Queen Victoria Makeup Tutorial | History Inspired | Feat. Amber Butchart and Rebecca Butterworth

hi I'm fashion historian amber boot charts I'm here at Osborne on the Isle of Wight to follow in the Royal footsteps of Queen Victoria Osbourne was the holiday home for the Queen and her family through much of the 19th century and today it's cared for by English heritage Victoria retreated here away from the prying eyes of the public but today we have a special invitation so join us as we recreate another history inspired look and find out more about the Queen her home and the country she ruled over hello hey I'm about to go it Thanks so today Queen Victoria now she reigned from 1837 to 1901 and after queen elizabeth ii she's actually our longest reigning monarch to date we're here in the glorious surroundings of Osbourne her holiday home so Rebecca what Nikki you're gonna do for us today on our beautiful model Holly I'm going to be creating a Queen Victoria inspired makeup look you can see from Victoria's various portraits that her look was very much a fair but not excessively white skin a little flush of color in the cheeks and very neat well groomed hair so it's kind of the it's the ultimate no makeup makeup tutorial that we're going to do today lovely there's a quick going round that Victoria herself thought that makeup was vulgar now while we don't know the source of that quote what we do know is in the Victorian era makeup became much less obvious it became much more subtle and so where would she have worn a look like the one you're going to create well let's imagine that Holly is going to be getting ready to have her portrait painted so that she needs to look very elegant so let's start with the first part of our makeup tutorial and we'll talk to skin care and skin prep here are us-born if you go upstairs to Queen Victoria's dressing room you can see her dressing table and her wash stand and I'm so curious I really want to know what's in all those little pots it's tricky to know what Victoria wore on her face but we do have some really nice quotes from and Frieda Arnold who was one of her dresses at the time who said the Queen liked to go to her dressing table around 8 o'clock in the evening when the maids will have set out some elderflower water there to wash her face and hands and also some chamomile tea for how to bathe her eyes so let's start with some chamomile tea to bathe the eyes if you keep your eyes closed for me Holly always that seething how does it feel yeah it's lovely chamomile is really known for being soothing and calming and I'm sure Wieck Toria would have appreciated this and after a long day of state affairs horse riding and walking around Osbourne and now let's wash that face with some elderflower water after Victoria's had her skin prepped and cleanse we'll then move on to the next step which is kind of a foundation face now we just stepped outside to do Holies base because we can't use loose powder in a historical building I've got a brush with almost nothing on it just for some touch-ups and we've used zinc oxide now one of the strongest differences for Victorian makeup is the move away from a really heavy white painted base and the move away from using white lead as that base zinc oxide came in and replaced white LED and it was great because it's sheer it still gives you that slightly white finish most importantly it won't kill you when you aren t we just fruit we're still using sided makeup today you'll see it most often in sunscreen products and you'll probably see that if you've ever put a high factor sunscreen on your skin you can see that kind of white cast yeah now if you could get your hands on zinc oxide brilliant if you can't get your hands on zinc oxide sometimes middle-class - working-class women might use things like starch or maybe chalk dust to make their faces look lighter or they might resort to some recipes that they've seen in books or magazines we see a real rise in magazines in this period the Industrial Revolution sees a huge expansion of the middle class and along with this a lot of journal sort of etiquette journals beauty fashion manuals to help people negotiate their new social position a1 of note in particular that comes from the period we're looking at the 1850s is the English woman's domestic magazine this was published by Samuel Beaton he was the husband of Isabella Beaton who was famous for her book of household management school mrs. Beeton exactly so this would cover it was aimed squarely at a middle class audience that would cover all of these areas and even some political commentary is where in fiction all kinds of things for middle-class Victorian women to read but not everyone was so prosperous at this time were they no definitely not the Industrial Revolution also caused huge amounts poverty and squalor in some urban areas and also tuberculosis this claimed sixty to seventy thousand lives in each decade of Victoria's reign it was a serious epidemic in Queen Victoria's reign but also tuberculosis formed kind of a beauty movement people thought that the symptoms of tuberculosis were beautiful the hectic flush cheek a pale skin and also brightened eyes and because the bow closest was thought to be beautiful women may have started to emulate some of the symptoms so they wore more white powder to give them that pale look they might have added more Rouge for the for the flush of a fever and they also might have used belladonna which is a chemical that makes your pupils dilate dilated pupils is can be a sign of sickness and it also is believed to make women look more attractive I'm not going to use belladonna you'll be grateful to hear I'm going to use just some good old eyedrops so if you would pop your head back for me let's pop some eyedrops in here and see if we can give you that consumptive chic there we go so shiny I might almost say glossy women didn't necessarily wear a lot of product around their eyes at this time Kohl was considered vulgar and also not worth the deception so something simple and more natural was often used maybe it might be castor oil on the eyebrows and the eyelashes to give them a gloss and a shine and to help them grow longer and stronger we're now onto the cheeks stage of our makeup and I'm going to be using our good old friend Rouge a Rouge has been around in many forms for hundreds of years and in the Victorian area there were quite a few different forms of Rouge even though it was very subtly used conversion that I'm going to use is a liquid Rouge and this was often made using either vegetable color maybe beetroot or possibly Carmen which is to ride from cochineal beetles mixed with alcohol and water and I read one source that suggests that you apply the liquid Rouge with a hankerchief you've never done this before so let's see how hankerchief application works it's not bad now while we don't know whether Victoria herself wore Rouge she does make a couple of mentions to it in her diary specifically other people wearing it and mentioning that they look better for wearing a little bit of Rouge so maybe she wasn't too against makeup lips are really natural in this era some people said that rosy lips were the reward of temperate living and exercise