Not consciously – I don’t look back on a certain time period and try to emulate it or modify it myself. I tend to be more focused on product than style.
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I have a tendency to stay current, although not always “trendy”. But I DO catch myself rocking an 80’s or 90’s vibe that sneaks in there at times. Especially with brownish toned lipsticks having made a big comeback. Or an 80’s fuchsia, teal and purple eye, lip, cheek combo just because!
90s. It is when I grew up and although I have stayed current and yes, I’m loving the 90s revival, there is still that 90s element I always bring into my makeup minus ultra thin brows or dark liner and light lipstick. Love earth tones. Love the natural matte finishes. It’s classic and will forever be an influence on my makeup look
Hmm, I don’t think any one period dominates, but I have definitely been influenced. I probably got my love of bold shadows/lips from growing up in the ’80s. And my weakness for red brown lips from the ’90s. And while I will never go back to super skinny brows of the ’90s, I still prefer mine clean and plucked, not bushy.
Nah, not really, or at least not that I am aware of.
The 90s supermodel contoured eye looks and whenever Pamela Anderson blew up with her sultry smokey-eyed pin up look. I love dramatic eye looks with dimension!
Hmm not really? I take my inspiration from current trends and what I know flatters my features, I don’t really try to reproduce a specific look.
Of course is Not consciously!!! I’m a late 90’s early 2000 gal so I tend to apply makeup vet lightly, use neutral colors and barely any eyeliners. I rather smudged eye pencil, that marked an era. For most of my life I have not worn any kind of blush or highlighter. Now I do, because I’m old and dull, but still very light handed! I do like to experiment with color now, I’ve learnt a lot lately, but that’s another story!!
The 1970s and the 1990s effortless calm style of beauty. Very natural looking, but also very unique in the way every single person would choose to bring out their best features. Whether it be using a shade of blush and made their face glow, lipstick that enhanced their face, or mascara they made their eyes stand out etc.
After my breast cancer diagnosis in 2010, I started a new journey with makeup/skincare. It’s kind of weird bc so many talk about cancer causing them to be “a better person” but I kind of feel that when I was diagnosed, I was already happy with who I was. What I wasn’t happy with was the time I was taking to care for myself. So, while I always wore makeup, I began to explore the more creative side of myself and began experimenting with different products and looks. Over the few years since then, I’ve realized that I have (like most people) a number of layers of who I am. My makeup style now reflects that in that some days I go for a natural look and some days I pick something bolder.
What great story! Cheers to layers and exploring your creative side!
Thanks Pearl!
I’m a cancer survivor too. During the first few really bad years I let myself go. I am really having fun with discovering new makeup and how to wear it. I want one of everything I see. I came of age in the 70s with afro style hair, overplucked brows (I’m trying to grow now with minoxidil) and pink pearl lipstick. Yes with brown liner! The make up now is ever so much more pretty. It is a good creative outlet.
Hugs – the only club nobody really wants to join! I agree on the makeup being better; although I also admit to still loving pink pearl lipstick! I did the Look Good Feel Better thing just after my first chemo. The makeup we got then was less than stellar but it may have contributed to the creative spark.
WOW Michele you are amazing. God bless you You will continue on your journey and inspire others to live,laugh,enjoy and most important, have faith.
Thanks Denise. 🙂
Not really a time period but more of a style/technique. I really respect Lisa Eldridge’s talent & ethos on makeup. She’s been heavily influential in me preferring natural-looking, timeless makeup focused more on proper technique than a flawless final look 🙂
Aesthetically I love that vintage glamour look from the 1920s and 1930s — dark vampy lips, sultry eyes, but I don’t feel I can really pull it off haha. So I end up going more natural for the most part with nudes tones. If I want to go out of the box, I will go more 80s for eyeshadow (bright blues and greens) and maybe play with a bright lip. Contradictory I know!
Not really. I go through phases with my makeup and sometimes inadvertently emulate an era. Right now I’m rocking a 60’s look because I’m wearing winged eyeliner (I finally stumbled upon the right product and technique for my brand of smaller hooded eyes) and I’m wearing CT Kim KW lipstick to death and couple that with my hair (kinda Sassoon’ish) and it just takes on that mod vibe.
Kinda sassoony, but I see you as Louise Brooks, the original bob girl. Google her, if not familiar.
