The Makeup Museum
Everything from makeup history, design and packaging to musings on contemporary beauty culture and museums.
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Article at History Workshop! (opens the original)
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I nearly fell out of my chair when I received an email from the editors of the wonderful UK-based History Workshop, an online magazine dedicated to radical histories, kindly inviting me to select an object from the Makeup Museum's collection and write an article for their Radical Objects series on it. I chose a 1920s powder box from a brand named Tuskegee Belle, which catered to Black women. You can check it out here. Also be sure to check out the whole magazine, it's really amazing! I ab
Cosmetic History Network Salon, September 11 (opens the original)
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Primary Sources, Regency Beauty & Cosmetic HistoryThe Cosmetics History and Makeup Studies Network is thrilled to host author and historical researcher Sarah Jane Downing for an exclusive live discussion as part of the CHMSN Salon Series! Alicia Schult of LBCC Historical Apothecary will be sitting down with Sarah Jane to discuss her latest publication, Beauty and Cosmetics in the Time of Jane Austen.“After the success of Pastimes and Pleasures in the Time of Jane Austen, Sarah Jane Downing turns
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