How to apply 1920's Makeup - Gloria Swanson

How to apply 1920's Makeup - Gloria Swanson

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Step 1

Find and apply a foundation in your skin tone that will give your complexion a creamy, perfect look. You may have to use an older variety, such as pancake, or a cream meant more for theater than for everyday use. To allow your skin to breathe, thin down cream foundation by moistening your sponge before dipping in the base. If your skin is naturally porcelain or alabaster-toned, play it up.
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Step 2

Darken and turn your eyebrows slightly downwards with an eyebrow pencil or even eyeliner that is darker than your actual brow color. Thin eyebrows were fashionable in the 20s, so this step works most accurately if your brows are already on the thin side. If not, you don't have to start tweezing away--you can cover your brows with a 1920s-style hat or with bangs chopped straight across as part of a bob cut.
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Step 3

Smooth on your usual eye makeup primer before applying a dark eyeshadow from lash line to crease. Pick a gray-based shadow to keep your eyes on the sooty side, which is what you're aiming for. Use a black kohl eyeliner on both top and bottom lash lines. Don't scrimp--you want all the dark tones to meld together. Color top and bottom lashes with blackest black mascara. You want them dark so as to appear like you used paint to blacken them. You may want to use a waterproof formulation for all of your eye makeup to avoid unwanted smudging as much as possible.
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Step 4

Find a cheek stain or cream blush with touches of red in it. You are going for a rouged look; if red is too strong for your coloring, raspberry or rose are alternatives. Rub blush into apples of cheeks. Blend away hard edges, but make sure the color is still evident, as though you just walked in from the cold.
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Step 5

Apply pale pancake foundation over clean and exfoliated lips. With a waxy dark red lip liner, create a 1920s mouth by exaggerating the cupid's bow on your top lip. Draw your lower lip as slightly plumper than it really is by extending slightly on the bottom. Draw both upper and bottom lips as shorter on the sides. Fill new lip shape in with pencil before layering matching lipstick over it.

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1930s Shoes - Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard wearing typical ladies shoe styles of the 1930s

Had an idea recently about collecting together images of Hollywood stars shoe styles
from the 1930s and 1940s.
This is the first - the lovely Carole Lombard who died so tragically young in a plane crash.
[ She was married to Clark Gable ]
And yes - these ARE carole Lombards legs and feet..

A variety of womens shoe styles were available in the 1930s; rounded toes with thick heels; pumps, flats, ankle straps with moderate heels; slip-ons, lace ups, buckled; spectator and two tones.
The new fad for outdoor activities brought sandals back into fashion. Black was most common for day shoes but wine, maroon, and navy were also seen. For evening plain court shoes were seen gadding about with asymmetrical trims, peep toes and sling back heels.

Greta Garbo next !
She was meant to have rather large feet, so it will be interesting if I can find any decent snaps !

Hollywood Glamour - The ideal female body shape

Hollywood Glamour - The ideal female body shape

Anita Page and the ' Ideal Screen Type ' 1928

Hollywood constantly measured the perfection of it's starlets beauty against ideal types.
The examples include the delectable Norma Talmadge /Pola Negri /Clara Bow / Gloria Swanson
/ Gilda gray / Aileen Pringle /Mary Pickford / and of course Garbo !

Vintage Beach Babes - 1940s swimwear footage

Fashion in the 1900's

1900's Fashion

I personally feel that that belle epoch period of 1890's to 1914 in fashion is unique. Those wonderful days when women wore morning dresses, afternoon dresses, evening gowns, formal dresses . of course it helped to have an army of servants running after you.
It was also the time when women began to wear suits with shirt waists and blouses !
The great artists of the period captured them so wonderfully.

Women's Fashion - 1940's swimwear in color

These wonderful color images of 1940's swimwear really evoke the glamour of that period.
Included is the infamous new bikini' !
You can find these in The Commons section of Flickr

1940's Swimwear plus the introduction of the Bikini !

1940's Swimwear

In 1946, the shocking introduction of the bikini threw the swimsuit fashion world into a new generation of swimsuit design. The original bikinis were quite modest and offered full coverage
Read more at Swimsuit style