Men wearing make-up

[immortaldiamond]

This might interest you all - a clip from the 1940s, but seeming as old as the 1840s!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/stephen_hough/blog/2009/06/04/men_in_makeup_or_smelly_tweeds

 

[chanteuseCarey]

From seeing the men's clothes in this clip- those suits are not 1940s. The gals' hair and dresses suggest at least late 50s, 60s or maybe even the early 1970s.

This might interest you all - a clip from the 1940s, but seeming as old as the 1840s!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/stephen_hough/blog/2009/06/04/men_in_makeup_or_smelly_tweeds

 

[immortaldiamond]

From seeing the men's clothes in this clip- those suits are not 1940s. The gals' hair and dresses suggest at least late 50s, 60s or maybe even the early 1970s.

If the first lady is Barbara Cartland, as one of the comments suggests, then it's definitely not 60s or 70s as she died in her 80s about ten years ago. Those English accents disappeared soon after the Beatles strummed their first chords.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

It's from 1957 - from Pathe's own archives

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Oh thats Cecily Courtney Courtridge


That's the famous stage star being interviewed There! but back on thread , Does teen heartthrob Zac Efron's love of "mancake" foundation and "guyliner" put him on the edge of a new men's makeup breakthrough? I do use a sunblock that is skin toned, it does stop you looking like "Casper the Ghost", you know that look you get with white based sunblocks.

You hear 1920's refences to men with "Powder" but is it face powder or Cocaine?, in the 1970s Mary Quant ( or is it Dame Mary Quant?) introduced her "Colouring box for men", which included a bronzer, manscara, khaki eye shadow

 

[LordBest]

I could listen to Mrs Legge, later Lady Lewisham, Lady Dartmouth, Countess Spencer, Comtesse de Chambrun and finally Countess Spencer again talk all day, what a splendid accent!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Suited men wear make-up

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Thanks to Lounger 'Immortaldiamond' for providing this to us!


1950s British newsreel footage cobbled together to show how 'poncey' Englishmen could be. Funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leg2...keup_or_smelly_tweeds&feature=player_embedded


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[Matt Deckard]

Elvis did wear eyeliner

 

[scotrace]

The ability to use a little concealer would be nice now and again.

Some days you wake up and look in the mirror and think, "Dang. You ugly. And there ain't nothin' you can do about it Pal."

 

[Tomasso]

Cary Grant eschewed make-up in favor of a deep tan.

 

[Caity Lynn]

^ my brother as a teen used to use concealer. [huh] Go for it lol

personally (warning: teenager rant/opinion) personally, guys in eyeliner are HOTTT.

 

[scotrace]

OK, now after actually watching the video: Wow. With the exception of the compact and powdering (the poof! lol), the rest of it is common for men now. There must be someone out there marketing makeup for men by now? (not for me, thanks)
The second woman HAD to have been the inspiration for many Python sketches.

personally (warning: teenager rant/opinion) personally, guys in eyeliner are HOTTT.

(Marc: Thread title revision perhaps? I think we have a hot topic!)

 

[scotrace]

Cary Grant eschewed make-up in favor of a deep tan.

That's the way I've always played it.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

The comment at 1:04 in the clip sums up my view perfectly.

Marc, an excellent clip, made me smile, thanks. EB

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Thank Immortaldiamond ... he's the one who posted it first. :eusa_clap

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[Ethan Bentley]

Thank Immortaldiamond ... he's the one who posted it first. :eusa_clap

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Ah yes of course! Many thanks to you Immortal Diamond.

 

[Barbigirl]

More important than man makeup...

Facial grooming and I don't mean your beard!

Don't worry so much about the make up.
PLEASE WORRY about grooming your eyebrows, nose hair and ear beards!

If you are pushing 40 or over -- Don't think you don't have them, you do. It is just not attractive.

I wish for you a partner who is intimate enough they can help where you cannot see. It's sexy hot to be man enough to let your partner help. If you don't believe me, find a man with good eyebrows and ask him.

 

[Caity Lynn]

^eyebrows!!!! *shudder* I wish men would take at least SOME care of their eyebrows.

Unibrow, NO, no shape whatsoever, NO. That needs fixed.

Not extreme, but come on men, if women can pluck and wax out eyebrows to the freaky extent we do, you can lose a few hairs once a month.

(ok, I'm done ranting lol)

 

[Slim Portly]

I consider grooming above the neck to be an integral part of my daily hygiene.

 

[Warbaby]

I've been keeping by eyebrows (as well as unsightly hairs sprouting from other facial orifices) plucked for more than 40 years. I just wish more men owned a pair of tweezers - visible nose hair is simply too gross for words.

In my younger days, back in the glam-inspired 70s, I went through a phase of wearing fairly elaborate eye makeup. At the time, I was working at a rather staid institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the reactions from my cow-orkers were amusing, to say the least. Apparantly men are very confused by a straight male wearing makeup and try their best to ignore it. OTOH, most of the women I knew loved it.