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

I was 15 and had already experimented with bits and pieces of make-up passed on by my older cousins. That summer a women's magazine had a free offer of (I think) a Goya lipstick which I decided would be just right for me. It turned out to be a bright - if not garish - fuschia shade and certainly not right for a wee pale-skinned Scottish lassie, but I didn't give up and probably looked as daft as my mother said I was!

Mary Quant foundation - I was devastated when it was discontinued- Bibba eyeshadow and a white lipstick/eyeshadow by Miners. I must have looked like a clown. 😳😱

This is bringing back so many memories! When I started work full-time I saved up and bought a whole tin (a bit like a pencil tin) of Mary Quant eyeshadows which were long, thin sticks. You could use them for eyeshadow or liner, but the colours were a bit bizarre! I used the pink and yellow to draw a lightening flash on each eye, a la David Bowie - I must have looked a sight!!

A pale pink lipstick from Miners? bought at the church bazaar much to my mothers horror.

I remember Bourjois Rouge in those tiny cardboard pots. I had a Saturday job in a chemist when I was 15. We used to sell them quite often.

Pale pink lipstick!!

Juliet27

Yes, I remember my mum having the Bourjois Rouge in a small round cardboard pot! It had a tiny piece of cloth , possibly felt not sponge, inside the pot, which was used to apply it.

Take care xx

I remember lots of these items - but no idea what was my very first make-up item.

Possibly my white lipstick - or the deep red/purple/dark aubergine colour one or maybe spit-on mascara.

I know when Biba first opened I bought lip-colours in tiny black pots. I loved the packaging and the feeling that Biba was very youthful and liked that it had a very "out there" look.

AskAlice, my mum wore Candle Glow, in the blue tin. It was rather orange!

My first make up was Outdoor Girl liquid foundation. I started a Saturday job at fourteen in the haberdashery dept. of the Coop dept. store, which had a make up section.
My parents disapproved of make up, especially my father. I used to try all the testers and wash the make off, before I went home.

Eventually, I was promoted to the Boutique dept. I thought I had died and gone to heaven, for it sold Mary Quant make up.
How I lusted after those little, round bottles of nail polish in dark colours.
I was never allowed them!

Anyone remember Bourjois Rouge when it was in a cardboard container?

Miners Mascara, and I seem to remember a lipstick called Tangye (or Tangee) which was a vaguely tinted lip balm.

Revlon Persian Melon lipstick and white eye shadow

NotSpaghetti thanks for the link, I don't remember it being quite that colour, my memory was softer.

Rosie
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/778533435/max-factor-capistrano-pink-lipstick

Yes, a sparkly green eye shadow. Mascara block where you had to wet the brush and then apply.

Thanks to "petticoat" I had some Rimmel basics awhile, but didn't bother for long, as at Uni the people I mixed with didn't bother.

But I do recall that Twiggy painted on mock freckles to look cute so duly dotted some on which had the family in fits.

Mascara. I was trying it on, got it stuck in my eye and that was my last time for many years,

Oh and Vichy foundation

Max factor pan stick and Mary quant eyeshadow bright blue

It was the early 1960s and my first items were pink lipstick, powder and blue eyeshadow. I bought these in response to a lecture from my gran telling me I was not ugly (as I believed) but plain.

As far as I can recall she went on to say:-

"Your whats called plain. That just means ordinary, not ugly. I was a plain girl and respectable girls of my class were not allowed make up, permed hair or anything like that. There were no special fashions for young girls. Nowadays a plain girl can make the best of themselves with the right makeup, hair do and fashions. Just think of those Hollywood actresses. Bette Davis is quite plain without her makeup. And Barbara Stanwyk has a huge nose and mouth. But we see them on the screen with all their props. And they also have their talent as actresses so they make us think they are beautiful."

My grandmother was a very wise woman and she gave me a lot of confidence when I first began experimenting with makeup.

I had a lipstick sized cover up called “Hide & Heal”. It helped to disguise my spots. Also loved my pale green eyeshadow which I thought was cool. It wasn’t !

When I was about 14 Woman's Realm had a special offer of four lipsticks which I was allowed to send for. Within a year pink lipsticks were right out and we'd moved on to white lips and black eyes.When Biba started selling makeup my favourite look was rust eyeshadow with a matching rust lipstick.

Rimmel lipstick. I think the colour was "A taste of honey " or something similar. It cost 1/6.

I loved the rimmel counter at our local chemists. I rembered buying a very pale lipstick as my first purchase. Then of course the mascara felt so grown up. My dad disapproved but I used to put it on at my friends house.

I bought Miners or Rimmel make up from Boots .
I think that my face was a horrid shade of orange with a tide mark .
My grandma hoovered up my false eyelashes .
I used to wear tons of mascara and paint on lower eyelashes .
I'd use pale eyeshadow under my overplucked eyebrows .
My lipstick was very pale - my grandma called it lard on the lips .
I loved pale nail polish and my nails were always short and still are .
I used to iron my hair
In the end , I gave up and went for the Marsha Hunt look .
I was a size eight in a dress and thought that I was fat !
After an overdose of crimplene I went for the full hippie look -all bells and caftans .