Cosmetics Collection (page 2)

Advert for Max Factors makeup featuring the Sisters G, 1930. They had appeared in the Universal Pictures film King of Jazz Date: 1930

Advert for Maybelline Eye Shadow, 1930
Advert for Maybelline Eye Shadow and eyebrow pencil, 1930 Date: 1930

A cosmetics and accessories seller making a house call. The customers are a geisha madam and two young geisha in an okiya

Women of the working class in Tokyo, 18th century
Women of the working class in Tokyo, Edo Era, 18th century. A laundress washing clothes in a tub, a menial maid carrying water pales with yoke, servant with brush, and nursemaid with baby

Advert, Powdering Her Face
Advert for Pompeian Beauty Powder, Powdering Her Face. 1926

Advert, Pompeian Beauty Powder. 1926

Ponds Cold Cream as sun protection
Advertisement for Ponds Cold Cream, suggesting that, if applied before exposure (to the sun), prevents the skin from becoming dry and burnt. I m not entirely convinced by this claim. Date: 1930

Oarweed, Laminaria digitata, Laminaire digitee. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Advert, Make up to Yourself. 1936

Advert, Guerlain Lait de Beaute, Beauty Lotion, the milky way to beauty. 1936

The Bystander, Arming for the Fray by Barribal 1930
Front cover illustration for The Bystander by William Barribal featuring a woman with flame red hair using a hand mirror to apply lipstick. Date: 1930

Advertisement for Icilma face powder. Date: 1949

Advertisement for Gala of London nail colour. Date: 1949

Cartoon advert for Shuck Maclean and Co Ltd, makers of printing inks. The winner of a beauty competition writes: I ascribe my success entirely to the use of your charming inks. 20th century

Painted in Lipstick - The Lipstick by Kees van Dongen
Sketch by the Danish artist Kees van Dongen, famous for painting the ultra-modern woman of the 1920s. The artist used lipstick to draw a picture of a woman applying lipstick. Date: 1929

Face Powder Advert
Three girls of the Ginger Rogers era who use SNOWFIRE FACE POWDER Date: 1935

Pyxis decorated. Geometric period. Greece
Greek Art. Geometric perios. Pyxis decorated with geometric motifs and lid topped with figures of horses. Greece. Kerameikos Museum. Athens

White gangster hat by Edward Mann
Model wearing a white gabardine " gangster" hat with red, white and blue striped band by Edward Mann. Worn with make-up by Richard Hudnut using bright pink bloom cream rouge for the hearts

Straw stetson hat by Peter Shepherd
Model wearing a navy straw stetson with blue, pink and white band by Peter Shepherd. Worn with make-up by Max Factor. Date: 1966

Perfume label, Gordon Gordon, Chicago, USA, makers of the Princess Pat range of cosmetics. Date: circa 1920s

Plastic Surgery - Before and After
Examples of patients who have undergone plastic surgery in the 1920s, to accompany an article in " The Sphere" magazine, entitled " New Faces for Old." 1927

Advertisement for Ponds Cold Cream with Countess of Warwick
Advertisement for Ponds Cold Cream and Vanishing Cream endorsed by society darling the Countess of Warwick, formerly Miss Rose Bingham. Date: 1935

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Women taking roses to make rose water wi
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Women taking roses to make rose water with its petals. Folio 93r

Advertisement for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics -- two female models posing (Anne Wilkie and Geraldine Hill). 1959

Advert for Ponds Cold Cream featuring Princess Marina
Advertisement for Ponds creams as endorsed by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Marina, daughters of Princess Nicholas of Greece, often seen at the smartest social functions in London

Advertisement for Rowlands Macassar Oil, 1892
An advertisement for Jays of London mourning warehouse, and for Rowlands Macassar Oil, as featured in the Illustrated London News 1892

Rowlands Kalydor advertisement, 1887
An advertisement for Rowlands Kalydor-a most refreshing and emollient preparation for preserving and beautifying the skin

1950s beauty
A colour photograph showing a model replicated five times to demonstrate the fact that five different face powders in an identical shade will produce five different results and trial

Advert / Diadermina Cream
Diadermina Skin Cream - for sports people

Tatler cover - Marion Davies & Suzanne Lenglen
Actress Marion Davies pictured making up tennis star Suzanne Lenglen for a film test at a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. Date: 1927

Ponds skincare advertisement, Lady Mary Pakenham
One in a series of Ponds Cold Cream advertisements during the 1930s featuring a society lady, in this case, Lady Mary Pakenham

Lip stick in Tutankhamens day
Illustration reflecting facts described in Adolph Ermans Life in Ancient Egypt showing an Egyptian woman applying rouge - apparently the Egyptians applied this even to corpses. Date: 1924

Couleur de Rose advertisement
Advertisement for Granvilles Couleur de Rose the only natural tint for the cheeks. Date: 1924

Scenes from a Parisian Beauty Parlour
" One must suffer in order to be beautiful." This page from " The Sphere" depicts the latest treatments being employed in Parisian beauty parlours

1920s beauty treatment
This woman is looking positively radiant owing to her using Swedish rubaway to keep slim; ganesh dara to do away with " superfluous hairs"

Using Ponds Cold Cream
Illustrations depicting women using various Ponds skincare products, available in jars for use at home, or tube for when travelling. Date: 1935

Advert for Worth perfume Dans La Nuit, Paris 1926 Date: 1926

Letterhead design - Louise Perfume, Paris
Letterhead design - Louise Perfume and Cosmetics, Paris, France. 1936

Max Factor make up studio
Exterior of the Max Factor Make-Up Studio, situated off Hollywood Boulevard in the 1930s. Max Factor (15 September 1872 30 August 1938), born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-Jewish businessman

Una Merkel, MGM star, applying Max Factor make up
Una Merkel (December 10, 1903 January 2, 1986) was an American stage, film and television actress. Pictured in applying Max Factors eyebrow pencil in a promotional booklet for the cosmetics company

Patricia Ellis, Warner Bros star applying Max Factor make up
Patricia Ellis (May 20, 1916 March 26, 1970), American film actress of the 1930s pictured in a Max Factor promotional booklet applying the cosmetics companys mascara (called eye-lash make-up here)

Ginger Rogers, applying Max Factor make up
Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 April 25, 1995) American actress, dancer, and singer, best known for dance films in which she was partnered with Fred Astaire

Liberty wrapper for travelling
A Liberty wrapper, or dressing gown, in printed satin - perfect for relaxing when travelling by train in 1933. Date: 1933

Advertisement for Lelu beauty products -- something for every hour of the day and night. 1929

Label, Greaseless Cream Foundation by Rosemonde
Label, Greaseless Cream Foundation, by Rosemonde of Paris, Montreal and Chicago. Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Neige des Cevennes, cosmetics 1928
A recognizable image by Maurice Milliere in an advert for Neige des Cevennes. Date: 1928

Advert for Floreine cream
Floreine beauty creams and perfumes Date: 1919

Poster advertising L T Piver cosmetics
Poster by Charles Martin advertising L T Piver cosmetics -- perfumes, powders, lotions and soaps. An elegant young woman sprays herself with perfume. circa 1920

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