1940s Makeup and Hair

Makeup

Equipment:
-Moisturiser
-Matte primer
-Foundation
-Buffing brush
-Light/medium brown for brows
-Small angled brush
-Concealer
-Lip brush
-Eye shadow primer
-Powder
-Medium brown eye shadow
-Fluffy brush
-Eye liner
-Mascara
-Duo lash glue
-Natural fake eye lashes
-Blush palette
-Blush brush
-Matte red lipstick

Step by step:

1. I first moisturised face and added a matte primer to the skin to prepare the skin for makeup application.

2. I applied foundation all over the face, to match her neck, with a buffing brush to make her skin look as flawless as possible. I made sure to blend this onto the ears, down the neck and into the hair line.

3. I next took some light brown eye shadow and a small angled brush and filled in her eye brows to give them a more prominent shape. I wanted them to look very defined to I cleaned the eyebrows up with concealer and a lip brush to make them sharp. 

4. I used an eye shadow primer all over her eye lids and under neath her eyes so that the eye shadow would last all day and I then set this with some powder.

5. I lightly added a medium brown eye shadow into the crease with a fluffy brush and on the outer third of the eye lid to give the eyes some definition. I didn’t add any eye shadow along the lower lash line. 

6. I added a very thin line of eye liner along the upper lash line and created a very small wing to give the eye a more feline shape. 

7. I added mascara to the top and bottom eye lashes, making the eye lashes look very feathery and light. 

8. I applied some natural looking fake eye lashes to the upper lash line using duo lash glue. 

9. I added some lighter highlight colour to the inner corners to make the eyes look more awake and open, as I felt the eyes looked slightly dull with out this. 

10. I applied some concealer under the eyes and on any other imperfections and blended that out with a fluffy concealer brush.

11. I powdered under the eyes and all over the face heavily to set the makeup and give a powdery look. 

12. I added some rosy blush to the apples of the cheeks only to give a doll-like look.

13. I finished the look off by adding a matte true red lip to the lips with a lip brush. 

Hair

Equipment:
-Tail comb
-Heated rollers
-Hair pins
-Hair grips
-Hair spray

Step by step:
1. Using a tail comb, create a centre parting.
2. Take two small sections either side of the parting, at the front of the head, and roller them away from the parting. Use white rollers for this.
3. After you have done four rollers on top of the head, do two white rollers going away from the face, horizontally. Secure all these rollers with hair pins.
4. Take a section behind the middle parting and roll the hair away from the face, using a red roller.
5. Do a brick work pattern all the way down the back of the head. Use the red rollers for about three rows and them blue for the bottom two of three rows.

6. Hair spray all over the head and wait for the rollers to cool and set.
7. Once the rollers have been left to set, take the rollers out and comb the front sections together, meaning comb the four white rollers on each side of the parting together.
8. Comb these sections round your hand and twist them up and backwards until you create a cone shape on each side. The shape you are trying to achieve it shown below. Secure these cone shapes discretely with hair grips the same colour as the hair.
9. Comb the back section through and round your hand to curl the ends under. Smooth and shape the hair to how you want.

Final look

I am really happy with how the makeup came out because it is very simple, but how the red lips and eye liner give it a very glamour and sexy look. I really like how defined the eye brows look because they look very clean and sharp. I did the look with and without the inner corner highlight and, altho I know if isn't accurate of that era, I thought the inner corner highlight really opened up the eyes to make them look brighter so I decided to modernise the look slightly with this added element. I like how natural the eye lashes look, but also how they are slightly longer on the sides to help give the eye a more elongated, feline shape. I think the blush on her right cheek looks a lot more even and soft that the blush on the left cheek, which looks slightly blotchy, and I think that's because I added it more gradually which made it easier to blend out. To improve the look, I would have brought the foundation colour further down the neck to cover and discolouration. I would also powder slightly more around the nose because the camera flash makes her look slightly oily around there, which is not the matte look that was popular in the 1940s. I really like the very true red colour on her lips and how evenly it is applied, giving a very clean finish. I am happy and confident with how I applied the rollers into the hair; however I had trouble shaped the hair into even cones on either side of the head. I found it difficult to manipulate the hair to look the same on both sides because of the way the hair grew and because of how the hair was twisting. I need to practice this technique further if I want to use it in a look in the future. I also need to work on my finishing touches, for example, smoothing fly aways.