1960s
Lip colors & vintage lipsticks from the ’60s
Check out these vintage lipsticks from the ’60s that came in plum and peach colors, honey and mocha shades, sheer and creamy finishes.
Check out these vintage lipsticks from the ’60s that came in plum and peach colors, honey and mocha shades, sheer and creamy finishes.
Red, pink, gold & beyond – check out these fantastic vintage nail polish shades & styles from decades ago, and see how fingertips changed over the years!
Girls who grew up in the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s: Do you remember these little ‘Lip Lickers’ brand of lip glosses that came in metal slide-top tins?
Take a look back at dozens of vintage gift sets for women from the ’50s, ’60s & ’70s, filled with fancy fragrances, makeup, skincare products & more!
These gorgeous illustrations of vintage fairies and other fanciful creatures were featured in magazines during the 1920s.
109 colors of nail polish from 1981, from Super Platinum to Spunsugar Pink to Blackberry. The professional nail enamel you can use at home. Dries fast. Looks wet. Stubbornly resists chipping.
Get unforgettable ’50s eye makeup with these vintage beauty tips straight from the fifties! Find out the best ways to use eyeshadow, liner, mascara & more.
Here’s our collection of vintage Lip Smackers ads, featuring delish fruity flavors (like a drool-worthy watermelon!) and those of popular sodas, including Dr Pepper, Crush orange soda, Hires root beer and 7-Up.
To see where each shadow color should go for the different eye looks, just follow the diagrams.
The iconic Breck Girl shampoo ads were meant to look sweet & wholesome, and a few of the models went on to become famous actresses. Take a look!
What’s the history of Q-Tips – the little cotton swabs found all around the world? This big brand had a little baby-sized beginning. (Also find out their terrible former brand name.)
See more than two dozen examples of vintage makeup, showing the evolution of blue eyeshadow from the ’50s to the ’80s. As you will see, sometimes it works… and sometimes it really, really doesn’t.
Look back at these vintage Tinkerbell manicure kits and other beauty treats marketed to little girls back in the ’70s. Lots of memories here!
If you want that gorgeous, ingenue-like retro makeup style popular in the ’60s and ’70, here’s how to apply false eyelashes just like they did back then!
What was the retro pastel eye makeup look all about? Making the eyes look big and soft by creating a natural look with pale eyeshadow shades. See it here!
Here’s an interview with Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter from 1980, when she was just about to star in her own CBS special – and just before she started to model for Maybelline makeup.
Vintage Maybelline Kissing Potion, Kissing Slicks & Mini Kissing Stick – different ’80s lip glosses in mouthwatering flavors like strawberry and cherry.
See the kind of tips that millions of women used to get the beautiful and stylish 1920s eye makeup in the age of flappers, jazz clubs & speakeasies.
Choose from a scandalous array of makeup pencil colors, and don’t be surprised if you produce a masterpiece. Here are six different ways to get an authentic vintage ’70s look!
Start 1982 with a to-the-minute layer hairstyles like the ones shown here for short, medium, and long hair – plus four new makeup looks!
From the scrubbed to the sensational look, here are some expert makeup and beauty tips on how to do your own ’70s-style makeover!
Take a look back at these simple spring makeup tips from the 1940s, and find how to get that old-fashioned kind of beauty.
How to turn your angel into a tiger with Karo Syrup You can create a lot of fun faces this Halloween. It’s easy with Karo
Choose the style that suits your hair type — we’ll tell you how to make it work for you!
To most American women, lipstick is a form of clothing; without it, they feel undressed. In 1946 alone, American women spent an estimated $29,200,000 for 5000 tons of lipstick.
Colleen Moore face powder from the Owl Drug Co. The cosmetician, like the artist, dreams of his master creation. Darnee had given us Colleen Moore
These fantastic samples of eye makeup are the creations of Pablo, Elizabeth Arden’s makeup designer, and are done in a variety of techniques.
Winning new look When Kim Seelbrede, Miss USA 1981, asked us to give her a glamorous new look that would be easy to manage, versatile
A new age of cinema celebrities While fame itself was nothing new in the 1920s, the recent introduction of moving pictures had transformed the very
Photoplay’s own Beauty Shop Radio’s “Dr. Susan” (Eleanor Phelps) undertakes to remodel an “ugly duckling” — with results that will help you, too The
This highly-misunderstood process of applying make involves a lot more than just putting “a dab o’ powder” on your nose. Here, a top stage star from 1913 gives you her makeup secrets.
Clowns: Their makeup is an artistic expression of their own special traits When a tent full of circus lovers erupts with laughter at the sight
The petals of a red, red rose are first cut into the shape of a Cupid’s bow. With the aid of a lipstick, the rose petal lips are applied to the real lips.
10 fast pre-party beauty tips The guests are arriving imminently and you’re still arranging the flowers rather than yourself. Here are 10 instant face-saving beauty
Wife preservers The telephone can be a wife’s best friend. Helps her get everything done! Saves her wrinkles. Saves her time. Saves her budget, too.
Paas Make-Up Kits put smiles and safety into Halloween PAAS MAKE-UP CAN’T BLOCK VISION LIKE SOME MASKS Why are little clowns and parents wearing big smiles
Kissing Potion: New! Flavored roll-on lipgloss Shines up lips. Shines up lipstick. Outshines pot gloss and stick gloss by a smile. Rolls on a clean, sleek,
3 steps to sensational! When Donna Famularo, a secretary, told us she wanted a more sophisticated look, we saw what she needed: shorter hair, wavy
Stefanie Powers talks about her makeup: “It’s MoistureWear. And it’s gorgeous!” “There’s a promise in the name MoistureWear. And MoistureWear makeup keeps it — with
Great cut that won’t quit! Perfect for Judy Baer, an exercise instructor — or anyone who’s active. It holds its own all day, converts in
Great performance! That’s what Nancy Daniels, an actress, wanted in a hairstyle — she races to and from auditions, acting classes, and temporary office jobs
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