Victorian makeup

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This post looks at Victorian makeup for women, including society's attitude towards its use, and what products and colours were popular.

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In the last year, I've become obsessed with an aesthetic that I like to call "Edwardian cyborg": futuristic sleekness coupled with windswept Gibson-girl glamour. This is the image that started it all: You've already seen this photo in an earlier post, wherein I experimented with theBalm's Nude 'tude palette. "Edwardian cyborg" was the name I gave to my (much inferior) interpretation of this look: glassy lips, touches of frost and metal on the eyes, unnaturally rosy cheeks, hair elaborately…

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As seen above, hardly any makeup was worn in the victorian era, a light rouge on the apples of the cheeks, a reddish lip, and very little eye makeup, maybe a brown shading in the socket. The base however, is the most important, as it has to look flawless, as if none is being worn. Here is a contemporary version, and a face chart-

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