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Because of the social upheaval that happened in the middle of the sixties, everything from
the decade is a reaction, or an opposite. Right now, I'm showing you the mod face and,
later, when I talk about the hippie face, it's going to be the exact opposite. It's
going to be a complete reaction to what came before. So, the mod face, and mod refers to
the style of London, specifically, in the sixties that came in and infiltrated the United
States style scene, and it was about looking very chic and sort of a take on business wear
that was very young. And so, the mod face involves very heavy eye liner, only on the
top lid and winged out at the end, you can see it's winged out a little bit here, very
heavy black. You could use coal eye liner here, you could use pencil, you could use
a liquid liner, and then on top of that you wanted a white eye shadow, it could be shimmery,
it could not be shimmery. You can sort of see that I have a shimmery one on right now.
And that was supposed to contrast with the black and then the last piece of that would
be a very light, neutral lip and it could be shimmery or not shimmery, but the focus
was really incredibly on the eyes and it was going to pick up the black in mod clothing.
And, the hippie face, which emerged later as a reaction to everything that came before
it, has no makeup at all, it's completely natural. In other eras you talk about a natural
look that's made with makeup, but in the sixties the natural look was really a hundred percent
natural. And it was in stark contrast to the mod look because the people, the young people
that were interested in mod fashion weren't interested in hippie fashion and they were
sort of playing off of each other because mod fashion was considered in keeping more
with traditional norms, whereas hippie style was breaking away from what had come before
it.