I'm a blonde girl from a farming town in
Michigan so I kind of like written my
own little story and created a character
for myself that I wasn't really so I
think I started playing with first
makeup you know red lipstick was the
first thing that like gave me that aha
moment I was like whoa I can like
capture the spirit of glamorous old
Hollywood and caps lets you know a tube
of lipstick how amazing that was my
first thing and I kind of take it took a
step further and I always loved old
Hollywood the pose I felt like it was
something that was clearly created and I
couldn't really I couldn't relate to oh
like supermodels or supports Illustrated
swimsuit oh you know I could never
relate to that kind of beauty but you
know stars like Marlena Dietrich and
Hedy Lamarr and Betty Grable in their
own garage it kind of I could look at
that and see that it was painted
and so I always loved this idea of you
know the art of creating glamour for
yourself and that's carried off you know
I've taken up to great length with not
only my look off duty but my my
burlesque shows it's the whole reason I
started creating for last shows I felt
like I can be this is my opportunity to
be a sex symbol where it's like about
what else would I be a sex symbol I know
I'm that with the opposite of sex symbol
in the 90s when I first started making
burlesque shows I'm here to launch my
new collection at Meijer my lingerie
collections been out for a few years now
but I have a new loungewear collection a
lots of new twists on the most popular
styles
ever since I launched the collection
I've gotten such great response I love
wearing it myself and I'm a bit of a
lingerie snob so it's really you know
I'm also very very proud of it I love
wearing it myself I first started
working in a lingerie store when I was
15 years old and my love of lingerie and
my fascination with lingerie is like as
being symbolic of womanhood and
femininity
the reason I first started greeting for
less shows and then being photographed
as a pinup model and so it sort of come
full circle for me in a lot of ways I
don't always feel the need to go 100%
full power glamour so I said you know
this little was like 15 minutes on my
beauty routine I just I'm on sunscreen I
put my hair that chignon I I do
sweep powder and a red lipstick in
sunglasses and that's like my that's my
look on a regular day so it's pretty
quick I have it down to to a routine but
and then when I get like I am today I
usually spend about an hour and a half I
like to block out like two hours full
purple red carpet glamour because I
don't use a glam squad I do everything
myself but I also like to conceal to
like you know you have to take helper
checking
you know distractions that can
lingerie is something is another what I
believe to be a final stepping stone of
glamour and sort of that feeling of
being dressed to the nines and having a
moment of beauty and glamour and
everyday life that doesn't require any
extra time it's something you can choose
to buy something that is beautiful and
functional or even buy something boring
and functional and my whole collection
is based on making things that you can
wear under your clothes that you don't
just put on for someone that you wear or
is 11 I can always see a correlation
between what I did for myself that maybe
other people don't even see and how it
makes me feel you know it's like the way
that the thoughts you think radiates and
I feel the same way about wearing
lingerie and people don't see it you
have your own you know your own secret
persona underneath your clothes you have
something that makes you feel
looks a little spring in your step it's
always felt like that for me and I never
really you know I understand the power
of lingerie as a tool of seduction
certainly but what I realized was that
you can really master the art of
seduction when you keep it and when it's
in daily practice in your everyday life
and it becomes second nature and that's
what it's sexy being sexy is is having
you know having confidence and the only
way camillia confidence is by
experiencing it and renewably loving
something and people know that my
philosophy about you know beauty is kind
of about those things like and the same
thing like I wear red lipstick because I
like it I wear my makeup this way
because I like it although some people
when they certain people that are see me
with no makeup on they go oh my god you
look so much younger with no makeup and
I think that that's that's good but I'm
not I don't care about looking younger
actually people respond to authenticity
no I'm not I'm not selling people jeans
and t-shirts here would never do that
I feel very confident about the lingerie
line and my expertise in the subject of
lingerie it's like a lifelong passion of
mine that started in my childhood from
you know being so curious about my
mother's undergarments
wanting to know about these womanly
things and it started like that
everything that I had are do I actually
designed myself with you know but to
help a team of people that after that
know how to create perfume and know how
to construct lingerie because I'd
certainly am NOT sewing it all myself
I like getting involved and it makes me
feel accomplished makes it feel like I'm
doing something else makes you feel like
if I weren't a burlesque dancer if
there's other jobs I can do people
always ask what what I've done if I
weren't if I start this burlesque of
thing um I would probably have been like
the stylist of some kind or I might have
continued to work in lingerie like I
said I was working in lingerie and I saw
also cosmetics and so those are two
things that I'm good at am i doing my
own hair and makeup but burlesque shows
it's it is directing and creating and
creating this like fantasy and spectacle
it's there's so many elements to it you
know no one makes a show and puts me in
and tells me what to do is like I can't
conceptualize everything from the music
and the idea the lighting the
choreography it's like it's I love
creating a scene you know success
involved I'm not the only one
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