I do know who you mean, but just googled her birthday because it dawned on me she’s got that whole scorp intense stare going on too. And bingo. Creepy. Our eye type and shape is very similar as well.
I grew up in the 80s, so that’s influenced my look a lot. Also, the glamorous pin-up and movie star looks of the 40s and 50s. I mix a little bit of everything, though.
No, but s.t. a product, esp now w/Besame, will cause me to go into retro mode, replete with research. Got a lot of lived-through decades that are easy to recreate (digging through stash for Glimmericks…not really.) I do relate to certain historical looks, like 1920s blush placement (high and out) more than others.
1990’s (hate to admit) because brown lipstick with black mascara/smudged black eyeliner, no blush… looks good on me. (I am an “autumn” and more recently learned “dark autumn” in coloring…). Frightenly, brown eyeliner-as-lipliner with medium shimmer taupe lipstick and a black eye looked ok on me… dare I say good… I would wear that to work then ha ha. Not now!! But Clinique Sugar Bean and Amberglass were my constants. Both discontinued, I think!!! Now, raisin shades, new UD Vice Amulet and Liquid, and browned plums, and grapes, and browns with reddish stsin, these are go-to lips for me. But, I also love subtly doing 1950’s and 1960’s looks, even 70’s and later… I see celebrity photos and ads from the time, and copy them but within my look… I do a Marilyn -ish eye a lot in the summer (I’m not blonde tho!), I’ve copied makeup ads from the 1980’s, heavier eye, lip, blush… I love editing vintage makeup looks, into my more subtle classic makeup style. So fun to play with the makeup!!!
If I were to be completely honest, I’d have to say the “90’s metal chick” aesthetic most informs my look, but it’s more riff, less melody. I go more intense and colorful (especially the colorful part) with my eyes (even for everyday looks) than you would have seen then, mostly, I think, because the color choices and quality are much better now.
What I love about fashion is how its influenced by so many different eras and cultures. While, I can’t pinpoint one period that I draw inspiration from, right now I’m all about winged eyeliner, full brows, big afros, dramatic lashes and coral lips.
I grew up in the 60’s so yes, the Bridget Bardot look I still love but I don’t do it anymore. Attracted to the heavily made-up eye.
I absolutely love 1940s fashion, make up as well. The bold red lip and simple eyeliner is such a great look. I also really love a modern, minimalist look, so a lot of makeup now.
I never look back on certain periods. From the day I started using makeup, I always kept it “simple” by just buying and wearing whatever I like and looks good on me. Using certain periods as an example or as inspiration isn’t really my thing, as I always try to buy makeup with which I can create timeless looks. I also don’t really look at seasons, so I’ll wear dark makeup during spring/summer and lighter shades during winter if I feel like it. If I need inspiration, I just look at colors and decide if it matches my skin tone and mood.
Not a period that has influenced me, but a person. I grew up enchanted with Audrey Hepburn. Still am. While I never copied her exact makeup style, I absorbed her comfort with being a “beautiful woman,” which every one of us are. From watching her grace and naturalness, I grew up wanting to enhance, not cover myself up under gobs of makeup. I still like to use makeup and clothes that suit and flatter, and give off a timelessness rather than a trend.
I like the 40’s technicolor red lips & nails, pale skin & contours, the George Hurrell look. Also the 70’s looks of Way Bandy & Francesco Scavullo. Timeless & classic. I still do these looks.
I would have to say the 60’s and 70’s. The makeup and clothes were so much fun! (Not hippie stuff). Since then I feel I fine-tune my makeup according to tips and tricks and the makeup that looks best on me, not just the trends and fads. It’s all just so much fun!
No, not really. I just do what suits me now.
love the 90’s
70s. Love the bronzy glow of Cheryl Tiegs, the put-together Charlie girl – but also the shiny red lips of the disco days. All so current!
Probably some combination of the 90s + 70s-80s deathrock & goth mashed with the 18th cent and put in a blender with current trends!
