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Vintage Dancer | 1920s Fashion | 1920s Makeup and Beauty History

1920s Makeup and Beauty History

1920s Fashion History

14 Oct 2013

Before the 20th century, “nice girls” did not wear makeup, which was commonly called “paint.” This differed from cosmetics, such as face creams and similar products that were intended to improve the skin, not mask it in the way that paint did. Even into the 1910s, what we would call makeup today was associated with prostitutes, dancing girls, and movie stars. It was the silver screen that made young women flock to the beauty section of their local department stores.

1920s makeup history

Asta Nielsen Applying Lipstick

At first, beauty products were not about changing one’s look but about enhancing natural beauty. Face creams, lotions and powders all helped even out skin tone. Getting a “facial” at a “beauty salon” was unheard of in 1917, but by 1929 the beautician industry had 18,000 beauty parlors in America. The industry of women’s beauty services had exploded.

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Article Outline

  • 1920s Makeup
    • Rouge / Blush
    • Face Powder
  • LipStick
    • Eye Shadow
    • Eye Brows
  • Nail Polish
  • How to Wear 1920s Makeup
  • Shop 1920s Makeup and Beauty Products

1920s Makeup

The number of beauty products and cosmetic lines exploded, too. Helen Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden worked with chemists to make some of the first sun blocks.  Since the sun tan and sun burn were in style, Arden turned her attention to creating powders that were tinted to help make a sun kissed glow. She also made liquid rouge, eye shadows, and lip sticks. Shade choices were minimal- light, flesh and tan.

A few other makeup brands of the 1920s were Djer-Kiss, Maybelline, Pompeian, Kiss Proof, Mary Garden, and Coty.  Additional brands only offered face powders such as Mavis, Lady Janis, Edna Wallace, Mello-quo, and Colgate.  These are American brands sold in common drugstores. The European and French market had different brands.

1920 Der Kiss beauty product line

1920 Djer-Kiss beauty product line

Despite the wide range of makeup brands by the end the 1920s, very few designed colors specifically for black and Latino women and almost none of them were sold in local shops. The Overton-Hygienic Co. made the high-brown line of face powders in 1916. Valmor Health Products Company started in 1926, made the Sweet Georgia Brown line of face powders and makeup. Madame CJ Walker, know for her care care, expanded to include face powders and rouge by the end of the decade.

1921 Overton High-brown face powder
1921 Overton High-brown face powder
Mdm CJ Walker's late 1920s beauty line
Mdm CJ Walker’s beauty line

These brands used direct sales (traveling sales persons, often women) and mail order catalogs to provide direct sales to women. Despite the effort and success as a business, their sales made up only a small percentage of black women’s makeup purchases. The average woman used drug-store brand lipstick, rouge and eye make up in suitable colors for her complexion.

1920s makeup 1923

The innocent doe-eyes girl was the preferable makeup style of the early 1920s. Photoplay circa 1923

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Most makeup in the 1920s was limited to just a few shades that never matched natural skin tone. The initial look of women in makeup was ghastly! With limited colors, chalky foundations, and no previous generations of women to teach them how to apply makeup, the first attempts were anything but glamorous.

Women didn’t seem to mind. In their eyes, makeup was intended to draw attention to their face, to elicit reactions, to look like a movie star.

1920s makeup with Clara bow

Clara Bow’s Makeup

Men, however, didn’t appreciate the “face masks.” They may have noticed it, but they certainly didn’t swoon over the unnatural qualities of makeup. They also didn’t like that women pulled out their makeup and mirrors and applied it right at the dinner table instead of going off to the powdering room. Men secretly missed the days of the demure Victorian porcelain dolls.

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1922 Dorin of Paris face powders
High-Brown face powders

As the decade progressed, the quality of makeup improved. The number of products went from a few dozen to 450 by 1924. By the end of the twenties, there were 1300 brands and shades of face powder, 350 rouges, and a hundred red lipsticks. It was a 52 million dollar industry.

Stein's makeup line from the late 20s

Stein’s makeup line from the late 20s – eye shadow, rouge, grease paint, face powders and eye brown pencils

Rouge / Blush

Rouge, which we could call blush today, also added some color to the face. It came as a powder, paste or cream in an orange-red at first then a raspberry-red for most of the 1920s and a rose-red by the late ’20s. When it was made available in a compact, its popularity grew.

Rogue was applied in circles on the cheeks with two fingers unless you were a flapper, and then you might dab some on your knees, too!

1920s makeup ad

1920s Ad for Rouge

Face Powder

Face powder was patted on with a soft round puff.  (As a kid, I loved to sit at my grandma’s vanity and dab her powder on my face. I still have her vanity, compacts and original powder, which I don’t use but love to smell. Oh, the memories!)

