Name: Queen Victoria Makeup Tutorial | History Inspired | Feat. Amber Butchart and Rebecca Butterworth
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T04:15:56.000Z
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Hi, I'm Fashion Historian Amber Butchart.

I'm here at Osborne on the Isle of Wight to follow in the royal foosteps of Queen Victoria.

Osborne was the holiday home for the Queen and her family through much of the 19th century

and today it's cared for by English Heritage.

Victoria retreated here away from the prying eyes of the public but today we have a special invitation

So join us as we recreate another history inspired look and find out more about

the Queen, her home and the country she ruled over.

Good thanks. So today, Queen Victoria. Now she reigned from 1837 to 1901 and after Queen Elizabeth II

she's actually our longest reigning monarch to date.

We're here in the glorious surroundings of Osbourne her holiday home so Rebecca

what look are you going to do for us today?

On our beautiful model, Hollie, I'm going to be creating a Queen Victoria inspired makeup look.

You can see from Victoria's various portraits that her look was very much a fair but not excessively white,

skin a little flush of color in the cheeks and very neat well groomed hair

So it's kind of the, it's the ultimate no makeup makeup tutorial that we're going to do today

There's a quote going round that Victoria herself thought that makeup was vulgar

Now while we don't know the while we don't know the source of that quote what we do know is

in the Victorian era makeup became much less obvious

And so where would she have worn a look like the one you're going to create?

Well, let's imagine that Holly is going to be

getting ready to have her portrait painted so that she needs to look very elegant

So let's start with the first part of our makeup tutorial and we'll talk

Here at Osborne if you go upstairs to Queen Victoria's

Dressing Room you can see her dressing table and her wash stand and I'm so

curious I really want to know what's in all those little pots. It's tricky to

know what Victoria wore on her face, but we do have some really nice quotes

from and Frieda Arnold who was one of her dresses at the time who said the

Queen liked to go to her dressing table around 8 o'clock in the evening when the

maids will have set out some elderflower water

for her to wash her face and hands and also some chamomile tea for her to bathe

her eyes. So let's start with some chamomile tea to bathe the eyes if you

Chamomile is really known for being soothing and calming and

I'm sure Victoria would have appreciated this after a long day of

state affairs, horse riding and walking around Osborne

And now let's wash that face with some elderflower water

After Victoria's had her skin prepped and cleansed

we'll then move on to the next step which is kind of a foundation base

Now we just stepped outside to do Hollie's base because we can't use loose powder

in a historical building. I've got a brush with almost nothing on it just for

some touch-ups. And we've used zinc oxide now one of the strongest differences for

Victorian makeup is the move away from a really heavy white painted base and the

move away from using white lead as that base.

white lead and it was great because it's sheer, it still gives you that slightly white finish

Most importantly it won't kill you - Yay! - when you wear it

We still use zinc oxide in makeup today. You'll see it most often in

sunscreen products and you'll probably see that if you've ever put a high

factor sunscreen on your skin you can see that kind of white cast

Now if you could get your hands on zinc oxide brilliant if you can't get your hands on

zinc oxide sometimes middle-class - working-class women might use things

like starch or maybe chalk dust to make their faces look lighter or they might

resort to some recipes that they've seen in books or magazines.

We see a real rise in magazines in this period. The Industrial Revolution sees a huge

expansion of the middle-class and along with this a lot of journal sort of

etiquette journals beauty fashion manuals to help people negotiate their

new social position. And one of note in particular that comes from the period

we're looking at - the 1850s - is the English Woman's Domestic magazine.

This was published by Samuel Beaton who was the husband of Isabella Beaton who was

famous for her book of household management.

Exactly! So this would cover it was aimed squarely at a middle class audience that

would cover all of these areas and even some political commentary as well,

and fiction, all kinds of things for middle-class Victorian women to read

But not everyone was so prosperous at this time, were they?

The Industrial Revolution also caused huge amounts of poverty and squalor in some

urban areas and also tuberculosis. This claimed sixty to seventy thousand lives

It was a serious epidemic in Queen Victoria's reign, but also tuberculosis

People thought that the symptoms of tuberculosis were beautiful

The hectic flush cheek, a pale skin and also brightened eyes and because tuberculosis

was thought to be beautiful, women may have started to emulate some of the symptoms

So they wore more white powder to give them that pale look, they

might have added more rouge for the for the flush of a fever and they also might

have used belladonna which is a chemical that makes your pupils dilate

Dilated pupils can be a sign of sickness and it also is believed to make women look

I'm not going to use belladonna, you'll be grateful to hear

I'm going to use just some good old eyedrops, so if you would pop your head

back for me let's pop some eyedrops in here and see if we can give you that

Women didn't necessarily wear a lot of product around their eyes at this time

Kohl was considered vulgar and also not worth the deception, so something simple and more

natural was often used maybe it might be castor oil on the eyebrows and the

eyelashes to give them a gloss and a shine and to help them grow longer and stronger

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