Two very fine, vintage examples of the 'ol "Around-the-Neck" hands-free mirror, complete with original MCM, and psychedelic era packaging variations. For applying make-up, or shaving for men, adjusts to all angles, via plain and / or magnifyin' your magnificent mugs (see also: viewing whatever body part needs a closer inspection!) Just wrap the metal meat hook around your nimble neck, and dim the lights. Speak the proper incantation, thus allowing the seductively sinister Sorceress of the Mirror to appear. Now, slit your throat as an eternal love offering to all that is attractively evil. Folds up nicely to fit back inside the box.
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I don't know much about make-up -- even the time I dressed as Ace somebody else did that for me -- but maybe in that first illustration don't put on the vampire nails until after you finished poking around your eye?
I really like the 70s dayglow color scheme of this, the bright neon yellow and orange, and the line art of smiling people who this mirror has finally brought relief from their terrible yawning problems.
I also think Karswell might have edited one of these pictures, but I can't be sure ....
Nope! The Sorceress of the Mirror is real! Real, I tell you!!
A) Amazing mirrors!
B) Amazing post!
C) Must be also an amazing gal who dares use such a hands-free mirror and resist the sinister Sorceress’ call 😏
“Resistance is futile!” he gurgled, the wet warble of words eerily escaping through a grotesquely gory, gushing throat gash.
I love that first box illustration so much. I always wondered how chicks in solitary for shanking a bitch managed their own black tear tattoos. There's a gadget for everything!
Now say Bloody Mary three times fast.
That would be a good story concept, making prisons a sort of testing ground for haunted antiques.
“Guard! Who put this Philco Lowboy in my cell while I was at dinner?”
“Ummm, the warden figured you might like a little night music, see? Make sure you tune it to 66.6 before you go to sleep…”
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