1950s Beauty Secrets from the Decade That Gave Us Marilyn Monroe 

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Imagine having the money to go to the salon weekly on one income for the family. We are getting screwed, kids.

They really created LEGENDARY looks! I mean the 1980s were 40 years ago but even today when you think “vintage” you always think 1940-50s! 💜

In a lot of these movies women well into their sixties had model figures. I grew up listening to my mother describe her beauty hacks, dying legs, pencilling on seams, ironing hair with brown paper etc. She told me that she and her sisters would each buy one element of a smart outfit so that they would take it in turns to wear the complete outfit. Helped that they were all the same size but back then post war starvation helped a lot AND the lack of sugar in their diet. They used to dye kaki army blankets to make coats and when they could get hold of a parachute they made blouses and underwear.

My grandmother had blue face cream called "happy face". It was in a cute bottle. I was born in 1957. My grandparents lived only 2 houses away. It was great having 2 options for dinner! I adored Gramma. My dad was a lot like her. He was the best man I've ever known.

I was born in 1953, & loved seeing all the vintage makeup, hairdos, & clothes of that decade!! I always watch old movies, the actors & actresses were so glamorous & put together exquisitely, not like today. Love your videos, so interesting 💘

Every decade has notable fashion moments, but the mid 50's is just perfection. Dior's "New Look" was and still is my absolute favorite defined shape and clothing. I wish it would come back around instead of low rise jeans... Late Victorian and Edwardian outfits are also right up there for me. 😍 Thank you for another fun video. 😉

I remember Tame creme rinse to de-tangle after washing. There was no wet-brush invented yet. Regarding the hundred strokes of hair brushing, the beauty tip was to use a natural boar-bristle brush, which was gentle to your hair, not a nylon brush. To make your hair shiny, you would put a cut-off nylon stocking or pantyhose over the natural bristle brush and brush your hair. Aqua-Net hair spray was an essential. My grandmother used Coty Airspun face powder and it is still popular today. They don't sell it any longer, but Hazel Bishop lipstick lasted all day and was like the mood lipstick of its time. These videos bring back memories.

My life was forever changed once I started using Vaseline at night after washing my face and applying classic Olay lotion (the pink one). I have seen better results from these budget-friendly and classic products than from any high-end products!

I feel like the 1950s is really where the beauty industry as we know it today started off. Love the 1950s as a decade for fashion and beauty!! 😍

My mom is 89 and still gorgeous. I started doing her hair and her curled under short bob makes her look just like she did in college. She loves estee lauder has given her beautiful skin and her mother used ponds cold cream every night also had gorgeous skin.

Washing your face with the coldest water you can get is really refreshing in the summer months!

My aunts would have been teenagers in the 50s and they used to save rain water to rinse their hair in to keep it soft. I've tried it and it does work

Marilyn's hair was only "pillow case white" from the late fifties onwards. Prior to that it changed blonde shades regularly, particularly early in her career.

I've always washed my face with Dove soap and moisturized with Nivea creme at night. I always wear spf during the day and I look great for my age.

I like 1950 'style!!! Red lipstick, curly hair or balloon gown, summer shoes . It's very modern style. Products still exist today. I noticed that hair was always curly, never straight why? Hi Laura 🤗🤗

Legendary styles!! I have so much empathy and admiration for Marilyn Monroe. Truly a star gone too soon! Beautiful video Laura!

Marilyn wearing just a little Chanel to sleep at night - I love it!❤

Love the style of the 50s, 60s, 70s. I dont want to live in the 50s but the style is bam.

I remember we used Prell shampoo and I didn’t have to wash my hair often. It stayed clean for days with that shampoo.

I actually just started sleeping with curlers in my hair because I am trying to stay away from heat styling due to hair fall out from an illness and some nights are easier than others 😆 I’ve used a satin pillowcase for several years and I think that helps. If my pillowcase is in the laundry and it’s bedtime, I have a satin head wrap, like a shower cap, which definitely helps keep things in place. I’d recommend at least trying this because it does so much less damage to the hair than hot tools.

Things were booming. Wow!!!!! Thnx for a beautiful episode.

Hollywood is nothing today. Back then everything was so glamorous man I wish I could've lived during them days

I love learning about beauty trends from the past!!

i do the 100 strokes a day thing, and its works really well if you oil your hair, since it distributes the oils evenly from the scalp to the ends. if you don't use a hair oil tho, it can cause tearing and split ends.

