We’re proudly present the newest Royal Pin-up girl from Glasgow, the amazing Valentina Velvet!

Check out her gallery by clicking the link below:
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They specialized in vintage styles, and their passion are the 1920’s waves,1930’s curls, 1940’s rolls, 1950’s chignon or back-combed 1960’s bouffants. Nina Butkovich-Budden, the leader of the parlour has been doing them for the past 15 years.

She is working alongside fashion photographers, film makers and fore fronting London’s neo burlesque scene, recreating different timeless looks. Their works are amazingly beautiful and professional. Using some changes and innovations, they still classic and unique.

Nina is working with the barber Mark McCarthy-vel, make-up artist Issidora and hairdresser Leila Mauro. When I first saw their gallery I was amazed of this vintage and also absolutely pinup hairstyles.
Nina, Leila, Mark and Issidora would be delighted to share their skills with people who enjoy the exotic, theatrical and glamourous, or those who just want to have a little fantasy or take a fun journey of true self expression to another era. They stock a number of handpicked, rare and original period hats from the 1930’s-1960’s, extravagant, unique hair accessories all of which are available for sale and hire.

You can visit their website and myspace site by clicking the links below.

http://www.ninasvintageandretrohair.com/index.html

http://www.myspace.com/ninashairparlour

Have a good time
Ghoulina Von Royal

We asked our pin-up girls - Seanna Miriah, AnaBelle and Raspberry Rose - how do they spend their Christmas holiday, and also another interesting things about Christmas time and New Year’s Eve!
Merry Christmas to everybody!

RP: Hello girls! How do you prepare for Christmas?

Seanna:Every year as a tradition, my girlfriends and I plan a girls night out of dressing up and going to a nice dinner followed by lots of martinis! My family is really spread out so unfortunately I can’t always see them for the holidays which is why the company of my friends is the best present I could have. (Unless we all went to Hawaii together, now that’d be a damn good present!)
Ana: During christmas time I love to bake cookies, I try to find presents for my family and friends and I decorate my home and of course the christmas tree.
Rose: This year I will spend Christmas giving to the less fortunate. I will be volunteering to serve warm meals to those that are in need. It is so easy to take the simple things in life for granted these days. Having a warm meal and shelter is a blessing.

RP: What’s the Christmas pin-up outfit/place for a photoshoot of your dreams?

Seanna: Well, you know me, I like to keep things different then the usual so my idea of a Christmas themed shoot would be just a simple backdrop with soft lighting and I’d be wearing two things: a big fluffy soft white sweater and my house boots with natural make up and hair. Just a real soft snowy look but simple and sexy. I plan to do this shoot very soon here actually, but probably won’t make it in time for Christmas, it’s all happening too fast!
Ana: I’d love to do a christmas shoot in the mountains with lots of snow and a sledge maybe, that would be great.
Rose: Last year’s Christmas shoot was my favorite. I loved being a villain instead of the sweetheart. I was Santa’s helper and put in a police line up for kidnapping Santa.

RP: What would be the best gift for you?

Seanna: A two week vacation somewhere warm with someone fun and adventerous! Or a Subaru Brat. It’s my dream car/truck! It actually says the word “Brat” down the side which fits me just right, haha.
Ana: I am moving in a new appartement at the moment, so the best gift for me would be an ancient piece of furniture or at least a helping hand fort he relocation. The second one would definitely be the cheaper gift!
Rose: I believe that a gift that is handmade and out of love is the most precious gift that can be given.

RP: What will you do in New Years Eve?

Seanna: Well I work on New Years Eve so that’s no fun! I always bartend on major holidays but I have already figured that this year is going to be a productive and exciting new experience for me and I hope to travel a lot. I plan to visit my mom in Mexico and my brother in Japan next year which should be awesome!
Ana: In recent years I always made a journey with my fiancè around new years eve but this year we are going to stay at home and celebrate with our friends.
Rose: I will spend New Years Eve under a blanket of stars with the one I love, Nick. Is there a better way to spend it than with someone you love?

Also check out their pictures below:
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Thank you girls and Merry Christmas!

Ghoulina von Royal

RP: Hi guys! Tell us a little about yourself!

