Vintage 1930s Makeup Guide – Face and Lips

Vintage Makeup Guides – our sister channel have just published a cute 1930s makeup tutorial assembled from an old Pathe newsreel. Complete with photos, learn how to perfect your face contour in 1930s style. Learn some tips on what type of V shape you need for your particular shape of mouth. All ‘jolly good fun ladies!’

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The 1930s Look – Step by step make-up tutorial

Just a heads up to our regular readers and any newbies of course – that Glamourdaze will be producing a ‘ How to’ make-up guide in the near future with detailed step by step instructions on how to achieve the beauty looks from the 1920s , 1930s makeup styles to the 1960s look of Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton . Unlike…

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Secrets of 1930s Make-up – Vintage Archive film.

Courtesy of Pathe’s Vintage Fashion channel. Until the late 1940s, all newsreels had to be voiced by a male voice-over. And if the subject was aimed at women, by a condescending male voice over ! Still – the film is charming and the vintage 1930s make-up styles of British ladies are great to look at. Making up is an art…

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Vintage 1930’s Beauty and Make-up Tutorials

Looking for an authentic vintage 1930’s make-up look ? Want to feel like a 1930s girl ? The these two extremely rare make-up guides spanning from the early to the late 1930’s might fill your Christmas stocking very nicely. Found in an Oxford garage sale and lovingly and beautifully restored; Make-up by Virginia Vincent and The Art of Make-up by…

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Vintage Geisha Girls – 1930’s Fashion film in color

Geisha Girls in 1930’s color fashion film This beautiful 1930s color fim shows three Japanese women in traditional geisha style. The history of the Geisha makeup The apprentice geisha are called Maiko, and in the film, an excerpt from James Fitzpatricks famous 1930s travelogues, we see an older geisha being attended to by her Okasans or sisters.The heavy makeup was…

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Shiseido – The 1930’s Japanese Beauty Culture

Shiseido – The History of the Japanese Beauty Culture Memoirs of a Geisha Girl reminded the world of just how steeped in the beauty culture Japanese women have been since ancient times. Lip rouging such as the Komachi Beni style had been around for centuries. Like Max Factor in the USA, in Japan, there is one name that has come…

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Vintage 1930’s Makeup & Skincare Guide

Daily Beauty Rituals 1937 1930’s Makeup and Skincare Guide with Constance Bennett. Produced for the Educational Films Corporation of America. Ms Bennett starts her day with a good bath, prepared of course by her attending house maid !! “Before starting off, one should start off with a clean slate as it were!” “Stimulation is the basis for a good skin…

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1930’s Makeup Revisited

1930’s Vintage Makeup Guide By and large the most fascinating period in women’s fashion.Beginning with the art deco style that spilled over from the late 1920’s. The feminine makeup look changed rapidly from the late 1920’s and in to the 1930’s. Gone was the coquettish girl of the late victorian era, to a more independent woman. The pale face look…

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Makeup History – The Makeup Look from 1910’s to 1950’s

1900 Makeup Look Makeup Look 1920’s Makeup Look 1930’s Makeup Look 1940s Makeup Look 1950’s The Vintage Make-up Guide . To get the genuine vintage looks and styles of 1920s make-up, 1930s make-up, 1940s make-up and the 1950s makeup  – visit Vintage Make-up Guides ! MAKE-UP TIMELINE – The Makeup Look from 1910’s to 1950’s Further to the last big…

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Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein

The Three Giants of Cosmetics During the early years of the 20th century, make-up became fashionable in the United States of America and Europe due to the huge influence of Ballet, Theatre and the Movie stars of Hollywood. Chief amongst the make-up wizards who helped develop cosmetics into a global mass market were Max Factor Sr, Elizabeth Arden, and Helena…

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