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

 

1950s

Marilyn Monroe

Jayne Mansfield

Elizabeth Taylor
Ava Gardner
Audrey Hepburn
Dovima
Suzy Parker
Jean Patchett
Bettina Graziani

Bettina Graziani

1960s
Jean Shrimpton
Penelope Tree
Peggy Moffitt
Nico
Jean Seberg
Jane Birkin
Twiggy


Twiggy



1970s 
Farah Fawcett
Donna Summer
Sid Vicious
David Bowie
Kiss  (?Really? I didn't see this one coming!)
Lauren Hutton
Bo Derek
Veruschka

Veruschka

1980s
Cindy Lauper
Boy George (makes sense i guess)
Nina Hagen
Grace jones
Jerry Hall
Brooke Shields


Brooke shields



1990s
Kristen McMenamy
Julia Roberts
Demi Moore
Kate Moss



Kate Moss



2000s
Jennifer Lopez
Shakira
Britney Spears
Paris Hilton
Beyonce

Beyonce

2010s
Lady Gaga
Rihanna

Rihanna

Secretly googling the names whilst hiding in the bathroom isn't sounding too bad to me now - who's with me? 

Blog to you soon, 

Sahar