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Wednesday 9 April 2014

Make-up makeover: From perfumed hair lacquer and pat-on deodorant to sonic face brushes and dry shampoo, how beauty regimes differ 50 years on

  • Cosmetics chain Superdrug has marked its half century by highlighting the differences between beauty regimes today and those of our mothers and grandmothers in the 1950s
  • In days gone by a girl would have to set aside hours for her beauty regime
  • Perfumed talc, pat-on deodorant,  hair lacquer and cream rouge topped a lady's must-have list of products
  • Today hi-tech sonic face cleansing brushes, dry shampoo, home waxing hair removal strips and anti-ageing serums are the products of the day

  • Back in the Swinging Sixties, getting ready was a bit of a chore. After scrubbing yourself in the bath with a bar of Pears soap, you might have doused yourself in talc, applied your pat-on deodorant and revamped your hairdo with a generous coating of hair lacquer.

  • These days it seems we’re too busy – and hi-tech – for all that faff, relying on quick-fix dry shampoo to freshen our hair, electric face cleaning brushes to buff our skin and anti-ageing serum to protect it. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2600194/Make-makeover-From-perfumed-hair-lacquer-pat-deodorant-sonic-face-brushes-dry-shampoo-beauty-regimes-differ-50-years-on.html

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