Beauty Icons of the 1950's

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner - these names ring a bell?
I bet they do.
Beauty, grace, elegance, sophistication and sex appeal - they had it all.
The men are back from war and the 'pin-ups' are no longer required.
Their wives are sporting shorter hairdos and longer skirts but are just as stunning.

Dressed to the nines, complete with white gloves, fashion hats and the "doe-eyed look" that becomes the signature look of this decade, these women became our beauty icons and, let's face it - the fantasy of men for decades to come.

Ava Gardner

Elizabeth Taylor

Jayne Mansfield

Audrey Hepburn

Hmm... anyone thinking Dita Von Tease? Yea, so am I.

Dita Von Tease

As mentioned in my first post, when a client books you and says: I want a Jayne Mansfield look, you have to know who Jayne Mansfield was and know that this chick really wants to look like Pamela Anderson but is too shy to say so. ;) Just kidding, but is it just me or did you also get a Pam Anderson vibe from Jayne Mansfield? I'm just saying.
But i digress, in short: you need to know what these beauty icons looked like so you can recreate the look.

There are some great make-up tutorials on www.youtube.com, one make-up artist duo in particular that i absolutely love are named: Pixiwoo. 

Here's their Elizabeth Taylor make-up tutorial:

Blog to you soon,

Sahar

Warm colours vs. Cold colours

I’ve been procrastinating, I know.
But it’s only because I am finding this warm colour vs. cold colour thing very vague.
Almost like learning French grammar: tons of ‘rules’ but then tons of “exceptions” to the said rule. So what was the purpose of the rule? Anyway, moving on - I give you:

Cold colours vs. Warm colours: 

The Chromatic circle can be divided in half separating the cold colours from the warm colours.

As you can see, the yellow and purple play for both sides. They are neutral in that way.

I guess we could call them the bi’s of the colour spectrum ;)

(Sigh) Here’s where it gets interesting {read: where it becomes a bitch}
Even though blue is a "cold" colour it can also be considered "warm" if in its composition there is a high concentration of red or yellow.

Another example is brown - normally a warm colour, but when composed with a high concentration of blue or purple hues, it becomes a cold colour.

It gets better, wait till we get into skin tones, then you’ll really love this. 

But the general idea is this:

Warm colours are typically composed of red and yellow derivatives.

Cold colours are typically composed of blue and yellow derivatives.

The more observant of you might have picked up on the fact that our aforementioned complimentary colours (described in previous posts) are a combination of one warm colour and one cold colour. With the exception of yellow and purple of course but that's only because, as mentioned above, yellow and purple are the neutral colours of the spectrum. Generally though, yellow warms up a colour and purple cools it off.

And voila! We're done with the lesson! Unless you want me to get into the psychology of warm and cold colours. It's simple enough, psychologically red reminds us of fire thus making it a warm colour and blue of course reminds us of ice therefore making it a cold color. Get the jest? Thought so. ;)


Blog to you soon, 


Sahar