We Tried 1950s Beauty Trends And Here's What Worked

"I feel like I just put lip gloss all over my face."

We do a lot of wacky stuff to our faces in the name of beauty, and the women of Ladylike were wondering: would we have a better beauty experience if we just went back to basics? So we decided to try out some skin care tips from the 1950s:

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First, we used cold cream to remove our makeup, for which we had very mixed results.

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Chantel SWEARS by cold cream for makeup removal, while Kristin pointed out that even after using the cold cream, there was A LOT of foundation left on our makeup wipes. So, was it moisturizing? Yes. But it was no match against liquid foundations + setting spray.

Next, we tried steaming our faces over a basin of hot water (to open our pores), a technique supposedly used by Audrey Hepburn.

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Everybody thought this was super refreshing, but definitely too intense to do more than once a week. Devin and Kristin were much redder for a second afterwards, but that faded.

Then we tried Marilyn Monroe's technique of plunging our faces in hot water, which was intense but effective.

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Some of us felt little too much like someone sticking our heads in the toilet to shake us down for money, but our faces DID feel good afterwards.

Then, we washed our faces with Erno Laszlo bar soap, which is $45(!!!).

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None of us have ever dreamed of paying $45 for soap, although it is a very nice soap.

After we applied to soap to our faces, we had to splash our faces with water 20 TIMES. Yes, it really said this in the instructions.

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This really doesn't seem like a lot of times until you actually have to sit there and count them out -- water gets all over the place. But all of us agreed that our faces felt pretty good afterwards, which was surprising since our face types range from greasy to dry.

Finally, we moisturized with Elizabeth Arden's 8 hour cream, which was another favorite of Marilyn Monroe's, and woooow it was EXTRA EXTRA moisturizing.

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All of us agreed: This is not an everyday face moisturizer. It's has a really thick and sticky consistency, and is probably best either on your lips, or if you have had a really long day outside in the cold, or if you are a reindeer dealing with wind burn.

Overall, we loved the cheapest stuff!

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We all agreed that while the $45 soap was a biitttt much to pay for soap, it was super refreshing. And none of us were in any hurry to slather the 8 hour cream all over our faces -- no one wants to feel like a half-eaten lollipop gathering lint at the bottom of a purse. But a lot of the stuff our skin liked best was free (steaming our pores, soaking our faces in hot water) -- which is the best price of all.