I really enjoyed this video. I was born in 1950 and so many of the fashion styles are still my favorites; cigarette pants, pencil skirts, kind of think classic Audrey Hepburn. I always have a white button down. 😂 When I was about 14 those hard rollers were still around and doing my hair was a pain. Some nights I would sleep with my head on a wooden chair to make my style last. Oh brother. Thank you for the video 😊

I've always been curious about the quality, texture, and ease of application of the cosmetics of that era. I started using makeup when I was in middle school, so around the late 90s. And just in that time I feel like the quality of makeup and skincare has improved quite a lot. Of course, people like Marilyn Monroe could afford the very best, along with the experts to tell them what to use and how to use it.

I love it when you do these videos. Will the 1940's be next? I'd love that!

Love this!!!! You should continue this with the 60’s and 70’s!! 💖

I remember talking to a lovely old lady who was at my previous doctor's office, and she told me that she and her friends back in the 50s would dye their hair with Easter egg dye tablets! They wanted colorful hair and though it killed their hair to do it (ammonia and all) they just loved it!

Dry shampoo is just cornstarch, baby powder has the ingredients and it's much cheaper than dry shampoo

Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream is a great one

False eyelashes were more familiar than mascara, despite the fact tube existed. So homemade mascara was also the exception. Another common mascara was basically a palette with black compact and a portable brush that you wet and use.

The hair products I use were 99 cents until recently... now they're $1.25

Thank you so much for sharing it Laura I have wearing my 1950's vintage outfits and Marilyn Monroe Makeup Today

I was born in the late 60s and have such great memories of going through my mom's and step ~ grandmother's vintage things especially the makeup 💄❣️ I wish I'd kept it over the years for my daughters ya know..but ya awesome memories ‼️🥰

Thank you for another great vintage beauty video 😊💋💖

I love how in depth this hair skin and beauty video was! 👏

This video is so interresting and relaxing at the same time. REALLY well done! Lot's of LOVE! 💋

This video is as great and well researched! I especially loved the ASMR sound effects that when with the treatments you were describing

Favorite YT Channel! Its both very interesting and stress reducing. Thanks Laura!

I love your videos, something so soothing about them. And of course informative.

You always do such good videos. They are so much fun to watch. I also wash my hair once a week and use dry shampoo as well. It's a must!

Fantastic video I really enjoyed this! 💕

Very well done , really enjoyed this one ! 💄👓

Love this!!! Thank you!

I can't thank you enough for your content💖💖💖

Love it ~ Loved every second of this video ~ Thank you Lovely ~ Warmly and respectfully yours, ~ Jackie 💞🌟💯🌻🌷😊

My great great grandma used those mini grape juice cans as hair curlers, and she said she slept with them on. I'm was thinking ouch! But its neat to know what women did in those days.

Fantastic video!!! 🙏🌹

Love to listen to you speak💖 relaxing, interesting, thx so much!

I enjoyed this soooo much!!! Thank you! I’ve always wondered why women back then would say I can’t go out on Friday (or whatever day of the week it was) when they were trying to avoid doing something because they were “washing their hair” that day. It must’ve been a long process. Btw, my mom and grandmother always called it crème rinse too. I didn’t know they were two different things until this video. Very interesting.

Ponds cold crème is something I came to find out recently. It works better than mineral water.

I love to hear about history

Lovely and well researched video dear.🌹

Thank you so much,very informative and sweet

My mom called it "creme/cream rinse" too.

Several of these things I did as a child or teenager and I was born in 1974 lol 😆 😂 but i learned them from my mom who grew up in the 50s lol 🤣 I used curlers overnight when I wanted a real curly look (although they were soft curlers lol) and I used Noxema to wash my face and take off makeup lol I used baby powder after bathing, i laid out in the sun usiing baby oil lol 😆

It's hard to only wash your hair once per week if your doing outdoor work sweating in the Summer !

Well made video thank you

I love the 50s fashion and makeup. The look was so stylish. I love my 50s magazines. Thank uou for this vid.

