Beauty

[CatsyCline]

My mother mostly  wore only lipstick, by Revlon, Cherries in the Snow.  She had the red boxed cake mascara and a small eyeshadow in a dusty evergreen shade. These were kept in her top dresser drawer.  i guess she wore the eye makeup when my Dad and her went to the race track.

  On her dresser were Arpege, Youth Dew and a jar of Topaz perfumed cream.  Ponds and Oil of Olay. The Olay came in a square bottle and she got it from the Hardware Store owner's wife who said it was very hard to find so it wasnt always available . A ploy i'm sure. Mom stocked up on 6 bottles at a time (still uses Olay at 90). She shampooed once weekly on Saturdays and set her hair on brush rollers with Dippity Do.  There was a big poofy cap hair dryer. Sometimes we disconnected the cap and used it as a "blow dryer"

[millieshops]

@KingstonsMomPond's was the closest thing to a beauty product my mother had.   And even that she didn't use all that much.  The whole 7 of us washed ourselves with cakes of Ivory soap.

[ECBG]

I remember big jars of Germaine Monteil cold cream. I loved those big jars.

[Lisa Y]

@redbird   My mother used many of the aforementioned beauty items. She still uses Vitapointe hair cream, found on Amazon.

[godi]

Dipity Doo and Aqua Net. 

[ScarletDove]

My mother was born in 1903 so she used many products available that she grew up with in her family with 6 girls.  As a child I remember my mother used Noxzema, Ivory bar soap, rose water, glycerin, her perfume was Guerlain's Shalimar. After she died I found a bottle of Shalimar on her dresser.  Also remember in the late 40's/early 50's she wore full leg gabardine pants...they were so gorgeous on her...only pants she ever had or wore.  Mostly housedress or a suit for church!

[K9buddy]

Oil of Olay face cream

Jean Nate powder and after bath splash 

Estée Lauder bath oil

[morganjen]

Revlon Touch and Glow foundation

[Jordan2]

I don't recall anything my mother used, but my nanny always had Ponds cold cream on her vanity, she used it religiously. She was a vain woman, she would sit outside with a reflector to get sun ( this is when people didn't know better). She was a working woman when my dad was very young, at a time when women didn't work outside of the home, I think this is why she cared about her appearance so much.

[geezerette]

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@depglass wrote:

I can remember only a couple things.  That Maybelline mascara that came in a red box where you rubbed a brush across a cake of product.  The Coty powder that has those orange flowers on the box.  I used to see that in Walmart a few years ago.  She had beautiful skin.  She was born in 1924.  I never dared play with these things, I waited until I babysat for the neighbors and always used her Revlon foundation.  No one ever seemed to notice.  Its not like she marked the bottle.  I also used her coral lipstick and wondered why it didn't look good on me.  I'm very pink and no corals look good on me.  

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@depglass 

My mother used that same powder her whole adult life too!  My mother also had flawless skin.  It was still at Walmart the last time I was in the makeup aisle.

My mother never wore mascara, but my sisters and I all used that red Maybelline box with the tiny little brush!😁