HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Bride of Frankenstein style...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

I'm so excited, it's my favourite day of the year. I love it more than Christmas, New Year and even my own birthday. I love it more than the sound of bones breaking, the death rattle, babies crying and dogs dying (< that's an in-joke for fellow John Waters' freaks).

To celebrate this magnificent holiday, here's a fun "Pinup Bride of Frankenstein" collab I did with the fun and beautiful Lexi DeRock who did my hair, makeup, costume AND took the photos! What a talented babe! She also blogs over at Voluptuous Vintage Vixen, you should check her out.

BTS: Lexi and I get kissy/snarly

Tonight we're having an epic house party at my place, and I am planning one of my most ambitious and exciting costumes to date. I'm so damn excited to see it all come together. There's actually a bit of hint as who I'll be going as, right on this very page! Tricks or treats to anyone who can guess... ^_^

HAVE AN INCREDIBLE HALLOWEEN!

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Release The Hounds...tooth (Aussie Curves)

The Aussie Curves theme this week is "favourite piece" and as (probably everyone is commenting) it's SO HARD TO CHOOSE FAVOURITES AMONGST MY CHILDREN! That's why I only have one cat, for goodness sake!

So, my favourite piece right at the second I was getting dressed that day is this divine Diana Dress from Bombshell Vintage. It fits me to perfection, and has the most adorable details like the belt and collar! It's right around this point I should be upfront and say that I was gifted this dress by the lovely Kate, by I am by no means obliged to say nice things about it. I'm gushing because I genuinely ADORE it, and it does, indeed, make me feel like a beautiful, bodacious bombshell.

For somebody who doesn't rate houndstooth very highly (despite owning this pair of custom-made houndstooth gladiator sandals), this dress WORKS and makes my rack look spectacular. If I do say so myself... It's also of the snuggliest, heavyweight fabric (? I am fabric name n00b)and i'm going to miss it during the summer - I think it will be too thick. But then we shall have a wonderful reunion next April, and it will be like sweet make up sex.







Bombshell Vintage have just released their new season lookbook for the collection "Fairy Floss Fallout" and holy shit there are some divine pieces in there! I will be saving my pennies for something, I just have to choose WHAT! Photos courtesy of Sam Masopust, photographer extraordinaire and semiotician in-the-making. 

OUTFIT DETAILS

Dress: Bombshell Vintage / Diana Dress Sandals: custom made in Hoi An, Vietnam Coat: Miller's (belonged to my Nana) Glasses: Quick Brown Fox (available on eBay, search "Mr Quiffy") Lipstick: Lime Crime / Red Velvet

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Greazefest Goodness & A Gorgeous Dress!

Over the weekend I went to Greazefest for the very first time! Well duh it was the first time, cos it's the inaugural year in Melbourne! Not only did I get to go and perv on all the babin' boys and girls and cars, but I was a babe to be perved on myself!

If you remember from my Curvy Couture Roadshow post, I was all hot and bothered about the collection from Bombshell Vintage. Well you can imagine I nearly dropped dead when she asked me to show-pony for her at the event!!

The day started off a bit rocky with me foolishly disembarking at the wrong train station and having to walk a mile, not being let in at the gate, and then a host of other small dilemmas that got me into a bit of a sweaty tizz. But after I got inside, the other girls modelling were all so lovely and helpful that things quickly calmed down.

It was such a fun experience, and unlike anything i've ever experience before. Normally i'm used to a build up of nerves and excitement, and then a whole song, set or production later I come off stage and buzz on the adrenalin. But this experience was a grand total of 30 seconds on stage, and then the free hit of blood-pumping aftermath. Woo! I'ma do that again!

After the show I went around saying hi to people, and spent wayyy too much money on some jewellery and a couple of ADORABLE prints by Creep Heart. Check my Instagram to see the mini-haul.

Below are some snaps from the day. I actually took loads more of the cars, but these were my favs. *drools*



                                     Trailer Trash Tattoo!                                            The incredibly sweet Ella of Creep Heart
                      Next year i'm getting inked by Mimsy. 
                                              For sure. 

Would you believe me if I said these were the 2 best asses I saw that day?

Nah, I wouldn't either.

