Lipstick that stays on forever

I came back with billions apologies and a few pic to show!

First of all, I am really, really sorry for being silent! As I told you before, I got a new job and then I found another, so right now I'm working in multiple places that include russian magazine "Bolshoy gorod" ("Big city"), the vintage-repro shop I posted about and something for my dancing club. I also started to dance from 4 to 6 times a week instead of 2, which means that I am terribly busy with all the work and all the dances.

I hope I will be able to write more, especially because there are so many different vintage books and magazines in the place I work now!

But today I want to tell you about a WONDERFUL lipstick. Here it is on me:

It's L'Oreal Infallible Duo Lipstick, the color I'm wearing is called Irrestible Raspberry. It is a very rich berry color that I like very much. But the color isn't the best about this lipstick.

The best thing about it is its durability (this is how you call it in English?). On the photo above I'm wearing it for sixth hour after eating and drinking for three or four times.

Here's how it looks in a tube (photo's not mine):

It consists of two tubes, colored and white. First you apply color and then coat it with translucent balm from white tube. And then...bam! Your lipstick stays on for hours and hours without disappearing a bit! It doesn't even dry lips that hard which is very important for my sensible lips. Three hours in any Revlon or Mac lipstick – and I have a dry monster where I had my mouth. Eight (that's right, EIGHT!) hours in this babe – only slightly dry! I am impressed!

Of course, this lipstick has some peculiarities. First of all, until you applied the balm from white tube, it is very sticky and – yes, lips stick to each other. As a result, small pieces of color from one lip can migrate to another. Be careful with that! Second, you have to apply it on totally clean lips, without lip balm or anything. Here's what I do: before using it, I apply my lip balm and let it moisturize my lips for, like, five minute. Then I wipe it off and take my lipstick.

That's actually all – I think, I'll buy myself a few different colors. Or many, many, many different colors of this lipstick.

Hope it was helpful!

Trees and birdhouses

When we were in Kuskovo with Harlow, she took some great photo of me. So now you can see how I loved trees in Kuskovo :D
 This dress is one of my absolute favorites, it is amazingly comfortable and, thanks to the decor, looks great with orange and yellow. I bought it at Lambada market, and, unfortunately, I'm not sure about designer that made it, or I would totally buy more.

We also saw this amazing birdhouse that looked just like the real Hollandaise house in Kuskovo! Kuskovo in general is an amazing place and I was so thankful to Harlow for showing it to me. Some time ago she made an amazing post about it, which you can see here.

Pin me up

Yesterday at Camaieu (how the heck do you pronounce it?!) I bought those shorts and this shirt and suddenly, with a tattoo, I felt like pin up girl, something like this:

Those two pics are by Enoch Bolles

This one is googled

I know that they're probably not high-waisted enough but I still like them very much. As I don't have a lot of pants or shorts (to be exact, one jeans and one overall) these were the perfect addition to my summer wardrobe. Nice!

Do you like shorts? And, by the way, who's your favorite pin up painter? Mine is obviously Enoch Bolles :D

Recent stuff: job, friends, tattoo

I know I haven't been blogging for some time and I'm really sorry about it! The thing is that I found a job. I started to work in a vintage-repro & american designers shop (or something like that) in Moscow called "Lady May", and, being unused to a saleswoman work, I was terribly tired all the time this week. The greatest thing about this job is that I get to try on all the stunning dresses.
Here's my favorite, by Samantha Sung:

 And I also like this belt-slash-corset thingy. Although it's terribly hard to breathe in it, I can't even imagine how women wore real corsets back in the days!

 I also had lots of great time with my dearest friends. On the picture below you can see beautiful flowers that my mom raised at dacha, amazing tea made from marigold petals and called "Friendship tea" (how cool is that?!) and vegan cupcakes made by me. They were quite tasty, may I say!

One of the brightest events of this week was my meeting with wonderful Harlow from Vintage at Heart. We went to Kuskovo and then saw a great exhibit about fashion in 19th and 20th centuries. Unfortunately, I don't have any photos except for those two, so all the hopes on Harlow :D

I literally had to buy these cookies for our little picnic. I like this red dress with white dots!

And Kuskovo is amazing, such a wonderful place. I have to go there more often!

 And here's the last but not least: I have a tattoo now! I'm so excited! Like, I look at it every five minutes and get excited! It didn't even hurt that much. It is a peony and I think I turned out just beautiful. What do you think?

Petticoat and victory rolls

I finally bought a petticoat! All my full skirts look so much better with it!
Here's what I wore yesterday:

And I also finally got a grasp on victory rolls! I'm the happiest vintage girl! I tried to do them for a very long time but they always turned out...okay, but not perfect. And yesterday they were just what I wanted!

