1920s Flappers

“If you can show me a women who doesn’t want to look young and beautiful – well, I’m afraid she isn’t in her right. Women all want it – and we admit that they do!” (Rubinstein, n.d.) .As a result of the end of the First World War which saw the economic boom (raise in properties being bought) the 1920’s was called the “golden age twenties”. The 1920’s can also be referred to as the roaring twenties. The most iconic thing that comes to mind about the 1920 is the flapper; the flapper was a young woman who had short hair (usually a bob) who would wear short skirts and dresses and would smoke and drink, not all females in the 1920’s became flappers but all women in the 1920’s were given the freedom to vote for the first time and women were also
The classic 1920’s eye shadow is dark but also smoky and soft; the colours would be softly blended together eye shadow was applied to the eyelids as well as the under the eye, the colours that were applied to the eye were said to be purple and blue but there was also brown eye shadow for those women who weren’t as daring, eye liner was used to draw a line along the crease of the eye some women would also apply a small dot in the corner of the eye to give the illusion of a up-turned eye. Mascara was a new creation in the 1920’s and was known as an eyelash darkener, women were able to get mascara in a range of formulations including paste, liquid and a solid cake block which came with a flat small brush for application, regarding eyebrows in the 1920’s they were very thin there were too ways to achieve the famous eyebrow look women could either completely shave their eyebrows off in order to use a pencil to draw them on the other way was to pluck their eyebrows thin then use a pencil to fill in the eyebrow, it was very popular for the eyebrows to be brought down from the natural brow to create the iconic “doe eye”