Doe Eyed 60's

 

Twiggy applying lashes and eyeliner crease



Twiggy for Yardley False Lashes



Early to mid 1960's the 'doe-eyed' look was it!  Teenagers started to experiment and cosmetic sales went through the roof by mid to late 60's.  Girls and women were empowering their creativity and fashion sense through makeup.  Eye makeup designs became 'rounder' looking.

Twiggy

Makeup enhanced the eyes, the object was to make them look larger with minimal focus on the mouth.  Lipsticks were pale pinks, apricots, nude flesh, almost opaque at times, shiny and glossy.  Apart from the lipliner definition in contrast, the lips seemed to almost disappear.  Eyeliner colours leaned towards browns, grey and charcoal, rather than black.  Mascara was a girls' best friend, a secret weapon to lengthen & thicken the lashes. 

Mia Farrow

Gold eyeshadow shades were popular, and shiny tones.  In 1969, British Vogue wrote, "Colour your lips with natural shiny stain.  Your eyes must look wide awake and shiny."

Jean Shrimpton



Brows were thin and rounded.  False lashes were thick & short and then superceded by longer more spacious lashes as the years grooved on. 

Eyelashes were also drawn in by hand with black eyeliner to accentuate the doe-eyed look as well as individual lashes applied. 

Much empahasis was placed on the 'crease' of the eye, dark smokey lines to recede the orbital bone were drawn from the outer stretching right over to the inner corner of the eye, highlighting the light to white shimmer eyeshadows.  The contrast was quite marked and complimented the thick eyeliner and tail design also.





Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Goldie Hawn, Veruska, Jane Fonda and many more celebreties of the day lead the way in 60's eye makeup fashion.

 


Goldie Hawn