Victorian Tea Party Mini Top Hat

Try as hard as you possibly can to contain your jealousy: The lady I made this hat for gives pony rides for a living. And they're not just ponies. They're rainbow haired ponies. 

You know how I feel about rainbow hair.

 

Magical things happen to magical people. Just as I was completing her headpiece, I found this vintage horse cameo locket to complete it. Seriously. In that color blue.

This was a custom order to match a pink and blue floral Victorian tea party outfit Angela made for herself. If you love anything girly and lacy...you would flip! I hope we'll see pics of the whole ensemble together! Cough. Cough.

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Thank you universe for continuously sending me the world's coolest customers and best vintage pins.

As always for your own custom hat or headpiece message me via Etsy or Facebook

www.TwoBackFlats.com

Love,
Jasika 

BALTIMORE REPRESENT

A little behind the scenes from the Two Back Flats

 RAW Natural Born Artist Showcase prep at Fells Point Salon.

I wanna be rich and famous so all my friends will be rich and famous too. 

 

The two gypsy, pirate goddesses below are responsible for doing the best hair in Baltimore...and for teaching me all their ways from haircuts to living free. Always looking up to both of you Nina and Melanye.

The brand new Fells Point Salon location : 735 S. Ann St. Baltimore, MD 21231

 

The beautiful and talented Maureen Flynn on makeup. 

 

 WHOA. Meet Laina. I literally met this girl on the street a few weeks ago while she was wasting her sweet time as a hostess. She had a perfect victory roll, little blazer and killer heels. All I kept thinking was "this girl needs a top hat". If you build it they will come. I am so glad she didn't think I was a creep and e-mailed me back. Thank you universe. Perfection:

Another of my lady canvases for the evening the la la lovely Lauren Burton! Let's all take note that not only did L not flinch, but she sat around looking gorgeous as her entire head was covered in rows of perm rods. Thats right perm rods. #LikeABoss 

You can tell Melanye is from Baltimore with those stellar hair teasing skillz.

 

this photo melts my heart. So many of my favorite things:

 

are you freaking out about the black and white striped mini top hat too?

I wanted each of my girls for the evening to represent a little bit of Two Back Flats. A little Mad,  a little Moulin Rouge and of course a little retro! The hats and headpieces speak for themselves but I could not have pulled this off without this hair, makeup and modeling expertise! 

The darling and sensational Miss Fawn rocking my pin up look with our ever so loved pinwheel headband! Go check out this lady if you know what is good for you. She is professional and sultry and pretty damn fabulous.

 

Me sassing it up in my black top hat for the camera per usual. Plus I can never keep a straight face when Alana is around.

 

Fun fact: Two Back Flats was actually BORN about 4 houses behind where Miss Fawn is strutting.

How delightful, right?

 let us also discuss the heels these girls both whipped out of their bags like I have some sort of genie in a bottle. #soulsisters #bringmeyourmostridiculousshoes

showtime!!! 

I want to thank all of these ladies who I am blessed and honored to call friends. You will call them too if you know whats up:

PHOTOGRAPHY BY:VANITY'S EDGE DESIGN

HAIR / LOCATION : FELLS POINT SALON

MAKEUP: MAUREEN FLYNN

HATS / DIRECTION : TWO BACK FLATS

MODELS: 

LAINA LANE

LAUREN BURTON

MISS FAWN

one love, 

jasika

Do it Baltimore! The Bellevederes and Two Back Flats Television Debut!

 Have I told you lately how much I sweat The Bellevederes? Rip roaring female leads, 60's throwbacks, hip swinging and some hair bows, bitches. Plus, I get to style their heads for all their fanciest and shmanciest events. A couple weeks ago, we rolled into the MPT studios with our vintage luggage for a Concert for the Chesapeake Bay.. in collab, of course,  with 89.7 WTMD !!! This is a new level of hipster bad assery btw.

Didnt get any backstage shots per usual cause my hands are always full of hairspray and ribbons. Oops. But you can alwayssss find me as close to front row as possible when its time to 

dance dance dance! And you can bet your ass that MPT does it right. Seeing the sound room and all the sets were as close to feeling cool as I think I've come...

The stunning and talented Denny Finnerin. #likeaboss. 

 Two hours of live local music included

The Bellevederes

Kelly Bell Band

Bobby E. Lee & the Sympathizers

plus special guest Jukebox The Ghost

Bay t-shirts are still available if you want to donate! Click the photo:

SEE MY 60'S HAIR FOR THE GIRLS, TWO BACK FLATS HAIR BOWS 

AND FEEEEEL THE SOUL HERE:

So so proud of these funky peeps. Love to love you Chesapeake Bay!!!

Check out the Belles on Facebook for some feel goodness. See you front row!
xo
Jas 

TWO BACK FLATS HAT GIVEAWAY

 Helloooooooooooo darlings!!!! Giveaway time = the best time!!! I invite you all to play along, get creative, get social and all that jazz. I'm switching it up from the last couple times so pay attention and be your fabulous selves.

RULES:

- Create up to 5 Pinterest boards per person of any theme your heart desires
- Each board must have at least 15 pins
- The agenda is to incorporate as many Two Back Flats pieces on to each board / theme / collection.
- Two Back Flats pins must be pinned directly from here on my blog, my Pinterest page, or my Etsy shop. - Dig deep. There are hats even I forgot about. Its like Christmas
- Share the links to your boards. Share everywhere! With your friends, here on the blog and on my Facebook page.

