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1970’s Disco Queen Makeover in 14 Steps

Vintage Make-up Guide – 1978 – It’s easy to get your own 1970s disco queen look with this 1970s makeup tutorial, but before you start, you need to study your face to decide which features to de-emphasise and which to enhance. Should you be playing up your cheekbones or lips; reshaping a round face, square jaw? 1. Shape brows – tweezing from…

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Free Yardley 1970s makeup guide

A Free Yardley Crash Course in Make-up – 1972 Over on out sister site Vintage Makeup Guides, download a cute little 1970s makeup guide from wayy back in sunny 1972, the era of sheen and lip gloss, and shimmering eye shadows, David Essex or David Cassidy posters, Jackie magazine for British girls and the likes of Seventeen magazine for US girls,…

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Modernizing Vintage Hair and Makeup

Masterclass from top beauty magazine beauty stylists – It really is the ultimate ‘finishing school’ for wannabe hair and make-up artists. Founded by the internationally acclaimed Makeup Artist Dani Guinsberg, the school also boasts such luminaries as Julie Jacobs, Amanda Bell, Glenis Baptiste, Christopher Sweeney, Mariam Jensen, Guiseppe Bulzis and Katie Campbell, whose collective work can be seen gracing the…

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100 best Internet video tutorials – Vintage 1969 Makeup Film

Glamourdaze video featured in German top 100 tutorials – Late news – if it’s pleasant to hear – is still good news, and we only learned of Glamourdaze’s inclusion last July / August in a unique German exhibition of online video tutorials. Our popular 1969 makeup tutorial film was nominated. Below are some promotional shots of the exhibition and some…

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The Beauty Business of Helena Rubinstein in 1941

The Story of Helena Rubinstein

A Day in the Life of Helena Rubinstein – How a little girl from Krakow, helped build the 20th Century beauty industry and outsmarted Wall Street. Full of thoughts, Helena Rubinstein begins another day with a bath, followed by rubbing liquid powder over her body. She studies her face in the mirror before applying her makeup. From her wardrobe, she pulls…

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Max Factor MakeUp Masterclass – 1936 Film

Max Factor at work in studio – A rare vintage make up film from the golden age of Hollywood. The Hollywood make up genius Max Factor  gives a young model the Claudette Colbert look.

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Grace Kelly – Face with the Golden Ratio of Beauty

Rear Window movie close-up is “Perfect”- The Famous Close-up of Grace Kelly in Rear Window matches the Golden Ratio Mask. as invented by Stephen Marquardt. In other wards her features almost perfectly display the golden ratio of beauty – or 1.618:1 ( called Phi) for the nerds among us. And Miss Kelly had a slightly square face – not an oval one,…

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The Beauty Secrets of 1920s Parisian Women

Visit to Parisian Beauty Parlour in 1926 – Our time traveling beauty correspondent Doris Lee Ashley – reports for Glamourdaze from Paris in 1926. Original Color photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue. What is it about the beauty of French Women? Travel the world over and you will find none so clever as the French woman in the art of beauty and…

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Vintage Makeup Video Tutorial from 1969

Lavishly illustrated transcription of a rare 1960s makeup film – Many thanks to Skip Elsheimer of AV Geeks. Written and narrated by beauty consultant Marla Craig.   Beauty – the basic rules Women have used cosmetics as far back as recorded history can take us. By the beginning of the 20th Century, makeup became a way of life in many…

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1960’s Beauty Advice – Complexion

Illustrated transcription from a makeup video tutorial from 1969 – Thanks to Skip Elsheimer of AV Geeks for discovering and sharing the rare find. written and narrated by beauty consultant Marla Craig. See the video and check out the full lavishly illustrated transcription of the Vintage 1969 makeup Tutorial. 2- Complexion A beautiful complexion is one part makeup and nine…

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