For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been putting my Bombshell Challenge homework assignments on my blog.  No, it doesn’t have a lot to do with my art career, but it’s a random aspect of my life and my interests.  So there you go.   By my blog shall ye know me.  Or something…

I’m still looking for more.  But those are awesome examples of daytime pinup dress and fancy evening attire.

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Assignment #2 of The Bombshell Challenge (Created by Bombshell Betty)

“…take the list of attributes and use them to create a description of what a bombshell is to you….”

Here goes. To me, a bombshell is a woman who knows she is a woman 100% of the time. She makes sure she looks like a woman ALL the time. She dresses, does her hair and makeup to enhance the fact that she is a woman. When she gets dressed, and when she’s in public, when she’s BEING a bombshell, she isn’t thinking “I’m the receptionist” or “I’m an activist” or “I’m Mrs. so and so” Not that there is ANYTHING wrong with any of those identities. Each identity you have has its place and time. It’s just that when you’re being “bombshell” the identity of “woman” is the primary one.

A bombshell exudes complete self-confidence in herself and her appearance at all times.

A bombshell doesn’t wonder if anyone notices her or thinks she’s pretty. A bombshell just knows she’s beautiful. So of COURSE she’s noticed.

A bombshell is a beautiful, confident woman ALL. THE. TIME. And when she doesn’t feel that way, she just makes sure she LOOKS that way and fakes it until she DOES feel it again. Reality is created, and that’s the reality that gets created by the bombshell.

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Every year I write out all my goals, plans, programs and projects….basically everything I intend to accomplish in the new year…on paper and in GREAT detail. I do this on New Years Eve day so that on January 1 I can just launch it all at a dead run.

This year I have a TON of new goals, personal, financial, business, art, health, etc. One of my personal goals has to do with just being less introverted. If you know me as a person with a million internet friends you might not THINK I’m introverted, but in some ways I definitely am. I get shy about my appearance, or feel like I look ugly or whatever…the usual things that happen to a women who’s spent way too many years living in Southern California.

One of the things I’m doing to just force myself to NOT be that way, and NOT think that way, is the “Bombshell Challenge”. It’s a one-year challenge, and I have no idea what’s going to happen since I’m just starting it, but I’m going to post the happenings along the way here on my blog. Just for fun, and for a record that I can go back to. I’ll have all Bombshell posts categorized in “bombshell challenge” category.

Assignment #1

“# Choose 3-5 Bombshells who embody some aspect of Bombshell-hood that you admire and would like to emulate. These can be women or men, dead or alive, actual people or fictional characters. It’s up to you!
# For each of your chosen Bombshells, list 3-5 characteristics or traits that you admire about them and would like to embody….”

Here are my answers:

1. Josephine Baker – Had an exotic look, had amazing fashion sense and combined her clothing with amazing accessories, seemed completely comfortable with her own sexuality.

josephine baker

2. Bettie Page – Seemed very free with her own sexuality, always looked like she was having fun and enjoying herself, whether or not she actually was, seemed like a real person and not just an unhuman icon.

bettie page

3. Marilyn Monroe – Always feminine. Always looked sweet yet sexy. Her skin always looked perfect, pale and smooth, and her hair and makeup were always perfectly glamourous.

marilyn

4. Audrey Hepburn – Had a dark, sultry look. She was glamourous like the others, but in a different…slicker and cooler…way. A bit more daring and adventurous in her approach than the classic bombshells like Marilyn. And a bit more concentration on the cool, hip factor and less on the traditional womanliness factor.

audrey hepburn

5. Amy Winehouse. Yes she’s a junkie. Yes she’s all OVER the tabloids, in and out of rehab, strung out. A mess. But she has a sense of style, swagger and self-confidence that really is on par with other historical bombshells. She KNOWS she’s cool. She KNOWS she has mad style. She KNOWS she’s talented. So I feel she qualifies.

amy winehouse

6. And my absolute bombshell IDOL: Masuimi Max.  She is a model of today, she’s trendy and completely hot by right now standards, but still maintains all the classic 50′s burlesque and bombshell sensibilities.  She’s sexy and confident,  a complete superstar and I don’t think you’d EVER be able to find a bad photo of her.  So my list is longer than required, but as far as I’m concerned no bombshell list would be complete without her.  So too bad.

masuimi max <3

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