There is no denying that classic Hollywood stars have paved the way for the beauty industry today. Their bright red lipstick, fluttery eyes, and luminous skin have been on trend since these stars graced movie screens decades ago. Let's take a look at 10 Hollywood beauty icons and their signature looks!
Audrey HEPBURN
"Elegance is the only beauty that never fades."– Audrey Hepburn
Film star Audrey Hepburn is without a doubt one of the biggest beauty icons of all time. Hepburn's look relies mostly on bold brows, signature cat-eye, thick lashes, and sharply lined lips. Because that's entirely what Hepburn's signature look was for the majority of her career.
Of all the eyebrows in beauty history, Audrey Hepburn's have continuously been a favourite. Using a brow filler and small angled brush to create a full, defined shape. A key to her look is a white-rimmed lower eye, widening your eye with a little white or nude eyeliner is a vintage beauty trick that still proves true as ever and for the cat-eye, her liner would be achieved using a thin angled brush and black gel liner to create a winged look. After curling the lashes a couple of coats of mascara and, of course, a pair of false eyelashes for the ultimate wide eyes. Her top lip was slightly overdrawn using a lip liner and then filled in with lipstick.
Her makeup artist Alberto de Rossi throughout her career, came up with pretty wild ideas to emphasize her gorgeous eyes. He would apply mascara and then separate each individual eyelash with a safety pin to emphasize her eyes.
Marylin Monroe
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and its better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutely boring." – Marylin Monroe
Monroe used a combo with a little Vaseline to ensure that whatever light hit her made her glow. “Not enough credit is given to her about how hard she worked to make the most of what makeup artists and makeup and lighting did for her.”
Cat-eyes were a classic long before Monroe had shot her first scene, but she used a whole bunch of liners — black for the top lash line; brown for the lower lashline; white or nude on the lower waterline; and red in the inner corners — to achieve her iconic bedroom eyes. Even with her array of eyeliners, Monroe’s bedroom eyes weren’t complete without a set of winged-out falsies, courtesy of Max Factor.
As far as Marilyn is concerned, she talked about how a good tube of lipstick can take you anywhere, but at the same time, there was a lot more going on with her than that, Monroe applied layer after layer of lipstick often with a lip brush, powder, and gloss to achieve her plush mouth — blotting with a tissue between layers, of course.
Whitey Snyder was Marilyn Monroe's makeup artist throughout her career: from her first screen test at Twentieth Century Fox in 1946 to her funeral makeup in 1962.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
"To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up." – Josephine Baker
Baker was not only a style and beauty icon of the 1920s she remains a notable inspiration for modern superstars. Baker revolutionized ideas about tanned skin and beauty culture in the 1920s, she would capitalize on this interest by marketing her own brand of suntan oil called Bakeroil, which promised to give women walnut skin. During this time everyone wanted to be Café au Lait like Josephine Baker.
With her slicked-down hair, smokey eyes and dark lips, she was the epitome of flapper girl style! Hair cuts were for the first time short and sharp. Josephine Baker at this time led the way with a style called the 'Eton crop'; a short high shine sleek hairstyle (using her own brand Bakerfix) with curls pasted to the cheek and forehead. It was a very new and dramatic, even considered shocking hairstyle for the time.
Her makeup was the Flapper Style, I particularly love her intense smokey eye look and shiny eyelids with elongated eyeliner. Her beautiful smile contrasted so well with her dark-coloured almost prune lips.
She definitely symbolized the beauty and vitality of Black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
"Poor yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together." – Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor certainly stands out. Her beauty enraptured audiences for many decades, and her already exquisite features were enhanced by the makeup tricks she and her army of stylists used. Among all the items she put on her glorious face, Taylor favoured blush the most. It added glow and colour to her fair complexion and highlighted her cheekbones, which helped her appear more sophisticated.
The actress applied more colour to her face by using vivid red lipstick frequently. She was one of the stars of the ‘50s that helped make red lips a staple beauty trend. The bright red tone she used allowed her lips to pop out even more against her light skin.
Taylor’s eyebrows were her most stunning features due to their fullness and thickness. They were usually arched at just the right degree, and the look was achieved with the help of a good eyebrow pencil.
Taylor’s eye makeup was usually as striking as her iconic purple eyes. It is reported that she likes to make her eyeballs look whiter, and blue eye shadow helps create this particular effect. Blue is on the opposite side of the colour wheel and balances a red-eye.
Elizabeth Taylor will always be remembered for her striking looks!
GRACE KELLY
"Everything as to be earned , through work, persistence and honesty." – Grace Kelly
Her signature was creamy, flawless skin, natural eyes, a touch of blush and a subtly stained berry lip. The focus was always on her facial structure and not focused on any one feature, such as eyelashes or overlined lips.
