NIKI'S MAKE-UP BLOG

25) By the mid-sixties women were artfully brushing on their make-up, in fact everything bar foundation to achieve a sculptured look. ...

22) During wartime in the 1940's there was shortages to deal with. Curtailed supply of alcohol meant more perfume but less cologne...

21) The first food and drug act in the US since 1906 went into effect in 1940, it now covered cosmetics. It covered all cosmetics invo...

20) Max Factors pan-cake was the first water soluble cake foundation.

19) In 1937 Yardley opened its first salon in London

16)  Helena Rubinstein had began by beautifying Australian women in 1902 with a batch of home-made face cream from Poland. Make-up soo...

15) In 1913 for the first time ever cakes of powder and rouge were being packaged in a single box.  These often included puffs and mir...

13) The twentieth century saw the return to the free and open use of make-up again.  Unlimited use of cosmetics became universally a...

12) Ladies not content with whitening their faces also liked to emphasize the blueness of their veins on their porcelain skin.  Blue tin...

11) In Victorian times the deception of wearing make-up continued with most women not advertising the fact that they wore rouge.  Women ...

10) The nineteenth century saw make-up become much more neutral.  Deceptively worn or sometimes not at all. Make-up was much more ar...

9) In the eighteenth century make-up was highly artificial and obvious.  Chalk white faces, bright red lips, magenta cheeks and pencil...

8) The end of the sixteenth century saw the beginning of a new era of 'patching'.  This was the fashion of wearing little bl...

7) Under Queen Elizabeth 1, make-up became more permissive. She introduced 'Sweet Coffers'.  These contained paint, powder and p...

3) Ancient Egyptian men and women always lined eyes heavily with kohl. This was a black, grey or even a coloured powder

5) In Ancient Rome crocodile excrement was used as a facial mud pack!