Nowadays there is everything on store shelves. As they say, every whim for your money. And in the USSR, women of fashion had to go to incredible tricks to look great. This was not facilitated by not total deficit, nor high prices for everyday things that have become for us in the modern world.. But our mothers and grandmothers with dignity found a way out.

Hair for tights repair.

It is now nylon tights can be found in any store.. Different colors, prints and density: choose to your taste! And in Soviet times, this part of the female wardrobe was extremely difficult to buy.. Yes, and such tights are not cheap. Therefore, noticing on a thin nylon a puff or worse, the shooter, the Soviet women of fashion were in no hurry to send tights to the garbage. Deficit thing carefully repaired. And darted tights, pulling them on a light bulb, and instead of thread often used long female hair.

Matchstick lipstick.

No less difficult in the USSR was to get good lipstick. If the fashionista was lucky and in her hands was the coveted tube, then after a while a match was surely inserted into it. For what? To use scarce cosmetics to the very last drop.

By the way, lipstick was often used as a blush. Two in one - net savings!.

Sugar hair.

Hairspray was considered an unaffordable luxury.. And why is he? After all, the hairstyle with the same success can be fixed with ordinary water and sugar! That is how hair was styled.. Cheap and angry. True, then the problem became to comb these "Babylon" on his head. But beauty demands ... Chalk on the eyes.

Soviet beauties highly respected overseas blue shadows. But getting them was not so easy.. Therefore, sometimes used in the literal sense of the word improvised means: do eye shadow from artistic crayons. They were broken into fine chips and diluted with water..

Make-up on face.

This is not a single self-respecting beauty blogger will not leave the house without using a highlighter, tone cream and a dozen more tools designed to make your face perfect. In the USSR, they didn’t hear about bloggers, but there was a time, and there was no “tonalka”. But I wanted beauty! The girls came up with theatrical makeup. It was mixed with vaseline oil and rubbed into the skin..

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