Yes, I am looking a little different to normal.

What do you think?

Now, it's been mentioned that I haven't recently done enough

hair and beauty and fashion-related videos.

Also, as you may know, I am incredibly obsessed

with playing games on my phone, and have a terrible memory.

So, three birds with one stone: I thought that I would be inspired

by my newest game/app obsession -

June's Journey, which is a hidden mystery--hidden object mystery game.

Wow, that's how bad my memory is.

But I've been using it to try and improve my memory.

Basically, you find stuff.

It's set in the 1920s and it's all rather glamorous.

So, I thought I'd use that to challenge myself to create a 1920s look.

(As you know, I'm normally 40s and 50s.)

I've tried to be as authentic as I can

going through.

So, I hope you really enjoy watching this look take place.

I've sprinkled in some facts as well, as you know I love to do.

If you want to reproduce this look for a 1920s party

or for Halloween

or anything like that,

please, please, please let me know if you do; I should be very excited if you use this video

for such a purpose.

After decades of secretive make-up use,

the women's suffrage movement brought forth the flapper girl of the 1920s.

Fashionable and fun-loving women who rejected convention.

Their distinctive look is the one most people associate with the 1920s.

Pale skin, dark eyes, and a Cupid's bow mouth.

For the first time, women cut their hair short,

displaying their newfound freedom.

The main character of the game, June, has a stylish bob,

but I'm particularly inspired by her niece Virginia's finger waves.

I have even put a bow on my dress to match.

I'd like to begin by letting you know that I have really sparkly nails!

They're really sparkly!

I need to tell you that because I've put three different types of nail varnish on here,

including a top coat that says it's gonna make it last for seven whole days!

And yet...

somehow, in the making of this video, they will inevitably become damaged.

Every time I make a video, I just destroy my nails.

Let's begin with hair.

So, I have hair much longer than the 1920s bob,

obviously,

so what we're going to try and do with that is take this hair at the back

and put it into a little bun.

Just pin it up and then get some lovely finger waves out of the front here.

To start with, I've done a rolling pattern here that is forwards and then backwards.

So my partings along here, I've gone backwards and then forwards

and on the side, backwards; forwards; backwards; forwards,

and hopefully that is gonna help us a lot when it comes to making our waves.

So, let's take them out and see.

[Cheery music]

I use sponge rollers rather than pin curling, because my nerve disability means I can't feel the ends of my fingers

so pins are fiddly, and I also can't tell when things are wet or dry very well

[Music continues]

If you're a pin curler rather than a sponge roller,

simply curl your hair in directional rows of backwards and forwards.

[Cheery music]

So, I've taken a lot at the back of my hair

and put it into a cute little bun at the back

but this - these bouffants -

either side of my face -

we're going to make some beautiful Marcel finger waves

and then pin towards the back, because clearly I'm not going to actually cut my hair for this.

We're going to be doing that using some strong hold fixing styling mousse,

which will probably make my hair terrible for the next few days, but we're doing it!

Dedication to the bit.

You will need: a lot of clips (thanks to vintagehairstyling.com for mine);

a comb and a lot of firm hold mousse.

Pro tip: you're basically going to need to use so much that your hair will be disgusting to touch.

Oh, yeah. Let's put even more on there!

Using your comb in a firm hand, drag the hair backwards; pin into place; and drag forwards.

[Faster tempo cheery music]

OK, now we're given lovely swoops here

and I haven't thought this through, because I'm gonna have to do my make-up around this

[Cymbals clash]

Yeah. It's gonna be fine.

It's gonna be fine.

So I've left this a little bit here at the end and I'm just gonna twist it

and add it into the bun at the back.

[Slower cheery music]

And then we just do this lovely process all over again

on the other side.

[Music continues]

Now liberally spray your entire head in hairspray

until you've pretty much filled the room with fumes and are beginning to think that this was a bad idea.

Take a moment to get your breath back and play the awesome new phone game you're addicted to.

June's Journey follows the eponymous June,

who returns to her family home after her sister's murder to care for her niece

AND find out if the killer really WAS her brother-in-law.

You play by helping June to discover clues to the crime

and uncover family secrets in time [inaudible] object scenes.

Here's a super sneaky thing: but if you watch an ad it means that you can pay for just ten energy,

rather than fifteen energy,

which I do all the time because...I'm addicted

and I need to play as many times as I can,

regardless.

You can also renovate and decorate the family estate,

so if you're a fan of games where you get to design pretty gardens,

this is definitely something you'll enjoy.

