Hot Rods

What are rockabillys driving? Ever asked you this question?

Of course they are driving hot rods. This are typically American cars with large engines which are modified for linear speed. There are many explanations from where the word Hot rod could come. Some are saying from the term "hot roadster" where they mean a roadster that was modified for speed. Another explanation is about the camshaft(s) which they used to modify or replace and that is sometimes known as a "stick" or "rod". If a camshaft was designed to produce more power they also called it sometimes "hot stick" or "hot rod".



Ok I don't want to bore you with many details about hot rods. I will rather show you some awesome pictures of nice hot rods :-)

Pin Up Girls

 My blog for today is about the beautiful and awesome pin up girls from the 50's. Why from the 50's because the pin up style exist since the 1920 but with the 50's pin ups it was getting really popular and today many Rockabellas connect pin up with rockabilly because in fact the style of the modern Rockabella is part of the pin up models of that time. Mostly you see the make up and the hair from pin ups is the same as by modern Rockabellas.


Usually a pin up model is a glamour model, actress and a fashion model which pose in an erotic posture. Former you saw pin ups from pin up girls in every locker from military men. But pin up is more than standing in an erotic posture somewhere it is art. Among other things the military used pin up for war propaganda to encourage their troops.



Now I wanna show you a short list of the most beautiful pin up girls from yesterday till now. Hope you like it

Betty Grable she was one of the most popular early pin up girls. You could see her pictures in every locker of the military.

Betty Page is the Queen of pin ups. She became famous in the 1950s for her pin up photos and was called an American idol. Her look will be imitated also today. Her jet black hair, blue eyes and her bangs were here trademark.

Marilyn Monroe, who could ever forget this icon. 

Dita von Teese she is the #1 Pin Up in the World! She is amazing and wonderful. She is herself and know what she wants. Dita is an seductive burlesque star, a fashionista and a business women. 

Katy Perry celebrity and modern pin up and Bernie Dexter a beautiful pin up from Oregon.

Slang of the Fifties

 Slang is something what we have in every erea. Also nowadays we have many slang words. What makes a slang word interesting is that it is only used by young people and it is not mainstream. If it comes to that it is no longer a slang word. Also in the Fifties they had slang words and I want to show you today a selection of these. If you want to have a full dictionary of the slang of these days just click on this page Slang of the Fifties.

Slang	Word
Actor	Show-off
Ankle-biter	A child
Are you writing a book?	You’re asking too many questions
Baby	Cute girl, term of address for either sex
Bad news	Depressing person
Bash	Great party
Bent eight	a V-8 engine (hot-rodders)
Boss	Great
Cat	A hip person (Beats)
Chariot	Car (Beats)
Cloud 9	Really happy
Cook, cookin’	Doing it well
Cool	Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cut the gas	Be quiet!
Cut out	Leave
Dolly	Cute girl
Eyeball	Look around
Fake out	A bad date
Flat out	Fast as you can
Flick	A movie
Frosted	Angry
Get with it	Understand
Goof	Someone who makes mistakes
Goopy	Messy
Horn	Telephone
Jets	Smarts, brains
Knuckle sandwich	A fist in the face
Make out	A kissing session
No sweat	No problem
Nuggets	Loose change
Pad	Home
Party pooper	No fun at all
Peepers	Glasses
Radioactive	Very popular
Righto	Okay
Tight	Good friends

Hope you like the slang words I have choosen. I really love them. If you have more for me please feel free to comment on my blog.

Rockabilly Tattoos

Today I wanna take my time to tell you something about rockabilly tattoos. You heard right rockabilly's nowadays have tattoos. That is one thing you could hardly imagine in the 50's but today many rockabilly's have tattoos and here we have a bunch of typical tattoos for this lifestyle.
You can remember vintage, old school, retro style or pin up? This tattoo styles are all typical signs for the rockabilly lifestyle. Previously they where typical sailor tattoos but that is over. Nowadays the techniques are more effective and better and so you get really nice and beautiful tattoos.

I wanna list now typical rockabilly themes:
Pin up girls, playing cards, 8-Ball, cherries, skull, panther, hearts, flames, swallows, lucky 13, sailing ship, dice, hot rods, tiki and hula girls, stars, brass knuckles and many more.

Many rockabilly's and rockabella's have also portraits from their idol where the most popular ones are Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Johnny Cash.


