Preen Cosmetics

Looking through some pictures of 1920’s makeup and you cna see why it was such a hit.

I love the feel and image that 1920’s makeup portrays.  The 1920’s were a time where women showed that they were liberated from the way they applied their makeup.  It showed that the flapper girls knew where they were going and what they were doing and they way they put on their lipstick and eyeshadow were true indicators that they knew exactly what they were doing with their 1920’s makeup style.

I love this look.  The 1920’s makup style has to be one of my favioutes and it’s easy to do as well.  I recently went to a costume party as a flapper girl and everyone commented on my 1920’s makeup, so here are five golden rules to get the classic 1920’s makup look.

1. Foundation.  Always start with a good base, Read more

My make-up storage at the moment is a complete mess.
Honestly, I’m such a hoarder that I have products all over the place.  At the moment I have a large wicker basket under a set of drawers that contains all of my stuff.
At first, I did have some kind of order: my hair products went in the basket, my make-up, separated into various application areas went into different compartments of the drawers and I even had a draw set aside for hair stuff.

Then I bought some more stuff. And some more stuff. Read more

I was just looking at some old 50’s adverts on the digital collections from Duke University Libraries, which is simply wonderful for looking and reading through old adverts (which are more like mini articles than the bits of strap lines you get today) and found this one from Helena Rubinstein.

I just love it.

I love the opening to the ad that says, “Glamorous vibrant colours are your natural birthright…” of course they are!  How did we forget that?

And this bit later on where it says, “for you – the exotic brunette!”

Mae West

Something I’ve been looking at lately, and if I’m honest, getting a little obsessed with, is the make-up used by the glamorous Hollywood stars of the 1930’s.

Mainly because they are so cool, and even though I know it took ages to achieve the look, the starlets of the time make it somehow look effortless.

At the close of the 1920’s there was a crash in the stock market and a huge financial crisis (sound familiar, anyone?) so the ladies changed their attitudes towards hair and make-up.

Up till then it had all been flapper girls and rebellious Read more