What helped me the most was Kawaii Mama's tutorial...and a thousand times trying! :D

Vintage magazine and vintage sewing book

In this post I want to show you a part of my tiny teeny vintage books and magazines collection. I have two magazines and two sewing books, yes, I know, that's why I said it was tiny! :)

The magazine is 1962 from USSR and was bought in a vintage store in Moscow.

The story about this book is rather long. A few days ago I spotted a vintage sewing book on a market near metro. It needs some explanation: we don't have a variety of vintage shops here, in Moscow. But near my metro station often stand old ladies with something they want to sell. It's not organized in any way and you can probably see there anything. Mostly it's just old toys and ugly worn clothes, but sometimes there are real treasures!

For example, I saw there a 1960s sewing book that was almost untouched and then...I bought a sixties USSR dress! I have to tell you that USSR was always late in fashion terms because of difficult relationships with other countries, especially USA, so USSR sixties are practically like fifties everywhere else. I will show you this dress later, because I don't have any good photos at the moment.
I am always so jealous of american vintage girls telling how they buy forties dresses for $10, because in Moscow forties dresses are a) extremely rare; b) rather expensive, normally around $150-200 for a very simple dress. So I felt just extremely proud of myself for buying both the book and the dress for 500 rubles which is around $15. I also took his woman's phone number because she said that she had more! We'll see how it will turn out, but I'm excited!

So, back to the vintage pictures. They are under the cut, enjoy!

TOP-5

I love making lists, especially if they involve something vintage, something pretty and something funny. So...here's my list: top-5 of my favorite vintage ads! All the pictures are not mine and the source can be found on my Pinterest.

This dress, worn with a pearl necklace, is gorgeous and so casually glamourous. I love it!

I love those shorts, especially with this shirt. So practical and yet stylish!

The dress...oh, the dress. It's perfect, just perfect.

What I like best about this ad is her posture – so elegant yet flirty. And her girdle seems to be comfortable!

Her hair is wonderful and I love the colors, magenta looks amazing with blue dress and red lipstick.  

What do you think? Do you have favorite vintage ads?

Cycling through Moscow

Yesterday I had to leave my bike at my boyfriend's and after my dancing classes he met me and we cycled through night Moscow's center. It was such a wonderful evening.

This is what GUM, one of the most pretentious and ancient Moscow malls, looks like at night. So beautiful!

Manicure and brooch

This brooch I bought in Gorky park. I like it so much, especially unclipping my new-found love for yellow and my ever-lasting love for birds. It looks great with dark blue and I have a lot of dark blue clothes.
On this picture you can also see the manicure I did a few days ago. It's lilac! I never thought I would like lilac nails, but here I am – they look quite interesting. Even my mother, and she usually says that all the "artificial" nail colors like blue or violet look like "deadman's nail", loved it! Unfortunately, the lacquer itself isn't of a good quality so I'm looking for similar color by different producer. Have you seen it, maybe?

Wonderful meetings and wonderful dresses

 

A package from Etsy came to me a few days ago with those wonderful fifties clothes – a dress, a blouse and a girdle that I will show you later. It is actually my first fifties dress – I have a few from seventies and from what I think is early sixties, and finally I get to wear the dress that was made in the exact same period that I adore and admire so much! I have to buy a forties dress as well but it takes time to find a right dress, you know? So we'll see how lucky I'll be!

This is how it looks on me, I think it will be better with a petticoat but these days it's just too darn hot to wear one, it's around 30°C!

I had an amazing possibility to meet Harlow from Vintage at Heart. We went to a wonderful Tiki-Bar and I had the best time ever! It is always so refreshing to talk with someone who can discuss red lipsticks and politics in the same conversation. She was wearing a beautiful dress from Bernie Dexter, you can (and believe me, you want to!) check it out at her blog. The following photos are hers, because I totally forgot to take any, maybe because our cocktails were just as tasty as they were pretty.

Summertime

Moscow is so beautiful in the summer. It's not a very friendly city in the winter when everything is snow-dirty and cold and everybody's wrapped in hundred layers of clothes, but in the summer Moscow appears in all its glory.

This photo was taken a few minutes ago (so I'm actually lifeblogging!) on Arbat, one of Moscow's pedestrian and very tourist-popular streets. Arbat is one one oldest streets in the city and it has always been a "prestigious" place to live. For example, in Soviet Russia it was the home of many high-ranking government officials.

It's a noisy crowded street with a lot of too expensive shops and different cafes (I'm sitting in one of them right now) but, while being, let's say obnoxious if you can say so about street, Arbat still has some specific charm with its ancient buildings and paving stone.

