Vintage shopping tips: we’ve asked the expert!

Do you know your Bertex from your Biba? Could you spot a Forties wiggle dress from a pile of Eighties puffball prom dresses? There’s one lady who can, and unsurprisingly she makes her living from it! Vintage Secret’s Naomi Thompson offers QueensOfVintage.com readers her insider tips on what to look out for when shopping for vintage dresses.

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Make-up guide: how to re-create a Forties look

Creating a vintage face is a definite art form, and getting just the right look takes practice and care.  Amanda Newsum from Jitterbug Doll is often asked about her favorite make-up products and application tips and is sharing her best on how to re-create a Forties look with us.
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Video tutorial: Get Lucille Ball’s poodle do

Hollywood comedienne Lucille Ball was famous for her bright auburn hair which she often wore piled up high and curly in a so-called poodle do. If you fancy copying Lucie’s famed Fifties up-do, then we’ve found this amazing step-by-step video tutorial for you.
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Get hair like Veronica Lake: do the peek-a-boo!

Veronica Lake was known for her long blonde tresses, which she wore slightly curled covering half of her face. The look became known as the peek-a-boo, and was so famous that Lake had to publicly change her look during the Forties as the hair style was a health hazard for women working for the war effort. We’ve found this great wet-wave tutorial, which should make achieving the peek-a-boo a piece of cake.
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Hello Buoys! How to do nautical vintage

One of the reasons so many of us enjoy vintage is the idea of us stepping into a different character in a different world. Although the highstreet is making vintage replicas non stop at the moment, there is nothing like an authentic dress to get you excited.

The clothes you choose to wear should uplift your spirits, especially when its 8am and you are battling to get onto the Central Line. Nautical Vintage does just this. It is the perfect escapism from the drib and drab of ordinary wardrobes. Suddenly you are no longer mixing in with the rest, you’re decked out for a perfect day at sea. Emma Humphrey got into the sailor mood for us.
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How to guide: Forties-style make up on darker skin tones

From Katherine Hepburn to Ava Gardner the vintage siren look calls for the palest foundation and alabaster skin.  If you’re looking to recreate that Forties look on olive to dark skins help is at hand as make up artist Amanda Moorhouse of Lipstick & Curls, shares some tricks of the trade. Anita Bhagwandas reports.

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Get Fifties curls for New Year’s Eve

Why not welcome the new decade with a set of glamorous Fifties curls ala Marilyn or Nicole Kidman in the video to ‘Something Stupid’? YouTuber Berlin HairBaby has this great video tutorial.
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Everyday glamour girl make-up tutorial

The lovely Candice Deville, also known as Super Kawaii Mama, is one of Australia’s most glamorous vintage vixens. Luckily for us she has put together two amazing video tutorials showing us how to achieve her everyday vintage make-up look.
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Five minute vintage hair style

There just are some days when we wake up, tired, late for work, kids not ready for school yet and can’t be bothered with heated rollers, finger waves or pin curls but still want to look vintage fabulous. Australian vintage queen Candice DeVille has got this fantastic guide to a quick and easy vintage do that won’t take more than five minutes.
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Get Betty Draper’s Sixties up-do

Our favourite TV show, Mad Men, heads to Italy in season three, and we see the fabulous Betty Draper with an elegant up-do dining out in Rome. If you fancy copying this brilliant Sixties do, simply follow this step-by-step video tutorial by the ever so cool BerlinHairBaby.
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