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.
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Awesome!
1I didn't do so well, but that was definitely interesting. I learned something
2Wow, I did pretty bad but this was all very interesting and it makes me want to learn more!
3I 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!
4I need to check for that book, especially for anything before the 80s.
5Wow, I failed miserably... definitely some interesting info!
63 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.
725 cents in 1915?!
8Great quiz. I'm a history buff and its interesting to learn about makeup in the early 20th century.
9That is so awesome! I'll have to get the book from the library.
10I 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
11I can't believe I got 4/5!
12YAAAY
4 out of 5
13that was interesting and informative!
14Damn, I got 0/5!
Oh well, it was very interesting quiz. You learn something everyday!
15Wow - some surpises!
16Wow. 3/5 and I guessed on all of them! It does sound like an amazing book though.
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