THE SILENT FILM ERA

POLA NEGRI

A BLONDE POLA NEGRI

A makeup artist friend and I were discussing the smokey eye makeup look, and she was saying she first saw it done in the 1960's. And I said that actually the first of the smokey eye looks were created in the silent films of the 1920's. The actresses such as Pola Negri (pictured here) were called "vamps" and always had dark smokey eye makeup painted on, along with dark lipstick. And when you look at these photos you can imagine any one of these makeup looks on a woman of today and she would be totality fashionable.