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.

Vintage Hair: Beautiful Concoctions

1960s, hair, monty coles, petticoat magazine

Photograph by Monty Coles

Scanned from Petticoat Magazine, December 1968.

Make-up Inspiration: Yardley, 1966

1960s, Make-up, moyra swan, Vintage Adverts, yardley

Perfect Eyeliner: Ludmila Savelyeva

1960s, avedon, eyeliner, Inspirational Images, ludmila savelyeva, Make-up, Vogue

Ludmila Savelyeva. Photographed by Avedon. Vogue, June 1969

Eyeliner, done properly, can be a work of art.

Inspirational Images: Françoise Dorléac

1960s, backcombing, Françoise Dorléac, hair

One of my favourite images, possibly ever.

Make-up Inspirations, 1967

1960s, eyeliner, Make-up, Vintage Adverts

I simply do not have enough eyes; I want to try all of these at once!

Yardley advertisement, 1967.

Psychedelic Advertising

1960s, 1970s, Illustrations, Make-up, psychedelia, Vintage Adverts

Dubonnet 1968

More discoveries on my seemingly endless travels through old magazines… The fact that nobody bothers to create such works of art as these [for the mere purpose of advertising] anymore is everything that is wrong with the modern world. In my opinion. The Woolworths Babydoll make-up advert is a DOUBLE page spread. It’s so exciting to see and, if I could, I would most certainly go and buy up armfuls of it right now. And surely that’s the point of advertising?

Woolworths Babydoll make-up 1967

Wrangler 1970

My hair problems may be solved!

hair, Honey Magazine, noosha fox, sixties, stevie nicks, wigs

Except I need to invent time travel first. Dang.

Thank you to those very kind ladies who commented very lovely things about my hair on my La Peau Douce post. I think it’s just in need of a very thorough trim and a bit more of an effort on my part, which makes me feel quite negative about it. Honestly, I want the results without the endless rollers or icky hairspray and I’ll probably want Stevie Nicks hair the next day. Looking at the above advert, at this very exact moment, I want either 2 or 3’s Noosha Fox-esque styles. I’m so fickle…

Advert from Honey magazine, October 1968

La Peau Douce

films, François Truffaut, Françoise Dorléac, hair, la peau douce, sixties

A wonderful Valentine’s Day trip to the NFT to see François Truffaut’s La Peau Douce has really done nothing constructive to abate my current hair dissatisfaction. I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it many times more, I want Françoise Dorléac’s hair. I know she must have had assistance from clever stylists and plenty of extra hair added, it’s a continuity nightmare, but still. I want.