Old-Hollywood makeup how-to: Watch this ’30s makeup tutorial

"Old Hollywood." It's a term heard on red carpets — and in makeup artists' chairs — everywhere. (We even want a little of it in our homes!) It's hard to resist that touch of yesteryear glam.

A makeup-application tutorial from 1936 recently surfaced, giving us access to secrets of the old-Hollywood look when it was, well, new.

Geometry is involved.

"Makeup is made to measure."

Makeup artists measure facial features, determining strategic positioning of products. Each look is carefully and strategically crafted, almost scientifically, with a carefully exaggerated cupid's bow for some 1930's lip enhancement.

Watch and learn:

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