put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty

Is it strange that one of my favorite things to do is put on makeup? There is something so calming, so spiritual, so superficially life-affirming about the process that I quite enjoy. It's lovely to see dolly girls that I love who enjoy the process of primping themselves in front of a mirror as well

These two models admire their own reflections with fab updos and great cat eyes (I'm digging the white cat eye on the left!)

Known for her gamine gorgeousness, Audrey Hepburn had the best eye makeup in the history of all of Hollywood (at least, according to me)

The fabulous makeover scene in Vertigo takes Kim Novak from dowdy brunette to blonde bombshell

Brigitte Bardot knows what to do to perfect her sex kitten look

A Playboy Bunny from the '60s knows the perfect compliment to bunny ears is heavily lined eyelids

Catherine James, muse extraordinaire, paints her eyes (also, can you spot those Edie-inspired shoulder dusters that she's wearing? Must be during her Factory days)

Donyale Luna gets some assistance from a fellow model

America's original sweetheart Doris Day always kept her makeup sweet and simple

Edie Sedgwick was known for her obsession with makeup - taking hours every day to contour her cheeks and define her doe eyes

Elizabeth Taylor adjusts what looks to be some pretty killer glitter eye makeup

Natalia Vodianova for Guerlain's Fall campaign last year

Here the 1944 Rockettes are caught primping in front of their mirrors

Jane Birkin fixing her appearance both offscreen and on (in Wonderwall)

The fabulous Miss Faithfull on the set of The Girl on a Motorcycle, in a magazine spread, and backstage at Saturday Night Live

The ultimate bombshell Marilyn Monroe appreciated the beauty and femininity of cosmetics, oftentimes being photographed applying them

Natalie Wood enhances her already amazingly wide eyes with coats of mascara

Mischa Barton pencils her eyelid as Rachel Bilson looks on in The O.C.

Pattie Boyd several times did spread for magazines documenting her famous dolly look

The Shrimpton girls always looked camera ready 

Sue Lyon on the set of The Night of the Iguana 

Sylvie Vartan admires her own appearance

Here all of the Polly Maggoos ready their looks in the famous film 

It's easy to see why Sophia Loren attracted the likes of Cary Grant and Carlo Ponti

The women of The Women primp themselves

I love everything about this look - from the perfect cat eye to that dark red lip

A young pre-Marilyn Norma Jeane smiles as she puts on her 'stick

Modern day dolly Drew Barrymore puckers up

Title: from "Atlantic City" (Bruce Springsteen)

lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed

I love the idea of spending lazy weekend afternoons laying all day in my bed, swallowed by my mass of pillows and blankets. I am a summertime bum, and I lounge in my sleepwear all day like it's my job. Apparently I have a few tricks to learn from these glam vixens, who make laying in a swath of pillows an art

A model for Biba looks her vamp finest 

Genius use of the tiger rug as a blanket over the coach - and I want that marabou-and-silk robe, and that long cigarette holder (and I don't even smoke!)

I love Brittany Murphy's penthouse in Uptown Girls

Penelope Tree looks divine in her equally as divine surrounding 

The 'fabulous destiny' of Amélie apparently also included the coolest digs in all of the 18th arrondissement

From Urban Outfitters' latest catalog - minus the orgy-like setting, I want everything that's in this photo

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart lay outside in style - and quite literally In Style 

A scene from Emmanuelle 

Lauren Hutton is in model form in these gorgeous dresses and chairs

There is nothing I do not covet in this photo of Louise Ebel 

Mia Farrow matches - or clashes, depending on who you ask - with this flowery red couch in an equally as much floral frock

Sylvia Kristel - star of Emmanuelle - rivals her own onscreen photo in this mass of pillows and lace

Nicky Samuel matches dress to rug to tapestry to perfection while modeling Ossie Clark

Stripped down, chrome and glowing, Olivia Wilde is va-va-voom in Tron: Legacy

Peggy Lipton reviews scripts and snuggles up in a knit blanket for Life Mag

Tina Aumont, captured in all her bohemian glory in a home movie

I want all of Peggy Moffitt's pillows here - she wouldn't mind, would she?

Jane Birkin - a goddess in furs

Truman Capote in his glam apartment 

Title: from "Lay Lady Lay" (Bob Dylan)

Inspired By ... Jane Birkin's Casual Parisian Chic

Can't afford a Birkin bag but still a dying to look like the style icon and renowned Hermès muse? 
Check out this to-die-for ankle-length coat by BB Dakota. With its wide lapels and double row of buttons, this delicious coat is strikingly similar to the one Jane sported on a casual walk with Serge many years ago. 
I love the length of the coat - only a peep of the ankle and a pair of killer shoes will be visible when this is all buttoned up. So much outerwear out there is mid-calf or above, as if designers are afraid to make coats too long. If you wear this jacket, you dare to not bare much skin ... which is a statement all its own these days. To all my Birkin babes out there, this is the piece for you this fall! Button up the coat, pop the collar, slip on your black boots, and grab your wicker basket (and your hot Frenchman!) and stroll the streets in this understated statement-maker! 

The Dedrick Coat by BB Dakota is available at Lulus.com for a stylish $121 (it's also available in camel, if you want to go more of a Ali MacGraw-circa-Love Story route). 

Then and Now: the Louise Brooks Hairstyle

The original 'do done by '20s starlet Louise Brooks has remained a popular style for almost a century

Agyness Deyn makes the short bob her own with her signature platinum locks

Audrey Tautou in Amelie 

Anna Wintour has made this cropped pageboy-inspired style her signature for decades, even sporting deep chocolate locks like Louise in the 1990s

Anne Hathaway takes the look for a spin

A picture from an Anthropologie catalogue

Brigitte Bardot tries the style in the Godard masterpiece Le Mépris

Cate Blanchett manages to make an Indiana Jones villain likeable with a chic crop

Christina Ricci claimed she felt like she "looked like an anime character" with her dramatic bob while portraying Trixie in the film Speed Racer

Dancer-actress extraordinaire Cyd Charisse in the film Singin' in the Rain - there's a reason she was Gene Kelly's dream girl

Halle Berry has "a new focus" - and a new look! - in the pages of Vogue

Isabella Rossellini made the Brooks hairstyle her own and looks sensational

German actress Isabella Soric makes the look fun and sassy 

Jane Birkin wigs out

Kate Bosworth hams it up in a photobooth-style session complete with cropped hair and black feathers - very va-va-voom

Katie Holmes made a name for herself in the fashion world when she debuted this daring 'do

Gaga ooh la la! Is it any coincidence Lady Gaga rocks the same hairstyle that Vogue editor Anna Wintour has worn for years, as well as featured in her magazine on the likes of Halle Berry and Natalie Portman (both seen in this post)?

Melanie Griffith is Something Wild in a film of the same name with a dramatic 'do and pounds of costume jewelry

Barton does Brooks

Celebs like Jena Malone, Michelle Williams (of Destiny's Child), Kristen Stewart, and Selma Blair all rock the look

From the tender age of twelve in Leon: The Professional to an all-grown-up look in Closer and on the pages of Vogue, Natalie Portman makes the 'do a do at any age

Rose McGowan in The Doom Generation

Winona Ryder by Steven Meisel

Julia Roberts is style by Serge Normant for his book Femme Fatale: Famous Beauties Then and Now