Manga and Anime is ripe with unaware good girls and deliberately sultry bad women. This is a short salute to my personal favorite artists and characters.

Manga (‘comics’ in Japanese) and Anime (‘animation’ in Japanese) are not just “those cute girls with big tits and big eyes” (as demonstrated to the left). Although there’s a lot of that, and the Japanese are known to let go of all sexual inhibition, when it comes to their illustrated entertainment. I believe Manga and anime are a fine art, with many styles and agendas. After all, you wouldn’t say all Western comics are about super heroes, would you?

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Tags: Manga pinups, Chun Li , Anime pinups, Shinobu , Big Tits and Big Eyes, Sumeragi Natsuki , sailormoon, Fairy tales for adults, Junko Mizuno, Aeon Flux, Last Exile, Little kimono, Maestro Delphine Eraclea, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rei Ayanami, Street Fighter, sex kitten, Good Girls, Japanese pinup girls

I just couldn't hold her back! This sweet wife and mother wanted her pinup portrait extra badass. The motorcycle, the leather, the works. She also told me she wants the name of the piece to be Hell On Wheels- I just couldn’t refuse her. Of course she's the sexiest mama around and makes hot biker chick. I guess sometimes, good girls just want to go bad.

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Tags: Hell On Wheels, sexy mama, hot biker chick, The Pinup Shop, motorcycle, leather, pinup portrait, Good Girls Gone Bad

There are many retro/pinup/vintage blogs out there, but only a select few make me feel all fuzzy inside and bubbly with excitement. Miss-Vintage is one of these top sites! So the first thing I did was add it to my blogroll (on the sidebar under “Expand Your Pinup World” ). And now I’m telling all my beloved readers about it. Miss-Vintage is a wonderfully designed and professionally executed vintage fashion site. There’s tons to explore, like interviews with original glamor girls, a comprehensive vintage fashion timeline, an incredibly thorough Encyclopedia of Vintage fashion Icons and so much more you could explode! Go there, bookmark it, and go back often!

Tags: Miss-Vintage, vintage fashion site, glamor girls, retro pinup style, Vintage fashion Icons

I know a lot of you glamour girls (and some of you glamour guys) want to adopt the pinup styles, but just aren’t sure how to do it. I’ve shown you the gorgeous Amanda’s 5 minute tutorial, now get the low-down on some more advanced tutorials, with all the tools and trimmings, at Pomps & Pin Curls. I caution, this is for the patient and brave!

Tags: Pomps & Pin Curls, glamour girls, glamour guys, pinup styles, Hair tutorials

If you’re looking for an authentic retro look, Bowling Shirt is an online retro shop of 1950’s memorabilia, poodle skirts and, of course, bowling shirts. But they’re not just limited to clothes and shirt-pins. Check out the unbelievable line of retro radios, phones and jukeboxes- true collector’s items!

Tags: Bowling Shirt , 1950's, authentic retro, collector’s items, retro radios, phones and jukeboxes

Pinups of the 50’s didn’t just spring out of midair. These images reflect their times. (as all art does.) So I set out to find authentic images that will shed light on pinup art.

Those Cool Cats

The 50’s, like any time in history, weren’t as carefree as you may imagine. Most people worked hard, African Americans were struggling and really, the only ones exuding that familiar Happy Days/Grease carefree glamor were the teenagers of white suburbia. They were fashionable and fun-loving and like many post-modern generations after them, they were to be icons who reflect their times (missing some historical facts in the process ).
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Tags: Pinup Look, 1950's, African Americans, status in society, prim and proper, Fifties teenagers, glamor of Hollywood, 50's girls, Greasers, Levi's, Rebellious teens, teenagers of white suburbia

This woman is a genius! If I had only known how easy it could be. Sure, in real life it could take a bit longer, but it’s basically true. You could have your own 1940’s pinup hair-do in 5 minutes! Just watch:

Tags: 1940's hair, Tutorial video, retro hair-do, How to pinup do video

I’m always on the lookout for eco-friendly companies. For all you environmentally conscious glamor girls Enamore Boutique is the eco-friendly retro clothes brand, creating all garments out of organic and sustainable fabrics. As you can see, they’re retro, but have a modern chick to them. My personal favorite being the adorable polka dot sleep mask (no it’s not a bathing suit top ).

Tags: Enamore Boutique, organic and sustainable fabrics, glamor girls , retro clothes brand, eco-friendly, environmentally conscious

After writing last week’s cheesecake article, I was challenged at Digg, to find the beefcake twins. Knowing how hard it is to find beefcake at all, I rose to the challenge.

Where’s the beefcake?!

Apparently there just isn’t as much demand for male twins as female twins. This sailor image is the only vintage image I could find and it’s quite uninspired. I mean, this photo is so asexual could have been taken by their mother!

Fear not, my beefcake twin hungry mongrels! I’ve managed to hunt down a few modern day beefcake. It seems that twins have more fun than regular male models. Maybe it’s in the already playful nature of a twin photo shoot? Who knows.


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Tags: Beefcake Twins, Male model twins, sailor twins, The Stoltzfus Twins, Bruce Weber, Aaron and Shawn Ashmore, Keith and Derek Brewer, Jason and Joseph Barbera, Jason and Jeremy London, Twin actors, 1980's, Latino twins, Lane and Kyle Carlson, Portugal, Pedro and Ricardo Guedes, Pedro and Ricardo Guedes, Brazil, Flávio and Gustavo Mendonça

I've always said retro is for all shapes and sizes. Lately I've stumbled on Torrid, which is a U.S. wide clothing chain for the big and beautiful. Now they're online, as well. And really, the pictures say it all. A lot of thought goes into these designs, and although Torrid isn't all retro, it's got a lot of it. Even though it has nothing to do with size, Torrid got me with their crazy feathered hats, I'm definitely ordering me one of those!

Tags: Torrid, Plus-size Pinups, Flare, retro hats