1970s
Vintage Tinkerbell manicure set & other groovy retro ’70s beauty goodies for little girls
Look back at these vintage Tinkerbell manicure kits and other beauty treats marketed to little girls back in the ’70s. Lots of memories here!
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1960s
How to use false eyelashes to get a real big-eyed retro look: Vintage tips & examples
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!
1960s
How to create the pretty retro pastel eye makeup look they loved back in the ’60s & ’70s
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!
1980s
How to get awesome & authentic on-trend ’80s eye makeup, like multicolored eyeshadow
To see where each shadow color should go for the different eye looks, just follow the diagrams.
1980s
Actress Lynda Carter on leaving her Wonder Woman superhero image behind, and beginning new adventures in the ’80s
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.
1980s
Remember tasty vintage Maybelline Kissing Potion, Kissing Glosses & Kissing Slicks from the ’80s?
Vintage Maybelline Kissing Potion, Kissing Slicks & Mini Kissing Stick – different ’80s lip glosses in mouthwatering flavors like strawberry and cherry.
1960s
Blue eyeshadow: The good, the bad & the ugly vintage makeup
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.
1920s
How to get the kind of expressive, dramatic 1920s eye makeup style popular during the silent movie era
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.
1970s
Lip Smackers from Bonne Bell: The super trendy vintage lip balm from the ’70s & ’80s
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.
1960s
See some wild & crazy vintage looks with fashionably flamboyant eye makeup (1965)
Flamboyant designs open new worlds for makeup: Here’s art in your eye This is the year of the eye. The orb and its surroundings are
1970s
Vintage Lip Lickers flavored lip glosses (’70s & ’80s)
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?
1920s
Beautiful, fanciful vintage fairies: Fantasy & fairy art from the 1920s
Eva’s Visit to Fairy Land By Louisa May Alcott All Fairy-Land was dressed in flowers, and the soft wind went singing by, laden with their
1970s
How to use makeup crayons to get a vintage ’70s look (1974)
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!
1980s
How to get hot eighties hair & makeup (1982)
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!
1980s
109 colors of Revlon nail polish (1981)
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.
1970s
Get a ’70s makeover: Step-by-step guide to a new you (1978)
From the scrubbed to the sensational look, here are some expert makeup and beauty tips on how to do your own ’70s-style makeover!
1980s
Make homemade face paint with corn syrup (1986)
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
1980s
Get a prescription for the perfect haircut for you (1988)
Choose the style that suits your hair type — we’ll tell you how to make it work for you!
1940s
Lipsticks by the millions: How the makeup was made (1947)
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.
1920s
A silent star’s makeup: Colleen Moore face powder (1928-1929)
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
1980s
Miss USA 1981’s winning new look (1982)
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
1920s
120+ gorgeous, glamorous actresses of the 1920s
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
1930s
Beauty tips for an ugly duckling (1939)
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
1910s
Makeup secrets from actress Blanche Bates (1913)
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.
1940s
Clowns: Makeup an artistic expression (1949)
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
1950s
A real vintage guide to ’50s eye makeup, with tips from the pros
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.
1960s
4 new LipSlicks by Max Factor (1967)
4 new slick tricks: LipSlicks by Max Factor These are the tinted glosses that slick your lips. This is the brush of satin-y sable that
1950s
The ‘supermarket’ is the latest in modern convenience (1959)
The old-fashioned forerunner of this supermarket may have carried a little of everything available in its day, but it certainly never approximated its modern-day counterpart!
1970s
10 fast pre-party beauty tips (1972)
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
1960s
The telephone can be a wife’s best friend (1967)
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.
1980s
Putting a new face on Halloween: Paas makeup kit (1985)
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
Vintage advertisements
Cutex lipstick flips fashion on its ear (1967)
Can you recognize fashion when you see it? … or does our name get in the way? Cutex, actually Cutex, flips fashion on its
1970s
Young Kim Basinger for Maybelline Kissing Potion (1975)
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,
1960s
Makeup: The 12 ways of Christmas by Clairol (1966)
The 12 ways of Christmas by Clairol Now you can give any girl any gift here! (all you need to know is the color of
1980s
Donna’s makeover: Three steps to sensational (1982)
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
1980s
Stefanie Powers for Cover Girl (1982)
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
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