Talking Sixties

12:22 PM

Howdy, hello, holla, hey ho!

Monday, Monday. May your coffee be strong, the wings of your eyeliner be even and your Monday be short. Amen. Soooo recently I got my copy of Gadis Annual Edition 2015: 100% Made By You that was released on December 5th. Yayyer!

Why so happy, Ayas?

It's because three articles in the magazine were made by yours truly here. Hehe. It's like a debut to me. I wrote three topics. One was about make-up--lipstick, to be precise, the other two were about fashion.

During the making I was so excited. I got to work with my mentors, I had to learn about the latest trends. Colors, textures, mixing, matching. I got to work with models, make up artist, photographer even with strangers I met at the mall! Pretty exhausting but, I can see myself working, making articles in fashion magazine in the long run. :')

AND this morning I woke up thinking... Ayas, YOU have to make a little review about how fabulous make-up was in the sixties. Yep. the Mod era. Since I don't have to go to school anymore (post-finals already but I have not received my reports sooo yeah still pretty nervous here.) I decided to collect things related to the 60's.

Now let's take a look what was make-up in the 60's about.

The 60's or often known as The Mod is a British youth subculture revived in the decade. Youngsters from the era had a desire to breakaway from the uptight, that they began to learn about globalization and spending their money on stylish clothes.

The trend expanded not only in clothing and lifestyle but also towards girls' makeups. One of the biggest influences came from the uniquely-known model, Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy.

Are you familiar with the often-BW photography of a girl with big eyes, straight face and side-swept bang? That IS a photo of Twiggy.

In the 60's, makeup was all about that ~~base~~ eyes. Really. In the making of this post I kinda wrote the formula that is:

dark crease + false lashes + flicked eye liner

+ pale face + neutral lips

The Mod's Makeup

Idk, it just came across my mind.

And this picture below is an ideal picture to show what my formula is about.

All matte, everything. Probably because sheen/glossy/shimmery makeup weren't invented just yet.

One thing that really mattered--which also one of my favorite beauty hacks--was the cut crease technique. It created such an illusion of depth to the eyes and it was really just a dark line. No blending or smudging. Theoretically, I'd say this is the origin of smokey eyes.

modern attempt of Mod makeup

As I said, it was all about that ~~base~~ eyes. Matte eye shadows were used big time. Max Factor and Yardley were some of the very first products that were used in the era.

The next big things are the mascara. God, I couldn't wait to get to this part. In the 60's the mascara often used didn't look like today's that comes in liquid form and a little bristly wand. Instead it was solid and came with a brush.

Yes, sounds veeery strange but well, it was what it was.

Oh, it came with a how-to-use, too!

As far as I know, a little water--or sometimes even spit--was added to the mascara block and the brush was used to mix it a bit and finally the mascara can be applied. Pretty much like how we would use solid water colors, eh?

The last things are the false lashes and the eyeliner. Yes. Those two, a pair of tough things to do.

If people of the 60's survived using liquid liner,
why would we give up the struggle?

It was flicked, flicked, flicked. Usually applied just like that or in a more sophisticated way like the Egyptians style--applied at the bottom lash line.

Donyale Luna for Vogue

Twiggy brought falsies into a whole new level. Just like the eyeliner, falsies were applied to both lash lines! An article says that girls back then were often too lazy to apply single bottom falsies. and instead, they drew their bottom lashes using the eyeliner. What a way!