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Bella Quiz: 20th Century Beauty, Part I

Tue, 11/25/2008 - 7:00am by bellasugar
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The nerd in me loves history and the lady in me loves makeup. So, imagine my excitement levels when a dear friend of mine lent me Face of the Century: 100 Years of Makeup and Style, a great coffee table book she picked up at a yard sale.

Filled with old pictures and writer Kate de Castelbajac's brilliant bits of beauty information, the book provides the details on makeup and style one decade at a time. Want to learn some fun facts from this read? Take my quiz to test your makeup smarts from the 1900s-1940s, and look for my quiz on the 1950s-1990s to come.


Question 1

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  • brittanyk's picture
    brittanyk
    2

    I didn't do so well, but that was definitely interesting. I learned something Smiling

    6 weeks 5 hours ago Report Comment
  • FlamesofJune's picture
    FlamesofJune
    3

    Wow, I did pretty bad but this was all very interesting and it makes me want to learn more!

    6 weeks 5 hours ago Report Comment
  • hyzenthlay20's picture
    hyzenthlay20
    4

    I agree with FlamesofJune . . . I probably wouldn't have picked up this book if I saw it in the store, but that quiz was really interesting! Now it makes me want to check out the book!

    6 weeks 4 hours ago Report Comment
  • Juicylemon's picture
    Juicylemon
    7

    3 out of 5! That's so interesting, I love history and make-up too and while doing the quiz I felt like reading a book like this one.

    6 weeks 3 hours ago Report Comment
  • L0neLyHeArT's picture
    L0neLyHeArT
    9

    Great quiz. I'm a history buff and its interesting to learn about makeup in the early 20th century.

    5 weeks 6 days ago Report Comment
  • Shadowdamage's picture
    Shadowdamage
    11

    I would love that book.

    On a side note 25 cents in the context of 1915 seemed like a lot of money...I did some net snooping and came up with this comparison:

    A bottle of Worchestershire sauce was about 10 cents.

    If you figure today a bottle would be about 3 bucks, right?

    So 25 cents then "roughly" amounts to 7-8 dollars..or so. (Ok not perfect math but anyways)...that's about right for a drugstore mascara product, if anything these days that's on the cheaper side since some can be 12-17 dollars even when its a drugstore line.

    I got this info from a page of prices from New Jersey in 1915..some interesting reading:

    http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/prices/1915.html

    5 weeks 6 days ago Report Comment

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