Grace was also known to hone the power of artfully placed blush. She used two shades to sculpt her cheeks – lighter on the cheekbone and deeper beneath. To complete her look, Grace loved a creamy raspberry-coloured pout.
Not one to rely on a harem of hair and makeup artists, Kelly preferred to do her own hair and makeup touch-ups, even after becoming the Princess of Monaco. When she moved to Monaco she didn't have hairdressers living in the palace. She did all her own hair and makeup, it's about paying attention to detail — you really do have to keep the hairbrush and powder in your handbag.
She practically invented to "no makeup" makeup look!
SOPHIA LOREN
"Any women can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes and makeup. It's how she sparkles." – Sophia Loren
Let's talk about her iconic cat eye makeup look from Abaresque, this cat-eyed look isn’t very different from the traditional flicked eyeliner, except that the latter follows the natural shape of the eye and joins at the upper corners, and the former elongates the shape of the eye to create an illusion of a bigger, longer and lifted eye. She would start off by drawing a line with a white or nude eye pencil from the inner corner of the waterline toward the outside.
Then she played by stretching the shape of the eye outward with a dark waterproof pencil and opened up the eye by applying many coats of mascara.
Sophia Loren is famous for her big and full lips, and she loves wearing different lipstick colours, so she doesn't really have a signature lip colour because everything she wears looks great on her!
ANNA MAY WONG
"The harder the work, the greater the satisfaction in accomplishing it." – Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong is arguably the most important Asian American to have ever graced the silver screen. She adopted the Flapper Look, thin brows, bold puckered lips and also did contouring to ensure the angles were seen from the cameras.
She started out in silent films and in those films, you needed to be able to portray expression without actually having people hear what you were saying, so the eyebrows were part of your acting.
In the 1920s most women wore smokey eyes, but Anna May Wong opted for a cat-eye shape, she was pushing the shape of her own eyes and making them even more elongated and almond-shaped so that it was very exotic and it kinda helped her image on the screen as being this character. She also smudged liner onto her bottom lash line to give her eyes a more sultry effect. False lashes were applied on the top and bottom lashes as they would photograph better.
Her bold cupids bow lips were painted in red shades or very dark shades for black and white movie screens.
CLARA BOW
"I'm a curiosity in Hollywood, I'm a big freak because I'm myself." – Clara Bow
Clara Bow, one of the earliest megastars of the silent film era, is famous for being Hollywood’s first “It Girl.” Audiences adored Bow and were drawn to her down-to-earth persona. With her messy bobbed hair and youthful wide eyes, she helped popularize the flapper look.
Bright red lipstick turned an ordinary mouth into a small, pretty pout, with a bow shape outline on the top lip. Eyebrows were plucked thin and arched or sometimes plucked completely and drawn on with a pencil. Her eyes were dramatically dark, with eyeliner all around the eye to widen her gaze and thick curled lashes heavily applied mascara. Rouge wasn’t that prominent, the flapper look was more of an eyes-and-mouth look.
Bow’s look is today often a reference point for the makeup and hair of the 1920s she will always be the ultimate flapper girl.
GRETA Garbo
"Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening." – Greta Garbo
Swedish American actress Greta Garbo was one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and ’30s. Her skin was achieved using very white rice powder, her upper eyelids were outlined in black, from the inner corner to the end of the eye. On the outer corner of the eye, an upturned triangle was traced with a black pencil.
A banana shape, covering the upper eyelid’s crease in brown, lengthened the eye socket downwards. This shape was blurred with powder to a brown form. The mobile eyelid typically bore ivory, beige or cream colour. The same colour as on the mobile eyelid went under the arc of the eyebrow.
Thick coats of mascara were applied on the upper lashes, while lower lashes were only marked in the center. Lips were very fine and stretched. The top of lips was round and sometimes the upper lip was elongated. Her blush was very discreet and usually in brown tones.
RITA HAYWORTH
"Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening." – Greta Garbo
The ultimate Hollywood bombshell of the wartime 1940s, Rita Hayworth left a mark on the silver screen that would make her a movie icon for generations to follow.
Her most prominent facial features were long lashes and sensual, full lips. Her brows were thin and perfectly proportioned, with two-thirds of their length sloping upwardly from the bridge of the nose, and the remainder sloping downwardly almost to the temple.
The smooth and creamy appearance of Rita's complexion was achieved with Max Factor's Pan-Cake Make-Up. Rita wore only a light application of blush in a natural shade, placing it below the cheekbone to accentuate the contour.
Rita's mouth was not to be overlooked. Her lips were full and glossy. She nearly always wore orange-red lipstick, and never anything too dark.
Forties screen starlet Rita Hayworth still inspires women today with her outstanding poise and style!
I hope you enjoyed this content as much as I loved researching their backgrounds and looks, it's truly fascinating to learn about beauty from the past and how it influenced and inspires the beauty industry to this day.
Which look are you tempted to try on yourself?
Yours truly,
Mélanie
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