Learning the Decades

For the past 3 weeks I've been learning make-up and hair for different decades: 1920s, 1930, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Even though I like some of them more than others, one of my goals is to have a photoshoot of all of the different decades, complete with costumes and accessories. As soon as my schedule clears up a bit to work on this, I will. In the meantime, I will post some pics of what I've done so far in class.

These pictures are of my classmate Alyssa. I did 1920s on her. This was the Depression Era, so the look is "sad china doll"

I glued her eyebrows down and covered them up with tattoo cover up, as 1920s eyebrows were specifically super thin and straight and drooped down. Lips are a "bee-stung" red.

For Alyssa's eyebrows, I went a bit more subtle with the sadness. Some 1920s make-up can be very theatrical with the eyebrows sooooo sad, especially in silent films. For her hair, instead of finger waves, since her hair is alrealy naturally curly, I just went with a simple bun.

When I do my own photoshoot for this decade, I will do a 1920s flapper girl. I have already sourced warbrobe, which includes flapper dress, feather boa, thigh-high fishnet stockings with stilettos, feathered headdress and a cigarette holder. I have been inspired as I had just finished watching Season 2 of True Blood on DVD. In one of the episodes, Bill has a flashback of his time with his maker, I forget her name, and it was 1920s. So the girls were all in 1920s garb, hair and make-up. Now I just have to find the time to do this.

For my next post, I will post pictures of 1960s Twiggy look with Big Beehive hair, and 1970s Disco Glam.