Get the right look - Makeup

1960s makeup, eyes become more dramatic, fake eye lashes were used more, bright coloured lip stick and pale foundation. Face painting was also very popular in the 60s with hippies and festival lovers, I have a few examples of the popular make up styles of the era.

Twiggy: The most popular make up style of the 60s, loads of eye liner and fake eye lashes. The part of this style that really makes this look pop is the painted on bottom eye lashes, makes the look stand out perfectly. You do really need a steady hand to do this look well, once you've practised a few times it does get easier and quicker to do.
The best colour to use for this look is black eye liner but you can use other colours but the look won't look as original. Colour eye shadow would be a better way to make the look stand out rather than colour eye liner, just match the colour to your outfit to bring your look together.

Audrey Hepburn: If your like me and have dark dramatic eye brows then this look might work better for you. Just slightly draw in your brows to make them more dominate in this look, use little or light foundation and powder, eye liner on the top lid, little mascara on the bottom lashes and a red lipstick to really make the look stand out.
I think Hepburn was beautiful with little makeup on but this look really makes her stand out, this is a great makeup style to use for a night out minimal but affective. (Double up eye liner)

Elizabeth Taylor: One of the most iconic looks for Ms Taylor in her whole career, dramatic doesn't even describe this look. The eyes are the main and only focus to this look, as you can see the face has little foundation on, a natural lipstick and a bronzer rather than blusher on the cheeks. This is most definitely an evening look, if you don't want people to be able to take their eyes off of you this is the best look by far to go for.
Now don't go over the top with this, eye brows have been drawn over to make darker, eye liner has been extended to meet the brow and over the whole top lid. Then filled in with blue eye shadow (use a colour that matches your outfit), liner has also been used on the bottom too a thick line to meet with the top at the corner of the eye. False lashes have been used for this look also, don't buy lashes that are too big as this style is already dramatic enough.

Priscilla Presley:  This image I am mainly focusing on the lips, out lined with a darker lip liner and a paler lipstick makes them really stand out. Her eye make up is really dark, looks like she has a thick eye liner on the top with black/dark eye shadow with very big false eye lashes. She has a nice thin liner on her bottom lashes, very dramatic eye brows and a lovely pink blush. (Drama eye liner)

 Jean Shrimpton: A great minimal make up look from Jean here, she has the same eye make up as the Twiggy example but with a pale eye shadow which makes her eyes look brighter. She has a nice light pink lipstick on with quite a lot of pink blush on but it really works well with this 60s style.

 Hippies Face Paint: Face painting in the 60s was very popular with hippies, the only time you would now really want to use face paint is to a party and if your going to do it you might as well do it properly. YouTube will have some great tutorials of how to do a 60s face painted look.

60s Advertisement: Yardley of London and Mary Quant.

These are some of the eye liner looks you can try out, my favourites are 'Drama', 'Egyptian' and 'Luxe'. Hope you liked this blog entry, leave your comments if you enjoyed the read.