Makeup Mondays–Headturning Hedy

Known as “The Most Beautiful Woman in Films,” Hedy Lamarr was a striking beauty with raven hair, clear green eyes, and a cool affect. Her classic beauty was combined with brains too—Hedy is credited with inventing frequency hopping, a technology that makes cellular phones, fax machines and other wireless operations possible [...]

Hearts for Haiti

In one way or another we have all contributed to the rescue efforts going on in Haiti. Recently we learned of a group of Etsians that had put together an Etsy shop named Hearts for Haiti. The shop is a collaboration of many different sellers. Items are donated by various sellers to go into the [...]

Makeup Mondays–Lana’s Look

For today’s vintage beauty breakdown, we’ll take a look at the lovely Lana Turner. With her smoldering eyes and luscious tresses, it’s no wonder Lana made the perfect femme fatale! Here she is on the cover of a 1945 Movie Life, in full vintage glamour!

To recreate this look, apply a foundation of your [...]

Ambassador of Vintage

Now that we are officially in a New Year I have taken a few minutes to step away from all the Christmas boxes in order to introduce our new Ambassador of Vintage. Being a Hollywood A lister and prominent humanitarian, she needs no immediate introduction from me.

Whether dressed up for a movie premiere or red [...]

A Season of New

We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season and are off to a great start to the New Year. We are excited to spread some new news of our own. In the upcoming weeks a brand new AlleyKat’s site will be launching. We have been compiling a large inventory of children’s vintage materials. Everything [...]