Desiree from PL: I grew up in Kentucky with a small (and awesome!) family. I’m happy to be where I am, but growing up in a small town in the Southern United States taught me many important lessons I don’t think I could have learned anywhere else. I’m totally proud of where I’ve come from! Daddy Cool (DC) and I currently live in California where he was born, and we just love it here!
Overall, I am pretty laid-back and easy-going but when it comes to PL, I am all business. Maintaining the level of professionalism and community on there is super important to me and I do not mess around with that! I’m a little shy, but I’m taking advantage of the opportunity to meet all these wonderful people from PL! The amount of opportunities to work with top industry talent we’ve gained is simply amazing (Hi Bernie Dexter!). They don’t know it, but they’re really helping me break out of that. Thanks guys!!
And if you can’t tell, I’m also really terrible about talking about myself. =)

RP: What brought the idea to make a communal page like this?

Desiree from PL: The idea originally started with DC. It’s a funny story actually. At his previous job, he and one of his co-workers would have “photo battles”. One of them would send a photo and the other had to “one-up” it. DC was into cars and his co-worker was into bikes, so pinup photography was a natural choice for their ammunition. Because there was no central place to find that type of photography, they’d spend hours searching for replies for each other. He held onto to the idea of creating this database of beautiful images for years.
Then, while I was looking for work here in the San Francisco bay area, I got so bored I thought I was going to go crazy! So, being the constant thinker that he is, DC suggested that I think about creating this website he’d been thinking of for the pinup lifestyle. I’ve always appreciated the beauty and style of classic pinups, so I immediately got to it! I started doing a little research and quickly realized that there just wasn’t anything out there for people in this lifestyle. And that was that. I made up my mind and was ready to move at top speed. We started brainstorming ideas for what PL could be and I chose the name, registered the domain, and started working on a logo while DC was at work. Over the next week, with some feedback from DC, Pinup Lifestyle (PL) was born! We recently celebrated our first birthday with a great night out accompanied by many of our members.

RP: Why a communal page?

Desiree from PL:Because there was no other type of “gathering place” for people in the lifestyle, it was a no-brainer that PL would have to be an online community. People needed a place to share their love of pinup, network with people of the same interests, discover small and huge vendors & designers, and just make friends. We’ve heard so many times from small-town girls that they thought they were just weird. Then they came to PL and found so many people that were like them. It’s such an amazing feeling to know that we’re helping people see that. I think we’re going to start compiling success stories soon…

RP: What do you think about pinup as a style for women and as a lifestyle?

Desiree from PL: I think Pinup in any variation – classic or modern – is the most beautiful style the world has ever seen. It’s classy, sexy, sophisticated; everything a woman should be. It’s been so awesome to see the entire scope of the pinup lifestyle, from girls like me into the modern, edgy side of pinup to a guy we met here in San Francisco who truly lives in a vintage world with absolutely no modern technology. It’s pretty amazing; we like to call it Vintage “Inspired”.

RP: Who has join to you (as partners, friends) when they got to know your page?

Desiree from PL: We’ve developed so many partnerships and personal friendships through PL. We can honestly say now that we have friends all over the world! We’ve worked on several projects with well-known models, artists, and companies including Bernie Dexter, Dayna Delux, Roxi Dlite, Big Sandy, Olivia, Whirlingturban, Heartbreaker Fashion, and Pinup Girl Clothing. We’re looking forward to building on those relationships and forming new ones in our next year!

RP: What do you do in life next to Pinup Lifestyle?

Desiree from PL: PL has tons of momentum left and many vertical markets to pursue, from fetish to steampunk. Beyond PL, it’s hard to say right now. We’ve had so many different ideas, from publishing a magazine to opening a brick-and-mortar business. We have also considered launching a sister networks for other niche communities. It’s been such a great feeling to bring people together; we’d love to just keep doing that any way we can.

RP: Thank you for this interview guys, always great to hear when a good idea become real! It’s really a complex page with everybody who are into pinup, doing pinup or enthusiast of pinup. We’re still watching you, as I’m a proud member also.