I wash my hair once a week and it always looks great but back when I was convinced to wash it daily, it was always greasy and I had dandruff so I went back to my old routine. For years I cleansed with either baby lotion of cold cream then ice water dunking, then drying off then a thick layer of moisturiser ( anything ) then after an hour I took it off with a hot cloth and again a cold splash then a lighter cream if the day or heavier at night. I use Pears soap on my body or Savon de Marseilles ( I live in France ). I have always been fanatical about my elbows, knees and heels so I took extra care with them. I was ( and still am ) complimented on my good skin. I also don't drink or smoke which helps.

This makeup colouring suits you really well!

I’m just gonna say it, the women looked so elegant being so thin framed.

Thank you very much Nice video

My late mother loved Elizabeth arden products even though they were expensive.

I have used pond's cold cream since I was 13 years old. Plus I have used Chanel 5 since my husband bought it as a gift for me when we were first married. Plus I had really long hair and washed it every other day during winter and everyday in the summer. Never wore makeup since I am allergic and I get big blotches on my face.

I still do pin curls

Erin Parsons tries a lot of these old tricks on her channel. It's truly fascinating!

Today’s more natural look? Literally every beauty influencer (men and women alike) are using foundation, contour and lashes. Great video though. Youve really done your research here. Thank you!

My neighbor still wears rollers all the time 🙂

My mom and grandma always called it creme rinse too!😄

Girl. Those dolls. I'm obsessed.

So interesting. All these ladies were/are gorgeous!! 💕

The second picture you used of Marilyn in cat eye glasses is actually world famous Marilyn impersonator Jimmy James ... this picture gets mistaken for Monroe all the time ❤️

I grew up in Hawaii so my feet didn’t adjust to shoes and I now have what’s called luau feet. If I could water ski I wouldn’t need skies on my feet to surf the water 🤭

Angel face powder, the Best👍

I love the fashion of the fifties!!

I love this video! Going to put my little bar bells by my bed and try just lifting every morning get the blood flowing.

Does any one remember using beer to set pin curls with. My mom used flat beer and it worked well

I’m pretty certain my mom and grandma couldn’t afford any of the “beauty treatments “ back then.

TAME creme Rinse was great. I would use it today if i could find it.

When we went into stores we were dressed in the 50's. Today you see people dressed like they are going to bed or the beach or appear to wear underwear. So forget the makeup. I be happy if they dressed in decent clothes.

Although these styles/looks are very pretty and I appreciate them artistically, I totally get why a counter culture happened! It must have been SO very freeing once people finally broke out of all these rigid routines & rituals & went back to nature. Yay hippies! Lol

Marilyn seems to have gone back and forth from a very light strawberry blonde, light champagne blonde and more of an ashy platinum blonde.

Where did you find the article you are reading through most of this video? Do you have a collection of vintage magazines or did you find it online? Love this, great stuff

Pink Pink Pink 💗

What dry shampoo do you recommend?

The dolls in the background of your video, are so pretty- are they named something specific, as i'd love to find them x

Marilyn ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

NATURAL, SAYS WHO? I HAVE WORN LASHES FOR YEARS 😂 I read exactly what you are reading, I can't place where I read this ..... it's gonna drive me nuts!!!!! I JUST LOVE LUCY!!! SHE WAS JUST BEAUTIFUL 😍😍😍 IT WAS 100 STROKES FOR THE HAIR LOL ....NOT BRUSH IT 100 TIMES A DAY.😂 I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL BY THE WAY! I'VE WATCHED SINCE YOU LITERALLY HAD A COUPLE THOUSAND SUBS! YOU GO GIRL!!!!

Those hourglass figures were in part to Dior who brought back the hourglass silhouette and a very feminine look with full skirts and a defined waist. This was a definite change from the 1940s war era and the remnants of dress from that time.

Can I request a video about Nancy Kwan and her hair/ style/ makeup? Thank you!

Please make a video about Carolyn Kennedy!!

I don’t think it has to do with vintage, it’s generational wearing hair curlers. My Gram grew up in the 40’s and she and her sisters rolled their hair every night b4 bed and she did it with my hair and I’m in my 20’s of course I don’t wear hard curlers only soft lol

An ice bath sounds miserable haha

Can you do videos for the 60s to the 90s?

I only shampoo once a week, but I rinse and condition daily or every other day because I have dry coarse, curly hair. .

Hello - Actually she said two drops of Chanel No.5. One of our Miss South Africa's also stated this, but Marilyn in fact meant one under each ear. Thank you.

I loved this video even though it was packed full with information it was not for a second boring