Vintage Makeup Styles To Try – Welcome to the second part of the Dark Skin Retro Makeup series, exploring makeup from the 1940s, primarily during World War II. In Part 1 of a series blogging about the 1940s, I covered the impact of war on women’s everyday makeup. Here I introduce the colors and applications of cosmetics. To learn more about this series, please read my disclaimer.

In the 1940s, wearing heavy makeup was taboo. There’s a fine line between being too vain and being too self-indulgent. Allied governments, including the United States and Britain, were sincerely concerned that the domestic pressures the war put on women would affect their personal grooming habits, damaging everyone’s morale. Propaganda during World War II often reminded women that beauty was in the interests of the war effort.

Vintage Makeup Styles To Try

Side note: Hitler actually tried to ban cosmetics in Germany as … Read the rest