By definition of middle schoolers, to be beautiful means that someone is physically attractive and enticing, but it also means that a person is content with who they are. For the past one hundred years, beauty trends and icons have changed drastically through each decade. Whether it was Hollywood’s Golden Age or the Roaring 20s, something new was thought of as beautiful at the height of each and every decade. In some decades it was desirable to have an hourglass figure, while in other decades it was desirable to have a boy like figure. The two are polar opposites, but they were each what women aspired to look like at some time throughout history. Over the past century, the marketing of beauty has also transformed. “Advertisers began to poke
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The Roaring 20s was filled with women who felt recently empowered due to being granted the right to vote on Aug 18, 1920. The 1920s was a new decade of empowerment, and women expressed the new feeling of power through makeup. Due to technological advances, blush, or rouge, became significantly more portable, so it became widely used. In 1923, the first swivel lipstick that is owned by millions today was invented and began being sold to the public. It was a very neat and portable option to get the “Cupid’s Bow” lips of the time. Clara Bow created a lip trend named the “Cupids Bow” where women would line their lips in a shape smaller than their real lips with an overdone bottom lip. Lipstick and lip shape were what women focused on keeping very neat and full. The ideal makeup look in 1920 consisted of full and long eyelashes, very thin, barely visible eyebrows, and dark red lipstick that followed the Cupid’s Bow technique. Women wanted to look as young as possible. In the 1920s, women strived to have a very petite figure, where the desirable height was only five feet tall. The appealing body type of the Roaring 20s was very boy-esque. Women tried to hide their curves, and “some would even bind their chests with strips of cloth to achieve a boyish look”(35 Hey GOOD LOOKING!-Stats & Facts). Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Gloria Swanson pioneered the thought that petite was beautiful through visions of skinny girls in movies. During the Roaring 20s, big lips and little bodies were what women strived for to be the ideal version of
The Roaring 20s was filled with women who felt recently empowered due to being granted the right to vote on Aug 18, 1920. The 1920s was a new decade of empowerment, and women expressed the new feeling of power through makeup. Due to technological advances, blush, or rouge, became significantly more portable, so it became widely used. In 1923, the first swivel lipstick that is owned by millions today was invented and began being sold to the public. It was a very neat and portable option to get the “Cupid’s Bow” lips of the time. Clara Bow created a lip trend named the “Cupids Bow” where women would line their lips in a shape smaller than their real lips with an overdone bottom lip. Lipstick and lip shape were what women focused on keeping very neat and full. The ideal makeup look in 1920 consisted of full and long eyelashes, very thin, barely visible eyebrows, and dark red lipstick that followed the Cupid’s Bow technique. Women wanted to look as young as possible. In the 1920s, women strived to have a very petite figure, where the desirable height was only five feet tall. The appealing body type of the Roaring 20s was very boy-esque. Women tried to hide their curves, and “some would even bind their chests with strips of cloth to achieve a boyish look”(35 Hey GOOD LOOKING!-Stats & Facts). Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Gloria Swanson pioneered the thought that petite was beautiful through visions of skinny girls in movies. During the Roaring 20s, big lips and little bodies were what women strived for to be the ideal version of