Long time, no update! Been busy busy! Since my successful Beauty Bar tour with my Pin-Up Class and Burlesque show back in April, I've been teaching monthly makeover classes at the NYC Beauty Bar!



My next class is August 21, and there is still space for any ladies wanting a pin-up makeover! Go to PinUpClass.com for more info or to register.

I was on the season finale of Real Housewives of NYC last month, performing at Sonya's burlesque party. You can read about it on Sonja from RHNY's blog or click here to watch the episode (it's not the best quality, bear with the buffering).



There are also a bunch of pictures of me on the Real Housewives website from the episode, almost all of which are just me in pasties, haha! Also NSFW, FYI!

I'm excited to announce that I'm going on a little tour in April! After the success of the NBC LXTV feature that aired nationally on my pin-up class (click here to see the video), Beauty Bar NYC is sending me on tour to 3 of their locations nationally to hold my pinup class during the afternoon, and then follow that up with a burlesque show that I'll star in, as well as all my favourite local performers in each town! It's really a dream come true! All my students signed up for the classes will get in free to the burlesque show, and even get a chance to get onstage if they want! I'm also offering special discounts to the class to anyone signed up for my newsletter, so sign up here and I'll send you info on how to register!

Here's the schedule for my tour:

Monday, April 4th: Denver, CO
Burlesque show lineup:
Bettina May
Miss Orchid Mei
hosted by Cora Vette
more tba


Tuesday, April 5th: Las Vegas, NV
Burlesque show lineup:
Bettina May
Cha Cha Velour
Renea' Le Roux
hosted by Vincent Drambuie
more tba


Wednesday, April 6th: Chicago, IL
Burlesque show lineup:
Bettina May
Lula Hoop-Garou
Deirdre Doll
Jeez Loueez
Scarlette DeVille
hosted by Jack Midnight


Looking forward to seeing you local kids out at my shows, and hope to get some of you in my class too!

xoxo
Bettina

Here's a fun Valentine's video for you all!

Me with the NY PIn-Up Club Valentine's photoshoot

If anyone knows how to embed a Vimeo video on here, let me know, sorry about the text link.

Here's a pic from the shoot!

I'm trying to make it to Viva Las Vegas this year for the burlesque competition, but I need your help getting into the top 4 and voting ends at the end of January, on Tuesday! I'd love your vote, and if you have a twitter or facebook I'd love it if you could get your friends to do the same!

Please click this button:



You'll need to scroll halfway down the page until you see this picture of me:



Click the vote button, and then - it's a hassle, I know - enter your email address and then confirm your vote by clicking the link they email you. I guess there's been a lot of cheating in the past so they gotta do it this way. You don't have to sign up for anything and they won't save your email address for annoying mailouts, I promise! But it would mean the world to me to get to compete in this contest and go to Vegas, so I really appreciate the extra effort!

Goodness, I can't believe I haven't updated since LAST YEAR!? Ok, so what is new since November? The big news, I suppose, is that I (or should I say my lawyer) filed my green card application in early December, so I should hear back sometime next month whether my application was successful or not. Think good thoughts for me! I'm going in tomorrow to get my biometrics taken as part of the application process, which means fingerprinting, retinal scans, all that good futuristic sounding stuff.

The approaching possibility of getting my green card also means the deadline to pay my very expensive lawyer is approaching faster than I'd like (though in all fairness, this guy was half the price of the other lawyers I approached in town, no wonder so few people sponsor themselves!). Now at this point, I'd like to remind all those people about to say "Why don't you just get married?" that yes, I know that was an option, but not one I could stand behind, nor would it be a guarantee of a green card. In an effort to raise the remaining money - just over $4,000 left to go - I'm offering huge discounts on my Pin-Up Class, and have lots of stuff for sale on my website, like t-shirts, 8x10s, and lots more, and you can also donate to the cause. I'll even send you a handwritten postcard of thanks in the mail for any donation over $10, who doesn't like fun mail? Anyways, click the link below to help out, it's GREATLY appreciated!

My Online Store

As anyone who lives (or has tried living) in New York City can attest to, making a go of it in this place isn't easy, and I've certainly had my share of hard times here, but I finally feel like I'm getting into the swing of things, hooray! It helps now that people finally realize I live here permanently now, and I'm not just passing through on tour, so I'm getting more bookings dancing, and my Pin-Up Classes are getting good notices now too, with this article in the Greenpoint Gazette about my last class at The Parlour Brooklyn, a beautiful Victorian style hair salon, and the New York Times is coming to my class this weekend in Manhattan at The Beauty Bar.

Here's a picture of me from the Greenpoint Gazette article:


This is the poster for my Beauty Bar class, which there is still space in if you want to take my class AND possibly be featured in the New York Times! Click here or on the poster to find out more about the class and register.


