What cosmetics did your mother use?

Was there an apple blossom talcum powder? There was always talcum powder, and I think that was it. Smothered on after a bath.

Yes, I'm sure there was mrsmopp. My father used to give mum Kiku talc -it came in a yellow ball with a fluffy powder puff every birthday until she got us girls to tactfully tell him she'd prefer something else! She had a drawer full of them.....

Same as most other mothers here,
Ponds cream,
red lipstick [any make]
powder from a compact
Soir De Paris or Electrique perfume.
Never any eye make up or mascara
My Mother had thick dark hair with natural waves, which she wore short, and also wore clip on ear-rings.

Friday night's Amami wave set night....... Or so the advert went........
Does anyone remember it?

Twinkie home perm
Red lipstick
Max factor creme puff
Endocil face cream
Nulon hand cream
Mum roll on
Cuticura talcum powder
Nailoid nail cream

Quite a lot when I think about it!

I remember Toni perm lotion- that brings back memories, fiddly little rubber perm roller things with squares of thin paper -did it come in two strengths, either pink or blue lotion?

My mother always wore Max Factor makeup. On the rare occasions when she went out in the evening I can remember the distinctive Max Factor scent wafting across the room when she came to say goodnight. I have no idea what perfume she wore, although I'm sure she did. I seem to recall her changing to an exotic modern perfume in the 60's.

Perfume for my mum meant 4711 Eau de Cologne. Although we were a relatively comfortably off family, my father could rarely persuade my mother to spend money on herself. The habits of the 1930s and World War II died very hard. She never begrudged the three of us anything.

Oil of Ulay moisturiser, Max Factor crime puff powder, block mascara with a tiny brush and she used to spit on the brush to wet it before she used it. Eyeshadow different colours to match whatever she was wearing a peachy lipstick to wear to work and a red one to wear if she went out with my dad in the evening when she,d dress up and wear jewellery as well. I would watch her make up using her compact in the armchair to get ready for work before I went to school and my Nana would come to the house in the mornings to take me and my brother to school.

And Ponds cold cream to take it all off again!

Armani setting motion was a blue liquid and it was used to shape my mother's kiss curls which were held in shape by a clip or sellotape until the Amami dried.
Also Coty L'aiment perfume.
No make up.

When my mum 'put her face on' she would use Ponds cream and bit of Yardley powder and Yardley lipstick. I can't remember what perfume she wore.

My mum used Ponds vanishing cream and cold cream when I was growing up. In later years she used Oil of Ulay. When she was in her sixties she always had a blue rinse at the Hairdressers and my auntie had a pink rinse. It was fashionable at the time.

In the fifties mum worn bright red lipstick and powder from a compact. Her favourite perfume was White Magnolia. She also used rouge in a small box. Can't remember the name. Anyone remember it?

Ponds Cream
Mum roll on deodorant
Red lipstick
Foundation (one of the stick ones)
Mascara (a little block in a case applied with a tiny toothbrush shaped brush)
Eye liner pencil
face powder
I don't think she ever used eyeshadow

Most of this was only if she went out dressed up, but I think she always put lipstick on. Her hands used to get very sore and she used a pink hand cream. I can't remember what it was called but I can almost 'smell' it.

She curled her own hair and held it in place with hairspray applied from a plastic bottle which she used to top up.

Grandma used a face powder and always smelt of lavender.

Germolene cream was pink and had a distinctive smell.

Germoline was very pink and as an aside there was, at one time, a shade of paint called Germoline pink. The ointment was very smelly,almost but not quite, as distinctive as TCP.

Germolene brought me out in a rash. The doc asked if had used anything I could be allergic to. I couldn't think of anything. But then I had one on those on-going-out-of-the-door moments, and said well actually........

He finished up looking at my bottom which I had used Germolene on. I had one little hemarrhoid, and I had used Germolene for the itching.

I was only a young lass. Not even had children yet. He was a very young good looking doctor.

Sorry if TMI. And if I have spelled hemarhoid wrong.

My mum used Ponds cold cream, a light dusting of powder, and pink lippy always off the end of her little finger. It was practically surreptitious makeup.

I am becoming just like her now. But I add blusher. And pay much more for face cream. I think I will try Ponds. And buy some for my daughters.

I remember my mum using Max Factor Pan Stick and saving up weekly, from my pocket money, in our local chemist's savings club to buy her one for Mother's Day.

My mum also used Nivea when she went out in the sun, to enhance her tan - long before the days of SPF ratings. It didn't do her any harm, but I was the one that got a melanoma.

I had forgotten the nailoid! She didn't wear nail varnish unless she was going to a dinner dance, when sometimes she would have a French manicure done at the beauty salon where she bought her Charles of the Ritz powder, but she used hand cream, can't remember which, and nailoid was applied every night. I only remember that because she let me use it when I was older. On the rare occasions she wore nail varnish it was always clear.

I loved the beauty salon, I occasionally had to go there and sit and wait with a comic. it seemed so peaceful and mysterious and elegant - until one day I walked into one of their mirrors. It was just like a hall of mirrors, they were everywhere and I couldn't work out where the door was!

My mother never wore nail polish until she went into a residential home at age 95.Someone came in once a week to do manicures and my mum loved it.She had nicely shaped nails and they looked really nice.She looked forward to choosing a different colour each week.

Same for my mum, annsixty. She was in a lovely nursing home in Heaton Moor and a college student would come in giving manucures and painting nails. Really gave her a boost.

I remember Ponds Vanishing cream on my Mum's dressing table and I remember my Dad commenting on it! Oh yes vanishing cream!

She also had a glass container with a glass lid with face powder and it had a powder puff in it too.

Also some red lipstick.

I don't remember deodorant think it was just soap and water. I remember when I was a teenager I had Mum roll on deodorant in blue.

I still have a small round cardboard box of face powder which is still sealed. My Mum gave it to me many years ago. I remember asking her for it and she said you can have it when you're a big girl. It is a lovely dark blue colour with Evening in Paris written on the top. Round the side is London Bourjois Paris. The bottom is silver coloured with Poudre Evening in Paris (Soir de Paris) Peach Bourjois London & Paris. Made in England written in dark blue. It has a circle of miniature dark blue stars round it too.

I also have two miniature very dark blue glass bottles of perfume she gave me too. On them it says Sour de Paris Bourjois Evening in Paris.

I suppose this is a memory of my Mum who died a good number of years ago unfortunately she was just in her early sixties. We miss you Mummy x