2. 1940
• The Second World War caused a major
interruption in the continuous advances in
makeup and the years of austerity and
postwar.
3. Despite this the French were willing to maintain its
reputation as the best dressed women in the world. If
the rest of the world's women thought they should
dress with modesty and sobriety, the French developed
a flamboyant style to demonstrate their independence.
4. Dark red lips, dressed in bright colors (blue, white, red)
and hats and shoes that grow on high wedge.
Headdresses made with any type of material (veil,
flowers, velvet, feathers ....) used much ingenuity and
even came to be in bad taste in some cases.
5. Due to lack of resources make quality was poor and
had to sharpen the wits with tricks like fudge frosting
eyelashes and eyebrows boots with shoe polish, in the
case of English, or replace the blush with rose petals
bathed in red wine
6. The manes were carried bows reflected in higher, which
more elongated and stylized head. In the film win the
figure of Veronica Lake, long hair and wore a slightly
wavy blonde had to cut forced by the government
because of the time women had accidents in factories
work by mimicking his long hair
7. When the war stopped, the mouth become more
pronounced as dark tones and gave more importance
to the eyes. The ideal incarnate as Brigitte Bardot, a
child's face with a fully developed body.
