The History of Beauty from the Victorian era to the 70's

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Due to my new obsession with the 40's I spent the morning looking for pictures of this era, and eventually found something absolutely amazing and interresting!

The make-up artist Lisa Eldridge made two videos about cosmetics and the history of make-up from the Victorian era to the 70ies. These include her interviewing Madeleine Marsh, author of the book "The history of Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty From Victorian Times to the Present Day." and owner of an absolutely amazing collection of vintage compacts and cosmetic gadgets!

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Part 1: Beauty from theVictorian era to the 1930's

 

note: I see Madeleine Marsh would agree with my post about compensating things with making yourself feel pretty, as she talks about "that lipstick that would make you feel better and could maybe help you get a job";)

Part2: Beauty from the 1940's to the 1970's

I could spend hours looking around in this room with all this cute little compacts and gadgets!! 

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This is Madeleine Marsh's book:

 

amazon.co.uk

 I want a copy!! Though it's terribly unfair that amazon-Germany sells it for almost the double of price than amazon-UK! I should think about importing it, hehe

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And here's a last video of Lisa Eldridge showing more cute vintage compacts and make-up:

 

   

How cute is that?!