Hi Temptalia,
*I first would like to say, congratulations to all of you that fought and won the battle with Cancer! My heart and prayers go out to your courageousness and strength, you are TRULY an inspiration for all of us! I don’t see God Bless You All! Xo *
– I NEVER have been one to full out copy a specific time period, in full. As far back as I can remember, I grew up in a strict Italian household and I was very limited to what I can wear and do. I kept it light and natural and I didn’t actually start to enjoy makeup until I got married. I could wear mascara and a little bit more of cover up and blush, and dark nail polishes,besides a light pink. I got married at 18..now 45, almost 46 in late September. I had my bouts of colors, red lipstick, ect. However I hate to compare who I idolized with Makeup, after all I am older than her. L. I have been doing Princess Kate’s makeup, long before there was a Princess Kate! I love to play up my green eyes! They are the windows to the Soul. I wear a pink lipstick and I do blush. I really just stick to colors that look good on me and what I feel comfortable wearing. If I do go out on a dinner date with my husband, then I do play it up on the sexy scale. Lol. I might try different things but I stick to what I get complimented on mainly by my husband. I really don’t listen to other people’s opinions. My husband has awesome taste and I trust him 100% because he is my best friend and my better half! I don’t copy other people, I love being an original. Thats what made him fall in love with me. He seen that I was me, and that I still am me. There’s way too many copies out there and they don’t know who they are. Everyone NEED’S to find out who they are and stick with it. –
Life is way to short to be anything else but YOU! Xo ???
I’m totally influenced by the 1960s mod look. Smoky eyes with heavy-ish liner and pale lips. I love that look!
Me too! Bridget Bardot – gorgeous!
I grab everything I like, but I do have a special place for some of the grungey alternative stuff from when I was a teenager.
Every period has something to offer. Although I began wearing makeup in the 60s, there’s much to like and learn from and about all the other periods. I believe makeup should be be art and joy.
If forced to choose, I would have to say 80’s and 90’s. My mom was a hairdresser and we lived in a small town. My friends were sneaking lip smackers and cheap mascara and KMART 50 cent foot long eye liners onto the bus and trying to apply it before we got to school. Meanwhile, my mom would stop me before I left home and tell me I needed more blush, or that I had lipstick on my teeth. I grew up surrounded by hair, cosmetologists and a Southern style beauty shop (we don’t call them salons in this part of NC) that was pretty much every episode of Designing Women, but with sit down hair dryers and little bubbles of Merle Norman samples instead of pillows and drapes. So because of all that, sorry, BTW, dramatic is always my go to look. Bold. The kind of make up that people want to talk to you about. I wouldn’t feel right any other way.
I love to stay current and trendy, but not fashion victim. The 90s always have influence, because even though I came of age in the 80s, the 90s were more timeless, minimalist, and casually classic. That’s my vibe. Yes, I change it up and use bold elements, but I always have a lot of the 90’s – the “I’m not trying too hard” vibe. And let’s not forget the 90s brought us Hard Candy pastel blue (and other non-traditional colors) nail polish – revolutionary for mainstream America. Even with current trends, I always have some of that not-so-done element of the 90s.
After reading the other comments, I realize that yes, I love current and 90s aesthetics, but I also love the bronze skin look of the 70s, and that 60s beach girl (Bridget Bardot) look too. I never met a white lipstick I didn’t like 🙂 What a fun question! I just love the effortless, lived-in, slept-in but still feminine looks. No harsh eyeliner, no visible lipliner, no false lashes. And full brows! Bright color is okay, but in an offhanded kind of way, like a bright eyeliner on my lashline, no eyeshadow, all the other colors on my face more natural. I hate looking “done.”
I have a few actually… I really love the eye looks and eyebrows from the late 20’s but yet I have been wearing cat eye liner (with cateye glasses) for years now. So it’s a 20’s and mid century mix. I grew up in the late 80’s and 90’s so those aren’t era’s that particularly interest me. Seeing their trends again doesn’t excite me.
Yes! The 70’s disco/glitter/glam era. Studio 54, Halston, Interview magazine glam looks, Bianca Jagger, Pat Cleveland. That’s when I got my first job selling Estee Lauder at a department store (which I thought then was a line exclusively for old ladies) and preferred Borghese, which was hipper and more colorful back in the days when it was a department store brand. Also remember the very first Calvin Klein and Halston makeup lines, with Halston coming in Elsa Peretti-designed compacts, so cool!
I can never go past a 40’s-50’s look! Simple black liner, well groomed brows and a red or rose lip. Grace Kelly is my makeup idol. Beautiful!