Cosmetics in the 1920s

Review byjoy· 2026-11-05

★★★★

the cool: visionary, exciting, understands the power of shaping the lips in a way we lost after 1990. concurrent with the rise of acting getting the respect it deserves as an art form among average joes the bad: impossible to separate from postwar hysteria about needing to be able to "tell" men from women. only exists in the first place to sell gender. also, many eyebrows would never recover. and this isnt even getting into the insane amounts of radium in lots of this stuff. we didnt need to be poisoning all those girls for that