1950's

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I have to say I was very excited for last week's college class as the 50's is one of my favourite era's of makeup. I've always found it to be an relatively easy to achieve look that simultaneously always manages to look elegant. As part of our assessment in college, we had to choose two period looks (from the 20's to the 90's) to create two makeup looks, one from each era. I, of course, chose the 50's and also the 90's (I will do another post on this look). We do have a professional photographer who comes in to our class and takes pictures of our looks for us but since I won't receive his photos until the course is finished, I only have my own to post here.
So without futher ado, here is the look I came up with:


As I said, very simple but still very pretty (even if I do say so myself)


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As I'm sure everyone knows, the classic must-have to a 1950's makeup is the dramatic winged liner. False lashes usually always go hand-in-hand with this just to keep the dramatics going. I considered adding no colour to the eyelids (the eyeshadow wasn't ever really the main focus in the 50's) but instead settled on going for a very light dusting of Mac's 'Da Bling' eyeshadow. Eyebrows were strong and very arched in the 50's and women's faces were always full coverage and flawless in appearance, something I tried to recreate with this look. 
I chose to mix two lip colours together as my first choice (Mac Ruby Woo) was looking a little dry on my client's lips (am I the only one who thinks this is the world's driest lipstick?) so I added a topping of Clinique cherry pop just for my client's comfort more than anything else. 






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