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

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AskAlice Tue 10-Jan-23 19:25:11

When I was 15, one of my Christmas presents from my Mum and Dad was some make-up. This was a total surprise as they were both very anti make-up before that and forbade me to wear any, which I accepted, albeit grudgingly as most of my friends wore make-up out of school and I was a bit bullied because I could not join in with the latest trends.

I can still remember the names - a lipstick called "Frou Frou Pink" (can't remember the make, but it was the palest pink imaginable without being white) and a Max Factor powder compact in "Candle Glow" which was far too dark for me and made me look like an Oompah Loompah!

Does anyone else remember what their first make-up was?

Fleurpepper Wed 11-Jan-23 10:40:03

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

timetogo2016 Wed 11-Jan-23 10:29:26

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.

Witzend Wed 11-Jan-23 10:27:06

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.

Fleurpepper Wed 11-Jan-23 10:23:40

We used to spit on the block mascara!!!

Did you?

Caleo Wed 11-Jan-23 10:18:48

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.

Alioop Wed 11-Jan-23 09:00:40

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.

AskAlice Wed 11-Jan-23 08:48:11

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!

Rosie51 Wed 11-Jan-23 01:16:16

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. grin

FoghornLeghorn Wed 11-Jan-23 01:11:01

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. 😂

Rosie51 Wed 11-Jan-23 00:35:37

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

SunshineSally Wed 11-Jan-23 00:26:39

Rosie51 it was a Max Factor lipstick

Rosie51 Wed 11-Jan-23 00:05:15

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.

Kalu Tue 10-Jan-23 23:53:01

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 😳

Hetty58 Tue 10-Jan-23 23:34:03

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!

Grandma70s Tue 10-Jan-23 23:22:53

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.

Bixiboo Tue 10-Jan-23 23:08:44

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.

AussieGran59 Tue 10-Jan-23 23:05:45

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CanadianGran Tue 10-Jan-23 23:03:56

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.

Kate1949 Tue 10-Jan-23 22:24:08

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.

Mancjules Tue 10-Jan-23 22:16:10

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

Suki70 Tue 10-Jan-23 22:13:35

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

Fleurpepper Tue 10-Jan-23 21:15:19

Mascara, the cake type with separate brush.

M0nica Tue 10-Jan-23 21:11:12

Powder and lipstick. Around 1959/60.

Casdon Tue 10-Jan-23 20:58:25

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.

Ro60 Tue 10-Jan-23 20:57:46

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😱