Emo makeup is a new trend for those intrigued by the punk fashion forward scene. It’s quite a mix between rock styles and goth. Today both boys and girls engage in emo makeup application and carry the emo style through not only with their makeup but also with their clothing, music, hair and way of thinking.
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The Roaring Twenties decade saw jazz and women’s liberation in education, behavior, dress and makeup. Pancake makeup was invented in 1914, women got the vote in 1920, and as far as many conservative folk were concerned, the world fell apart. Women were dating without chaperones, necking unreservedly at parties, dancing lewdly and drinking hard liquor in nightclubs and dives.
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The decade of the 30′s was the beginning of makeup created for a particular purpose and purposefully applied. With the stock market crash of 1929, the Flapper era disappeared like the bubbles in a glass of flat champagne: the moneyed class that had fueled the fashion revolution was suddenly dead broke. Nobody wanted to party anymore.
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The 1940′s era redefined women and set the stage for later feminist thought on the history of women. For the first time in the country’s history, the average woman was expected to lead two disparate lives; homemaker and wife of a man at war, and factory worker.
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If you ever watched the TV hit series, “Happy Days”, you have some good ideas about Fifties fashions during that fabulous decade. Teenage girls’ costumes included cashmere twin sets and poodle skirts for date nights, nice, mid-calf length dresses to school and simpler skirts or even blue jeans at home.
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While no one thought twice about the wild 80′s makeup trends during the actual decade, today we look back and realize our everyday makeup styles have changed dramatically. In the eighties, makeup trends were colorful, with most ladies wearing fads of bright eye makeup and lipstick colors.
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The Sixties left the coming decade with an taste for the natural, and the Seventies era particularized the “Natural Look” to makeup and hair. Hair was long, smooth, often very straight, but ideally with a flip on the ends. Think the Mary Tyler Moore show, and you’ve got the early to middle ’70s in a nutshell.
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The shift between the ’50s and the ’60s is usually explained by the fact that, during the Sixties, around 70 million young people became teenagers nearly overnight. In a country whose populations was about 177 million, a significant portion of the population was undergoing that radical, hormone induced, years-long agony called puberty.
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There’s something fun and exciting about the fashion of the 1980s and during the Halloween party season, people love to pay tribute to their favorite 80s looks by dressing up in costumes from the punk culture of the past.
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