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.
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