New York also has an amazing vegan community, and with that comes DELICIOUS food! I've been too busy eating to post as often as I'd like on my vegan food blog, but fortunately, almost ever good vegan I know has a blog on something cool and compassionate, and today I met up with James Koroni for the first time, who has a website called Enforced Arch that is specifically about dancers around the world who also happen to be vegan, so he's featured me a couple times. Look how adorable he is:



I felt like I was hanging out with a young and modern Gene Kelly, I love a man who can rock a bowtie and jeté when the mood strikes. Definitely check out his great website, starting here:

Foh Real? Faux Feathers!

I almost forgot! I'm trying to make it to Viva Las Vegas this year, which if you haven't heard, is the world's biggest gathering of rockabilly and mid-century vintage culture enthusiasts that happens every year, and so far, I've missed it every year, mostly because I've been touring or broke. So, while I'll still be broke this year after paying off my green card, I can't afford to miss it AGAIN! So I'm trying to get into the burlesque competition this year, because that will help offset the cost of getting there a bit, and so far I'm in the top 4, but I need your help staying there till the end of the month, so if you are bored at work, please click this button:



You'll need to scroll halfway down the page until you see this picture of me:



Click the vote button, and then - it's a hassle, I know - enter your email address and then confirm your vote by clicking the link they email you. I guess there's been a lot of cheating in the past so they gotta do it this way. You don't have to sign up for anything and they won't save your email address for annoying mailouts, I promise! But it would mean the world to me to get to compete in this contest and go to Vegas, so I really appreciate the extra effort!

Whew, marathon post today! Ok, I'll leave you with a recent live shot, more of which you can see on my facebook page.

facebook page

So I've probably talked about the new documentary I'm working on called Bettie Page Reveals All, about, obviously, Bettie Page. I get to sit in an office listening to the voice of 80 year old Bettie Page telling her life story - which, believe me, is as salacious as you hope! - while updating their website and other work. Last month my job entailed running around NYC Comic Con with a clipboard in a leopard bikini, and Reagan came along to videotape the whole thing! Here is a video to give you a gist of my time there:



I also updated my blog, The Glamorous Vegabond, with pictures and what I'm eating for vegan Thanksgiving this year! What are you going to do for Thanksgiving this year?

I'm so stoked to be heading to Charlotte, NC this weekend! I'll be hosting With Love | a USO WWII Pin-up Dance on Saturday, Nov 13th, sponsored by Sailor Jerry and SuicideGirls! Click on the poster below to rsvp to the facebook event and find out more info!



I'll be teaching a class the following day, on Sunday Nov 14th, so if you want to learn how to do pin-up hair and makeup like me, and have me shoot your pin-up style photos, click on the poster below to find out more and sign up!



Hope to see a bunch of you down in Charlotte this weekend! I'll also be shooting sets for SG, if you are a hopeful or SG looking for photos, contact me!

xoxo
Bettina

I'm selling loads of stuff on ebay over the next month or so in an effort to fund-raise for legal fees while I try to petition for my green card so I can stay working in the US. These are three items I have up, will add more soon!



This shirt says "If I had balls, they would be bigger than yours"
Click here to bid, auction ends on Tuesday!



Bid on these coveralls that I wore in a SuicideGirls Member Review set AND did actual oil changes and RV repairs in!
Click here to bid, auctions ends Friday

If ebay isn't your style, I am also selling lots of cool stuff in my online store like instructional Pin-Up makeover DVDs, 8x10s, tshirts and more!

Also, please place your vote for me to win a walk-on role on the TV show Mad Men!



Thanks so much!
Bettina May

First, before I tell you about my crazy week in Brooklyn, please place your vote for me to win a walk-on role on the TV show Mad Men!



Ok, now that you've done that and told all your friends to do the same and bookmarked the page so you can vote daily, I'll tell you about the rest of my week. I've spent my time since I moved to Brooklyn 2 weeks ago running around looking for a good yet affordable lawyer to help me get my green card so I can stay in America! After hearing all kinds of terrible things from many of them, I finally decided on one yesterday who I can almost afford, so begins the process of proving I'm an 'entertainer of exceptional ability'. Hence the reason why it's really important to get on Mad Men, just think how impressive that will look on my resume!?

I also have to come up with the cash for legal fees, which are four times what my last one-year visa cost, oof! So I'm selling the t-shirts off my back and anything else I can find lying around that I no longer need to try to raise money. Check out my auctions here!

I've also got lots of stuff in my online Shop if new things with my face on them are more your style!

I'm working on lots of cool projects now too, so once they are finalized I'll be announcing them here!

xoxo
Bettina

I wish I'd heard about this contest to be on the TV show Mad Men way sooner, but I'm entered now and I just need your help by voting and spreading the word! Brilliant photographer Brooklyn took this picture of me, and if you click it you'll go to the page where you can vote for me once a day! I need to get up into the 100,000s of votes to qualify for the top ten so please vote daily and tell everyone you know!



I posted new photos on Bettina.ca recently too, here's a sampling!