The 1940's Makeup and Beauty Guide

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1940's Makeup and Beauty guides.

Want to be a 1940's bombshell beauty ? Then this fabulous and beautifully restored 1940s make-up and beauty book by famous Hollywood make-up artists, is the answer. No better way to achieve the 1940s pin-up girl look of this glamorous decade, than to learn from the masters.



Beautiful and inspiring.
Restored and colourfully illustrated, learn the art of 1940s pin-up makeup as taught by the famous Westmore Brothers. The defined make-up and beauty style of the war years was a no holds barred luscious mouth, prominent eyebrows and glorious long hair, often tied up in the now famous war-time up-dos, but there are many trade secrets that women of that era learned that are not commonly known today.

The magic word in the 1940s was glamour, and women strenuously sought after it. This detailed book is a goldmine of information and you'll feel like a graduate in 1940s beauty culture when you've finished reading it.

What is Beauty ? What is Glamour ?
Pin up girl makeup styles
1940s style tips
Make-up and glamour for your skin type.
How to restore beauty.
1940s eye makeup tips.
Do’s and Don’t s for your face shape
Correct hairstyles for your face type
Correct Make-up for your eyes, nose and lips
The correct way to apply make-up
Glasses versus Glamour !

and so much more !

Natural 1940s beauty explained, 1940's Glamour defined, 1940s Glamour as a style of thought !
How to look younger in just one hour ! How to have the perfect skin, before applying the perfect 1940s make-up look - it's all in this bumper book of 1940s beauty wisdom.
Make-up and Beauty - A 1940s guide is a treat for any true 1940s style enthusiast and a treasure trove of ideas. A real trip back in time to a glamorous era. Treat yourself or your best girlfriend.
You can also get the Vintage Make-up Guide Bundle, which includes all 1920's, 1930s, 1940's and 1950's guides. A real bargain!

Vintage Geisha Girls - 1930's Fashion film in color

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Vintage 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 only applied to Maikos, and when she became a mature geisha, she was not expected to wear as much, as she was now considered beautiful in her maturity.

The art of geisha makeup.

Ignoring the fad of instant geisha makeup videos on youtube, which followed the successful Memoirs of a Geisha film it is interesting to learn what a real Geisha had to endure in order to achieve the look. The application of geisha makeup is a long endurance test, very time consuming. First up is a special oil, melted in the hand and applied to the chest, neck,face and nape.This helps the white foundation to adhere. In the early days, many of the pastes contained lead and must have been poisonous to the young women, but modern geisha do not have this to worry about.

The method

White powder was mixed in water to a paste and brushed on. Once fully applied,and sponged down, the eyes are painted red and black. The red color was more dominant in the Maiko [ student geisha ] and disappears when she has become a full Geisha. Finally the lips are painted with a small brush, the original red was from sallflower. Sugar is dusted over top for a glistening effect. The lip is only partly covered in a manner that reminds me of the 1920's flapper cupid bow style. Again, the small lip effect was only for younger geisha, and eventually she will paint her full lips.

Vintage Geisha Makeup tutorial



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Vintage Inspired Compact Mirrors - Besame Cosmetics

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Vintage Style Compact Mirrors
Gabriela of Besame Cosmetics has added another little treat to her makeup bag of glamour goodies.
Handmade petite pocket mirrors for that on the go face touch up.
You get it delivered in a beautiful gold gift card with a choice of six different designs. A cute gift for your loved one.
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The Helena Rubinstein 1940's Makeup Guide

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The Helena Rubinstein 1940's Makeup Guide

1940's Makeup for Blonde hair

For blonde hair, Shades of fuschia and gold colors. And for the soft spoken effect. depend upon the discreet muted blue greens

1940's Makeup guide for Medium Brown Hair

Your very own colors with medium brown hair are glorious sunset shades. Your most arresting colors are the glamourous reddish- orchid hues. Your day-in, day out favourites - gentle blues.

1940's Makeup tips for Redheads

Redheads most personal colors are the tints, glints, shades of your hair - from apple blossom pink to warm rose. Your most effective tones are the exciting purplish blues. For the color you just feel is yours - the spirited greenish blues. Your most delicately beautiful hues - the complacent Chinese Greens.

1940's Makeup for Brunettes

For brunettes, your own vibrant coloring makes the enchanting american beauty hues your most harmonious shades. Your electrifying colors are the dramatic life blues. Your easiest tones are the cool tropical greens. For a quiet, reposed effect - burnished gold - the color becomes the the background.You are the exclamation point !

1940's Makeup styles for Silver Grey hair

Your own colors are the natural highlights you see in your lovely silver hair - soft purples and mauves. Create your most dramatic effects in rich Cardinal reds. You'll be wonderfully at home in soft pistaccio greens. Create an interesting effect with the clever use of muted aqua - the soft spoken color is of amazing impact.

For the definitive breakdown on 1940's makeup styles, see the Vintage Makeup Guide

The 1940s Make-up & Beauty Guide - Instant Download

Shiseido - The 1930's Japanese Beauty Culture

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Memoirs of a Geisha Girl reminded the world of just how steeped in the beauty culture Japanese women have been since ancient times.Like Max Factor in the USA, in Japan, there is one name that has come to be associated with glamour and that is Shiseido Cosmetics ! Their beauty products grace many large department stores like Macy’s, Nordstrom and Sephora at their cosmetic counters or online.

