80s make up

Today we are  looking at 80s make up

80s make up introduced bold and daring colours

The 80s make up  was a time  of bold and daring colours  which were a defining  element of an era that was very different from all the others before it in terms of expressing oneself and experimenting with fashion, hair & makeup.

The 1980s produces a distinct and powerful look.

Eighties makeup featured dramatic eyes, heavy foundation and powder and an even heavier blush contouring of the face. Women wore either bright, rainbow colour clashes  in their eye makeup or  really dark shades, which were used for dramatic eyeliner looks or smoky eyes. Lips came in bright glossy pinks, reds and oranges.

Idols such as Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Harry, Grace Jones or Boy George setting the trends,gone was the glow of the 70s era.  The women of the 80s used full coverage foundation that was one or two shades lighter than their natural skin tone and set everything with powder. This often lead to a very unnatural, heavy look that is now out of date.

One of the most recognizable aspects of the 80s makeup has to be the blusher. It was used as a contouring product, it was applied angular, to the hollows of the cheeks all the way to the temples and even brushed gently on the arches,. The 80s  colours were bright pinks, bronze, coral or red blush , without blending out the edges.

Eyebrows were left natural and not emphasized at all unlike today.

The 80s saw contrast and chromatic clashes  in colour were extremely popular,men and   women often used  strong, saturated colours for their eye makeup. We even saw people drawing on beauty marks to copy their idols such as Cindy Crawford.

So as you can see  80s make up was full of colour but did this last into the 90′s, we will see tomorrow.

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Make up of the 70′s

1960′s make trickled into Make up of the 70′s

Make up of the 70′s was all about glam

With tighter clothing, bigger hair and vibrant Make up of the 70′s roared with glamour,the 1970’s invoke images of John Travolta, hit dance moves and lots and lots of sparkle.  After the rebellious 60’s, people were ready for glittery fashion and glossy faces.

Women coordinated their daytime makeup with their outfit. for instance, they’d accessorize a brown granny dress with brown shadow and matching mascara and perhaps a light red lipstick.

But in contrast to some of the very boring daytime look, came the disco look! disco beauty trends stomped on simple and demure, and instead splashed on the shine, colour and maximum glamour. Disco divas piled on black mascara, shimmery eye shadow and white eyeliner, not unlike today.

Women with blond hair with blue eyes would often wear frosty white or blue eye shadow,  while women with olive skin tones and brown or green eyes, however, picked earth tones, instead.

blusher returned  to the beauty scene in the 70′s, but colours remained pastel and pale, women used baby pink to match frosty white or blue eye shadow, and  those  with olive skin tones applied shades of peach.The tan trend from the 60’s trickled down to the 70’s and like !8th century where pale skin was considered healthy by the  70′s tan skin was even though warning of skin cancer from too much sun most people still ignored it. many continued to apply baby oil.  The 1970′s saw the concept of the Sun Protection Factor (SPF) replaced the rudimentary sunscreens of the late 60′s, as well as Self-tanning  creams,  but their tendency to turn the skin a bright orange turned many people  off.

This concludes our look at  Make up of the 70′s and next time we will move to 1980′s

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Make up in the 1960s

Today we are looking at Make up in the 1960s

Here are some Make up in the 1960s trends

Everything was changing when it came to Make up in the 1960s.

Makeup looks were at both ends of the scale, from the natural hippie look  to the dramatic black and white eyes of mod to high-fashion, with pastel colours making their mark. 

The love for bold geometric patterns and black and white spilled over into the white eye shadow and black crease look, as exemplified by 1960s model Twiggy on the cover of many magazines.

Later in the 1960s, the hippie counter culture made its mark with a taste for more natural faces and products, though face and body painting, synonymous with the “flower power” movement, was very colourful.

Long and thick upper and lower lashes were the trend. False lashes were used on the top and the bottom lashes were drawn on but sometimes falsies were used on the bottom as well. White eyeliner was used on the water line and black liquid liner was used on the top. The top liner was usually thick and winged out. White eye shadow was used on the eye lids. Dark brown eye shadow was drawn out above the crease and winged out matching the eye liner. Pale lips were created by applying either pale pink lipstick or foundation to the lips.

Mary Quant launched a cosmetics range in the late 1960s. Quant’s makeup was specifically designed for their young mini-skirt wearing customers, taking them away from the cosmetic products worn by their parents.  If you find Mary Quant make up today and it’s unused it would be worth a pretty penny.

We still see a lot of the Make up in the 1960s used today.

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1950s make up

Lets take a look at 1950s make up

As we move through the ages onto 1950s make up

Make up through the ages is today taking us to 1950s make up, so think  Audrey Hepburn.

In the 1950′s, not much had changed from the decade before. Brown eye shadow was used to create a cat eye look. Red lipstick in different shades were used at the same time to achieve perfect full lips.

However  their make-up looks defined the era, and it was without doubt the age of glamour. Beauty salons and powder rooms became hallowed sanctuaries for glamorous women.  There were many iconic Hollywood stars including Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly that set the glamour during the 1950s.

Pastels ruled in this decade, pale pinks, greens, blues and yellows, and if ever there was a colour that showcased an era, it was the colour pink for the 1950s. Peaches and cream and pink were widely used in feminine decor, dress and make-up rouge.

Advise was given to women on what make-up to wear, for what times of the day, and with which costumes. The art was known as Colour Keying  which does not happen these days unless you work with video editors.

Every day would begin with a foundation base, giving a mask like complexion to act as a blank canvas.The look would be completed with peachy or flesh coloured powder.  It was common now to extend the natural border of your mouth with liner, making girls look more feminine with pinks and reds.  Eyes were kept minimal, with little eyeshadow applied but mascara on the other-hand was everyone’s favorite little accessory then a soft but definite liner was applied along the upper lash line and softly swept out in an arch, opening up the eyes.   Rosy and pastel hues of rouge applied to the apple of the cheek finished off the look.

So there we have it, the glamour of the 1950s make up.

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Make up in the 1940s

Today we move onto Make up in the 1940s 

So lets have a look at Make up in the 1940s

We have covered the 1920s and 1930s so now its time to have a look at Make up in the 1940s.

The effortless elegance of the 1940s remains an extremely popular style, classic and simple.  In the 1940′s, women started to match their foundation to their skin tone.  Eyebrows were kept natural and filled in with subtle eyeshadow. Red lipstick was a favorite,  it was applied onto the natural lip line on the bottom lip but  went slightly above the natural lip line on the top to give the appearance of fuller lips. Contouring became popular to make noses appear smaller and cheek bones higher. Eyeliner was winged outward to give the “cat eye” look.

Half-moon manicures were extremely popular during the 1940s. The war caused a shortage of many beauty essentials’ availability to be imported, so in order to make nail polish last longer, ladies left the wick of their nails bare. This meant it was less noticeable that the nail was growing, and therefore required less maintenance.  This look is still extremely popular, with modern pin-up beauty Dita von Teese favoring the half-moon manicure.

As women started to take over many of the male jobs due to the second world war it was popular for make up to be fuss-free, compacts were popular because of this and the 1940s saw the first powder compacts and ‘cake mascara’ compacts. As lipsticks were often matte, ladies often added Vaseline to their lipstick application to achieve the lustrous shiny lips of the on-screen sirens of the decade, such as actress Rita Hayworth.

There’s we have it a bit of an insight into Make up in the 1940s and what still is a popular look today.

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