A new improved 4K restored version of Constance Bennett's lavish morning beauty routine - complete with attending house maid ! What's your daily beauty routine?
Thank you so much! Constance Bennett has been a favourite actress of mine for years thanks to Topper and Sin Takes a Holiday. I always loved this way of selling her products and it's amazing to see it in such clarity! So much detail is now viewable in the background too. What a wonderful video to share!
@@coffee-xg6my I was going to say the same: great job with the video restoration, but not the best choice of music. Either a 1930s-appropriate soundtrack or nothing would have been better. I understand the music is meant to create a relaxing morning mood, but for anyone who knows this era, it's very jarring paired with this video! 🤯I do, however, appreciate all the effort that went into this.
Ive taken to reading books from the 1800's - we have not changed very much at all, and people in the past knew way more than we credit them with - WE like to think we are special. We are not as special as we tell ourselves.
My grandma was a young mother in the 1930’s. My mom was born I 1933. Sadly my grandma died many years before I was born. I like watching videos from her time. It’s like I’m getting to know her. How she walked dressed and hair and makeup. Might sound weird but it’s all I have. Thank you not only for the video but your channel! I love it.
Those were amazing times. The women were so feminine and spoke softly. I love hearing stories from the woman or passed down from this time. That's so cool you're grandma lived in that time. I bet you have some amazing stories
Makeup is a sin for both sexes. Jewellery is a sin for both sexes. Piercings is a sin for both sexes. Trousers/pants and shorts is a sin for the female sex. Skirts and dresses/gowns is a sin for the male sex. Please, repent before it is too late.
She cleans her face with a cleansing cream, but left all her eye makeup and lipstick on. No, wait a second, she’s not wearing any makeup when she woke up. She’s meant to be born with all those colours in her face 😽❤️
Side note - My great aunt once told me that it was common for women to sleep in their makeup. She said many women did not even let their husbands see their natural face. They would wake up before their husbands to take a bath and redo their makeup before they woke up. Different times I suppose.
Funny thing is, by the early 1900’s after WW1, most people that could afford servants grew so close with those people, they regarded them as more than servants; many saw them as confidants, friends, and oftentimes even family.
Modern primer is usually made from silicone-based polymers so it's unlikely they had this back in the 1930s. Given the name, it's likely this "Glow Base" was just rebranded Vaseline...they were huge fans of petroleum jelly back then and marketed it for everything from automotive lube to laxatives.
I agree with you. While primers today we're not used back then because of different ingredients, she said in the video she uses Glow Base to give the skin a nice luminous look while also helping to keep makeup intact. Which is basically what we use primer for today.. So I got you!
@@pinkpineapple9663 It is a great IDEA! They had the idea a long time ago and maybe in the future there will be something superior to the primer we hae today
I love her final look with the blouse and suit, soft-looking hairdo, handbag and gloves. So elegant..but oh my goodness her screen presence simply blew me away! Is she charismatic or what? I would love to just emulate her whole energy here 💥
I think of this in context of those 1940s-50s videos of the teenage girls being taught about beauty at school: it was less about having explicitly good looks and more about having self-respect & the attendant effort of good grooming. It's like if you respect and take care of yourself the rest will fall into place naturally. I wish more people, women AND men, took this message to heart. It's kind of depressing to go out and see so many people who clearly do not give a fig about their appearance.
@@michellejacobsen331 I agree with you but.. I think it has only been recently that people think looking good in the sense of esthetics is a shallow thing. Never in the human history people thought that. Thats why people dressed nice going to church, or thats why churches was beautiful. Its very hard to separate the spiritual from esthetics. I see many people that fight to live in very beautiful houses but think its shallow to wear beautiful clothes.
Actors dont have to work hard like normal 9 to 5 people yet get they paid so much better,benefits of brothel I guess,i cant help but wonder how much casting couch she had to do to become an actress
Constance Bennett was a wonderful, sometimes comedic, actress. Loved her in the "Topper" movies with Cary Grant. Her sister Joan Bennett was even more famous. Loved her in the Dark Shawdows series later in her life.
they weren't that different, they wore day dresses or house dresses most of the day. Amphetamines to wake up and "mood-boost" were also commonly used from 1920 to 1970.
Constance Bennett is largely forgotten today, but in her day she was kind of like Geena Davis. She'd live another 27 years, and made a fortune out of cosmetics.
I don't think Geena Davis is an apt comparison. While I like Geena a lot, Constance was the highest paid actress of her day, and one of the most glamorous women of her era, yet her career faded quickly. She was a lot like Demi Moore.
Makeup is a sin for both sexes. Jewellery is a sin for both sexes. Piercings is a sin for both sexes. Trousers/pants and shorts is a sin for the female sex. Skirts and dresses/gowns is a sin for the male sex. Please, repent before it is too late.
She means 'a clean slate' after removing yesterday's makeup with the cleansing cream. Women slept in their makeup and only removed it the next morning to put on a fresh new layer.
💐💐RIP Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 - July 24, 1965) (aged 60) you will truly be missed and my prayers go out to you and your family. 💐💐
Does anyone know if this was for a commercial for a cosmetic brand? The references to all the creams and lotions seem specific to a company. I think she was the highest paid actress in the 30s. Someone must have paid her a small fortune to advertise, and I can't tell what for! On a side note, here's hoping they bring back Topper. Her and (the then unknown) Cary Grant were wonderful 🥰
Sometimes but I get up early because I hate hearing 'my alarm clock' drawing my morning 5 minute bath. Such a hassle! At least there's no fuzz on my mask cream.
I'm just wondering how in the world her makeup is staying intact after rubbing those creams all over her face, like that blush (or rouge in this case) did not move an inch omg
Who wakes up looking like that? Not even in my teens or 20’s did I wake up like that. Every stitch of makeup was removed and face cleaned before going to bed. Still is today and I have a very nice complexion
They had only just perfected the preservativens for the beauty products back then, so product going bad and mouldering was a big issue before. The reason Cold Creams were namned Cold was because they were the first beauty creme that didn't require cold storage to not go bad.
But why the original music is not in anymore ?? We had now this kinda western music behind! Unfortunately I prefer the un restored version because of the sound ! And because without this inappropriate music!
I am trying to determine what some of these products would translate to in modern times: What the heck would "stimulation cream" be? I guess the "complexion mask" would be basically the cream or sheet masks we use at night? I believe someone commented that "glow base" would be primer - that makes sense
I was wondering about this, too! I’m guessing stimulation cream would be something to get the blood circulating in the face, maybe like ice or using one of those facial rollers now? Glow cream might be some petroleum based product? They used Vaseline (and dark powder) for mascara and other makeup. In fact, the brand Maybelline is apparently a combination of the founder’s sister’s name (Maybel) and Vaseline. I’m fascinated with the makeup back then! Constance Bennet had her own cosmetics line and was likely advertising for that here. Love her!!!