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Where cosmetics and art intersect. Exhibiting, preserving and researching makeup from all eras and cultures. Est. 2008. Posts by the founder/curator.

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The Makeup Museum @makeupmuseum.org · Feb 22
This article has been with me for days. Ditto for the phrase “change the narrative”, which I heard from a Black curator giving an IG talk on vintage compacts. My brain is in overdrive with new possibilities....
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Disappointed no one reached out to me about contributing to this new Phaidon book on contemporary makeup artists, but it looks good! Many of my faves are included. www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...
Blush: Contemporary Makeup Artists | Standard Edition | 9781837291212
A visually stunning celebration of the world’s most brilliant, bold, and boundary-pushing makeup artists Makeup is empowering. It’s a means of experimentation, reinvention, provocation, disguise, and ...
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January 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Plugging away on a book chapter on smeared makeup in film and was astonished to learn that the infamous lipstick scene in 1990’s Wild at Heart was totally unscripted, according to actress Diane Ladd. David Lynch apparently loved it and kept it in the film. www.vulture.com/article/dian...
Diane Ladd Answers Every Question We Have About Wild at Heart
On working with her daughter Laura Dern, why Blue Velvet made her “angry,” and what she was thinking during that improvised lipstick scene.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Got a Curator’s Corner up - much news since I posted last in the spring of 2024. Happy new year’s! makeupmuseum.org/curators-cor...
Curator's corner, 2025 - The Makeup Museum: Where Cosmetics & Art Intersect
What a long, strange year it’s been! As you might have guessed, 2025 was a busy one on the personal front, so not much museum activity. I hope to remedy that in 2026, but I already have several side p...
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January 1, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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My latest publication 'The gender bias in NIVEA® sunscreen advertisements in Sweden: A transhistorical perspective' is now out with Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty. Co-authored with Lame Kenalemang-Palm.

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The gender bias in NIVEA® sunscreen advertisements in Sweden: A transhistorical perspective | Intellect
This article explores gender bias in NIVEA® sunscreen advertisements through a transhistorical lens, using multimodal critical discourse analysis to interrogate their linguistic and semiotic features ...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Deliriously excited for this very special issue! Thank you for the opportunity to contribute an article!
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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It’s here! My very first journal article (and peer reviewed, at that!) Huge thanks to @drlaurenalexohagan.bsky.social and @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social for being such amazing editors. 🙏👏 doi.org/10.1108/JHRM...
Screenshot of the Journal of Historical Research in Marketing showing an article entitled From Health to Status Symbol: Towards a Typology of Glow in Cosmetics Marketing.
October 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The latest paper in our Selling Beauty special issue has now been published. Jeaney Yip and colleagues explore Indonesian beauty ideals through the ads of local beauty brand, Mustika Ratu. You can read it here:

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#beauty #cosmetics #marketing

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August 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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So excited to launch Selling Beauty: Historical Perspectives on the Marketing of Cosmetics and Makeup with this online event.

If you want to attend please do email me via my website www.lucyjanesantos.com (I haven’t set up age verification on this so no DMs)
Poster advertising the event on 19 September at 2pm.
August 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I’m in my happy place - spent the Museum’s 17th (!) anniversary today working on the Flutter exhibition. 😅
Five vintage eyelash enhancers against a yellow background
August 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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In honor of the recently opened Blusher exhibition, for National Lipstick Day here is a delightful ca. 1940s lipstick “palette” from the Fuller Brush Co., which I included in my essay in the exhibition catalog. 🎨💄
Three lipstick tubes attached to palette shaped cardboard backing. Text on the backing reads “Paint a pretty picture from the artist’s palette”.
July 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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It’s been a while since we’ve seen what’s in the ole MM Mailbag! Check out some inquiries the Makeup Museum has received. makeupmuseum.org/mm-mailbag-a...
MM Mailbag: a novel vintage mascara, lions and more - The Makeup Museum: Where Cosmetics & Art Intersect
There have been well over 150 inquiries since the last time I shared what’s in the ole Makeup Museum mailbag so I’m just highlighting a handful of the more interesting ones, along with some not-so-nic...
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July 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Saving this for an upcoming installment of Makeup as Muse! 💖💄🎨
thisiscolossal.com Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · Jul 26
Circe Irasema blends cosmetics and the cosmos in her vibrant wooden sculptures that explore the links between beauty and materials.

