Category: Beauty
Red hot – Rockalily vintage-inspired lipsticks
Have you ever been a little confused by the choice of lipsticks out there? Are you still looking for the right one for you? Vintage-loving ReeRee certainly was, so much so that she decided to create her own range of lipsticks – Rockalily. With a great selection of colours and real staying power, her range [...]
Queens Meets: vintage beauty and hair stylist Amanda from Lipstick and Curls
London-based vintage hair and make-up stylists Lipstick and Curls specialise in looks from the Twenties to the Sixties. We’ve caught up with owner Amanda Moorhouse to chat vintage style icons, the merits of a good beehive and the must-have beauty product for any vintage lover. QueensOfVintage.com: How did you get into vintage and which eras [...]
The top ten redheads of all time
Hands up all you redheads! You may well be raising your hands but isn’t your hair bleached white blonde now? Or perhaps you’ve dyed it dark brown? Or worse still, black? You’re a redhead in denial all right, but now it’s time to come out of the closet as we salute the most gorgeous redheads of all [...]
Ooh la la! Vintage hairstylist Miss Betty shares her style secrets
Miss Betty is a one woman glamour machine. Able to unlock the elusive beauty secrets of decades long passed with a graceful flick of her comb and some ingenious curl-magic, this is one hairstylist who lives and breathes elegant vintage style. Originally opening a beauty parlour in France, Miss Betty now co-owns the brilliant It’s [...]
Back in fashion: Sixties hair styles
From beehives to boyish crops – Sixties hair styles are as prevalent now as they were then. Martha Hayes takes a look at different Sixties styles and their modern day interpretations. Just like they experimented with their hemlines, women in the Sixties were free to experiment with their hair. And experiment they did, trying out styles including the [...]
The beauty and the beast? Vintage beauty advertisements compared to today’s
To begin, a few facts. A recent survey found that during an average day an American will see 3,000 commercial messages across all forms of media. An incredible number you may say, but the next time you walk to work, take a look around and you’ll notice you’re being bombarded at every angle. Adele Baxby takes [...]
