The ICONIC PIN-UPS: dreaming of Greta and sexy like Dita, with Carol and Stacy

Do you think pin-up girls are just a matter of make-up and sexy curves? Do you think it's just a matter of choosing the right shade of red lipstick and wearing a sexy and luxury corset?

Well, if you think that...be ready to change your mind, because I'm going to take you on a whole new sensual, erotic and cultural level of thinking.

If you know me a little, you know that I always had a thing for the Thirties, for that old smoky, alcoholic and golden glamour, for the unique charm and elegance that women (and men) carried with them in every single movement, fragrance or item on their body. Dita Von Teese is the modern impersonation of this style, but what I'm talking now is Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers, Carole Lombard and Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and Myrna Loy. Last Friday I had the honor of entering that world for a while, I put some make up on to feel beautiful, my No. 5, and as soon as I entered Carol and Stacy's luxury and vintage castle up in the highest hills of Los Angeles, far from noise and modernity, where I can just imagine what the starred sky could possibly resemble, I felt like I was travelling back in time, into a world made of velvet and penetrating notes, pure passion and hypnotic perfume of sex. These two amazing artists, the Iconic Pin-up (www.iconicpinups.com) have the power of magically turning every woman into a living glamorous myth: an elegant pin up girl. Carol Sheridan is a fashion photographer; Stacy Lande is a painter and make-up artist. They've known each other for ages, and two years ago they decided to make their passionate love for art their own (successful) business. In their hands, and in just a couple of hours, every girl next door can become a perfect pin-up, and have a memory of her new image for eternity. I personally assisted to the transformation of beautiful Brenda, while loosing myself into an infinite closet of intriguing lingerie, silky laces and breathtaking high heels. I was dreaming of wearing every single piece, posing as the sexiest human being alive on the dark red velvet couch, or simply sinuously showing my leg from the woman-body-shape red chair the use on set.

That's what they do, they make a woman feel good. Not exclusively for a husband or a boyfriend, but for us ladies, to celebrate our beauty no matter what (and you all know it's something very hard to achieve, no matter how tall, thin, sexy we are). Well, the good news is that they do it just great, because even if I wasn't part of the physical transformation that day, I left the place with a sense of femininity that I wasn't feeling in a long time.

When I got home my Chanel No. 5 was gone and I simply sensed it was the right time for my Hypnotic Poison.

-Alice Carbone