They're packed with skin-loving ingredients
I adore vintage French furniture, and I spent months searching for the perfect dressing table to match the rest of the pieces in my bedroom. As soon as I locked eyes on this princessy Parisian style dressing table I fell in love! It’s so pretty and feminine with gorgeous carved details, a bevelled edge mirror…
There is something so implicitly glamorous about a vintage vanity. Without fail, it always has me picturing a 1930’s film starlet. You know, all wrapped in a feather boa, primping under a lighted makeup mirror . Because Vanity is about pride in appearance, it’s the perfect name for the place we use to get dolledkeep reading...
The earliest historical record of makeup comes from the 1st Dynasty of Egypt (c.3100-2907 BC). Romans widely used cosmetics by the middle of the 1st century AD. Makeup helps people, most of women, more beautiful and more confident in their meetings, but few know that it truly flourished in the 1920s. The newly emancipated woman of America began to display her independence by free use of red lipstick, which was often scented with cherry. By the late 1920s, visible makeup was considered a must by rural women but was still frowned upon by the country girls. Take a look these vintage photos to see what the makeup of young beauties in the 1920s looked like.