1920s vintage makeup compacts

My Grandma’s 1920s Marinello Girl Makeup Powder box

1920s makeup compacts

Inside the flat compact is a mirror and powder pad the other is full of loose powder

Poor women used home remedies such as ivory face powder, although the tanned look was in and many women shunned the pale skin of the past.

LipStick

The invention of the metal lipstick tube in 1915 was a welcome addition to a woman’s beauty routine. Now a woman could simply carry her lipstick with her and touch it up as needed. Stencils and metal lip tracers helped ensure perfect application along the lip line.

1920s makeup lipstick

1927 Lipstick Was Red, Red and Red

Matte red was the overwhelming color of choice (sometimes it was cherry-flavored) and by far the most popular application of it was creating the “Cupid’s bow.” This look was also called bee stung lips or rosebud pout because of the full bottom lip and pointed smaller upper lip.  A few movie stars applied a beauty mark below the corner of the lip, which some flappers copied.

1920s make up for black women African American

A deep red lipstick

Lip color was coordinated with skin tone. Deep skinned ladies were advised to wear a dark cherry or deep ruby red lipcolor. Fair-skinned ladies would opt for a bright red lipstick instead. Personally, I alternate between bright red and dark “Noir” red lipstick for my fair skin.

Bright red, almost pink
Dark red, almost brown

Eye Shadow

For the eyes, the look many aspired to was the dramatic appearance of Clara Bow’s dark, smudged kohl rims. Kohl was also used for eye-shadow, although cream eye-shadow called lining was available later in the decade. Dark grays were the favorite colors, but many women chose shades that matched their eye color:

  • Blue eyes: Green or blue eye shadow, brown mascara and eyeliner.
  • Green eyes:  Grey or green eye shadow, brown mascara and eyeliner.
  • Brown eyes: Brown or plum eye shadow,  black mascara and eyeliner.
  • Black eyes: A very faint red could be applied.
1920s makeup mascara

Cake Mascara and Brush

Eye shadow was applied with the fingers, lightly against the lash-line, and then smudged upwards for a smokey effect.

Mascara was still in the development stages. It could be purchased in liquid, wax, or cake form. If you wanted to try Maybelline’s mascara, the company was kind enough to include a brush, which had to be moistened with water before dipping in cake powder, along with a close-up photo of silent film star Mildred Davis for use as a reference. Keep in mind that the brush was not the circular type that is used now, so eyelash curlers, invented in 1923, were quite popular.

1920s makeup eye shadow

Smokey 1920s Eyes and Arched Eyebrows

Eye Brows

Eyebrows were shaped thin and curved with a slight downward point at the inner end. The thickness of the eye was even all around. Eyeliner, in pencil form, was used on the eyebrow but mostly just as a liner on the top eyelid. It was just brown or black for most of the twenties. Blue or violet came out in the later years, which was drawn on and then smudged for a lighter misty effect.

1926 Maybelline Eye Brow set

1926 Maybelline Eye Brow set

Nail Polish

When the decade began, nail polish was not common. Thanks to the automobile industry, which perfected new durable paints, the cosmetics industry had something to copy.


By 1917  Cutex had developed liquid, paste and powder polish. The Cutex line promoted only one color, shell pink, until the very end of the decade when several shades of bright rose, pink, and red expanded the line. Polishes were semi sheer, adding just a hint of color. Clear polish was sold as well.

  • Powder polish was placed in the palm of the hand and the finger, nail side down, swiped against the powder a few times. Cake polish was a compressed powder applied the same way.
  • Paste Polish was a cream paste that was rubbed onto the nail. A stick version was portable to carry in the purse for on the go application.
  • Liquid polish was painted on the nail. This was the favorite application with the least amount of mess.
1924 Cutex nail polish guide

1924 Cutex nail polish guide

In 1928 Cutex introduced an acetone based nail polish remover, safe for home use. Together with cuticle remover, trimmers, creams and polish, women had a complete home manicure set.

The favorite style of manicure was known as the “moon manicure,” polishing only the middle of each nail and leaving the tips white. Nails were oval shaped and slightly pointed.

1920s nail polish ad

1924 Cutex Nail Polish Ad

By the end of the decade, the women’s cosmetic industry had completely transformed. The use of makeup was now not only accepted but also welcomed as a form of self-expression and femininity.

How to Wear 1920s Makeup

1920s authentic makeup guide

1920s authentic makeup guide

I put together a how-to guide for authentic 1920s makeup here.  My general feeling about existing tutorials is that they use too many modern techniques and products to achieve a genuine 1920s look worn by real women, not movie stars. For my sources, I looked at vintage makeup guides and books written in the 1920s. I also use reproduction makeup for the most accurate colors.

Besame reproduction 1920s lipsticks, mascara, blush and more. LOVE this brand.

Besame reproduction 1920s lipsticks, mascara, blush and more. LOVE this brand.

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