Transporting us back in time, today’s stars and makeup artists are calling upon the bold beauty of the Swinging ‘60s.
The nostalgic allure of the Swinging ’60s continues to be seen in artfully executed makeup harking back to the Mod era, with cat eyeliner with the sharpest of wings, cut crease shadow accentuating the hood of the eyelid, and lashes for days. Current It girls like Ariana Grande and Kaia Gerber have tapped into the radically stylistic makeup inspired by the Mods–a subculture of stylish London youth who described themselves as modernists. Before Grande or Gerber, however, Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton were the faces of the 1960s Youth Quake.
Proclaimed to be the “Face of 1966,” model Twiggy once explained, “What happened for the first time in the mid-’60s is that we didn’t want to look like our mums, we wanted to look different.’” With a collective non-conformist ethos, the youth sparked a revolution through their space aged looks and bohemian trends.