
The Pretty 1940s Max Factor Makeup Boxes from the Color Harmony Sets
A Pretty Surprise in an eBay Search The other day, after clicking through some eBay vintage beauty tool listings, something stopped me in my tracks. A small plastic makeup box

A Pretty Surprise in an eBay Search The other day, after clicking through some eBay vintage beauty tool listings, something stopped me in my tracks. A small plastic makeup box

Step into the beauty parlor of the past …if you dare. 👻 Halloween is the perfect time to look back at the strange and sometimes frightening routines women once endured

Summer is still here, even if store shelves are already sprouting Halloween decorations. And I’m finally going on a much needed beach vacation. But you wouldn’t be able to tell

This rare beauty book, called Make-Up & Live!, is your guide to makeup and other beauty lesson of the 1930s and 1940s. With its stunning images of dazzling era models

Beauty magazines love to talk about beauty trends for the season. It’s been the same for many decades. Just look at this 1940s Modern Beauty Shop. Today I am sharing

1940s Makeup rule #1: Wear it. Rule #2: Do not wear too much Welcome to Part 2 of the Vintage Makeup for Darker Skin Tones series exploring makeup during the 1940s, mostly

WWII and its effect on supply and general morale of everyday life led the 1940s woman to apply her makeup with a more natural, light touch. Serious times called for

Welcome to the first post in the Vintage Makeup for Darker Skin Tones series! Please read my disclaimer here to learn more about where this all came from and what this

Ways women wore false eyelashes in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s… I have seen what I would call an explosion in the use of false eyelashes by everyday

Fall! It’s here! The leaves are starting to change here in the Northern Hemisphere. That means Halloween is right around the corner. Then we get to eat gobs of Thanksgiving

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