Do you like the city you live in? Do you have a favorite place there?

Theater night out

Yesterday my friend invited me to the theater. Even though I failed an exam in the morning (sic!) and was not very thrilled by the piece (too much grotesque for a tragical theme, in my opinion), I still had a wonderful evening. After the play we sat and discussed our impressions and I thought that this is probably what I love most about art, especially dramatics: it makes you think. It makes you doubt and re-evaluate your beliefs. And we also had macaronis, hey!

I had literally no time to change my clothes, and I prefer to wear something suitable in the theater. The funny thing: I realized that most of my wardrobe, if not all, would look suitable to me a few years ago.  O, tempora...

Exams exams

This is a photo of me studying history for tomorrow's oral examination. The pic was actually taken a few days ago but I'm still scared as hell and feel like I don't know any freaking thing. The good side is that even if I won't pass this exam tomorrow my exams week will still be over because the retake will only take place in October. I plan on staying up all night and studying anyway.

Wish me luck!

Shoe party

Here's to the shoes!

To be honest, I was a flat-shoes types of person all my life. And only a few months ago, maybe two, I found out that heels are actually quite nice! First I tried to wear my prom-shoes (I'll show them later) but they were just too high. Then I bought another ones that were very cheap but oh-so-comfortable (I'll show them later as well 'cause now they're at my dance partner's – I probably need to make another shoes post soon!). These cheap shoes were very nice to wear and I gradually builded up to heels. And they turned out perfect!

Flat shoes are every swing-dancing girl's curse. The thing is: I don't know how to dance lindy hop in something except for these:

I have just a billion of different pairs of these shoes (although they're all blue or white – what's wrong with me?!). And I wear dresses to all the swing parties so I end up wearing dresses with keds and feeling kind-of okay with that. Which is not exactly as feminine or vintage as I would want to.

I'm absolutely okay with having some funny quirky details in my appearance most of the time but some days I just want to be a princess. Most of girl want to. And I decided to indulge myself in this desire so I try and wear heels as often as I want to, disregarding anything that could ever stop me

So – these specific shoes on the pic. The ones on the left are vintage and I bought them in my favorite vintage shop in Moscow. They are just perfect, probably about 5 cm in height and very good for the forties girl look. So nice!

The ones on the right are from modcloth. I love the color, I would call it a muted mustard. So good for my new yellow passion! And yes, they are very comfortable as well. I am very pleased :D

Hat post!

Here's my new kinda forties hat. Yeah, I know, photo booth photos. Yeah. But anyways – a hat!
I was looking for a forties hat for a long time. Everything I saw on etsy wasn't quite what I wanted (pillow box, not black, not white, better with a veil) and all the hats in Moscow were just too expensive for something I don't plan to wear on an everyday basis.
A few weeks ago there was this thing in Moscow, called Lambada Market. It is - predictably, yeah? - a market where all the young designers and vintage shops and generally everybody willing to participate sell different things, from perfume to dresses, in one place. I went there looking for a new dress and got back with two dresses, one of them new and one that was sewn by some girl for herself but ended up on a hanger. Though both dresses have quite a vintage-y feel.
And I also bought this hat. It is new as well, not vintage, it even has a little tag saying "Made in China" but it wasn't too expensive and it was everything I wanted from a hat. So here it is!

I know that it's not a summer hat and I want to wear it in the autumn and early winter but I just couldn't wait to wear it at least once!

It can be attached with a few bobby-pin and it has a rubber band which I will probably cut off because it doesn't look great. Overall, I am very happy with this hat and I think it will look amazing with pin-curls and my black wiggle dress that was featured in the first pic in this post.

What do you think? And, by the way, do you wear hats? Show me!

Color me yellow

It seems to me that this summer's color will be yellow. I have never been its fan but recently I found myself more and more starving for bright summer colors that are not "neutral" and "universal". Ugh, universal! I have quite a few things (both wearable and not) that are beige or dark blue and I feel kind of tired of it. So this is what I ordered:

Yellow (oh yes!) skirt from modcloth

Yellow blouse - also from modcloth. These are perfect for summer and no, I'm not planning on wearing it together with the skirt.

Yes, I know, both of these skirts are not yellow nor colorful but hey, I really lack nice skirts! And the first one has a detachable bow – I adore things that are detachable!

This dress is from fifties and it still has a tag as it was never worn. I keep imagining how good will it look with my favorite lipstick (more about it later!) and with my new-to-me shoes (more about it later as well).

And another one blouse because you can never have too much of them. Such a pretty color!

Can't wait for my packages to come!