Do you remember what your first items of make-up were? (Not sure if this has been discussed before)

Witzend, we use white lipstick in the mid 60s!

Black mascara,i was 40 years old,and thats pretty much the only makeup i use,though i tend to use a black pencil now.

Probably whatever was cheapest! Which back in the mid 60s was probably Miners’ - unless there was a cheaper version in Woollies.
I do remember a lipstick of palest pink, almost white.

We used to spit on the block mascara!!!

Did you?

I'm glad this reminds me of a very kind brother who went youth hostelling in France in the late 1940s and brought his wee sister in Scotland a present of Lentheric lipstick. It was dark red and smelled of raspberries.

Bright blue eyeshadow and a black kohl eyeliner. It was in the 80s and I also had the Bonnie Tyler back combed hair too that was so thick with hairspray, it never moved.

Miners make up had some great names and colours. One of their nail polishes and matching lipstick was called Murky Mauve. I wore it and my Dad said I looked like I had smashed my nails with a hammer!

My friend's sister was a hand model in the twiggy era, we were already doing the Twiggy 'painted on lower lashes' before she publicised it.

My first lipstick was in the Twiggy era when black eyes and very pale lips were the trend. It was Miners The Palest. Made you look like a corpse. 😂

That makes sense, thank you SunshineSally. Wish I could get it now, it was a lovely colour.

Rosie51 it was a Max Factor lipstick

Baby blue eyeshadow and grey Rimmel mascara. As a strawberry blonde with invisible eyelashes grey mascara was a godsend, emphasised the lashes without looking ridiculous. I remember a friend introducing me to a lipstick which was perfect, Capistrano Pink, can't remember the make, wish I could, and could buy it now.

Mary Quant white and black eye shadow and black liner. White for eyelids and black for eye sockets, lashings of mascara. Pale pink lipstick and nail polish. Sometimes I bought white pearlised nail polish and added some green/red /navy blue ink together.
I used tanfastic instead of foundation. The only one that didn’t result in an orange face. I later discovered false eyelashes 😳

I bought some brown mascara. (Maybelline, I believe.) My eyes swelled shut and I had to go to hospital - and stay overnight on a drip. After that, having many allergies, I tried out all cosmetics behind my ear for a few days!

I was a teenager in the 1950s, and started to wear lipstick when I was about fourteen. It was the only item of make-up that I used for many years. A French friend of my parents bought me a Dior lipstick, but I don’t think it was my first.

I did try eye make-up, but eyeshadow didn’t really work on my deep-set eyes, and I felt I didn’t need mascara because my eyelashes were naturally very dark.

I didn’t wear foundation or blusher until I was in my forties.

Now, in my eighties, I’m back to just lipstick.

My first make up was by Innoxa, haven’t seen it for years so don’t know if it’s still available. I used to put so much foundation on that I probably looked like a clown! I remember dad wasn’t happy about it and always said how good his skin was with only soap and water! It made no difference as I thought I was quite sophisticated with a face full of thick foundation.

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A roller-tube of gloss, I believe it was flavoured. This was in the mid 70's. Really, it was clear gloss, so not makeup really. I think maybe I ventured on to mascara next, but that was about it until the 80's.

As some people have mentioned, Miners makeup, block mascara that we used to spit on (sorry). Me and my friend Sandra had black Dusty Springfield eyes, lipstick so pale that it looked white. Hairspray that came in a tube and you poured it into a squeezy bottle and squirted it onto your backcombed hair to make it rock solid.

Kohl eyeliner from Biba...thought I was the bees knees

A Tangee lipstick in a lovely natural shade and a block mascara .

Mascara, the cake type with separate brush.

Powder and lipstick. Around 1959/60.

My parents had some friends who were quite cool, and Auntie Barbara (not a real auntie!) gave me a set of Mary Quant nail varnishes when I was 14. I can still see them in my minds eye, round bottles with a silver top with a flower - they were bright red, purple and dark red. I didn’t have any remover though, I can remember scratching the varnish off with my fingernails before school as we weren’t allowed to wear nail varnish.

The first try at at wearing make-up was blue eyeshadow - which we all wore at school - despite my eyes being Brown - & the teachers constant battle for us to remove it
Add to.that, for Youth Club - Sally Hansen's pale green iridescent nail varnish😱