1800s Makeup Is Not What You Think

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11 ай бұрын

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Contrary to common misconception, the Victorians DID wear makeup. In this video, I interview historian Laura Fitzachary, who specialises in makeup and cosmetics history, in addition to other specialisations, about the truth behind Victorian makeup and cosmetic practices. She also runs through a typical Victorian makeup routine, and I try it out to demonstrate how it ends up looking for you all!
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Sources:
makeupmuseum.com
Godey’s Lady’s Book
La Belle Assemblée (up to 1837)
The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum (1837-47)
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness" (1872).
Sylvia's Book of the Toilet" (1881)
Sozinskey. T. S. (1877). Personal Appearance and the Culture of Beauty. Allen, Lane & Scott.
‘The Arts of Beauty’: Female Appearance in 19th century British Library Newspapers, Dr. Michelle J. Smith
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@VBirchwood 11 ай бұрын

This video has been sponsored by Babbel. Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get up to 60% OFF your subscription ➡ Here: bit.ly/vbirchwood60 Thank you so much for watching, and a massive THANK YOU to Laura for sharing her wisdom! See you all in two weeks for another video 🙂 Also, do you think you're going to start using beetroot juice as rouge now? 😅

@vanessaknight7129 11 ай бұрын

I can't believe people really wasted time complaining about make up. I barely notice your make up, you wear it so nice an natural. Please continue doing you. I love your channel

@ragnkja 11 ай бұрын

And natural-looking enough to not be distracting is *exactly* what someone in the 19th century would have aimed for as well.

@jaehaywardkent 11 ай бұрын

hahaha the intro made me think, it’d be so funny if someone criticised you for making and editing videos in a “historically inaccurate” way💀

@VBirchwood 11 ай бұрын

That would be hilarious 😂 guess I would need to completely quit making videos then! I believe the first motion picture was 1878, so a bit late for my usual mid-Victorian attire 😅

@ragnkja 11 ай бұрын

@@VBirchwood And even then, it was pretty much only used to capture motion for scientific study (such as the study of horse locomotion from 1878) until the 1890s.

@vincentbriggs1780 11 ай бұрын

@@VBirchwood You'll have to send reels of film to all 79.5 thousand of us by post!

@katyb2793 11 ай бұрын

@@vincentbriggs1780 how long will it take to reach Australia by ship? 🤣

@berrynoir 11 ай бұрын

Lisa Eldridge did a Victorian make up tutorial and tried to make it as accurate as she could. Your guest said many of the same things she did, so I'm glad to know that one of my favorite videos of hers was on the right track.

@ragnkja 11 ай бұрын

And Ruth Goodman also said the same in her book _How to be a Victorian_ as well as in the TV series “Victorian Farm” and “Victorian Pharmacy”.

@sweetlorikeet 11 ай бұрын

Burnt clove for eyebrows is dated all the way back to the Georgians I believe, and it honestly works so well!

@rkond 11 ай бұрын

While an authentic style of makeup would probably fit better with the historical clothes style for someone intimately familiar with the period aesthetics, general public would most likely find it weird. For any mainstream historical movie makeup is always up to date on the movie production date even when otherwise aesthetic is period accurate. As someone who has a self sewn historical wardrobe (I don’t wear it daily, only for events) I can only imagine that people who criticize your makeup don’t know what they are talking about and do that out of ignorance. While your makeup is more modern than Victorian it fits your style quite well and anyway if you are the only one whose opinion really matters here.

@catherinejustcatherine1778 11 ай бұрын

I appreciate all the hard work that went into studying, presenting filming and editing the history lesson. I also very much enjoyed watching you experiment with the techniques, and safest materials.

@pheart2381 11 ай бұрын

Never really noticed any makeup,too busy listening. Some people are turning into a bunch of ninnies.

@LawofMosesHere 4 ай бұрын

“Ninnies” lol I haven’t heard that word forever ❤

@julicorn2289 11 ай бұрын

I feel like me putting a bit of mascara and making the tiniest wing with brown eyeliner and having a lip balm with the tiniest bit of sparkle in catholic school where makeup other than covering pimples was prohibited has the same energy as victorian ladies putting on a lil bit of color on their faces

@e.urbach7780 11 ай бұрын

For stage performers, who spend time on stage with artificial lighting directed at them, wearing visible makeup was necessary; the lighting would have washed out their features if they hadn't darkened and exaggerated them with makeup, and their facial expressions (a large part of their performances) would have been lost to the audience! I still remember choir directors telling me "you need darker lipstick", "more blush", "more eye makeup" before performances, because "the audience won't be able to see your face"! Stage makeup, even today, still looks bizarre and obviously artificial when worn in normal lighting, and I can see that being the basis of the horrified reactions to visible makeup that we see in period references. If a performer kept their stage makeup on when they went out for a meal after a show, or even to get back to the boarding house where they were staying, they would be immediately identifiable by the public who saw them, and that would have been enough to associate visible makeup-wearing with the stereotypical lifestyle of theater performers: peripatetic/almost homeless (living out of cheap hotels and boarding houses except for the very few who were highly paid), taking in whatever other work (prostitution, crime, gambling) they could get to bring in money and not interfere with their performance schedule, lack of respect for social and moral standards (because they don't stay in town once the show closes), and associated health issues, etc. But non-theater folks had to have been wearing all of those salves, balms, lotions, etc. that appear in medical and household recipe collections, because there wouldn't have been enough demand if they were limited to the theater folks!

