Pale foundation, red lipstick and White Christmas

Last night I visited my local Sephora to try out some mineral makeup. I realize that I'm ridiculously behind the times on this one, but honestly until recently I didn't really wear foundation consistently. So far I am liking my purchase of Tarte pressed mineral powder and I am extremely excited about my new Make Up For Ever lipstick (color pictured at left).

While I was perusing the different stop-engine reds, I noticed their ad campaign advertising lipstick being back to the scene and blah blah blah...and then I saw their model for the campaign (pictured left).

Maybe it's just me, but she has quite the odd resemblance to a young Rosemary Clooney, no?

Who's completely excited about an upsurgence of 40's/50's fashion trends? Oh right, that's me.

Vintage Finds

The more I look for vintage fashions, the harder and harder it seems to be to find. You may get the right cut, but then it's usually nothing close to the right color scheme. Here's some vintage clothing and accessories that I've found online that hit the nail right on the head.

When in doubt, search some vintage patterns and be in complete control of the fit and color scheme. These are all from Vogue's Vintage pattern section. Each of these patterns are $15 and the clean lines on each would make these pieces you could keep and wear forever.



From Pin Up Girl Clothing, these three fantastic dresses. I love the length of the skirts. A lot of their clothing is a bit on the sexier side for my tastes, but the two sundresses are just so bubblegum-sweet, it's hard to resist!



More from Pin Up Girl Clothing. These are pretty pricey but are pure candy for the eyes. At one point they had a lipstick pink version of the "Meteor" purse on the right.



Lipstick is a must-have if you are going for a retro-inspired-vintage-rockabilly-whatever-the-hell-you-want-to-call-it look. I love the Besame Red (pictured on the far left). These are from MyBabyJo.com by Besame Cosmetics.



Okay, so Benefit cosmetics doesn't really have all retro makeup, but their packaging is fantastic. They also have a great line of fake-its for tired eyes, not-so-flawless complexions and even jiggly thighs/legs/etc.



Fantastic cat-eye sunglasses from RetroPlanet.com. (And each under $10!)