How did you decide on your "Pinup" name?

[Boudoir Louisville]

Sorry if this has been talked about in the past...
I LOVE all the names people come up with. Just wondering how you landed on the name you are currently using.
I'm sure you have a great story that goes with that cute name. Let's hear them!

[Frankie Fairlane{★}]

First , i was going by my real name, because i thought it sounded professional, but then i realized that you dont go by ur real name. Annnd some people started to shorten my name to Fran, or Franny ..annd i dont like those names, so then i said screw it, I'll go by Frankie which is already a nic name for my REAL name. But then my husband said You should be Frankie Fairlane like the car, because you like Ford more than Chevy & its Classic!. But noww, sommme people have started to make up a new nick name for me too! omg! lol which is Frankie-Frankenstein because of my Frankie Tatt!! lol! This is why i gave my daughter a name where no one could make up a nicname for her...however, my folks still found a way to create a nic name for her! lol oh well. :-)

[Dear Daniel]

we tried picking the most non-hispanic name there was for a girl. Mila Isis Rodriguez. i have yet to find another mexican Mila...

Frankie Fairlane{PLA} said:

.... This is why i gave my daughter a name where no one could make up a nicname for her...however, my folks still found a way to create a nic name for her! lol oh well. :-)

[Roxie Roulette {★}]

Originally I was Renee Roulette purely because I wanted the French twist, but then Roxie just sounded more pin up-y and didn't restrict me looks wise. My sister said I should be called 'Hannah Lulu' (a pun on Honolulu) but as Hannah is my real name and I'm not really a tiki kinda person I didn't use it, but please, anyone else is welcome to it!

[Honey B Hooligan {Madam}]

My Husband named me, Honey ('cause he says I'm sweet as Honey), B. because he says I'm the Queen Bee, and Hooligan because of our mutual love/obsession of European football. :D

TA-DA!

[Neko Love]

I love cats more than anything, and I have a huge thing for Japanese culture. The "Maneki Neko", or Beckining Cat, is a good luck symbol from Japan and I've been in love with them since childhood. (I've now got a Maneki Neko tattoo on my back.) So, cat love= neko love= me!

[Cherry Cyanide]

Ooh, I just love hearing all these stories! Keep 'em coming girls. :)

[Honey B Hooligan {Madam}]

Left or Right paw? :)

Neko Love said:

I love cats more than anything, and I have a huge thing for Japanese culture. The "Maneki Neko", or Beckining Cat, is a good luck symbol from Japan and I've been in love with them since childhood. (I've now got a Maneki Neko tattoo on my back.) So, cat love= neko love= me!

[Lainey Belle{★}]

Interesting replies! It's neat to read this! Well, when I was young people used to try and figure out how to shorten or change my name (Elaine) and somebody called me Lainey (and I hated it). But as I grew older, I kinda liked it and decided this was a chance to use it. The Belle came from when I used to work at Disneyland and I always had to wear my long blonde hair up in a bun with sideswept bangs. Everybody thought I looked so much like Tinker Bell they used to call me Tink. So, I just switched it for the Bell, added an e on the end so it looks fancy and there ya go! :)

[Mz. Lindsay Lane]

I was born with it! But I think it has a nice ring to it ;)

[Bella Bang]

Mine is pretty easy...my momma always said I looked just like my great gramma Isabel so she always called me Belle, I've been dancing my whole life so the first time I heard Art Adams Dancin Doll it just clicked for me! Later I found out that a lot of friends were calling me Belle because they would say the girl with the Belvedere...My REAL name is Velma :-D

[Kitty Luv {★}]

Well i'm obsessed with Hello Kitty, so that's where kitty comes from. Camrai is a mix of my kid's names (Camber & Railin). I sorta been thinking about changing it mostly because there are so many kitty's out there already :(

[Vega {★}]

Raquelle is the name of one of my favorite anime characters, and I like it's vague reference to the amazing Raquel Welch, and the unique spelling of it. Vega because I knew I wanted to use the letter V in my name (it evokes so many great things, such as Vargas, Vintage, Vegas, etc), and Vega is the name of a very famous star in our relative astronomical neighborhood. One of my favorite movies, Contact (with Jodie Foster), is centered around the star Vega. I studied astronomy in school for a while and was convinced I was going to work for NASA someday (didn't work out), so stars hold great meaning to me. So not only does the name Vega hold meaning for me, I can also say I'm named after a star ;)

I didn't want something too distinctly 50's, as I hope to do some Alt modeling as well, and I didn't want something that was SO obviously made-up. The really cutesy names that are clearly fake names have a great flow and ring to them, but I wanted something that was slightly in the realm of being possible as someone's real name. I tell people Raquel is my given first name (to which I changed the spelling slightly), and that Vega is actually my middle name. That's my story and I'm sticking to it :P