Explore the classic Hollywood inspired makeup looks of the 1930s.
Actress Ann Sothern with some 1930s beauty tricks for your eyes and lips – Try these tricks, then decide how you want to wear your eyebrows and lip rouge this season. Experiment before plucking your brows; pencil on different shapes as the lovely Ann Sothern has. When you decide which fits your face best, pluck …
Compare your eyes to Hollywood’s most glamorous – Its 1933 and Photoplay has asked artist Willy Pogany to reveal the inner selves of several screen starlets just by looking at their eyes.”Your eyes are telling on you!” says Pogany ” Not only by their expression – but for their shape. This is often determined …
Never before told beauty secrets from Hollywood in 1934 – They’ve got to “keep young and beautiful” if they want to be stars – and here’s the way they do it. Dorothy Spensley reports for Glamourdaze. HOLLYWOOD is America’s Fountain of Youth – the place where men and women alike have discovered the secret to …
More Vintage Make-up History from Gabriela Hernandez – author of Classic Beauty – A 1938 Air Hostess has her make-up done Flying is not all a matter of machinery and weather reports, as would-be air hostesses for transcontinental airliners learn in their specialized training schools. Even lessons in “flight make-up” are a part of their …
Poets have praised them, artists have painted them, sculptors have modeled them – now learn the Hollywood beauty secrets that helped maintain the beautiful throats and neck lines of their most glamorous stars – Time traveling 1930s beauty correspondent Caroline Van Wycks reports from the Hollywood firmament in 1937. As far as Hollywood necks go, …
In a delightfully frank interview – Fay Wray shares her beauty secrets with Caroline Van Wycks – I shall always think of Fay Wray as very much of an individual. Just why, I’m not sure. Her dark auburn hair, her deep blue eyes and warm skin make her exceptionally lovely to look at, but while …
How to get the look of 1930’s Hollywoods first Zombie Girl – Madge Bellamy – The 1930s pre-code film White Zombie, co starring Bela Lugosi. Our friend Talia Felix – curator of the fabulous but sadly departed Gibson Girl Glamour blog kindly offered to recreate this classic early Hollywood makeup look of actress Madge Bellamy’s ‘zombie …
An updated post to Gabriela Hernandez’s 6 makeup tips for achieving the ideal 1930’s Hollywood face. Taken from her popular book Classic Beauty – The History of Makeup. So go Visit The 1930s Face – 6 Top Make-up tips by Gabriella Hernandez Drool over the glamorous range of vintage style cosmetics from Besame Cosmetics, also …
An exclusive 1933 beauty session – with Hollywood screen goddess Jean Harlow from our time traveling beauty consultant Carolyn Van Wycks. Sadly Ms Harlow died so very young just four years after this feature in 1937. This 1930s makeup session is rare. JEAN HARLOW is representative of an extreme, erotic type of beauty. Her platinum …
Carolyn Van Wycks Hollywood Beauty Shop – brings us the makeup and hair tricks of the stars – June 1932 – Hollywood Hair Tricks Marguerite Churchill is showing you how you may have those soft, feathery forehead curls at will and in just about two minutes time. For sports and tailored occasions this soft …