Pin-up Girl Galleries

After trying for ages to source these at Lime Crime's website, and they being continously out of stock, I finally tracked each color down in 2 seperate online Australian stores! Yes, a lot more expensive way of getting them, but I was just happy at finally sourcing both colors!

So, how do they wear? 

Red Velvet.


My swatches. This was 2 coats.

Online promo swatch.
As you can see, my lips looks nothing like the online color even after 2 coats. Even after several coats I can't see this lipstick turning out as dark as the promo swatch....maybe a bit of photoshopping went on?


This is after 6 hours, breakfast and lunch. The tackiness turns into little dried 'balls' of lipstick after eating. (Love my super technical way of explaining things?!)   It is necessary to wipe down your mouth to get them off. So after all this wiping and eating I was surprised to look in the mirror and see I was still wearing color on my lips, even if it didn't look perfect.

Suedeberry


Application is a little more tricky with Suedeberry. The first coat is always patchy and streaky, so I wait till that is dried and apply a second coat. A third coat is also needed to be free of streaks completely. As a result of so many coats, my lips feel very tacky and dry.


This is after 2.5 hrs and a Subway lunch. Wear is not as long as Red Velvet, but I do attribute this to the patchy formula.

Would I re-buy?  I do have to think hard but probably not.  The concept is great and the colors are very nice.  But the texture and feel of them on my lips is too unusual for me to handle for very long.  As I said, it feels like hours old lipgloss gone tacky and 'ball-y' and makes me feel a little conspicious thinking I have food on my mouth.  It is nice to scrub it off completely and put on vaseline!

I did read that there are new colors in Lime Crime's pipeline so it will be interesting to see what they look like.

Anyone else have any thoughts on the Velvetines?

One coat of Crows Toes Bone Daddy over Essence Grey-t To Be Here. Bone Daddy is a mix of white and iridescent glitters in a milky grey base. You can see the sprakling teeny, tiny blue iridescents glittering!


And in full sunlight.

Bone Daddy was from Crows Toes Halloween collection and is still available for purchase at Llarowe.

Some colors just do your head in to try and capture properly on film. Purple sends my camera into overload.

Crows Toes Purple People Eater is a super blingy concoction of different hued Purples, Blues and Greens in a clear base.

Llarowe's stock photo of this color shows a very thin layer of PPE over a base color.  I have no idea how that blogger got her glitter to look that thin, because my photos are only 2 coats and see how opaque it turned out!  3 coats would have eliminated the need for a base coat.

 

You have already seen this outfit photo, but it's a good one with these shoes.


This dress was featured in my last post.  Aren't novelty prints divine?

I am one of those ladies that actually detest underwear. However, and obviously, it is a necessary evil. But there is nothing better than whipping off a bra at the end of the day and sighing with relief........


Nevertheless, I own quite a lot of vintage undergarments.  Bralette's, corsets, high waisted panties, a plethera of bullet bras. And they must be Deadstock vintage as the repo garments just don't do the same 'thing'...IE: give you the right shape and keep the 'bits' IN.

In some cases tho, undergarments are a must, and in the case of a plain color fabric & drop waisted dress, very necessary!
The all in one body suit in the photo above is a vintage, upcycled with fresh red dye piece.  It has a bullet shaped cup, corseted waist and little tight shorts with suspender straps.  It also has a little opening so a lady can visit the bathroom without getting totally naked! (Disclaimer: I actually haven't used this as the thought of it is very off-putting......what if I can't wee straight????  So I just hang on till I get home...cough, cough.)  The end result is a smooth outline with slightly nipped in waist.

For something similar, Rago makes something that looks almost the same called the Rago Full Body Shaper Girdle Shapette Long Leg Body Briefer.