i m watching some vintage makeup videos and it inspired me to pop in here to ask about dolores's makeup / hair routine ?? kinda a lame question sorry lol.
this is a very good question ! i’ve talked about the style of make-up / hair that was popular for women in the 40′s, but let’s go into dolores’s routine. because ho-ly shit. it’s … lengthy. it takes up a couple hours of her morning, and honestly thank god dolores is a naturally early riser, because otherwise, you probably wouldn’t see her downstairs until the morning was almost over.
so to start with, dolores pin curls her hair over night. not every night, but after she washes her hair, she puts in her curlers. they’re typically left in for like, eleven or twelve hours. dolores also is one of those people that brushes their hair one hundred times in a sitting. even thinking about trying it makes my arm tired, but dolores does this almost every night.
this doesn’t fall into the category of either hair or makeup, but it does involve skin care, so i figure i’ll add in it anyway. like many women of the time, dolores uses cold cream as a cleanser for her face, as well as a makeup remover. she also occasionally dabbles in using baby oil as a moisturizer, and she exfoliates twice a week. this girl has glowing skin, frankly. #filters who ?
now to makeup. so usually dolores does hers in the morning, and then reapplies it before going out during the day. her makeup routine is pretty simple: red lipstick, light eye shadow, mascara, and light rouge. she sets her makeup with press powder before going out and bam. long lasting coverage during the day.
if all of this sounds like an extraordinary amount of time to spend on hair and makeup … it is tbh. dolores is someone that wants to look her best all of the time, because she fears judgment from other people. so she goes to these lengths like – brushing her hair 100 times in a night and doing her makeup twice, just so she feels “pretty enough” to be okay in a public setting.
fuck, even in a private setting: dolores goes to these lengths even if she’s just going to be at home all day.
all in all, her hair / make-up routine roughly takes fourteen hours, if the twelve hours of her pin curls setting is factored in.