Miss Doris Day: the Rimmel London Buzz way!

The gloriously ephemeral beauty of Miss Doris Day is a constant inspiration. Of course its also an enduring illusion – the wonders of Hollywood film making even in the 1950s and 1960s could hide a myriad of personal issues which would otherwise show on even the most stoic of womens’ faces.

The new 2012 I love ‘fruities’ lasting finish fragranced nail polish collection from Rimmel* would suit the pretty Miss Day perfectly.

So without further ado, let us celebrate the colours of Miss Day:

A beautiful surf blue scarf…

Rimmel I love lasting finish Misty Jade

A pink sentimental journey…

I love lasting finish Strawberry Fizz

Just golden in yellow…

with beautiful I love lasting finish Lemon Drop

and finally…

Miss Day in black lace

Rimmel 60 Seconds Black Out from the 60 Seconds Collection

It truly is lovely to see the beautiful Doris Day looking so good in so many different colours. But for me, she is the epitomy of innocence, naivity and simpler times. The characters that she played in her films will always bring a smile to my face, and I love to watch a Doris Day movie on rainy days; she makes everything seem better.

Doris Day as Jan Morrow in Pillow Talk with Rock Hudson

Now if you’ll excuse me ladies,

 ‘fruities’ await…

Keep your pecker up! xx

*Other fragranced nail polish available: Cranberry Zest
 and Apricot Punch

Forties & Fifties Festival Fun Fingers!

If you enjoy your 1940s Tea Dances, your 1940s Lindy Hop, your 194os Victory rolls, and your 1940s frivolous hats, then its almost certain that a Forties Vintage Festival is your summer destination. Only lipstick and nail polish are missing from the list, and we already know the colour of your lips will be red, what about your nails?

A Forties Fun Red with a Twist

A Fifties Pink Lady

Or just Feeling a Bit Catty

Vintage Nail Art will glam up even the rainiest British Festival, and make you feel the most bewitching and alluring pin up at the Fair!

*all designs available on Faux Vintage Snap Glue Glamour! packs here

and remember girls, it is your duty to be beautiful…

Keep your pecker up! xx

Hello Nails!

Come along to any Vintage Event and you may just find my Hello Nails! Pop Up Vintage Nail Parlour there. And if you want to know what you can buy from me on the day, its simple…

Starting from just £1 …

Vintage Faux Nails Snap Glue Glamour! packs

Gil Elvgren fridge magnets

Nail files

Vintage Books

And on the day why not glam up your nails, I have several different choices starting from £5!

Mini manicure and high shine clear polish

Mini manicure and French polish

Mini manicure and Vintage Nail Glamour

or if you pop along with pre polished nails you can have a dusting of polka dots!

You can fnd a range of books and Snap Glue Glamour! packs at my online shop here.

 You can find out where the nail parlour will be next here.

And remember girls…

Keep your pecker up! xx

Vintage Nail Glamour

with love

Appletree Days xx

Nail polish…a provenance

 Have you ever wondered about the origin of nail polish?

Zoya:

 long wearing natural nail polish 

Although it is unclear how the decoration of nails progressed, it originated with the Incas painting pictures of eagles on their nails.

The concept of the manicure began in India well over 5,000 years ago with the use of henna as a nail paint.  This practice spread and was adopted by different cultures. Nail polish as we think of it, was invented by the Chinese in about 3000 B.C. It was made from a mixture of Arabic gum, egg whites, gelatin and beeswax.  It is believed that the people of southern Babylonia took it a step-further around 4,000 BC and turned to solid gold to achieve the perfect manicure. By the turn of the 19th century, nails were tinted with scented red oils, and polished or buffed.

English and US 19th century cookbooks had directions for making nail paints. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, people pursued a polished rather than painted look by massaging tinted powders and creams into their nails, then buffing them shiny. One such polishing product sold around this time was Graf’s Hyglo nail polish paste. Some people during this period painted their nails with clear, glossy varnish applied with a camel-hair brush.

Cutex produced the first nail modern nail polishes in 1917 with the introduction of colored nail glosses. Once nail polish was refined, it was often used in the place of gloves to cover up the grime underneath the nails.

French manicures may have originated in 18th-century Paris and were popular in the 1920s and 1930s, but today are a particular trend in Essex as a finish on Acrylic nail enhancements.

Nefertiti (was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten) and Cleopatra (the last Pharoah of Ancient Egypt) are remembered as two of the most beautiful women of their time.  Allegedly, they were the first to make  red nail polish famous.  During their respective reigns, societal hierarchy was indicated by the specific color worn.  The stronger the shade of red, the more power the person possessed.Nefertiti, Queen of  Egypt (14th century BC) coloured her fingernails a ruby-red color.

Zoya Carrie Anne

In 1932,  Revlon began selling  the very first modern style of nail polish that we know today in the 21st century.

Glamour is at your fingers…

Keep your pecker up! xx

Follow your “tattoo hearts”

I’m on the hunt for my perfect tattoo heart!

Because I’m quite stuck on the traditional Sailor Jerry and Timmy Tatts, there are a lot to choose from!