Yay phone camera! All the Bombshell Vintage Babes, including Kate the designer (middle)

I am sooooo into this dress.

And the hat. Oh dear lord the HAT.

Plus Size Pin-Up for a Day

Nobody likes an obscenely long essay, so i'm peppering this post with photos from the shoot. BUT you should totes defs still read about my experience because it was pretty darn amazing! <3

The Curvy Couture Roadshow back in March was such a fantastic experience for so many reasons. (If you missed it, HERE'S my post about it all) But probably the greatest thing I took away from it all was the amount of incredibly talented, beautiful and like-minded women that I met.

One of these women was Lexi DeRock of Voluptuous Vintage Vixen.

We passed each other lined up outside, and exchanged compliments on each other's hair, and I knew right then that she was a fierce babe and I wanted to be her friend or collaborate with her on something. Well, it seems I got both!

After reading each other's blogs for a little while, she invited me to test-drive a new pinup package that she has only just started offering here in Melbourne. Being a vain bitch I jumped at the opportunity, but as the day got closer I found myself growing more and more nervous, for a number of reasons.

Put his what WHERE?

One reason was that she had told me not to bring anything because she had heaps of vintage clothes to play dress-ups in. Well, I grew up always being the biggest out of all of my friends, and i've never had an experience where I could swap or share clothes with anybody. As a result, it's made me feel like a bit of a control-freak about my wardrobe, and as much as I consciously believed Lexi had clothes that would actually fit me, underneath that I was losing. my. shit. Regardless to say, she not only had things to fit me, she had AWESOME things that fit me! We only ended up shooting in 2 different outfits, but I tried on heaps and there were a few pieces of hers that I would have happily snuck home with me :)

Serving you 60's air hostess realness

Another thing I had hesitations about was doing the “pin-up” thing. Don't get me wrong, I ADORE that look. From a pretty early age I became obsessed with old Hollywood starlets, particularly Marilyn Monroe (but that's a post for another day), and so my perception of beauty and glamour is strongly linked in with a vintage aesthetic. But i've never felt entitled to persuing that, because I don't actually look like those women. It was such a struggle to come to terms with that as a teenager, and now that i've finally accepted that my style is a mish-mash of all sorts of loves and influences, it was a bit confronting to be taken back to something I felt i'd (begrudgingly) said goodbye to.

Fact.

Sorry for the psycho-babble, I just want to really explain that as excited as I was about this photoshoot, I had a bit of crap that I was processing about it all. And I think that's fairly normal. We all have our things, right?

"Look at me, i'm Sandra Dee"

So, I get to Lexi's place on the day of the shoot, and she is nothing but warm, friendly and welcoming (at this point we've only ever met briefly once before), and her gorgeous little pup was a tonne of fun and excitement. As she started my hair and makeup (Lexi is the full package) it turned out we have really similar taste in music, so she popped some of our favourite artists on as we chatted. My anxieties totally melted away as she navigated her way around my dreads like a pro, and ever so careful applied mascara (i'm weird about my eyes). When I looked in the mirror, I felt like a million bucks. Honestly. I don't even know HOW she took my mangy old rainbow dreads and fashioned them into something that made me look like a retro babe. But she did.


When we started taking photos, I was still a bit nervous because i'm really only an epic poser when it's just me and Sam. But Lexi just kept chatting to me, telling me awesome stories (this lady has had one HECK of an interesting life) and making me laugh whenever she wanted a natural smile. I really loosened up and she gave me some really helpful feedback about tendencies I have when striking a pose, and taught me some authentic pin-up poses (side note: those poses look effortless, but MAN! they are a serious test of the core strength).

We had such a great time, I hung around and had a wine with her afterwards. It was such an amazing experience that tested some old, residual and unnecessary boundaries that I have, but in the most positive and re-affirming ways. And seriously, just check out the photos!


I would also like to say that although I received a service in exchange for this blog post, I was in no way obliged to write good things. This was a truly exceptional experience that I think a lot of women would enjoy and/or benefit from. The fact that Lexi herself is a plus-size, vintage lover is the sweetest cherry on the top!

If you want to check out her other stuff, her main website is here:
http://www.lexiderock.com/

Her blog can be found here:
http://www.voluptuousvintagevixen.com/

Go on, take a peek! :)