British War Time Christmas Beauty Tips for Women in 1941

 British War Time Christmas Beauty Tips for Women in 1941 A touching and a unique record taken from the 1940’s British fashion periodical Good Taste – Dec 1941. The writer envisions various date scenarios and dishes out advice on the appropriate clothing, hairstyle and makeup to wear for these very special occasions with their soldiers …

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Besame Cosmetics – The Purr-fect Red Lipstick !

Today Gabriela Hernandez of Besame Cosmetics helps you find the perfect Red lipstick from their beautiful range of vintage inspired lipsticks. ” First let’s figure out if your skin tone is warm with yellow undertones or pink with cool undertones! Then pick a color to match your skin tone. For warmer tones – try Carmine, …

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1940s Fashion Film – Ladies Department

Out first ‘new’ archive film in a while – now on our vintage fashion channel over at Youtube. Buried in the back of a US government film on Archive.org we found these amazing images of women browsing in a ladies department store. the fashions are pure 1940s – probably 1946-7 and the detail is excellent. …

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1930s Style Make-up Application – Vintage guides to download

1930s Make-up Application Techniques – Original guides for download Two extremely rare 1930s beauty and makeup guides spanning from 1932 and 1938 , found in the famous Oxford vintage market in England. Lovingly restored for you to enjoy. Make-up by Virginia Vincent and The Art of 1930s Make-up by the great Max Factor. The makeup …

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1920s Style Make-up Application – Vintage guides to download

1920s Make-up Application Techniques – Original guide for download. A rare vintage 1920s beauty guide with instructions on the makeup application techniques of the flapper era. You’ll adore it. It’s a beautifully illustrated and restored e-book from an original beauty guide for women from 1925 by wealth socialite Marjorie Oelrichs.Packed with feminine advice for young …

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1940s Style Make-up Application

1940s Style Make-up Application  – Vintage guides to download Become the 1940s glamour pinup of your dreams! The famous Westmore’s were Hollywood beauty kings in their day and when they published their make-up secrets in magazines across the US – women eagerly scanned them to pick up the latest Hollywood trade secret! The classic 1940s …

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1950s Style Make-up Application

1950s Style Make-up Application – What is beauty, glamour and charm? This was a question that many women in the 1950s asked themselves. Make-up & Beauty – 1950s guides contains two entertaining and beautifully restored and illustrated make-up and beauty manuals from the early 1950s. As in the 1940s, the magic word was Glamour. Learn …

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1940s Christmas Fashion during the Blitz

1940s Christmas Fashion – Party Frocks for Dec 1941. First published in December 1941 issue of Good Taste Magazine United Kingdom ” It’s Christmas 1941 and Britain is at war. but that won’t stop women from going glamorous and feminine for the festive season. No bombing raids nor threats from Hitler shall stop us from …

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1930s Makeup Techniques – The Platinum Blonde Look.

1930s Makeup Techniques – The Platinum Blonde Look. Excerpt from Makeup & Beauty – 1930s Makeup guides The “platinum blonde” is an artificial blonde. She is the delicate type and her hair, through treatment, has a bluish white color that Hollywood stars have made famous. Dark brunettes, as well as ash blondes, have become light …

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Lady About Town – Vintage Style Winter Ensemble

Continuing our browse of Modcloths vintage style clothing for Christmas, let’s look at this lovely Winter ensemble of a Tundra style coat, worn with a Cossack hat, wine petunia heels and heart design tights. Plenty by Tracy Reese Turn to the Tundra Coat You’re busily piecing together film clips on your laptop when the captain …

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