THE WINNER:

Will be chosen by based on:

- Originality / Awesomeness of theme
- Repins
- Content
- Two Back Flats love

THE BEST PART: You will win one of the hats you have pinned !!! Thats right. You and I BOTH get to choose your prize!!!! The options are utterly endless! Hoooray!!!

TIPS:

THEME: can be anything! A color, a party idea, fashion, a season - anything! Here are two examples of my boards that may inspire you! I* am mostly inspired by color! How about you? A movie, a book, a song, a dream you had? ;) Things are about to get Pinteresting peeps!!!!!! 

click on photo to see board

click on photo to see board

LABELING : Make sure to label your pins with exactly what they are so people can find them!  Example: Red Top Hat, Womens Fascinators, Two Back Flats, Cotton Candy, Pink Hair,  etc etc. Im pretty sure this #hashtag thing works as well.

BE YOURSELF: I want to get to know you and your style.

HAVE FREAKING FUN!!


Cut off date will be announced soon!!!

Be sure to LIKE on Facebook and share your ideas / boards / or just say hi there!!

www.Facebook.com/TwoBackFlats 

ALL TWO BACK FLATS LINKS :

TWOBACKFLATS.COM

ETSY.COM/SHOP/TWOBACKFLATS

TWOBACKFLATS.BLOGSPOT.COM

FACEBOOK.COM/TWOBACKFLATS

PINTEREST.COM/TWOBACKFLATS

INSTAGRAM.COM/TWOBACKFLATS

LOVE TO LOVE YOU!!!!

Jasika

Girls Large Hair Flower Headbands

'The Darlings' has to be my mostttt favorite series by Vanity's Edge Design ever! Full of all the magic, sweetness and strong ladies Alana is known for capturing. So honored to be a part of it and stoked to see it in Model Life Magazine!!

My large hair flowers are becoming a little famous if I may say so myself.  ;) It could not look more perfect, more dreamy, more couture than it does on little Miss Emily Gray. 

Click the photo to shop:

 J'adore this mini bowler hat as well. Havent found any more of those gargantuan vintage buttons lately but as soon as I do...Im making another one of these black hats! This photography!! Sigh*

  
Here is another Vanity's Edge and Two Back Flats Hair Flower collaboration below! I don't know how she does it! Everything Alana creates looks like it was out of my dream journal.  

click photo for listing

So sweet. If you're not wearing a mini top hat to a tea party - you better be wearing one of these!! can't get enough!!! Looooook at this sweeeet horse, the boots, the dress!! xoxoxoxo

I urge alll of you lovers of anything whimsical and chic to check out 'The Darlings' series. 

As always, come say hi on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/TwoBackFlats 

Browse, shop or message me here: SHOP

xo

Jasika

Colorful little wedding hats

I pull up to Readyluck's studio which is in one of my absolute favorite parts of Baltimore and I know this is going to be a bloody good day. This part of town is nothing but bricks and bricks and windows and windows. Old textile mills and foundries from the 17th century that look as if they just grew from the earth and then Baltimore happened around it. So much of the city's innovation and growth happened exactly where this shoot went down. It is really no wonder that this team gathered there... and I'm pretty sure we did the old walls justice.

I get into one of those crazy, old ass service elevators, ya know? With the double steel doors that give you that total "oh shit" moment when everything slams and rumbles and you inch slowwwwly up or down.

Then I walk into this lovely scene:

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Can't really express how jealous I am that Lindsey and her team get to work in that kind of light every day.

 As I get to create on a daily basis I am finding more and more that I am mostly inspired by colors. I just love me an unexpected combination of anything!  Of course I was on board when I saw Readyluck's Neutral and Neon inspiration the ol' Pinterest..... I wont lie, I have not been the biggest advocate of the neon comeback but Lindsay turned it into art.

One totally whimsical, ridiculously radical, completely unique wedding style shoot = art art art.

(te-he - I am holding this giraffe behind the scenes ;) I was so stoked about this, 

I cannot even begin to tell you...)

I got this yellow and green psychedelic chic (what? that's a real thing) vintage fabric from an old barn in western Maryland. I'm not sure what kind of groovy blouse or something this fabric once made, but it is definitely continuing on its destiny with this mini hat.

A. I think I may have made this hat for the gorgeous Diamond Dixon (above & below) and not even known it.
B. I loved seeing this hat paired with both a bridesmaid dress and a wedding dress. It is clearly a win. 

 

This color combination was a bit of a mind melt for me, but I pretty much sweat this sunshine yellow silk with the pink, red and teal. I had to come back to this hat like fourteen times before it was complete. Worth it.

 I am also not sure if I am more in love with Lauren Ward's rainbow hair...which she does herself... or this white and gold porcelain gnome. Give me a fricken breakkkkk!!!

 

 

*** tinsel curtains *** 

 

As if this day wasn't inspiring and memorable enough, it was featured on Rock n Roll Bride!

Click the photo for the full feature with a TONNNNNN more photos of this magical, funky day. 

Check out the behind the scenes video here:

http://vimeo.com/49608871

CREDITS

• Photography: Readyluck
• Video: Sugarfarm Productions
• Styling: Diamond Dixon
• Assistant: Kristian Thacker
• Hair: Lauren Ruth Ward
• Make Up: Jennifer Tanko
• Flowers: Local Color Flowers
• Hats: Two Back Flats
• Dresses: Garnish Boutique
• Props: Curiosity