Another important thing to know is that people often have tattoos over a whole part of the body for example very popular are sleeves which covers the whole arms, legs or upper part of the body.

One of the most popular tattoos is the swallow it is an old school or new school style of tattoo. Here you can see most of the time the swallows as a couple. That can stand for angel and devil or man and women. Normally they are colored in red, blue or yellow but the sky's the limit so be creative. The meaning of the swallow is love, personal freedom and hope.

Rockabilly Make-Up

So as you now know how to make the perfect hairstyle you should also know how to make the perfect make up. In fact that I am not a make up artist I will not write now how to do it and give you step by step instructions. But I will give you useful links and show you videos where you can see how the perfect make up for a Rockabella should look like.

Typically for a Rockabella is red lipstick and black eyeliner.

For the perfect step by step instructions for your rockabilly make up I can recommend you two books. The first book is an really awesome one which is also recommended by make up artists.

You can find all books which I show you on amazon.com.
Retro Makeup

The second one is called
Style Me Vintage





And last but not least I found some interesting make up tutorials on youtube. Hopefully you find everything helpful and i would appreciate it when you give me some feedback to my blogs :-)

Rockabilly Hairstyles for Him and Her

Rockabilly Hairstyle

Hy my lovely Rockabilly's and Rockabella's today I wanna write about hairstyles. I guess everybody of you is often wondering how to make the hair as a rockabilly chick or boy. I will also post here two or three hair tutorials. If you want to see more hair tutorials or books I found check out my twitter profile https://twitter.com/Rock_A_Mia. Here you will find some useful videos to make your hair. I also know it is pretty hard to make this styles I tried it by myself and it looked awful but I guess with some practice you all can do that. So well let us start with my blog about rockabilly hairstyle hope you like it!


Rockabilly Hairstyles for Men

The hairstyle for Rockabilly's is also called Greaser-Look That is really simple a men need only a pompadour and sideburns. To get the perfect pompadour a men needs wax, pomade, styling gel or hairspray. And that is all what a men for has to do for the perfect rockabilly styling. Easy or not? Men can here vary in length of the pompadour and sideburns. Also you can see often very creative sideburns. Also you can vary with your hair on the sides - they can be razed out or only back gelled. A variety of the pompadour is the so called flattop. In that case the men has a shaved back of the head. At the next picture you can see some famous pompadour styles.

Rockabilly Hairstyles for Women

Women can be more creative what not means that men can't be creative. I truly guess that you can see a lot of creative pompadour on the streets.But still women can more vary with their hairstyles. First the most popular color for the hair of a rockabella is black but as a rockabella you can also wear crazy hair colors like red, blue or green. Their style is influenced by hairstyles from the 50's, 60's and the style of the pin up girls. The simplest thing for a girls is also making a pompadour with their bangs and tie their hair to a queue or simply stick them backwards. You could also only make the pompadour and let the hair open. Another variety is to wear the hair open only with straight bangs. The third variety is to wear the hair with big curls and here a women can vary a lot in how she stick the curls or if she only wears it open.

And at the end a women can use really much accessories for their hair. She could use bandanas, big flowers, hair clasps with leo, dotts or chequers, ribbons, skulls or dices. First you will need a lot of patience to get the style you want but in the end it will look awesome so be patient and you will look pretty good.

Some of you maybe don't like to watch clips for them I also found some helpful books which may help you.

Vintage Hairstyling
Rock 'n' hair
Style me Vintage

Last but not least, as you can see I have an twitter account and I will post from time to time some videos about hair tutorials so that you can see what exists. Hope you liked my blog and leave a comment :-)
 

Rockabilly Clothes

You wonder what Rockabilly's wearing? It is much more simpler than what Rockabella's are wearing. Men only wear skinny jeans with a big belt buckle with Rockabilly symbols on it like aces, dice, cars, swallows, etc. The for a men consists of a shirt, t-shirt or muscle shirt with appropriate motives on it like oldschool tattoos, swallows, etc. And least but not least don't forget the leather jacket. But most important for a rockabilly men is his hair by the way he has to have this pompadour like Elvis.

Shoes for rockabilly men are also not that special. They wear modest shoes with a little thicker sole without special ornaments. Also men can wear two color bowling shoes. The only colorful way for shoes are the stuff shoes with different colorful prints of e.g. skulls, dice or something like that.

As we can now see women have more freedom in her choice of clothes ;-)