Colors and Lines: Makeup of the 1960s
I think I am going to do my makeup like this to go out dancing tonight. I just wish I had the white nail polish to go with. I wonder if I have some white out in my desk somewhere. This is Wilhelmina Cooper. And
I think I am going to do my makeup like this to go out dancing tonight. I just wish I had the white nail polish to go with. I wonder if I have some white out in my desk somewhere. This is Wilhelmina Cooper. And
This beautiful woman’s name is Aliza Gur and she did some acting in the 1960s, including the Bond film From Russia with Love. She was also 1960 Miss Isreal, her home country. She was 1st runner up in the Miss Universe pageant of the same
This is a great photo of Nancy Walters. She was an actress in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I love her eye makeup in this and the jeweled headpiece on the front of her beehive bouffant. But those nails! Those nails remind me of
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 images where the curve of the real upper lip ends and bends into the skin
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 you a piece of makeup history that hasn’t really changed much over the last 60
This is a wonderful, brief glimpse into the makeup case of a movie makeup artist in the 40’s. The image is from a sequence in the 1944 classic Covergirl starring Rita Hayworth. The scene involves Hayworth’s character being “made up” for a photo-shoot by makeup
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