Clara’s Bow

CELEBRATING THE ROARING TWENTIES IN A SPECIAL SERIES

Silent Screen star Clara BowI’m thinking, with my change of do on Thursday night, I’m also going to have to rethink my makeup. Doing a little research I discover that the popular colours of the time are actually not much different to the colours I already wear – except much more of it.

Check out Clara Bow’s dramatic eyebrows, (above). I wonder if that famous cupid’s bow of Clara’s was fake? I am not sure if I could be bothered drastically changing the shape of my lips or brows, except perhaps for a party. Just imagine how much concealer would be required – yuk. I wear the bare minimum as it is.

A 1920s collection :: Americana // DC // No flashAt Return2Style you’ll find a very succinct guide to colours and shapes of the era. Fortuitiously, I just bought an orange-red creme blush and a lovely red lipstick (above) that is somewhere between lipstick and gloss. Here is also a little tutorial on how to obliterate your twenty-teensies brows and vanquish a modern pout to create a 20s rosebud instead.

Scroll down for some more inspiration from a vintage British Marie Claire (no idea which issue, sorry, but hey look, there’s Christy, Shalom and the inimitable Linda sporting a 20s bob).

That would be Clara Bow and Louise Brooks in the top leftThe inimitable Linda Evangelista