Goodbye

I just want to say, I'm going on haitus for a wee while.
I've been diagnosed with depression and everything just seems a little rubbish :(

BUT I promise you this... I will be back, bigger and better.
I will have blonde hair, my own flat, I will be proper vintage, I will have awesome makeup and photos, a great blog and get lots of followers.

I will still be following all my lovely ladies intently.

See you in a couple of months,
Au revoir.
xx

I'm Back :)

I have been away for the weekend, and in the run up pretty much everything in my life got put on hold because I was so excited. I've still been getting very dismayed at my lack of money, and to be honest due to my insecurities I almost feel unfit to be on here, as how can someone be vintage or even attempt to explore it adequately when completely and utterly.... broke.

I still make my attempts, and sometimes it prevails... but I am just longing for swing dresses, circles skirts and the like! It's really annoying to have to wear the same skirt over and over because it looks a bit vintage and whatnot.

Anyway on Father's Day my hair looked nice... here's a pic:



and my outfit was not all that bad. Like I say, nothing vintage but I still try. Also, I forgot I owned those shoes and discovered them for the first time in a year that day :)




I was away down in my old hometown this weekend, but I needn't show you the photos from it because, quite frankly, I think I looked hideous. It doesn't help all my friends are devastatingly gorgeous. Being down did however, confirm that my beau and I will be moving back down there when I'm finished with my degree.
I miss my sister so much! I will need to attempt to get a photo of her on here at some point, but I'd prefer if it was one of us together- and they aren't that brilliant currently.

Oh also, it would be greatly appreciated if somebody could give me a tip on how to get more followers!!!!!

Anyway, toodle-pip!

Back-dated Photos

So I have been thinking, my style recently is very vintage-inspired (as I only have one vintage dress!)- I do plan to own ONLY vintage clothes one day (fingers crossed) but I have so much to think about recently money wise I won't be able to do so for years :'(

So I would love to know if people actually prefer authentic vintage to vintage-inspired or vintage-modern styles? I know there will be many different opinions but I'm intrigued as to what people lean toward more and why.... maybe it's not so easy to find vintage clothes in your area?

ANYWAY.... I have some photos to put up to show my point...





In these photos is where I feel I look very authentic, though the only item in them are my pearls.










this is me on a day I pin-curled my hair and wrapped it. The curls turned out disastrously, but it looks nice even just like that :P























This is me the most recent bank holiday Monday, when we went to the beach with my parents and dog... I got so sunburnt. When the day started my hair did look lovely but the humidity and wind got to it and it turned out like that....

anyway you see my point.

I also have a request today lovelies- I need a beginniners guide to Golden Era music! Hit me!
Oh and has anyone listened to 'The Baseballs'? If not- LOOK THEM UP :D

muchos love xxx

Quick Post

my life has been so hectic recently- bank holiday, family moving, painting a big fence, spending time with friends, looking for a flat, baking for numerous birthdays.

all of the above are excuses to why I haven't posted in a while.
I don't really have anything recent newsworthy or picture worthy to offer but I'll see if I can rustle something up later.

sorry :(
x

New Pretty Blog :D

I have been fiddling this morning with blog backgrounds and such and have settled on this one :)
I like it so now I just have to fill it up with equally pretty posts.
My exams have just finished (YAY) so I will finally be blogging a lot more, and I will try and get some nice outfit posts and such- although I will warn you my wardrobe is not very expansive in terms of vitage pieces, so bear with me until I earn some money :)

Anyway, I have an exciting day of cleaning ahead of me- Ta-rah!!
xxx

Hooray!

I finally have a follower :) Thank you Ruby's Attic!

Well today, in a bid to procrastinate from further revision for my exam tomorrow, I played with my hair for an hour, and ended up with this:





That is, 2 Victory rolls and a pin curl. I was feeling random.
In a bid to make myself feel better (only 12pm and already one of THOSE days) I got all dressed and did my makeup... yay :)



Just a couple of photos of me doing my thing and being random.
I am happy :)

Anyway, back to revision!
xx

No Life on BlogWorld

Well, it's been nearly 3 weeks since I posted now so i think I'm going to have to turn it into a Sunday night post or something. I promise that by the time my exams are over it will become a regular occurrance, more so because I will have fabulous outfits to show you as I have some pretty things to buy once my job gets going and I'll make more effort than my current studying in my slouches mode.

