Victorian ladies weren't supposed to be seen wearing makeup, but they could indeed find rouge recipes in ladies journals and get them from the local pharmacy/apothecary. One rouge that was in the Victorian era--and popular--was known as Pear's Liquid Bloom. It was also popular in the Regency. It's run was from the 1700s to the 1950s. It was basically Benetint. Powders were also common. A woman could tint her lashes with a mixture of ash, wax, and oil that she would make herself. but you couldn't make anything very obvious or you'd clearly be a tart. They also used blue powder or some kind of blue tint to draw fake veins on their skin to make it more translucent looking.
avrilfantasyrin oh yeah. there's been salves for ages to keep lips moisturized as well as tinted salves to give a tint. One common colorant was alkanet, which produces a nice reddish color, but carmine was also a common colorant, too. Carmine produces a very red-pink, rosy tint.
fatalrob0t ahah, I knew somehow they had to cheat :D, some people can't have rosy lips no matter how many water they drink, thank you so much for this information :D
avrilfantasyrin Not a problem. I'm one of those that just don't really have much color to my lips. If it was me back then, I'd be secretly making my rouge from those old recipes and hiding that stuff away where no one would see it.
fatalrob0t yeah like me too, my lips somehow ends up looking pale if I pack on lip balm but it's not for some and many girls, some fruits actually give your lips a tint of colour if you ate them, I think I would've done that XD
Now this is a true makeup artist. Admiration and respect for where women started, going back to the source of why we wear makeup. Yes it's fun to do a dramatic look for going out but it comes back to doing a bit of makeup to look a little prettier, like ourselves. Something so charming about wearing only a bit of powder and a red lipstick and having these little clever compacts to keep with us for touch ups. I wish cosmetics companies would sort of look back on this and do clever packaging like that. Thank you Lisa for your passion for this industry and for that great historian for sharing!!
Respond to this video... Thank you to everyone who has left such amazing comments here today. I have been out on a shoot all day and am just catching up with them all now. I'm so overwhelmed and happy! Its lovely to know that its not just me who is crazy about all this stuff. I had a truly inspiring day with Madeleine and her collection and its just fantastic to be able to share it with so many interested people. I think you are going to LOVE whats coming next! X
This was actually extremely interesting. I just can't believe she has the original Rimmel Mascara block I've only ever seen images.Cant wait for the next one 😄
Watched this over 5 times. I want more makeup history videos from you. Or more iconic ones like the Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe ones!! I love the little tidbits of history you sneak in there. Thanks so much! Love yah Lisa.
This is fascinating! I would love to go into her room and look at every little thing. Thank you for doing this! I grew up in the 50's and 60's so I remember makeup from my grandmother and great aunts. I remember buying lipstick for 10 cents at WoolWorth and Kress and using the Mabelline mascara in the red box. In high school it was dark eyeliner and Tangee orange lipstick (but we had to take it to school to apply it because dad said no makeup!!) and about that time the mascara started coming in the tubes. Much better than the box and brush. Grandmother wore Coty loose powder, no foundation, and red lipstick with a bit of blush that was the creamy type you put on with your finger. No eye makeup or mascara and brows were natural. I don't ever remember my mother wearing eye shadow or eyeliner. She wore powder and lipstick and used a #2 pencil for her eyebrows! I kept telling her she was going to get lead poisoning but she lived until she was 85 no lead poisoning. ;)
Product designers TODAY could greatly benefit from studying cosmetics packaging during the roaring twenties and noir thirties. Those packages and containers were ingenious!
Well obviously. You wouldn't think there was anything wrong with you if you weren't constantly told there is. Women grow hair cause it's supposed to be there. But there's money to be made if they tell you you're gross the way you were created.
What a breathtaking look into our past. I'm so thankful you ladies have shared your knowledge with all of us. It's so intriguing to learn about women's life though the ages. Incredibly lovely!