Here you can access the page: www.pinuplifestyle.com
Ghoulina von Royal

Dayna was born in a small town in the East part of Texas in 1977 and moved to Dallas a few years later. She started her modeling career at age 12. She has done many things in modeling like fashion shows, print, mannequin modeling and work with companies. 1992 was a turning year when she spent time in Peter Sklars acting camp in Pennsylvania with diction coaches and acting professionals. Then she did commercials and performed at Circle in the Square theatre in Manhattan. She returned home to work with the Campbell agency for a year. She did also commercials and roles in films. These works led to her interest in make-up that’s why she started perfecting her skills as make-up artist. She had worked for many companies and became freelancer with photographers what showed the next way: go back in front of the camera. She worked with many and many companies/people/designers and
became successful as pin-up model too. As she see herself: “I have a strong character, ambitious, and strive to be a better person. My goal is to progress as far as I can in this business and pursue an acting career as well.”

Sabina Kelley was born in Ventura, CA. in the 5th of March. She is modeling professionally for 7 years worked with a lot of photographers like Bunny Yeager and David LaChapelle. She isn’t a model only, she is a burlesque dancer too and when she’s not posing in front of the camera, she’s dancing. She learned dancing in her early years(when she was 2) and practiced in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop and pointe. She became a Las Vegas showgirl and dancing at Ballys Hotel in Jubilee for two and a half years. Being a dancer requires many photoshoots and other appearances and she found something she also like and good at, that’s why she integrated modeling too. Now she’s traveling around the worls to make burlesque shows. She’s got many tattooes and being the spokesmodel for tattoo conventions worldwide and also the cover gir. Her first shoot-except dance- was for CK Deluxe. She own a tattoo shop in Las Vegas, called Staytrue Tattoo. Besides pin-up she doing glamour, fashion, fetish, lingerie and swimsuit photos.

RoyalPinups: So hi girls! It’s really good to hear your carreer and always great to see your work! So let’s talk about motherhood and carreer-it’s great they can be in good relation! Sabina, we know you’re already a happy mommy and became triple mommy with Grace Lynn and Dayna you’re also Now with Brixton(first child)! Congratulation girls!
What are your kids name?

Sabina: I have 3 kids. Savannah who is 7, Kaiden who is 6, and Grace Lynn who is 11 months.
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Dayna: I have a newborn son: Brixton Cash.

RoyalPinups: How can you live to be a mother?

Sabina: I love being a mother. I always wanted to have kids young, because I did not want to be an old mom. Kids are the best.

RoyalPinups: How can you liaise your modeling carreer with your family/children?

Dayna: Its making it very hard right now since I have no one to watch him. We have no family out here and only 1 person that can babysit but she has a newborn too.
Sabina: Balancing my modeling career and my family is not easy. I get overwhelmed a lot especially with the baby. I would not want it any different though. I do have a great mother in law who helps me out with watching the kids when I am out of the country or out of town working. So, my kids are always with family when I am away. I try to take them to some places I work and sometimes they are included in my modeling career. For example my kids and I were all on a shoot together with David LaChapelle in=2 0Maui for a week. That was amazing because I got to work and have a vacation with my kids.

RoyalPinups: How motherhood affects to your work?

Sabina: Motherhood does affect my work. It made me work harder to get jobs that are worth taking. I can’t just shoot to shoot, because I don’t have the time. I work harder at everything that I do. When I’m not modeling, I am with my kids.

RoyalPinups: You’re always in the primest shape! What’s your secret to be pretty in your shape and have this beautiful emanation?

Dayna: Right now, no secret. Im so out of shape its sad. I just bought a treadmill so hopefully that will change!
Sabina: It’s part of my job to be in shape and look good. Honestly, I wish I could give you a secret, but I don’t have one. I try and eat healthy, but I pretty much eat whatever I want. I think I keep in shape by chasing my kids around the house and being constantly on the go.

So being professional in our things while we’re mothers and wifes, isn’t the most simple thing in life but if you got the dynamism and the right focuses and roles everything can be more simple. So really kids and family are the best and when they support us and they know we’re love them.
Thank you for doing this conversation Girls, it’s a honor and we’re happy to hear some new ineresting things of you!

Here’s a small slideshow with Dayna’s and Sabina’s works:
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You can see more on their webpages: www.sabinakelley.com and www.daynadelux.com

Ghoulina von Royal