Midweek Wisdom #6 Vintage Images of Celebrities In airports, With A Quote

I never get tired of looking at pictures of Audrey Hepburn.
She is iconic, timeless, the epitome of femininity and a very approachable beauty.
I love her body of work, and I love her body of good works.
I also love her quotes. I have one for you below.
I believe...

Audrey Hepburn, Rome 1968



I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and
I believe in miracles.

Midweek Wisdom #5

Don't you just love this image?
Shirley Maclaine looking entirely fabulous in long black gloves and rhinestone glasses,
rocking a little PanAm-glam in 1960 at Idlewild airport,
on her way to Italy.

Shirley Maclaine traveling to Italy from Idlewild, 1960

Midweek Wisdom quote #5

"Don't let your past steal your future.

Move on."

Midweek Wisdom and Airport Celebs # 3

Happy hump day!

It's time for a little midweek wisdom

paired with a vintage photo of a celeb at an airport.

This week is the irrepressible Liz Taylor

arriving in New York in 1968.

I'd love to think that this is something she would have said.

Liz Taylor arrives in New York, 1968

"Once in a while

blow your own damn mind"

xo

Midweek Wisdom and Airport Celebs # 2

Happy first Wednesday of 2015!

Today's midweek wisdom is right on point

with a great attitude to wear like a second skin

all year long.

And it's paired with a photo of Cher

at JFK in 1974

Cher at JFK, 1974

"The less you give a damn,

the happier you will be"

xo

Midweek Wisdom + Airport Celebs

I found a series of vintage photos of celebs at the airport

 via Conde Nast Traveler

and was thinking, while it lasts

we could do a little midweek wisdom to get us through hump day

and pair it with a fabulous photo 

of a fabulous celeb 

being fabulous.

Who better to get the ball rolling

on the final day of 2014

than Marilyn Monroe?

Here is beautiful Marilyn Monroe

leaving La Guardia airport in NYC and heading to Chicago for the premiere of Some Like It Hot

and below it a quote from Mahatma Ghandi

Marilyn Monroe on her way to the Some Like It Hot premiere in Chicago

"In a gentle way,

you can shake the world"

~ Mahatma Ghandi

Happy New Year Everyone!

xo

Iconic Nico

As a makeup artist you spend an enormous amount of time researching everything under the sun.

You have to know where it's been to know where it's going.
You have to have a vast knowledge encompassing every iconic moment.

It's fabulous.

Iconic Nico

Tonight I have been compiling iconic images of German singer, songwriter, model, actress, heroin addict, Nico.

Born  Christi Paffgen in Cologne in 1938, Nico is perhaps mostly remembered for being a Warhol girl and singing with The Velvet Underground. 
Her story (like all the iconics) is fascinating. 
She was discovered selling lingerie at Berlin's KaDeWe at 16, her 5'10" frame and chiseled features paved her way into modeling for prominent magazines including Vogue, Elle, and Tempo.  

TV commercials morphed into movies, including small roles in 1958's La Tempesta and For The First Time (starringMario Lanza )

In 1959 Fellini cast her as herself in La Dolce Vita.

Nico playing herself in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vta

Living in NYC Nico began her music career in 1963, became friends with the Rolling Stones, who introduced her to Andy Warhol. Warhol used her in his movies and made the Velvet Underground use her as a "chanteuse". She became an iconic figure in music throughout the remainder of her life, moving from New York to France to England, finally dying of a heart attack in Ibiza in 1988.
Nico was only 50 when she died.

Nico with The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol

Nico

Iconic Nico

Nico with Velvet Underground

Nico Album Cover, Chelsea Girl

Sophia Loren

" I've never sold myself short.

I have never judged myself by other people's standards.

I have always expected a great deal of myself,

And if I fail, I fail myself"

~ Sophia Loren

Words to live by, words to raise your daughters by.

Sophia Loren, timeless beauty, infinite wisdom.