The picture you can see here is my outfit from yesterday; you can't see my face as I wasn't made up by that point.
It is a gorgeous tartan housedress my boyfriend bought me in a Sale, and the jacket is a vintage-inspired piece I picked up from Wallis.



My first exams starts in 2 days so at the minute instead of focusing on my appearance, outings, shopping and flathunting I have substituted Literary and Social Theory and Romanticism and Modernism studies.

Maybe soon I can get some followers.... maybe.

whoops!

Haven't posted in a wee while and feeling rather guilty, but I don't know why considering I have zero followers. haha.

I have been so busy recently with studying for my exams, which start in exactly 2 weeks. This has also led to me sitting round my flat in my jammies and generally not doing a lot in terms of vintage :(

I did however, get given some money a couple of weeks back, which I went and bought a beautiful vintage dress with at my favourite vintage shop just down the road. It is 2 different shades of blue in a heart pattern with a pleated skirt and gold buttons (sorry about the blurry photo!)





My boyfriend and I have been desperately searching for a new flat but things aren't looking good on the money front, and therefore think we're going to be staying where we are over summmer, which sucks. He has an interview today though and I start my job on Friday.... I know things will pick up when we have our own place and i can be wifey.

anyway... back to revision!
xxxxxxxx

Vintage hair success and contemporary fashion rant

As anybody who has a love for vintage knows, getting your hair right is a MUST. Of course sometimes it's alright for it to be covered up or a bit 'bed-head', but in my opinion it is one of the major things that makes girls like us glam.
I can't count how many hours I spent trying to do so many different things with my hair- pin curls being THE hardest, and something I still am yet to get the hang of (I think for now the curling irons will have to remain out for quite some time!). I have successfully put my hair into roller girl bangs, and reverse roller girl bangs... but when I was trying to do it the day before yesterday... it just did NOT want to happen! So I gave up after quarter of an hour, and moved onto another style I had attempted and failed at- victory rolls.
Now I'm not going to lie- I was so stressed standing in front of that mirror trying to get my hair into place for it to fall back in front of my face over and over again, but with a bit of teasing- and a LOT of hairspray- they willingly stayed with a couple of bobby pins... and there they stayed all day! I didn't take them out till 11pm!
I am so happy they worked, and will be very disappointed if they refuse to go in again, but I guess it's all about teasing your hair just right ;)

Yesterday I went to the cinema and saw 'Whip It!'- that rollerskating movie with Ellen Page in it. I have to admit it was quite good- kind of what you'd expect from that kind of film. In the movie the woman who plays her mother is (what us Brits seem to see as a stereotype from tv) a typical Texan mum who makes her daughters do peagants. There's a bit in the movie where Ellen Page tells her to stop shoving her 1950s ideal of womanhood down her throat (the mother in this hates tattoos etc also)... and it got me thinking where the modern 1950s style girl fits into all this. I mean, obviously there are loads of rockabilly girls we see nowadays with tons of tattoos and piercings, with the 'overdone' but still 50s makeup, and dress sense, and then there's the girls whose blogs I read who are truly Golden Era authentic.
I think what makes me different is that I had all these Golden Era ideals and values way before I even dreamed of having any style, let alone an individual one. I have always known what I wanted out of life and am heading toward 'homeliness', and the style just came after... when I realised that just because it didn't fit in with society didn't mean it wasn't something I shouldn't do- because I loved it. But I also don't disagree with 'new age' fashion (well, some parts). I, as you can see above, have a lip piercing, which is nearly 4 years old now... but I couldn't imagine myself without it, and yes, I plan on getting tattooed.
I think the key thing in our society is acceptance for people looking how they feel inside- I'm sure many authentic beautiful Golden Era girls get criticised just for not fitting the norm, but that happens to some 'alternative' styles like heavily tattooed people today.
When I have the money to look the way I want to- I'm gonna go out glammed up to the nines with my head up high.

