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    How many products do you use?

    What TheSacredFemme said ^^^, with minor differences: Lazslo oil before face wash, Evian spray water in a can as toner instead of witch hazel (calms the chlorine sting on my crazy sensitive skin), and my face cream and sunscreen are usually in one product. Oh, and nail polish plus Revlon Extra...
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    New Bartender -- Sheeplady

    Thanks so much for taking it on, Sheeplady! May your time behind the bar be pleasant and relatively drunken fool-free! ;-)
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    Help with nailing an era

    Makeupmaven's advice was excellent! I'd also add, while it's hard to see from the size of your photo, yes, do a modified Hunter's Bow lipline. You can do this too, though in a slighter way than would be done for cameras. After a lot of vintage product research research and staring at tons of...
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    Missing posters

    (Hopefully this reply won't result in a double post, as I wrote one last night and the screen went blank when I hit the button to post!) Forums evolve and change, sometimes for the worse. Trolls discover a new place to spout a lot of negativity, early posters get sick of it and leave while...
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    Home is where the Kitchen is

    I can give you some detective pointers based on my collection of late 20's-1940's home magazines, which I studied to restore my 1940's home. What can throw things off is that your kitchen isn't in the U.S.. Design trends around the world varied greatly between regions, which can tweak things by...
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    Books signed by the author

    Such cool stories. I have a few, but my favorite signed book is unfortunately not Golden Era. Some may even say it's not technically a book. When the Baby Blues newspaper cartoon became popular, I went to a signing for the cartoonists' first compilation book. The flyleaf of my copy is...
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    The Hardy Boys: Secret of the Old Mill

    I loved the Hardy Boys books! They were more interesting than Nancy Drew, who bored me at times. Edited to add: Most of the ones I read were probably the '30's versions--our public library was "old" and had great old books in circulation along with the new. I don't remember the colors of the...
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    Recommended Vintage-esque Nail Polish

    Noticed this recently: Some CVS drugstores here in Los Angeles carry a small selection of OPI. That may be a local thing or just here and NYC, though--L.A. drugstores often carry higher end products, for the convenience of makeup artists & hairstylists at odd hours. (The CVS I was at was near...
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    Confidence in dressing vintage

    I agree with AmyJeane and Julius8122; it's about finding what you're comfortable in, and starting small. There are many different ways of incorporating a vintage look. There are even ways of doing it that look so "modern" only the person wearing the vintage knows for sure! "The" makeup color of...
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    Do you wear curlers in front of your Significant Other?

    Gee this thread has taken an odd turn. It seems to have gone from answering a simple question about a personal preference to reeking of judgments of others and commenting on the stability of people's relationships and the motivations of the person wearing or not wearing the curlers... Suddenly...
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    Personal Libraries

    I'll bet! Those who have them tend to be devoted fans. I originally bought mine because I was trying to recreate Coco Chanel's wall of books without Coco's budget and kept seeing them in interior design editorials. Bonus no one tells you about having a wall of books: they're fantastic...
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    Unpopular movie opinions...

    :offtopic: jamespowers, let's just say that for me, Mr. Grant has a few additional qualities Floyd doesn't possess. ;) But, given my screenname, I'm obviously biased. (Dexter = C.K. Dexter Haven) But seriously, one of the things I like about Cary Grant is that he was a good sport about...
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    Unpopular movie opinions...

    Chasseur and I agree about The Aviator I agree with Chasseur: I, too, liked DiCaprio in The Aviator Hughes was such a weird genius, casting the very weird Boy Wonder DiCaprio just seemed right. Living in Los Angeles, most of the opinions stated below would probably get me run out of town...
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    Personal Libraries

    Because my bookshelves are in the living room on a prominent wall, I prefer hardcovers and have been slowly converting my library over to them. The only exceptions are books that are not available in hardcover (which are kept in a small bookshelf in the hall), or "traveling" books I read and...
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    Care For Old 78's

    I would also add, never stack 78's horizontally flat in a big pile as you're going through them. The collective weight of 78's can crush the ones on the bottom of the stack to smithereens. From sad experience I've found that the book-style record albums of 78's are especially vulnerable to this...
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    Library of Congress Study

    I wish I could say these findings are surprising, but they're not. It's been a dirty little secret for a while now. About ten years ago a professional recording engineer friend and I were discussing this, and he said the sound quality was already eroding on CDs he'd burned of studio sessions in...
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    Classic vintage CANVAS TENTS

    Pardon the intrusion, Gentlemen... If you'll pardon the intrusion, Gentlemen, may I suggest a modern reproduction as well? When we were children, my best friend and I had many backyard campouts in the woods behind our house using her grandfather's old green canvas army(?) tent. It was fun, but...
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    Golden Era Cultural Icons

    I nominate Dame Elizabeth Taylor for the 1957 list, because of her body of work, and from a pop culture standpoint everyone was talking about the Eddie-Liz-Debbie gossip. Last week every Eddie Fisher obituary mentioned the triangle immediately after "Singer Eddie Fisher passed away at the age...
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    Best concealer?

    The rundown... For undereye circles I use Covergirl Invisible Cream Concealer, bought as a temporary replacement for a similar Ultima2 product I lost on vacation. The product was so identical, I never went back to the Ultima2...
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    Recommended Vintage-esque Nail Polish

    Inky :offtopic: Inky, that is one of the coolest things I've heard in a while: your mom sold Revlon when Charles Revson was still alive! (I'm crazy about cosmetics history.) Thank YOU for bringing part of the Fire & Ice book to life! I just finished reading it last week, and your post clarified...

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