The Vintage

Last weekend, I visited Seattle, Washington's Pike Market. I discovered a small store called "Old Seattle Paperoworks". This unique contains all the antique prints..Old newspaper, vintage magazines, propaganda, ad-clippings, movie posters, etc.

This is a picture of the store from the outside.

As I was flipping through the movie poster, I came across a box full of old art works and photographs of leading females of the vintage times. For instance, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Marilyn Monroe in her photo-shoots. The pictures are all so beautiful with a spice of retro-glamour.

This vintage style as seen in the movie posters are known as the Pin-Up Style. Pin ups were pohtographs of celebrities as a form of artwork, often depicting idealized version of women. So you're probably wondering, what does a a pin-up girl look like? Pin-up girls are very sexy, but still had an air of playful innocence: cat eye liner and full red lips. Marilyn Monroe is the icon for

the glamorous pin-up, where as Bettie Page was vampy. In the modern pop culture, the most well known pin-up looks can be seen on Katy Perry in her hit "I Kissed a Girl".

Here's How to Get the Look!Face:

1. Apply your base as you normally would - foundation and concealer only where you need it and powder to help set it. You'll actually want to use a bit more powder than you normally do, as the classic pin-up face tends to look quite matte.
2. With a large brush, sweep a natural-hued powder blush (for the classic pin-up face use a rosy-coloured one) onto the apples of the cheeks and sweeping up towards the temples. If your blush is one with shimmer, even better!
3. Comb your brows up with an eyebrow comb and fill in any sparse bits with a bit of eyebrow powder or pencil. You'll want strong, dramatic eyebrows for this look. Finish by sweeping on some eyebrow gel to set them.

Eyes:

1. Sweep a champagne-coloured shadow across your lid.
2. With an angle brush, apply black eyeshadow in a line across your lashline, as close to your lashline as possible. Start from the outside corner and draw it in towards your nose. You can extend the line out as far as you wish and as thick as you wish later, but it's better to start with a little and add, than have to try to erase mistakes. This step is to show you where you want to draw your liquid eyeliner line - it will be so much easier if you take the time to draw a practice line!
3. Once both your practice lines are drawn evenly and you've got the look you want in powder, it's time to add the false lashes. First curl your eyelashes with an eyelash curler - this will help blend your own lashes with the false lashes.
4. Apply the false eyelashes carefully and allow the adhesive to dry.
5. Now you're ready to add your liquid eyeliner. By doing this step after you apply the false lashes you can cover the band so it's not visible.
6. The same way you drew your powder line (outer corner in towards the inner corner), carefully and slowly draw your liquid eyeliner line.
   
7. Add two or three coats of black mascara, starting at the base and wiggling the wand slightly before pulling it out along the rest of your lashes. This creates maximum thickness as well as length.

Lips:

1. With a sharpened red lipliner, outline your natural lipline and then fill in your entire lip area with the pencil. This helps your lipstick to last and prevents that horrible outlined lip look when the lipstick does wear off.
2. With a lipbrush, apply your lipstick. If you're hesitant about wearing red lipstick, you can choose a softer red tone or a sheer red. Apply two coats, blotting in between and after the last coat.

Tips:

• For a less dramatic, still sultry look, forgo the red lips and select a high shine, nude or rosy pink gloss.