How to: 1930's Make-Up

We are borrowing a few tips from the Glamour Daze website to bring you a 1930's make-up guide.  Please visit glamourdaze.com for a more detailed version, as well as many other fun vintage-style tutorials!  

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 1.Face powders: went for the ivory look.

2.Eye makeup of the 1930′s: A curious black line traced from the tear duct to the end of the eye, including a little upturned triangle effect! Upper Eyelashes were heavy with mascara or ‘Mascaro’ as it used to be called then!  Lower Eyelashes had little if no mascara.

Eyeshadow went from lash line to crease,blending upwards and outwards. Eye shades varied over blues, bright violets, greens, browns and orchid. Blondes loved blue, green or bright violet eyelid shades, while Brunettes went for purples and browns. In the evenings – brightly shimmering eyelid shadows from the upper eyelid up to the eyebrow, with dark eyeshadow in the crease of the upper lid, slightly smudged to create a deep set effect.

Eyebrows were plucked into virtual non existence with a fine taper line in its place, falling at the end.

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3.Lip makeup: were fine and thin and horizontal in shape. The upper lip might be made to look a little longer in the evenings, to create the ‘Rosebud look.’

4.Popular Nail Polish: included pale rose, light pink and cream shades,applied only in the center of nails with the half-moon and tips left bare.

full steam ahead dress

And of course, what better way to enhance that beautiful makeup than with the perfect posh, 1930's inspired dress?