In Soviet times, many women dyed their eyelashes with a mixture of Vaseline and tar, meanwhile, a brand of mascara already existed in the USSR.
Inaccessible beauty
And sometimes such mixtures even represented serious harm to he alth, because one of the components was a crumbled pencil lead. Why did the ladies go for such experiments? The fact is that cosmetics for some time was simply inaccessible for mere mortals. Just like cars, for example.
At first, in the USSR, eyelash dye simply did not exist, because bourgeois innovations could not penetrate the country (they appeared here only in the 1960s, but even then they were intended only for the elite). A little later, Soviet mascara began to be produced specifically for actresses in films.
Application Features
Now the process of dyeing eyelashes with such mascara may seem ridiculous to us, but in those days every woman who managed to perform this “ritual” felt like a goddess. Almost any brand of mascara in the USSR was a small brick in a cardboard box. To make up the eyelashes, it was necessary to moisturize it. As a rule, the ladyused their own saliva, which is not very hygienic.
Then it was the turn of a special brush for coloring - every brand of mascara in the USSR implied its presence. But she was so imperfect that her eyelashes were very sticky. Therefore, their subsequent separation was already familiar to the girls. Usually, a regular needle was used for this procedure.
When mascara began to be used in large quantities, it also happened that many managed to injure themselves by doing these manipulations. The brush itself was also inconvenient because the gap between its teeth was constantly filled with material for coloring eyelashes. And even constant washing with water did not relieve her of the dried mass.
After the transformation, in no case should even a drop of water get on the eyelashes - the mascara immediately flowed, while the eyes immediately began to pinch strongly. Another disadvantage was its flowability - "superficial beauty" really crumbles. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the ladies who prefer it tinted their eyelashes using too much product at once.
Always needed
What brands of mascara were available from the USSR? There were not so many of them. The most popular was "Leningradskaya" from the factory "Freedom". By the way, it existed not only in black, but also in blue. In our time, her palette has been enriched with silver and green hues. In Soviet times, such brands as Vechernyaya and Terry were also in demand.
To this day, many believethat the brand of mascara, invented in the USSR, for example, such as Leningradskaya, has a unique composition. The reason is that the remedy includes only natural ingredients. Women born in Soviet times call the effect of its use amazing.
There are ladies who continue to use only such mascara for coloring eyelashes, because they continue to produce it in our time. Many people think that all the cosmetics of those times are exceptionally good (for example, the same foundation "Ballet"), and they only buy it.
