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Cosmetics Shopping Guide 1948

Posted on September 30, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Popular cosmetics in the late 1940s – For the college or career girl, September brings new adventures in beauty. A touch of fragrance for her hair ! Like an invisible halo of flowers, “The finishing touch,” by Lentheric, scents her hair and adds lovely lustre. The bottle is equipped with a fingertip atomosier, lentheric’s alone. In Tweed, Miracle, Shanghai…

12 Steps to 1940s Glamour

Posted on September 24, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

A 12 Step Guide to 1940s Glamour – For that 1940s glamour look, follow Miss Lane’s 12 step procedure below, concentrating on one feature at a time, and you too can probably achieve the amazing illusion of beauty pictured above. 1. A Properly cleansed face. 2. Applying foundation. 3. Distributing foundation. 4. Applying eye shadow. 5. Applying moist cheek rouge….

Autumn Beauty Tricks from 1932

Posted on September 6, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

1930s beauty Tricks from Carolyn Van Wyck 1930s Eye Make-up. Ruth Hall takes us through the four steps in the magic of Fall eye make-up. With the days ahead getting shorter and darker, a girls eyes need to be more definite looking. 1. Placing shadow – usually this should cover the entire lid only for day use. The space between…

Kiss and Make Up – 1930s Beauty Guides

Posted on August 4, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Essential Beauty First Aids – 1931 – Let’s kiss and make up. or maybe we’d better make up first ! This is our chance to prove our artistry. Maybe we can’t paint a landscape or sculpt in marble, but how we can create new faces and carmine those lily cheeks ! We can make up our face to suit ourselves….

1930s Beauty Class – Summer Sun Secrets

Posted on July 16, 2015 by vmg | 1 Comments

Safe skin tips from Helen Twelvetrees – July 1932 – 1930’s beauty report from Ann Boyd – To prevent windburn and roughness from the dry hot breezes of summer, Miss Twelvetrees always rubs a thin cold cream over her face as a last minute touch before facing the outdoors. To the fair skinned – it was once the aches and…

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1930s Housewives Emergency Make-up Kit

Posted on June 18, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Max Factor Make-up School – June 1935 – Your home is in a sense ..a stage – your own personal stage. Small or large, it should be the background for you, for the particular type of good looks that are yours. You know women – and so do I – who think beauty is for the street alone or for…

1930s Hair and Make-up Tricks of the Stars

Posted on May 22, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Hollywood Beauty School – June 1933 Vintage Make-up report by Carolyn Van Wycks Hollywood Coiffures for 1933 The extreme sophistication of Carole Lombard‘s latest coiffure created for “The eagle and the Hawk” convinces us that one need not be bobbed to look chic any more. That engaging bang contrasts charmingly with the braid at the neck. Significant these long screen coiffures….

1935 Makeup Guide for Older Women

Posted on May 19, 2015 by vmg | 2 Comments

Vintage Makeup advice from the 1930s – My favorite decade bar none when it comes to vintage makeup and beauty. It was the era of Hollywood and the huge explosion in beauty consumerism. Despite the global depression, women chose to be colorful. Silver threads among the gold – and her delicate complexion is losing its wild-rose pink, becoming a little washed…

The Art of the EyeBrow – 1970s Beauty Tutorial

Posted on May 18, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Classic vintage 1970s eye brow makeup tips Tweezing – Contouring and Make-up, all the tricks from 1972 Before you start – you need a master plan! You must first decide the length and shape you want your brows to be. It’s important – very important, for your brows determine your whole facial expression. Thick heavy brows can give a girl…

Yardley 1970s Makeup Guide

Posted on April 16, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Free 1970s Vintage Makeup Guide with Lucy Angle- Click image to download ! Lovely pull-out of a Yardley 1970s makeup guide from Seventeen magazine circa 1971-2 – featuring one of the faces of the early 1970s – model Lucy Angle, who reminds me a lot of Susan Dey from The Partridge Family. This step by step guide for applying –…

Wow! 1940s Style Cream mascara

Posted on March 26, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Besame Cosmetics does it again – Once again our favourite vintage style makeup brand Besame Cosmetics come up with something unique for your purse and just look at this delicious new product – 1940s Cream mascara !! In classic 1940s tube packaging, the squeeze tube design will certainly raise eyebrows when you pull it out to apply. It is very…

The Italian White Lipstick Sensation 1959

Posted on March 18, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Make-up goes for White Lipstick 1959 White lipstick. Amid the rainbow of bright colors produced by the cosmetic industry at the tail of the 1950’s, the newest look in this year of 1959 is the chalk white lip color, and white eyeshadow! 1.The face on the left is made up in a usual way. 2.The face on the right shows…

100 Years of Beauty – Ebony and Ivory comparison

Posted on February 27, 2015 by vmg | 0 Comments

Side by Side Time lapse of 100 Years in makeup and Hairstyles – Following on the viral success of their first video 100 Years of Beauty in One Minute – Cut Video return with a second interpretation of a century of beauty styles – this time comparing dark and light skinned complexions. For my money the Marshay is the Empress…

The Magic of Eye Makeup – 1940s Beauty

Posted on February 16, 2015 by vmg | 1 Comments

Actress Risë Stevens with Eddie Senz – Being first lady of the Metropolitan Opera, a successful recording artist and star alongside Bing Crosby in Going My Way – Hollywood beautician Eddie Senz considers Risë Stevens to be one of America’s great beauties. Eddie makes pretty faces for other stars, potential stars, models, and many everyday women who seek his expert advice. he says…