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a grid of wooden hand mannequins painted with fake nails
July 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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“Blusher: Art, Makeup, Materiality” is now open at Leicester Gallery at De Montfort University! Read more about it and the Makeup Museum’s contribution to the exhibition catalog. makeupmuseum.org/new-exhibiti...
New Exhibition: Blusher - The Makeup Museum: Where Cosmetics & Art Intersect
So pleased to announce the opening of “Blusher: Art, Makeup, Materiality” at Leicester Gallery at De Montfort University! Expertly curated by scholar and artist (and CHMSN member) Cathy Lomax, the exh...
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July 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Not exactly sure where I was going with this, but here are some (possibly incoherent) thoughts on pink and blue packaging and cloud beauty. makeupmuseum.org/trending-wha...
Trending: What's Pink and Blue and Cloudy All Over? - The Makeup Museum: Where Cosmetics & Art Intersect
While visiting my parents in Pennsylvania last spring, I stumbled across a blue raspberry soda in a local supermarket. I bought it on a whim, and the flavor quickly morphed into a full-blown obsession...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The fourth article in our Selling Beauty special issue has now been published! Sridevi Gopakumar & Madhava Priya Dananjayan examine greenwashing tactics in both historical & contemporary cosmetic advertisements:

www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

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Can nature sell beauty? Historicising cosmetic advertising and its modern greenwashing parallels | Emerald Insight
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June 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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This new beauty book looks intriguing. 👀 ethicspress.com/products/war...
War Paint: Ethics and Beauty
Title: War Paint Subtitle: Ethics and Beauty Subject Classification:  Gender Studies, Arts, Society and Culture   BIC Classification: A, B, C BISAC Classification: HIS056000, HEA003000, SOC010000 Bind...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The third paper in our Selling Beauty special issue is now out. Anya Griffiths explores advertisements for cosmetics and medicines in The Morning Chronicle, 1800-1810. Read more here:

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#advertisements #marketing #cosmetics #beauty
“Preserving the health, add to which an irresistible personal beauty”: advertisements for cosmetics and medicines in The Morning Chronicle, 1800-1810 | Emerald Insight
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May 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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The Made in Chicago Museum has a history of Dr. F. Formaneck Co, the company that produced an early eyelash treatment called Eye-Lash-Ine. I was always curious about the history! www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/...
Dr. F. Formaneck Co., est. 1903 - Made-in-Chicago Museum
A history of the Dr. Frederick Formaneck Company, part of our growing archive of exclusive research dedicated to key 20th century Chicago manufacturers.
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May 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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New blog post: Mona Manet cosmetics. It’s a tragic but important story. makeupmuseum.org/a-life-in-se...
Ivory Bakelite lipstick tube and burgundy rouge container against a marble background
February 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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MM Musings, vol. 30: on problematic objects. Would love some guidance and insight on this topic! Check it out at the website and share your thoughts. makeupmuseum.org/mm-musings-v...
MM Musings, vol. 30: on problematic objects - Makeup Museum: Where Cosmetics & Art Intersect
Makeup Museum (MM) Musings is a series that examines a broad range of museum topics as they relate to the preservation, research and exhibition of cosmetics, along with my vision for a physical Makeup...
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February 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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📣WE ARE LIVE! Phase 1 of the Makeup Museum’s website redesign is here. Ironing out a few wrinkles, particularly on mobile, but it’s mostly done. Thrilled with how it turned out! 🥹Onto phase 2: getting the collection fully digitized.
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February 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Symposium at Yale tomorrow on the 17th century painting “Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches”! 😱 Features presentations by @profjill_burke, @eringriffey and @KatieAske. Looks amazing and will be live-streamed for those who can’t make it in person....
February 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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2 weeks ago today I had the honor of presenting my paper, “Makeup Design, Compulsory Beauty and the Modern American Woman, 1920-1960” at the @WomensHistNet conference! Here are some of the Makeup Museum’s objects that were featured.
February 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Wow!! The world’s oldest dated kohl! 😱🖤 @ZahraHankir https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discovered-8200-year-old-eyeliner-in-turkiyes-yesilova-hoyuk/
Archaeologists Discovered 8,200-year-old Eyeliner in Türk...
During the archaeological excavations in Yeşilova Höyük (...
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February 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM