Flapper makeup refers to “flapper” which was the term given to the new generation of women in the 1920′s who challenged the norms of society by wearing short skirts, close cropped bobbed hair, openly smoked in public, and challenged what was considered acceptable behavior in those times.
Flapper makeup along with a flapper fancy dress is a popular Halloween costume these days. Flapper makeup consists of wearing too much makeup and has many components to it like a feather boa wrapped around the neck and worn like a scarf, a long pearl necklace, a cigarette holder with a burning cigarette (fake cigarette accessories), a 1920′s wig, and finally the flapper dress itself. The most important component of the flapper makeup is the flapper dress – the dress needs to be straight and tight with the arms bare, the skirt needs to be short and just below the knee allowing for the legs to be shown when walking or dancing as was the way with the flappers in the 1920′s.
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A very good example of the flapper makeup and the flapper costumes can be found in the Chicago movie with both Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones sporting the perfect flapper makeup.
For the flapper makeup you will need to smudge your eyes and give them a dark color (plum and purple eye shadow is quite popular), apply dark crimson colored lipstick (glossy lipstick with a shiny gel-based lip gloss), and also apply some rouge on the cheeks or you can also go with a gold colored base and some sparkling shimmer to transform yourself into the perfect flapper woman of the 1920s. Throw in some red colored nail polish, and a suntan to complete the flapper makeup. The flapper women from the 1920s had pale skin and you can recreate that look with modern day cosmetics and makeup and suntan lotion.
As you can see it is easy to create the flapper makeup and the flapper look right at home this Halloween season.
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