Notes on new 50’s discoveries

Discovered you could wear orange nails and lipstick in the 50’s as well as red.
As I love coral chose this Barry M Shade; Swift Coral.
It is very similar to 50’s orange as it is a bit more red than modern coral.
Not only pleased with this 50’s discovery, I also love it ~ like all Barry M nail varnish.
Hope this discovery helps you too, if you have to do 50’s but don’t suit or like red.
You can get the matching lipstick also.

Manicure

In A Flash Quick Dry Nail Paint

Swift Coral

In A Flash Quick Dry Nail Paint | Swift Coral

Noticed Women wore red or orange lipstick in the 50’s, so opted for orange.

Kim Novak wearing orange lipstick.

Jane Mansfield wearing Coral Pink lipstick.

Tried to create the bright look of the 50’s.

Food and Drink

Really happy with our food and drink discoveries from the 50’s.

During covid we struggled to get food; think it had similarities to rationing in WW2.

This year I watched the film the Krays.

Think this film is brilliant and the women actresses explaining how dire it was for women in WW2 was the reason I didn’t do the WW2 party.

(I tried out the idea of a WW2 party and thought it would upset my viewers, I was in tears like Billie Whitelaw, who plays the part of the Mother of the Kray twins brothers. My goal is to cheer people up who can’t get food or drink or clothes that fit during covid, so opted for the old school option of a holiday abroad party instead.)

We managed to get a great selection of 50’s wines and alcohol this year; so much so we need a wine cabinet now or a larger drinks cabinet.

The irony of this is I used to have some Martini glasses from John Lewis, but haven’t got them now.

Ad lib martini glasses

50’s Canape apertisers with Martini aparetif

review

These were gorgeous, the italian meat and cheese selection worked brilliantly. These bite size appetisers went down really well, loved the chorizo ones and tried salami for the first time.

Ate quite a few, but had plenty of room left for the chicken and chips and banoffee pie.

Was reading up how to serve Matinini and would like to try a Martini cocktail next time.

Main Course

We had Chicken and chips as we couldn’t get the ingredients for chicken fricasee.

Made lemon and garlic chicken again, this time we got some rosemary so tried it out.

The fragrance was gorgous and it was delicious.

Went down really well, especially after slimming for a month.

Banoffee Pie

This was a bit like Banoffee cheesecake, think I had a tartlet last time.

We really enjoyed it

Look forward to cooking my own desserts again

Quite like Tarte tatin type desserts also.

bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/tarte-tatin

Found this recipe at good food.

Got quite a good selection of 50’s alcohol this time.

We chose Hock this week and are trying Claret next weekend.

Have tried Hock before, but hasn’t been available in our shops of late.

The Martini was really dry, so the fact the Hock was quite sweet was actually really enjoyable in contrast.

We really enjoyed the Hock wine and hope some of the other vintage wines that you can’t get anymore come back too like Reisling and Liebfraumilch.

Will definately be getting Hock again; in fact need a wine storage soloution.

Watched a selection of the 50’s films this year but discovered:

Really enjoyed this film a lot.

Copied a look from this film.

I didn’t look like this in the end but was fun trying and gave me an idea to try lol!!!

My lipstick hasn’t shown up at all ~ we took this with bad lighting on a phone ~ so hopefully not too bad.

Need lipstick to match the nailvarnish for next year.

Used Rimmel as usual, but tried a few new products.

Used the light blue eyeshadow.

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Lips

The night before I used:

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This smoothed my lips for better lipstick application

The lipstick in this free gift

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Glow Play Tendertalk Balm in ‘Photogenic’

Just noticed it is balm and not lipstick, I thought it was a lipstick.

The colour is right for 50’s ~ was so busy think I got a bit confused here.

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As it was a free gift think this is where I got confused.

We had a brilliant party anyway and as it isn’t the 50’s obviously you can’t get 50’s lipstick anyway.

boots.com

These are brilliant for blending, so much so I was lured to try more of their products let you know how I do.

For mascara I used my Benefit mascara collection from any advent calendar.

Also the eyeliner pen.

Advent calendar feng shui/benefit

It has taken me to May, but I’ll purchase the Benefit advent calendar again.

Really like Benefit Mascara, eyeliner and Blushes.

(used all of the mascaras to build up a falsh lash effect.)

Blush

Also used:

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It doesn’t show up like bronzer, but I like the effect it creates, think you could get this colour in the 50’s. Rimmel used to do this colour until very recently, hoprfully it will come back now with some of its lipstick shades that were always there.

If you can’t do fake tan anymore or at the moment, quite happy with this look for fair skin.

Eyeliner

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I always use this now ~ works brilliantly, I’ve switched from Loreal to soap and glory now.

Review of new look

Have to say I’m really pleased with this look; it was really quick and easy to do. Have been a bit lost with makeup of late, but will do this now.

If you have fair skin and dark hair like me hope this look inspires you too.

The above link is to products I’ve tested and approve, (if you fancy a browse and shop for inspiration).

The link above is to Saphire’s hairdressing salon.

Finally feel like I’m getting somewhere with this; it does work you just have to percervere.

Hope your sorting your hairstyle out too if you have been struggling like me.

Also found Sweet Dreams about Patsy Cline

As well as inspiring some food this year, (we got the banoffee pie from M & S, so you can get it too.) it is a brilliant film find – highly recommend – I hadn’t watched it before.