But how many folks know the glamourous history of this unique company? Following the lead of companys such as proctor and Gamble, Shiseido opened the Shiseido Parlour in Tokyo.

To gain loyalty among women, they marketed calendars, beauty manuals - like the one below, and seasonal promotional items like fans, compacts, and vanity cases.

Shiseido Beauty Manual - 1930's Makeup in Japan.

Shiseido Graph - 1930's Fashion and Beauty Magazine

Shiseido Beauty Products - 1930's

Shiseido Promotional products

Gennifer Weisenfeld , who is Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University in the US, has written a fascinating essay called Selling Shiseido hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of their Visualising Cultures educational scheme. It's a treat to read.

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a bargain bundle.1920's make-up styles, 1930's make-up looks, 1940's beauty styles and 1950's women's make-up and beauty styles.

What Makeup did women really wear in the 1940's ?

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What Makeup did women really wear in the 1940's ?
Gabriela Hernandez

Time for a short retrospective. One of the main cosmetic products pushed now is foundation. The obsession for a smooth skin, no matter what your age. Back in the 1940's, very few women wore foundation at all. Just lots of creamy coloured powder for that pale feminine look.

The three fundamental 1940's makeup beauty products to have in the old handbag was redder than red lipstick, and rouge,  which came in tiny little pots. Even eye makeup was not an essential ! But the pinups of the 1940's went  nowhere without standout black eyeliner and long long eyelashes. There was no blusher to speak of. So to be truly authentic, less is more ! Killer lipstick is all a girl really needs.In Cosmetic brands, Max Factor towered over most competition, with only Elisabeth Arden giving them a run for their money.

Like most vintage fashion fans, Besame Cosmetics founder Gabriela Hernandez drew huge inspiration from her own familys past.

"Besame came from my love of Artwork, my love of the history of  makeup,and of course the song Besame Mucho !  I remember when I was little and admiring my aunts, and my  grandmother and my mom.
They really didn't go out without doing their hair or putting on lipstick. Besame was inspired by the kind of products my Grandmother used to have like her lipstick and her rouge. We make reproductions of 1940's style cosmetic products. We have the bullet lipstick that was popular in the  1940's. The line symbolises the woman of that period."

The lipstick bullet got its name from it's resemblence to a bullet cartridge. Cosmetics were so military minded in the 1940's !

The 1940's was a pivotal time in makeup artistry. Starlet looks and femininity.The face was to be glamourous but natural ! Rosy red colours and pink undertones.Eyebrows were kept natural and not plucked out of existence as they had been back in the 1930's. If you are truly interested in learning vintage style makeup,one can't go wrong by looking up the history of makeup.
These early pioneers changed womens lives.
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1940's Fashion - Makeup Guide

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The defined style for makeup in the 1940's was glamour !

A full luscious mouth and more prominent eyebrows, getting away from the pencil thin look of the 1930's.Eye makeup was kept to the minimum with very little shadow.

Mascara was the main accessory.

Topped off with long hair,either let down or in a stylish Up-do.

The Big names in makeup were Max Factor | Helena Rubinstein | and Elizabeth Arden.

Before beginning, why not take a look at our vintage makeup guide to the 1940's.

Also, a more detailed breakdown of all the do's and don't of face contouring and 1940's

hairstyles can ve found at 1940's makeup revisited, and if you're not totally exhausted, have

a read about the whole history of makeup.

 For a great Instant Download book try:
The Complete 1940s Make-up & Beauty Guide

1. 1940's makeup - Foundation

Usually a slightly darker tone to your natural color.

But if you're trying to recreate the 1940's look, just use your

normal foundation and get a flawless base to begin with.

2. 1940's Makeup - Face Powder

A light rose / pinkish tinted color

Rouge

Red with pink undertones,

Pink with fuchsia undertones .

Apply to the top of the cheekbone and brush towards the temples.

A trangle effect !

3. Eye makeup of the 1940's

Starting with full but well plucked eyebrows to give a pronounced arch!

Brush with a matte shadow in a colour near to your own and finish

with a touch of vaseline or petroleum jelly for that glistening Hollywood sheen.

Define the arch to a sharp point with a pencil.

Soft Cream base for the eyelids [ MAC makeup is just perfect to recreate the

classic 1940's eye].

Shadow the socket but but avoid the browbone.

Finish off with brown liquid eyeliner on the upper lid,sweeping up in an arch for that

glam effect and then oodles of Black mascara on the top lashes..

4. Vintage Lipstick Colours of the 1940's

The 1940s was the golden age for lip makeup.

and the emphasis was to create a larger fuller look.

The 1940's Lipstick colour Plan

The Mono Tone

Light Reds

Fuchsia

Pink Red

Orange Red

The Contrast Tone

Deep Red

Brick Red

Mahogany

Crimson

Cherry Red

 

5. Vintage Nail Polish Colours of the 1940's

Just about any colour goes - as long as it matched your clothing.

So you could apply Navy Blue / Green/Yellow/Black - an endless choice here.

Finally - Here's a peek at typical 1940's women daily hair and makeup regime

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