outdoors we're gonna use a rose tinted lip south there were loads of recipes for how to create your own lip salves but also this was the era where makeup started to be mass-produced and the first commercially available lipstick in a tube was available towards the end of the 19th century mass production was really impacting fashion at this time as well in the 1850s the cage crinoline is developed using rings of steel and this is called the first industrial fashion because of the way it was manufactured and it said that by the early 1860s apparently 1/7 of the weekly output of Steel in Sheffield actually went towards making these crinoline so it was a very you know huge fashion at this time Queen Victoria apparently even succumbed to the cage crinoline just once when it was really really hot too hot to wear her layers and layers and layers of petticoats that she otherwise would have warden to create the same silhouettes now we've got our Queen Victoria inspired face let's move on to something that's very iconic for Queen Victoria and that was her hair and her hairstyles now Victoria would have her hair done by a maid in the morning just into a simple twist and then her iconic hairstyle was created by her hairdressers she had up to two hairdressers on retainer any one time that would do her hair daily and her very neat plaited low bun style reflects that Victorian sensibility of modesty and simplicity also that having loose hair meant that you might also have loose morals ah yes Victoria and Albert styled themselves as a very respectable couple so no loose hair to be seen on Victoria but it is quite relevant for each side setting here at Osbourne because the seaside was one of the places where you might actually come across loose hair and some of ideas of loose morality that go alongside that the seaside starts to impact your wardrobe as well you would pack specific seaside dresses for your trip and these would be a bit more outlandish than fashions that you might wear in the city centre so maybe striped or maybe with a sort of a nautical touch as you can see here now while you work on the hair I am going to go and find out much more about Victoria's reigns or see you guys later see you later Michael this is quite the holiday home what can you tell me about Osborn well Osborn was built by Victorian Albert as a private family home they had recently got married so like any newly married couple I guess they wanted a place of their own not a state residence this was a private family home somewhere where they could escape to from the pressures of court life in London and Windsor Victoria is known as a ruler who had a very strict moral code how did her upbringing impact that she had quite a strict upbringing she was brought up by her mother her father had died when she was just you know not even a year old and her mother was really reacting I suppose against the loose morals of the previous Georgian period and Queen Victoria remembered her childhood is a rather melancholy affair really a rather lonely affair and so that must have also influenced the way that she felt about family in children as well if she was brought up on her own yes I mean I think because she didn't really have much of a normal family life herself she in turn reacted against this and when she married Albert and they had children of their own they wanted to create this sort of idyllic happy family life something that neither Victoria or Albert had really had themselves as children the Victoria's reign is known as a huge period of change especially with the Industrial Revolution what are the global ramifications of this I think the technological changes were huge there was an out Luke it was possible to look outward much more and communicate globally and of course this led to the building up of a huge Empire during Victoria's reign and it's a appropriate that we're standing in this room talking at the moment as fabulous Indian Interior because India became a part of a very important central part of Victoria's Empire so much so that she became Empress of India in the 1870s what kind clothes with Victoria have worn here at Osbourne the kind of clothes she wore were comparatively relaxed I was born being a family home there wasn't this formality of dress here that there would have been elsewhere no crimes and Tiaras for instance so flirty summer dresses muslin white silks that sort of thing and you have some items of clothing here that Victoria actually wore what can you tell me about them we've got a night dress that we know that she wore it's monogrammed with her V R with a crown on the top it's my dream to have monogrammed pajamas I've also got a couple of pairs of stockings a white pair and a black pair both of which have got again the Queen's initials on the top the black pair were probably morning stockings I think I mean famously Queen Victoria spent most of her later years as a widow that's a much Michael I'm gonna go and see how our Victoria is coming together Oh pleasure oh wow Holly you look amazing Rebecca well darlin this is fantastic what a transformation I absolutely love this look it's so ideal the lace is great Victoria loved lace she'd been collected antique lace and she had some specially commissioned Honiton lace from Devon for her wedding dress which she rewar again and again throughout her life at various events she was also known to wear lilac as well so it's just you look like a young Victoria it's perfect so they've got a stunning dress isn't it really is and the hair really is incredible these flowers are amazing were they from the flowers I'm completely in love with they're actually from the Osborne estate so we've had them fresh from the garden because we know that Victoria really loved to wear flowers in her hair and she'd love to wear fresh flowers especially while she was here I was born gorgeous there's some significant flowers from Osborne to the Osborne Myrtle which Princess Victoria which was Queen Victoria's daughter had in her wedding bouquet and then it's gone on to become a very royal tradition so Princess Diana had it in her wedding bouquet and so did Catherine Middleton and then most lately make a mark or two Oh so it all started right here at osborne absolutely did yeah how lovely how does it feel it just feels amazing it's so elegant and the makeup is very subtle and it's actually very close to how I like to wear my own makeup but obviously with this beautiful gown and the flowers of my hair I wish I could have fresh flowers every day I know I'm so jealous of this whole look so I think it's a lovely day outside why don't we go outside and enjoy the gardens you Holle looks so regal as our queen victoria and it's impossible to imagine a prettier spot to have brought this lick to life you can learn more about Queen Victoria by visiting Osborne for yourself click on the screen now to start planning your trip could you pull off this look who is there another historical period that's more fitting to your style let us know in the comments below until next time I'm amber bit sharp and thanks for joining me here at Osborne you

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Length: 17min 2sec (1022 seconds)

Published: Mon May 20 2019