Day: make up anni 30
Make up anni ’30
by Stefano on Feb.14, 2012, during Beauty, Events, Make Up
Despite the decade 1930-1939 devastated by the beginnings of the collapse on Wall Street (October 1929) and the Great Depression, sees the female protagonist of notable events, awards such as Jane Addams with a woman's first Nobel Peace, the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean alone by Amelia Earhart, the first participation in the U.S. government of a female presence (Frances Perkins); while cinema sees the birth of the first great female protagonists of talking pictures, femme fatale 'unreachable’ whose memory has come down to our days (think of Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich)
 (Greta Garbo, 1932) |
 (Jean Harlow, 1934) |
The make-up is partly inherited from previous year '20, in part reworked. The films that are used become more sensitive and are able to read well the light and shade, which in turn become important and studied ad hoc on the faces of actresses: ground and blush are no longer randomly applied on the cheeks, but find their technical function. During these years, unlike the previous decade, you can imagine the usefulness of chiaroscuro in the implementation of corrective makeup; and at the same time begins to spread to the sale of pancakes to the public (Max Factor, 1930) to become commonly used as a cosmetic.
The eyes, important, are framed with thin eyebrows and very high, in which the eyelid, sometimes slightly blurred, but always clear, takes up the domain.
The design maintains the round shape of the lips on the upper lip but the design is extended, covering from side to side throughout the mouth.
 (30s Makeup) |
 (30s Makeup) |
The realization of the '30s makeup
Starting from the base, I laid a fat bottom shades of ivory and light pink all over your face, on which I made all the gray, light on the nose, a little’ higher for the definition of the outline of the face and upper eyelid.
In the eye makeup I used a light color in the whole eyebrow, to make it look taller and round, and I decided on the line close to the lashes with a gradient line of eyeliner.
Even cheekbones were dug by chiaroscuro, and cheeks rosy colors in a gradient.
The mouth was drawn thin, with a rounded design on the upper lip, a dark red.
Features of the trick:
| Base: | Light-colored and pink, contouring and highligh made in a workmanlike. |
| Eyebrows: | Thin and high forehead, that leaves plenty of room on the upper eyelid that you can play with light light and shade of the eyelids fixed and mobile. |
| Cilia: | Bending the outer portion upwards with the mascara, without burdening. |
| Eyes: | Moderation is shaded on the upper eyelid (very high) that on the lower, to give depth to the eye. |
| Lips: | Remains the round of the lips typical of the '20s, but the design is stretched to the corner of the mouth. The color is dark red. |
| Hairstyle: | Hair behind, biondo Platino, curled with the iron (Jean Harlow stile) |
Hair characteristics:
| Platinum blonde and wavy | Jean Harlow (Platinum Blonde, 1931) |
| Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel, 1930) |
Actresses / actors of reference: |
Movie Title: |
| Jean Harlow | Dinner at Eight (Diner at eight), 1933 |
| Marlene Dietrich | The Blue Angel (The Blue Angel), 1930 |
| Carole Lombard | The Gay Bride, 1934 |
| Carole Lombard | The incomparable Godfrey (My man Godfrey), 1936 |
| Claudette Colbert | Mrs. Midnight (Midnight), 1939 |