What makeup color should you have worn in the 1930s?
Your recommended makeup color in the 1930s? Here’s a great chart! It comes out of a vintage beauty school manual I have in my prized collection of vintage beauty books
Your recommended makeup color in the 1930s? Here’s a great chart! It comes out of a vintage beauty school manual I have in my prized collection of vintage beauty books
Some of the most beautiful women of the mid-twentieth century wore their hair slicked in a middle part. I wish I had the right face to do this part. The
Hair color and style can make or break an actor’s career. Classic Hollywood movie stars were under a spotlight in more ways than one. Being the right look can catapult
I worked on another very fun bride this weekend. She wanted a vintage hairstyle, but wasn’t sure what or what time period. She was leaving it up to me. Love
This photo shows the thoughts that might go through my head if I had all my hair attached to electric rollers. It terrifies me! Hair is the most combustible part
Not every movie star shaped their lips this way, but this was a very popular lipstick style in the late 1930s and into the 1940s. You can tell in these
Here is my inspiration, a hairstyle on Jean Harlow. I like a silhouette with the curl fluff around the ears and I love the little bang flippy curls. But here
An entire essay could be written on the history of Max Factor, but I am not going to do it right now. Instead I would just like to share with
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