Photoshooting with Tate Millinery Part 1

Hello everyone,

last weekend I took a superlong drinve (20 minutes;-) to a neighbour town and shot with lovely Karen from Tate Millinery and her just as lovely husband Andrea! We photographed around 30 hats (estimated number - I lost count because it were SO MANY beautifull hats!) within 3 hours (plus and hour for hair and make up and maybe another one for cupcakes).

So consider this part 1 of at least 4-5 parts full of awesome hats! Keep your eyes on the Online Shop as well and keep in mind: Most of those hats are customizable! So if you think by yourself "Oh, I love this hat, but it wouldn´t go with the clothes I have" - send a message to Tate Millinery to explore the options available! For your convenience I added the links straight to the hat below the picture.

Black Fascinator with bow

 

Big Fedora hat 

 

Green Felt Cloche

 

50s Cocktail Hat

 

Santa Muerte 

 

 

 

Elegant Summer Hat

Did I promse too much? Those hats are truely awesome with great details and made by hand! Keep your eyes peeled for more!

Book Review: "Retro Makeup - Techniques for Applying the Vintage Look"

Hello everyone,

A while ago I posted about Lauren Rennells new book "Retro Makeup - Techniques for Applying the Vintage Look". Most of you already know her as the author of "Vintage Hairstyling", my personal bible for Vintage hair :-)

I saw it and thought I better get it, based on the damn good impressions I have from Vintage Hairstyling Edition 1 + 2 (and before you ask: YES, it is important to have both editions bec

ause there are different stylings in it!)

So how do I find it? Is it worth buying and what do you actually get?

This book covers a lot of make up history. It introduced various make up brushes that you can use to reproduce or re-interprete the styles of the book. This is very very good for make up novices! The book covers the history of our most beloved cosmetic articles such as lipstick, blush, eye liner, mascara etc. While those contained no news for me it was still interesting to read and also included some nice novelty facts.

Every decade introduced features 3 different looks and how to reproduce them. None of it seems particulary tricky. Apart from the 60s eye liner styles they seem almost too easy to me, but than again I have been doing my own hair and make up for shootings for 7 years. It is very nice for reference though.

Things I felt were missing: I felt that something on how to emphasize your individual face form using blush or/and highlighter was missing. There is a short part on it, but that is not really much. I would have loved to have more stuff such as articles from old magazines or/and beauty books in it. I have some where they display makeup morning routines in detail and I LOVE that. In the book is one written description from the 50s. Besides that I have nothing to complain. ;-)

I really enjoyed: The beautifull photos, the breakdown on brushes, the part on what ladies had on their vanities, the "novelty" trivias in it.

Is it worth buying? Do you have the two Kevyn Aucoin books on Make up and Mike Browns books "The 1940s Look" and "The 1950s Look"? If so you don´t necessarily need this book.

However it is nice to have. The make ups are easy to reproduce. The advice is helpfull and if you have not that much knowledge about era-specific looks it is wellworth the money! I say: BUY!

Where can you get it?

Germany: http://www.ars-vivendi.de/shop/

Worldwide: http://www.hrstbooks.com/

Trying water-waves and adapting new make up

Hi everyone,

today I tried water waves with my triple-barrel-curling iron and that blue Gaga Make up (I told ya, I could imagine a 30s version of it - hence the water-waves). The water-waves turned out so so (just the one on top of my head is actually visible in the pic :-D ) I made the Gaga make up not as high as in the original pic as I thought it might look too extreme on me. Judging the pics though they could have worked well going higher as you can barely see it when I have my eyes open. :-D Also having it more symetric would have helped. But when I try something I expect to learn from my mistakes (it would be boring if everything we try turns out perfect immediately). Mission: Done :-D

P.s.: I really like that one can see the little green Tiki-mug wearing a miniature sombrero in the background in the first pic :-D

P.p.s.: Those pics also really show well how camera to face-distance and a light change of head-posture can totally change the form of your face :-D The pics were not retouched in any way.