1960’s make-up

PVC coats and boots ( black or white) were very trendy.

Love that photo. I daren't attempt false eyelashes as I’ve never used them and suspect I’d end up with an eyelash halfway down my face sometime in the evening! I don’t think I need pale foundation - I do pale all by myself.

I did look around for white tights but couldn’t see any. I might go for black fishnet, or just wimp out and wear 60 denier black tights.

It should be fun anyway. Thanks for all your input Ladies

I forgot black and white shift dresses were big in fashion and also white tights and even white fish nets but it had to be small fishnet not big ones. I remember my brothers friends asking me why I had bandages on my legs whenever they saw me in the white tights and I would complain to my mother how I could not stand my brothers friends.

NonnaW the picture that Nineathenana has posted is good.

Use some almost white eyeshadow over eyelids up to brow line
then put some false eyelashes on put your eyeliner on and get a brownish eyeshadow to put in the socket crease, underneath draw some lines for your eyelashes and also put some mascara on. Your lips should be almost white lipstick nothing too pinky. Your face should have plenty of what we used to call panstick make-up and it was very pale and I always put a Marilyn Monroe fake brown dot just near my mouth.
Myself and my best friend used to do this and we thought we looked great we were only 13 and a half and when we went to the youth club my father always sent my eldest brother to keep a look out on us and report back any misbehaviour those were the days.

That's it but don't think we ever did the eyebrows so much (or I didn't)

Like this ?

Yes, all the above.?I remember the fake freckles Maggie
As Twiggy had a smattering of them at the time.
I thought I looked great with them ( and my blonde hair in a Twiggy style) until a kind older lady that I worked with asked if I was constipated! She said that she always got those little spots when she needed to ‘go’?

Bee-hive was very early 60s. I had my hair cut into a bob a la Mary Quant in about 64. Mary Quant make up and clothes were really in. By 68 I was growing it and wearing it straight. Make up was lots of eye make up, with dark in eye crease and lighter on curve of eye, eyeliner and mascara. Pale lipstick.

Remember block mascara? Girls would spit on it (!) to moisten it and then use a miniature brush to apply it.

Has somebody mentioned drawing in more (exaggerated) lower eyelashes a la Twiggy?

I was glad when the very pale lipstick was out of fashion but two Elizabeth Arden, silver pink and silver coral were my favourites. Arden navy-blue eyeliner suited me best along with plenty of mascara to make the most of my (then) long lashes. I could never grow my fine hair, but back-combed it into a bird's nest anyway!
Those were the days...

If I remember right the beehive was early sixties and later it was long and straight with a fringe. I had to wear huge rollers to straighten my wavy hair!

Thank you ladies! I think I will just settle for eyeliner and lots of mascara. I am 66 so I think I will avoid the more extreme stuff. When I was 16 I used to work with a lady in her forties who always wore white eyeshadow and black liner, so that’s where I got that idea from. I’ve got a wig to wear (don’t have enough hair of my own to go beehive!).

Thank you for all your input and memories.

Shiny eyeshadow. Mascara was rubbish. Pink lipstick. Was there a white lipstick or maybe I am hallucinating! I do remember ending up with only one set of fake eyelashes. Not a good look!

LullyD - oh yes those little solid blocks of something a bit waxy, scrubbing a brush into it and loading the colour onto your eyelashes!
Contouring with face make up: brushing white slightly glittering powder onto cheek bones and brows, darker powder to give you hollows under your cheek bones. Honey magazine would have diagrams to help

Can you still buy mascara that you have to spit in ???????

Hmm, in California it was green or blue eye shadow, eye liner, dark mascara, and white lipstick. That last one was awful. I'm very light skinned so I looked like a corpse in my 9th grade (1st year of high school) photo!

Pale pink lipstick, white eyeshadow under the brow line, baby blue on the eye lids with black eyeliner and false lashes, beehive hairdo with a black velvet bow at the back.

If you want to see some good examples, take a look at Gina in the early episodes of the ‘Heartbeat’ Tv soap series, the fashions that she wears are good examples of the Era too.

My mum used to iron her hair before a night out !!!

Two pairs of eyelashes. And lower lashes drawn on.
Those were the days !

White eyeshadow, black eyeliner painted on with flicks; false eyelashes; socket line with dark shadow; pale lipstick; false hair piece;
I loved it.

Lining the inside of your eyelashes with white pencil? If you're going for the bug-eyed look this has got to be the way to do it

Agree with Hetty58 and KatyK - black eyes and white lipstick. Straightened fringe and hair into Cilla Black style with Sellotape - hair straighteners hadn't been invented!!! Remember my Dad saying to my Mum "you're not letting her go out like that"!!!!!

Frosted lipstick and nailpolish, white or shades of coral, flicky eyeliner, thick lashes, sky blue eye shadow ..

Just what I was thinking Hetty58! ? Not sure I'd attempt looking like Twiggy or Mary Quant now!