I've seen Victorian gloves at antique fairs and wondered about how narrow they were. So women then did not necessarily have narrow hands. They just squeezed their hands into them.
this was absolutely BRILLIANT!!! if only they teach history like this... I feel like if she made a doco I would not only buy it but watching everyday for a bit of pick me up. i love it!!!! :D great video series lisa i'm really loving all of it!!
How about more Vintage clips... wouldnt we all want to see make up from the 30s.. or even Marlen's or Greta's make up routine... especially Vintage Movie Stars or the pioneers among them (surely some of them wore smth for the first time, smth bold at the time...).. this is Gorgeous material
I really enjoyed watching this video. I start to admire make-up and the inventions by Victorian women. Also, this smart lady who owns the shop, really lovely collection of hers, she is absolutely the inspiration for all women who love make-up.
I'm a boy and actually use makeup daily. I'm not trans or a drag queen. But I've worn it sense highschool and I do it just to enhance certain features and to make my skin look good. I don't wear liner or shadow or lipstick. I'll just wear a BB cream by Mac and always set with the "Coty Airspun powder". Then ill wear a bronzer/highlight but very light. A lot of people don't even notice. Sometimes at night I'll wear a brown mascara but I'll just do one swipe on my lashes and go over it with a clean mascara wand just to get the bulk of the mascara off. And ill just wear a lip balm on my lips. Anyway I know it's not the "normal" but I think guys could wear a light face if they want and if they use the right products and put it on right then it can really benefit a mans face without looking feminine or like Boy George. I'm 27 and still pass for 22. I don't think there should be a issue with guys wearing makeup. To be honest some men want to look fresh faced and flawless just as much as women and I wish it was more universal for guys to do so. I really liked your video and found it very informative!! :)
Oh my goodness, a museum of sorts in Madeleine Marsh's home! Also, a brilliant moment of truth: 7:10, followed up with Ms. Lisa's "and they're still doing it."
depends how rare the item is. Most of it isnt expensive at all. The most expensive single item I ever bought was £600 but it was extremely rare (only one or two left in the world) and very beautiful X
@kja1103 thank you for taking the time to comment here, it means a lot to me. I'm so happy you are enjoying my videos as much as I'm enjoying making them X
madelein marsh is amazing.. the way she says the story and carries us thru ages, its as tho she has witnessed it all.. amazing! n i actually wana see each piece n listen to her story :)
@peevishporcupine @Hoyhhh is right. This video is a journey and overview of womens lives and beauty routines from the Victorian era to the 1930's. So she starts with the victorians, then the Edwardians, on to post world war 1, then the 20's and finally the 30's x
I just saw both videos and I absolutely love this! Unlike most people my age, I collect vintage as well as antique items to decorate my home. I just love having these things around. Especially when you start to think of the stories behind them. I've seen a few different makeup products through my searches, and there are quite a few compacts that I would love to have! May have to invest in order to display in my bath & spare rooms! This is awesome!
Because of you I was inspired to actually care about my outer looks which eventually caused me to enhance my inner beauty and self confidence. Thank you for giving the feeling of female empowerment and I am so happy that I am wear both Victorian and 40's and 50's looks and thank you so much to enhance my historical knowledge but now I feel a lot more confident with the new knowledge I know. Just thank you so much!!! You are absolutely amazing! You have brought so much purpose in my life. Thanks!!!!
Argh! Perpetuating the myth that corsets were terribly constricting and painful. Nope! A properly fitted corset was close, but not painfully constricting. Really, think about all of the middle-class women and the housework and childcare- can't be done if you're completely bound up! The extreme corsets were for advertisements, actresses, and the very highest of high society women.
all women wore constricting corsets to get and maintain a "proper" waistline, and how women worked in tight corsets? they were expected to so they just did, no matter how painful it was or how hard it made things, because sadly, women were expected to torture themselves for beuty so men would like them.
