Saturday, January 29, 2011

Get to know your Beauty Icons


First assignment as Make-up Artists-to-be (as per my teacher) is to get to know the
beauty icons of past and present so that when used as reference points,  you don't fall into panic mode and excuse yourself to the nearest bathroom stall to secretly google/wiki said reference on your smartphone-du-jour.
Makes sense right? But, like everything else of great value, easier said than done.
At first i thought to myself: piece of cake. I mean, there can't be that many icons I don't know about and plus, time flies when you learn interesting things. But then I opened the book and guess where it begins?
- The 1950s you say?
- Try again.
- The 20s?
- Nope.
- The Medieval times?
- You're getting warmer
- Eve?
- The same Eve that took a bite out of the apple? I'm impressed you would go that far back but NO!
- You are now thinking to yourself: "Surely not B.C."?
- As in BEFORE CHRIST? And right you would be! In fact, try 4000 years B.C..
Eh oui, that's how far my teacher wants us to venture out and venture we will.
I promise I'll cover them all in more detail but here's a sneak peak in case you wanted to search for them yourself:

Egypt 4000 B.C
Cleopatra


Cleopatra (ok so they had no cameras back then, sue me)
 

Geece 300 - 100 B.C.
Venus DE Milo
Venus DE Milo

Rome 100 B.C. - 100 A.C. 
N/A

Medieval Times 1000 - 1453
Mary and Eve

Italian Renaissance
Botticelli's Venus


Botticelli's Venus
 

XV and XVI century
Queen Elizabeth I - The shaved hairline and no eyebrow look? :/


Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I
 

XVIII Century
Josephine
Madame de Recamier
Marie-Antoinette (oh, i know her, the "let them eat cake queen ;)
Madame DE Pompadour
Madame DE Pompadour

Mid-XIX 
Sissi
Madame Moitessier
Princesse De Broglie


Princesse De Broglie
 

Victorian Times - end of the 19th Century
Queen Victoria I


Emily Blunt as Queen victoria
 

1900s
Colette
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt

1910s
Thedra Bara
Mary Pickford


Mary Pickford
1920s
Louise Brook
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker

1930s 
(finally, names i recognize)
Greta Garbo
Marlene Dietrich
Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow

1940s
Lauren Bacall
Veronica Lake
Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth