1920s makeup ads

Why did Tom Lyle choose Phyllis Haver as a Maybelline Model? Phyllis Haver was one of the magic names during the Silent Film era and an original Mack Sennett bathing beauty. The Sennett Bathing Beauties were pin-up girls for the doughboys during the First World War...... Phyllis Haver, starred in a series of top films and was known as the Nation's blond-darling during the teens and twenties of the twentieth century. "Her hair is a curly mass of golden corn silk. Her eyes are cerulean blue…

Concise illustrated history of 1920s Women's Makeup styles and cosmetics. Find out how the flapper look of the Roaring 1920's evolved.

Mascara Advertisement

1920s Maybelline ad - I had no idea that the flappers had mascara!! Those that know me know I don't want to be caught dead without mascara - what a relief to know if I had been born during the flapper era, I could still have had my eye makeup!

1920 Rigaud rouge advertisement in Lie de Vin (dark), Vermillion Poppy, Egyptian Poppy, Persian Blush, Rosebud, Indian Blush, Vermeil, Lie de Vin (medium), light Rouge, Intense Brunette and Deep Brunette shades. The line was named after the opera singer Mary Garden.

Edwardian makeup styles employed by women were beginning to refelct a gradual shift from a conservative era to a post Titanic era

Concise illustrated history of 1920s Women's Makeup styles and cosmetics. Find out how the flapper look of the Roaring 1920's evolved.

1930s Beauty Guides. Hollywood actresses Jean Harlow and Ruth Hall share their tips. Also a link to a fabulous 1930s Hollywood makeup booklet