel guilty. Don't bother telling friends who might sympathize at the time and then take the opposite side. The longer it takes, the longer the aftermath will be. It took me years to leave. To get the voices of everyone else out of my ears and listen to myself, my own voice. To keep true to that voice when everyone else around me had a different opinion and judged. 

Of course said person will call your parents and siblings to bad mouth you're character after they can't get anymore more money out of you. Soon they move on to friends with tidbits of information you've shared with them over the years, to stretch it into lies from truth. To spread the destruction. Threatening calls to my work phones, to my cell phone. 

In the end, after its all over you start to pick up what you have left. A small handful of people, photos of your dog and truth. Truth of the people you had around you, who you are and what you will never, ever go back to being.