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A life in the skies. A life that is more than a little less ordinary. A life and career that transports me from city to country, but rarely to home. Along the way I get to live the dream, discovering a myriad of new and wonderful things. I love all things fine. Deluxe. Quite possibly ostentatious. But always with style. And I am zealous for life, love, people and friends and all the quirky nuances that all of that brings. Enjoy the ride!

Monday 11 November 2013

Private Lessons - Burlesque is Best

Everybody has a secret skill. The party trick. Or that clandestine side to your personality that is reserved for special people, or escapes after one cocktail too many. The highland fling, salsa classes, your perfect karaoke Celine Dion number. Or burlesque.

Yeah, not all skills are acquired at birth. It's probably the reason you have a regular 9 to 5 and are not quite on the stage at Vegas. Some skills need lessons. 


Let's get back to that Burlesque. Ditta Von Teese, I am not. Yet. I'm not sure I could get in or out of that basque. But one step closer to having some professionally trained book-oop-a-doop? That I can own, thanks to the charm, skills and downright fun of a night with the amazing Whistle Bait Babies.

I came across WBB about a year ago, when I hired them for a special milestone party I was organising. Three more beautiful girls you will never find. Glowing with a forties image, flirtatious with flair and finesse and just enough deriving to stir a giggle and never cross the line of distaste. 


Already famed in the local circuit for events, I was delighted at the personalised design WBB made to bespoke their routine to my event. Dance and music from traditional Moulin Rouge risqué to novel airline.

Months later they are still a conversation starter, and I knew I would be calling on them again. You need to, too. Be creative, find a reason why...

Cue the bridal shower of recent months. I mean, how better to inject bachelorette fun without succumbing to the distaste of velcro-trousered police officers, than to empower your ladies with some useful skills of seduction?

I've shared before my horrors of hen nights and the fear of crossing the fine line between taste and tack. My ladies had started their night in fluffy robes and the spa, drinking champagne, they were refreshed and pampered, now they would send off the bride to be and themselves with new tricks to woo and be wooed.

WBB Pixie came armed with music, winks and a box of tricks. We got the hip moves, the shoulder shrugs, we cracked whips and learned the secret to wearing and removing velvet and satin gloves.

Then came the tassels. Yes. Once you learn how to twirl a tassel, your life is never the same. Every girl should have this skill. Every man should want his girl to have this skill. We might have been in jeans and PJs as we had our private lesson from Pixie, but that was only our practice run....

What you do with your new burlesque skills, and where....that is up to you.

'Til next time, Pandora