1940s Make Up & Beauty

Last week I wrote about the 1930s look and posted some video tutorials. This week it's the 1940s!

Personally, I am a much bigger fan of this look, with more natural eyebrows and lips filled within the natural lines.

Key features of 1940s make up were:

• Foundation: matched to your natural colour - moving away from the pale look of the 30s.
• Cheeks: Rosy pink
• Brows: Well plucked but full, arched eyebrows - moving away from thin eyebrows of the 30s. Brush with matt eyebrow power, set well with either eyebrow wax or vaseline.
• Eyes: no eyeshadow or neutral cream base. Lots of mascara on top lashes only.
• Lips: Focus was on full lips, the top lip rounded (unlike 1930s make up). All colours reds, fuchsia - anything to impress. The 40s were the golden age of lipstick!

As I'm still not quite ready to do my own tutorials, I again went on a youtube hunt to illustrate what 1940s beauty and make up was all about:

No 1: Basic 1940s beauty routine

While very basic, I really love how these ladies put emphasis on looking after themselves.



2. And here is a more comtemporary version of 1940s make up - by the fabulous strawberrykoivintage:



Et voila! Now off you go and look after your eye brows and put on some pretty lipstick :)