Beautiful vintage makeup and beauty guides for women from the 1920's to the 1960's. Explores the makeup eras of the 20th Century

Actress Maude Fealy,circa early 1900.

In the last year, I've become obsessed with an aesthetic that I like to call "Edwardian cyborg": futuristic sleekness coupled with windswept Gibson-girl glamour. This is the image that started it all: You've already seen this photo in an earlier post, wherein I experimented with theBalm's Nude 'tude palette. "Edwardian cyborg" was the name I gave to my (much inferior) interpretation of this look: glassy lips, touches of frost and metal on the eyes, unnaturally rosy cheeks, hair elaborately…

Reverse Tweezing: Making Those Brows Beautifully BOLD! I have lots of projects in various stages of “go” scattered throughout my apartment right now, but the sewing bug just refuses to …

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"......On Tuesday, July 30, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crows laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society......" NPR www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93059465&am... Okinawa_Soba has literally hundreds of original images of the descendants of slaves in America, as well as several showing actual slaves who were…

A guide to historically-accurate cosmetics for the 1910's. The guide covers powder, cream, rouge, lip color, and eye makeup with period primary sources and modern options to get the correct look.

Beauty secrets of the Edwardian era. Find out the skincare and makeup products women used, and the beauty trends of the era.