The Fashion Dos and Don’ts series from the 1940s produced this little 48 page booklet – Hats, Hairdo’s, Makeup. Fashion Dos and Dont’s was written as a fashion and beauty advice
I promised a few weeks ago that I’d share some of what was in the 1931 and 1946 American Hairdresser magazines I picked up at the Vintage Fashion Expo. I
It isn’t the easiest color to wear, but for Fall I am really into makeup with purple undertones. Violets, lavenders, plums… or even Ruby and Wine. There are lots of
“keep busy…and keep beautiful.” Doing “men’s work” in factories during WWII had an adverse effect on some women’s feminine self-image, but women still did their best to stick to their
My web designer has installed the button and Retro Makeup can now be purchased at VintageHairstyling.com. I will get the books from my printer by the end of business Friday and
Here are, what I think, some simple hairstyles to try courtesy of the Golden Voice of China Zhou Xuan. A Chinese film movie star and singer, Xuan adopted her stage
Lena Horne was an amazing singer and stunning on screen. Audiences loved her. But she was limited on the roles she could play. Being African-American, she could only play lead
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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