Doodling With Colour

Honey Magazine, Illustrations, Make-up, maudie james, patrick hunt

Hmmm. What shall I try first? A rainbow across my tilt-up nose, or should I wait a few weeks and do the ‘April Fool!’ one? Some good make-up tips here, I particularly love the rainbow lashes, and I would now dearly love to get myself a Doodle Kit.

Vintage Adverts: Smoochers

Make-up, petticoat magazine, seventies fashion, Vintage Adverts

Smoochers from Boots Seventeen. Scanned from Petticoat, November 1974.

Mad orange lipstick packaging, names like Smoochers and Sugar Daddy, men in puffy sleeved shirts….make-up advertising just ain’t what it used to be!

Vintage Adverts: Strictly for lids

19 magazine, glam rock, Make-up, mary quant, seventies fashion, Vintage Adverts

Aha!! So who really invented eye crayons, eh? Was it Boots or Mary Quant? Mary Quant or Boots? We’ll probably never know, but I’m willing to place a bet that the Boots ones worked better*…

Scanned from 19 Magazine. September 1974

*I speak from experience. My nan worked in the factory where the Quant ones were made and I attempted to use them in my teens. They were, frankly, useless.

The Colour Craze

barbara hulanicki, Barbara Hulanicki, biba, caroline arber, didier duval, hair, Make-up, mary quant, seventies fashion, steven hiett, vanity fair

Green says Biba. Photo by Caroline Arber.

All the top beauty talent is currently colour-crazy – and we’re very much for it; it’s a fabulous enlivener of the grey winter scene. Your party look could be a variant of any of the gloriously off-beat ideas you see here – and anyone who considers green lips unnatural might dwell, briefly, on the knock-you-down naturalness of bright plum or orange ones.

Vanity Fair, December 1971

Violet says Pablo – Elizabeth Arden’s ebullient young creative director.

Rainbow hair says Michael at Crimpers. Photo by Steve Hiett.

Any colours you like says Vanity Fair, using Mary Quant’s crayons. Photo by Didier Duval.

Inspirational Images: Pre-Raphaelite hair

barbara daly, barry lategan, hair, leonard, Make-up, seventies fashion, Vogue

Photographed by Barry Lategan. Hair by John at Leonard. Make-up by Barbara Daly.

Vogue, February 1975

Inspirational Images: Making up to Autumn

19 magazine, Harri Peccinotti, Inspirational Images, Make-up, seventies fashion

Illustrating an article titled 'We're Making up to Autumn'.

One face, four moods

Clio Goldsmith, hair, Honey Magazine, Make-up, seventies fashion

I’m sorry, I just couldn’t bear to type it out as ‘1 face/4 moods’ in the title. It just looked so clunky. Regardless of such pedantry, this is a stunning two page spread. Wild child and temptress are the clear winners, for me, because I am clearly both. Ha! Ho! Hee!

‘Coolly freaky hair’ is exactly what I aspire mine to be described as. I’m starting to think I just need to get it permed and be done with it…

Scanned from Honey, February 1975. Photographed by David Steward.