Acting Housewife today

well what a weekend it's been!
we've had glorious sunshine here, which means it's now warm enough to go out in a lovely vintage dress and cardie- yay!

yesterday, my honey and I were invited to my Uncle's house for dinner along with my Mummy and Nan. They have the most adorable 19th Century cottage which they have decorated to perfection, and it's all the more joyous since they had their baby boy, who's now a year and a half!
I haven't really revealed my 'vintage self' to anyone but a couple of friends and my Nan yet, but yesterday I took the leap. I dyed my hair a darker red yesterday morning (I have gone from dyed postbox red to a morello cherry), curled it and did my make-up to the nines. I then slipped myself into a cream A-line ruffled skirt, black vest, and salmon pink cardie- all finished off with my red ray-ban sunglasses, of course!
we had a wonderful day sitting in the courtyard with the wee man and having a full roast dinner, followed by apple pie (made by moi!) and eton mess. We even walked down to the river and let the dogs have a swim, which ended in me tearing my skirt- boo! (though it was old and tatty) and in order to do so my Aunty lended me some wellies, to which she took great delight in telling me I looked every bit the vintage country housewife in, and flung an apron on me to finish the look! :D



when I got back in the evening, my boy and I curled up on the sofa and watched some telly with a glass of vino :)

Today my boy has an interview with a very up-market department store, so when I awoke in glorious sunshine feeling very refreshed and lovely in bed, he was already showered and doing his hair. My hair also, looked lovely as my curls from yesterday have loosened and positioned themselves in a dissheveled 'bed-head' and cute look.
So my guy's gone for two hours (a very formal interview!) and I'm about to do my housewifery! Which of course involves cleaning the bedroom, living room and kitchen up, and baking him a great big cake in order to celebrate or comfort eat!

I've also been slipped a tenner by my lovely Nan so maybe I'll have to get on the old ebay and see what vintageness I can rustle up!

much love,
Tsuki's Girl xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

revisualising the golden era

so, since forever I have been obsessed with the 1950s.
I'm 19, and yet my ideals have always been the total opposite of everyone else. I grew up in an area which had many chavs/neds whatever you call them and a high rate of teen pregnancy, yet ever since I can remember I've thought it's, well not vile, but not what I thought was right.
I'm not religious, I'm a very strong athiest, yet I've always believed in the old-fasioned style of things- you fall in love, get married, have children. Yet that seems to oppose the 'norm' these days, which I simply don't understand.
I don't stand in the way of feminism, yet I have never and will never call myself a feminist. I told a female this who shot me down and said that in saying such I was against everything that women had fought for since suffrage, which simply isn't true. To me the clue is in the name- feminism- not 'equalism' [an absurd but only word I could make up to illustrate my point]. There are many feminist acts I do agree with, but I think now it is starting to go against the whole point of equality. For example, the fact that I am shot down for my views- that I want to be a housewife and mother above all things and to serve my husband. That is my choice.
But back to my original point.... recently I have become far more active in my obsession- that I now dress the part, and I'm loving it :)
I found one fabulous forum (www.thefedoralounge.com) and an amazing blog with a gorgeous blogger (vavoomvintage.blogspot.com) which has led to me not just drooling through the windows of Cath Kidston or admiring beautiful pin-ups online, but actually planning the things I want to buy- starting to clear my clothes for something more vintage, and actually taking up sewing. There are also the numerous hours I've spent researching to get my hair right but we need not mention that because glamour happens naturally, right? ;)

So hopefully this blog will turn into something. Not just me mumbling on about my stupid life.
I guess I might post some pics or whatever :)

Ciao! xxxxxxx

Tsuki's Girl's First Blog ^_^

well today I decided to become a blogger. Well, not today. Long ago I decided to do that and never kept up with it. In fact, I only wrote one. This led to problems trying to create an account as my address was already registered and blah blah blah.

So anyway... I'm sat here at my breakfast bar, watching scrubs and waiting for dinner with my boyfriend. Chicken kievs- yumm. Today I have been working on my essay which is due the day after tomorrow and I've only half-done it eek -_- sooo tired of it as I don't understand it. I'm hoping my next literature essay will be much easier than this mix of Politics and Sociology- yikes!

It's so hard trying to concentrate on something serious when all I wanna do is playing Assassins Creed 2. I'm SUCH a bad student! haha. and life's been pretty stressful recently- absolutely no money and living off my boyfriend in a flat I hate with three other people. Hopefully we will manage to pull enough money together in the next three months so we can get a flat and start our life together properly!! :)

he's my everything by the way. absolutely perfect to me.

sooooo I'm gonna go beat him up for hurting me now
xx