From the Manual on Theory and Practice of Beauty Culture 1939: Powders 11. For what purposes are face powders used? Face powders are used to improve the appearance of the
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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