@AmorYMigas 11 ай бұрын

So appreciate your content….. Thank you for all the sources for those of us that like to look these things up and read them as well!!

@sandralantau7395 11 ай бұрын

Great collaboration! Great video!! Thanks!!!

@catherinejustcatherine1778 11 ай бұрын

I think your makeup is lovely a I completely agree that people should wear what they want!

@doris_1325 11 ай бұрын

So fascinating! Thanks for the info.

@JoelleFromParis 10 ай бұрын

Another great video! I learned so much, and bookmarked a few of the sources mentioned for later reference.

@sunsunsunh 11 ай бұрын

Wow, Laura's so knowledgeable. A joy to listen to

@mikjes1839 11 ай бұрын

This is such an amazing video Vasi! Thanks so much for sharing this with us ❤

@mothmustardseed1858 11 ай бұрын

Laura is so engaging and charming! I'd love to see more from her!

@DrinkYourNailPolish 11 ай бұрын

I think when future people look back and they see the clean girl esthetic, they'll also think that ppl from the 2020s didn't wear makeup either

@Horsefaire 8 ай бұрын

Hahaha!

@hektor6766 5 ай бұрын

Women in the US are getting tattooed so much they look like Polynesian harpoonists. Nothing clean or pretty about American girls in the 2020s.

@lilykatmoon4508 11 ай бұрын

What a fascinating interview! Thank you for arranging it, Ms Fotzchary really knows her stuff. I’m sorry you had to deal with people criticizing you. You always look perfectly lovely, and I hope those trolls are put in their place after this video ❤

@melsmith5833 11 ай бұрын

History is fascinating! Thank you for sharing this opportunity. Also, wear whatever you want, if you choose make up, go for it. It's all very personal and no one deserves directives in this area!

@andreiadetavora8471 2 ай бұрын

So much fun!! A curiosity: in portuguese we still say rimmel to infere mascara (the last word is not used by us so much as the first).

@karolealbach1305 11 ай бұрын

I think you are awesome and not sure why anyone would criticize. You look beautiful and love your genuine sharing

@anglosaxaphone672 11 ай бұрын

as a huge history nerd. I find all of this very intriguing. will recommend this video to friends of mine. do you have any content on mens fashion history or is mens fashion just as straightforward as it is today?

@petapendlebury9024 11 ай бұрын

I can only imagine the effects of becoming a little warm at a ball! Hopefully your friends would tell you if your makeup started sliding down your face. It would certainly ruin your natural beauty look that you'd taken such care to achieve 😮😅 very interesting video and such a lovely guest.

@vanishac6099 11 ай бұрын

The video was so nice, thso much really, You inspire me to follow my dreams, I also want to do historical fashion and talk about history, You inspire me to follow my dreams, I also want to make historical fashion and talk about similar topics, thank you very much ❤😊

@chillinginthenameof 5 ай бұрын

'I can wear what I want because it's my body.' You do you. You look lovely! 💖The comments I get about dyeing my hair various colours over the years have been hilarious and irritating. If they don't like it, then they don't have to do it to their own hair or their own body.

@naz-kg3yq 2 ай бұрын

My history teacher once told me that in the past men genuinlt thought that woman naturally had red cheeks and lips. Perhaps that helped woman to get away with wearing some makeup ? I mean most guys now can't tell a bareface from an natural makeup look so..........

@crystaldottir 11 ай бұрын

I wonder if women used candle soot for makeup. It's a good source of fine carbon particles and it's easy--just hold a spoon over a candle flame for a little.

@ClockworkToaster 10 ай бұрын

Yeah they did

@laurienscoville1216 11 ай бұрын

Isn't zinc oxide carcinogenic when exposed to UV light?

@iainmc9859 11 ай бұрын

Certainly no historian would criticise your own personal make-up as being unhistorical. How we 'see' the past inevitably has reflections of modern styles, and that doesn't become obvious until the next generation of historians/re-enacters/enthusiasts reassess the previous generations visual perception of history. And of course you're far too ladylike to tell them exactly what they can do with their ill-informed, un-researched and inaccurate comment. A great talk by Laura, I'd heard some of it before from other sources, but this was the best comprehensive overview in such a short time.

@BrookeSycamore-o2s Күн бұрын

Would you mind sharing some makeup makers/sellers you trust? Thank you

@megangreene3955 11 ай бұрын

There's absolutely nothing wrong with make up. I don't understand why people think that you shouldn't. I don't wear it because even the most hypoallergenic make ups make my nose run and bother me. I'm just a plain Jane.

@2enigma8 11 ай бұрын

And we still have lead in our lippys and formaldehyde in our lash glue/nail polish etc etc 🤦🏻‍♀️😪

@KateandBree 11 ай бұрын

I think your makeup is beautiful. At least we aren’t all wrenched awake because it’s the Rococo look right? 😂

@JustSaralius 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, please don't put any kind of acid in your eyes! XD

@judithgrace8359 11 ай бұрын

Ignore the trolls, I love your videos, ignore the trolls.

@ShadowWolf1307 8 ай бұрын

Why is nobody talking about how 15:31 you put egg on your face when she clearly said the mix should be DISTILLED? (15:36) Its NOT raw egg you put on your face, my girl, ofc THAT would feel wierd xD Thanks for the laugh tho

@VBirchwood 8 ай бұрын

I chose to just put raw egg as I didn’t have the time nor resources to distill. I used just raw egg as an alternative to the suggested recipe 😊 glad it gave you a laugh though!