Timmy Tatts Flash Book Vol.4: A classic book of Traditional flash here from Timmy Tatts. The book is original size American flash 11″x14″ and printed on really heavyweight card. The designs are as they should be with no extra frills, just plain old time vintage tattoo designs finished in watercolour.

Timmy Tatts

It’s easy to compare styles…

The more elaborate 3D style

Tattoo Heart in a Teacup by Beth

And also sexy to accessorize your tattoo!

Who wouldn’t want these Bordello Teeze shoes!

Or have vintage nail glamour like this!

www.etsy.com/shop/appletreedays

Keep your pecker up! xx

If you love books…

Yes I know so many ways that this could go, however I am Appletree Days and I’m going with Pin ups, Vintage nail glamour, Tea, and Cake!

So if you love books, you’ll love these…

Gil Elvgren

And of course some ‘worth trying at home’ vintage book lovers nail glamour…

Samii Ryan

The Harlequin Tea Set short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by G. P. Putnam’s Sons on April 14, 1997

‘It’s been many years since Mr. Satterthwaite has seen Mr. Harley Quin, so when Satterthwaite, awaiting his broken down car, goes to a tea shop called the Harlequin café, he begins to think of his friend. A self-described snob, Satterthwaite orders coffee and examines the coloured china when a bolt of sunlight comes in and the very same Mr. Quin walks through the door. Enigmatic as ever Mr. Quin and his diligent dog Hermes stay for a Turkish coffee with the excitable Satterthwaite whilst the car is fixed, and Satterthwaite cannot help but bore Mr. Quin with the very long history of the family he is off to visit. Their conversation is interrupted by the abrupt entrance of the member of that very same family intent upon replacing her harlequin cups .’

And of course, by no means least…

This is a wedding cake for the dedicated!

Happy Book Loving (and on this occasion I do mean books and not the Kindle!)

Keep your pecker up! xx

It’s your duty to be beautiful…

It’s 1941.

“It’s your duty to be beautiful…

The hands of today can both work and be beautiful!”

And keeping yourself ‘beautiful’ meant that you were not giving in to the morale busting bombing by Hitler!

Working in ammunitions or engineering ‘filling the gaps’ left by our Fighting Forces.

Gifted, determined and astonishingly brave, the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary were the unsung heroines of World War II. Though not allowed to fly in combat, what they did was nearly as dangerous. Unarmed and without instruments or radios, they delivered planes to the RAF bases from which male pilots flew into battle. At the mercy of the weather and long-range enemy aircraft, fifteen of those women died – among them legendary Amy Johnson.

Spitfire woman World War II

Giles Whittell

Women stepped up to the challenges…

Our women went out fighting, flying spitfires and barrage balloons, fighting fires and nursing the injured as well as toiling the land and making munitions…

All of this with a slick of lipstick and polished nails!

Max Factor 1941

So girls, it’s your duty to be beautiful! If they could do it in the Blitz, we can certainly do it now! Most of all, remember to…

Keep your pecker up! xx

Signature “Vintage Bridal Nail Glamour”

Expectations, anticipation, dare to be different, 1940s bridal bunting, handfasting garlands, fascinators, tulle and cupcakes…traditional, rockabilly, burlesque and steampunk – yes this is a confetti of wedding ideals!

Nail art your bridal fingers, ready for that special wedding band…

Dare to be Different 

Ciate Caviar Manicure in white

Steampunk Beetlejuice Manicure

 by Appletree Days

1950s 'Follow your Heart' 

Pastel Polka Dotty Manicure

 by Appletree Days

Traditional 

Minx Lace Nail Armour from

 Creative Nail Design

Winter Wedding Crystal Manicure

 by Glam Glam Nails

Natural nails using a coating of Ez Flow TruGel 100% UV polish “Mirage” Silver crystals and a sprinkling of glitter in “Champagne Gold”

And don't forget your toes!

Swarovski Bridal Pedicure 

from Swarovski

Rings

I might have raised your hand to the sky

to give you the ring surrounding the moon

or looked to twin the rings of your eyes

with mine

or added a ring to the rings of a tree by forming a handheld circle with you, thee,

or walked with you

where a ring of church-bells,

looped the fields,

or kissed a lipstick ring on your cheek,

a pressed flower

or met with you

in the ring of an hour, and another hour . . .

I might

have opened your palm to the weather, turned, turned,

till your fingers were ringed in rain

or held you close,

they were playing our song,

in the ring of a slow dance

or carved our names

in the rough ring of a heart

or heard the ring of an owl’s hoot

as we headed home in the dark

or the ring, first thing,

of chorussing birds waking the house

or given the ring of a boat, rowing the lake,

or the ring of swans, monogamous, two,

or the watery rings made by the fish

as they leaped and splashed

or the ring of the sun’s reflection there . . .

I might have tied

a blade of grass,

a green ring for your finger,

or told you the ring of a sonnet by heart

or brought you a lichen ring,

found on a warm wall, or given a ring of ice in winter

or in the snow

sung with you the five gold rings of a carol

or stolen a ring

of your hair

or whispered the word in your ear

that brought us here,

where nothing and no one is wrong,

and therefore I give you this ring.

Carol Ann Duffy

It’s your day…

Keep your pecker up! xx

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