A proper waistline and constricting are not the same thing. I've worn real corsets, and worked in them. As I said, if they are fitted correctly, they are not uncomfortable- on the contrary, I've found them to be supportive, and they encourage better posture. You need to look at some photos of real women from the era- not fashion plates, but ordinary women. You'll see that they did not have 16" waists like many say. And not all of them wore corsets, either. As to women torturing themselves, women today do much more of that- there's workplaces where women are required to wear heels and hose every day, heavy makeup, heavily styled hair. The idea that women in and before the Victorian era were abused by their clothing doesn't hold up.
I agree, I am a 40G and wear my corset for back issues and they are very comfortable..properly seasoned and fits snug ..like a long hug, lol..if its painful than they are doing it wrong
There are plenty of examples where organs have been preserved where you can literally see indentations from the ribs into kidneys and liver. The working woman would not have worn corsets quite as constricting as the upper-class woman, this is also natural because the upper-class woman will have a maid to help her tie the corset whereas the working woman at the best has her mother, sister or daughter to help. You'll for obvious reasons also find difference in quality and thus firmness depending on the class of the woman you're looking at. Furthermore it's impossible to compare modern day corsets to the victorian ones as we today are aware of ergonomics.
Could you provide us with references or links to such preserved organs? I've never heard of such a thing. And the corsets I'm referring to are extant pieces or replicas. Not fetish wear or modern waist-trainers.
I honestly cannot thank you enough for making this video and for filming and bringing to light your interest in the history of makeup. This is beyond fascinating and amazing for me. I studied history and I'm also a makeup artist so you just mashed up the best of both worlds for me. Love it! and I hope there's more soon!
The trick with putting on a corset by yourself--much like working with stays from the 1700s--is figuring out the lacing. Stays could be done from the front so they were much easier. Corsets were and are laced from the back. If you've got a door, then you have a tool to put it on yourself. Pretty sure there were plenty of women out here in the States that figured that much out on their own.
Not for nothing if drug store and other cosmetic companies start making refillable reusable compacts, we can go green and save money and plastic and waste and have something beautiful for years to come!!!
I keep coming back to this little series of videos because, I absolutely Love Madeleine! The antiques and love/knowledge of history... Her personality too! Omg, I feel like I could just sit with her for days, talking about different pieces, learning about antiques and talking about how or why it was manufactured. My house is decorated with antiques. It's a "hobby" I enjoy because, I feel like the pieces themselves hold the history and hold the stories. I swear, if I could do it all over again.. I would totally get into something like this a LOT more than I do now! lol
Thank You, Lisa, with all my heart. As a collector of very vintage perfumes, I could say - all those are so treasure! And so sad that nowadays even rich companies ended up with cheap plastic and simplest packagings with no idea and value.... We live in the era of simplification.
madeleine's style is AMAZING, wow! i defo have to buy her book :) lisa, this is such an amazing video.. i adore make up AND history, so it was right up my street! you are THE best youtuber :)
This is amazing! Understanding history helps us not only to avoid making the same mistakes (hopefully) but helps us to better understand why we are the way we are today excellent video, and thank you!!
brilliant - fabulous interview - wish regular tv in the US had shows like this instead of all the commercial rubbish and reality nonsense. entertainment and you learned something at the same time.
That dragonfly is gorgeous so is your make up can you please do a tutorial on it? Also would love to see Angelina Jolies Malificient make up tutorial but wearable!
I might seem a little too late to see these videos of yours about makeup history.. but I just wanna say that I love them! They are so informative and great. Thanks!
this is really fascinating and i love how everything comes together--how cosmetics and women and what's going on during the timeline connects. such a great thing to learn and understand because some of it we can still relate with today!!
You,my luvs are so blessed to have in the country yes I’m part British) I know,…… but was born in Canada…. Were we live now is a small city not those items to be found. I do believe that I was genetically blessed w good hair [ though though thin] and great skin ] you still over 45 years old cannot neglect what you have been given.❤❤
