What Was Makeup Made Out Of In The 80s

Posted By on Oct 26, 2006 |

Every decade has its own style, and the 80s really had its own. From miniskirts to parachute pants and everything in betwixt, the 80s saw a branching out to make things bigger and brighter. Makeup was no exception.

A Example Study, Cyndi Lauper

Outset and foremost there was just a lot of it. The girls of the 80s literally "painted" their faces on. The two defining makeup elements in the 80s face were bold eyes and blush meant to accentuate the cheek bones. The more noticeable the centre shadow and the heavier the blush, the amend you looked as far every bit 80s fashion was concerned. The 80s makeup look made improvement a few years back; read more than about the 80s makeup trends of Winter 2010.

The picture to the right of 80s music and way queen, Cyndi Lauper, has a lot of bully elements to point out, relating to makeup too every bit 80s manner in full general. Find the very heavy use of brilliant pink blush in combination with the heavy eyeliner and orange eye shadow. On the fashion side, she'southward got the top over the shoulder thing going, lots of bangles and fifty-fifty a black lace fingerless glove on her right manus. On the hair side, she has the big, teased and off-to-one-side-practice down pat.

The Eyes – A Closer Look

There were tons of middle shadow colors in heavy use throughout the 80s, but the colour most associated with the decade is the god-awful electric blue stuff. What in the world were we thinking? The eyeliner, in particular, was worn in abundance and on the inside. Surely you lot remember gently pulling the bottom of your center down to attain the most complete coverage. Nothing says 80s valley vixen like tons of blue or teal eyeliner rimming the inside of your eyes. (Past the way, if planning for an 80s party, yous are going to want to use this eyeliner trick – it has an instant transformative effect). Bright blue centre shadow along with a bold secondary color (equally shown with orangish to the left), heavy eyeliner, colored mascara – allow'south just say it was the complete contrary of the "natural" look that's so popular today.

While we're talking almost centre makeup, let's talk over an alternate use we found for eyeliner in the eighties. Before the 80s, having a mole wasn't something to be proud of. And so we fell in love with Madonna and all of a sudden everyone wanted one. Weren't born with it? Not a problem. Buy a stick-on or simply draw one on with brown eyeliner. Did information technology await skilful? Heck no! But come on, it was the 80s! Our totally bodacious infant shown above demonstrates both an fantabulous example of a blueish and orange eye shadow palate forth with the faux eyeliner-based facial mole. Every bit they say in the motion-picture show Better Off Dead, "lookin proficient, lookin existent good."

Hither's another totally awesome instance of 80s makeup.  She has perfect 80s pilus, with the heavy eyes and chroma that marks the 80s makeup look.

Getting Cheeky in the 80s

After the eyes, it was the liberal apply of pinkish blush that gave the states the perfect 80s face.  Bank check out this gorgeous specimen of 80s-ness with her leather jacket, large hair, heavy eye makeup, and very rosy cheeks.  You'll find in these pictures that the blush was meant to accentuate your cheek bones so it was applied more heavily merely in forepart of the ears.  It and then ran along and just nether the cheekbone to requite the face lift and emphasis.

Men in Makeup

Even men (well, some men) got in on the act – Twisted Sis comes to mind. Really, lots of male rock stars got in on the makeup thing; check out Dead or Alive's "Brand New Lover" video every bit a great example.  Gender boundaries were pushed in the 80s as men wanted in on the makeup fun.

To sum it up, the 80s makeup bag independent a tube of paste-like encompass-up, a bottle of heavy foundation, a pressed-pulverization meaty, eye shadow (in a rainbow of luscious colors), a few eyeliner pencils (blue, royal, teal), a couple of blush compacts, an unabridged mascara collection and a bunch of brilliant lipsticks in shades of red, pink and orange.

Pic Sources:
Top Left – "The Complete Book of Makeup," 1985.
Correct – Submitted by Mira of Belgium

Source: http://www.liketotally80s.com/2006/10/80s-makeup/

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