Two fresh pinup publications for my 50th birthday: Atomic Beauties “Bathing Cuties” special issue and this month’s Bombshell!

For my big birthday, Marilee Caruso and I shot a couple of cute sets at our favorite mid century central-coast California hotel. We created some cute 1960s-inspired images in our suite’s pink bathroom and some glamour-gown photos in the main areas of the room.

The room, like all the suites at the hotel, has a name – “Old Fashioned Honeymoon” – and features decor based firmly in the nostalgic Victorian craze of the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

The pink bathroom shots – which found a home in this month’s “Bathing Cuties” special edition by Atomic Beauties magazine – are probably my favorite. I found a 60s-ish pink babydoll set at Adoreme with a giant pink satin bow at the bust and bought a pink velvet bow from Vixen by Micheline Pitt to match.

More after the jump…

I ordered a huge Pink Champagne birthday cake to pose with, too, which really looked cute with the big clawfoot bathtub and Renaissance-style painted tiles in the bathroom. I honestly think they gave me a bigger cake than I actually ordered because that thing was HUGE. Way bigger than it looks here, because next to me (5’7″ and NOT A SMALL PERSON) it doesn’t look ridiculous. 

Marilee did a really cute half-up beehive hairdo and some pretty pink makeup with big lashes, which really popped in this late-1960s setting. 

We kept the basis of the hair and makeup look for the other birthday set, in which I wore a silk floral Ritz gown by Selkie. The dress provided some pastel glamour with bright violet lighting in the pretty yellow, white, and green bedroom and living areas of the suite. I particularly loved the lacey wooden tracery-like balustrades that separated these areas, as they matched the romance of the dress. 

These images are in the August issue of Bombshell magazine!

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