I've also, thanks to this game,

learnt the real names for many building tools.

I'm not entirely sure when that will come in handy, but...

it could.

If you sign in with Facebook, you can play on your desktop as well.

In fact, you can play anywhere in the world you want.

There are little side games, too, like putting torn up family photos together that will then boost your energy.

Basically, it's free; it's great; and I can't stop playing it.

So, now we have done our hair

(my hair),

let's attempt to do make-up UNDER the hair!

Why didn't I think this through?

I don't know.

Don't do it in this order; it's probably not a good idea.

The first thing we're going to apply is a liquid or cream foundation.

Authentically, this would have been done with a foundation brush.

I have a sponge, because...2018, OK?

You're going to need to use the absolute lightest foundation that you can get away with

because a good 1920s lady would not be getting anywhere near the sun.

So whatever works for your skin tone (obviously),

but...

very light.

You need to look radiant.

[Faster tempo cheery music]

Next thing we need to do is our powder.

Should be a very translucent powder.

Mine is...called Perfect Light Translucent - I'm not sure how it's both light and translucent, but...

The idea is not to add too much colour to your face.

Colour - they don't like it.

They don't like colour in the face.

Man, that sounds really racist.

It's 1920s, to be fair; everyone was racist.

You should use a powder poof for this,

but I don't have one of those.

I don't like them; I find they always just get really dirty.

So, instead, I'm going to be using this little brush

and I'm gonna brush away the excess with this poofier brush

Achieving a beautiful complexion was considered to be of the utmost importance

in the early years of the 20th century,

but they did also sell alcohol-based face whitening liquids, so take that with a pinch of salt.

We're next going to apply some blusher.

This should be in quite a deep red carmine shade.

It's not deep red, but we work with what we're given, OK?

Now apply just to the apples of your cheeks.

If you don't know what that is, just smile.

Your face turns up.

Next up: brows

As you can see, I'm not a person who is exactly blessed with an abundance of brow,

I think it's fair to say.

And if you were wondering - no, I don't, like, wax them or shave them off past this point.

They just stop.

I just have mini brows.

I think I do know - I think it's just genetic.

By the time I was born, my grandmother had about three hairs on her eyebrows.

But for now, let's work with what we've got.

1920s brows were extreme

to mirror the silent film stars of the day

with little to no attempts to make them look natural.

Eyebrows were plucked or shaved away,

and new pencil-thin brow lines drawn on.

These extended down to the temples in a severe arch,

lending a mournful appearance.

If you don't want to lose your eyebrows forever,

then stick them down with a paste made from a hard block of soap

and camouflage with foundation.

I personally have too little an eyebrow to bother with such a thing.

Now, when it comes to 1920s eyeshadow,

the most popular shades

were sort of the light blue;

dark green;

dark blue;

and black.

I mean, sure - why go natural?

For day-time, a little dab of Vaseline on your eyelids was also incredibly popular.

Probably also somehow helped their make-up stick?

So I'm gonna go for kind of a dark blue-y/grey-ish shadow

on my lids - and the important thing also is to keep in the half-moon shape of your actual eyelid.

Don't wing anything up at all

and cover it fully, rather than just [uncertainly] con--contouring

using eyeshadow.

What's the word for that?

When you put darker shadow at the corners.

IS there a word for that? Is there a term?

I'm not sure.

Let's just get on with what we're doing.

Excuse my epic mono-lids, by the way.

You probably don't have eyes like this.

So, you'll actually be able to see your own eyeshadow.

[Cheery music continues]

Taking that very pale grey shadow,

I'm just gonna go under the eyes;

under the root of the lashes, giving your eyes that nice widened doleful look of the silent film stars.

Probably work better if you have bigger eyes than me, but...we're gonna work with it

[Music continues]

I'm adding a darker shadow to the line of my lid, because I can't quite cope without eyeliner

and then blending it out.

They did also smudge with a pencil at the lash line,

but, again, this blended into the eyeshadow,

rather than featuring prominently by itself, as it does now.

[Music continues]

And next up: not eyeliner!

I know. I'm as shocked as you are.

Don't know how I'm gonna cope.

Instead, we move straight on to mascara

and I shall be using this credibly authentic Besame Mascara Cake.

And inside, it has...a mascara brush!

I actually have to put water on this; create a little powder paste,

and then somehow get this on my eyelashes, without getting it everywhere.

Wish me well.

Let's get ready to make a mess!

Just gonna cover up my dress.

Make a mess with normal mascara, clearly I'm gonna make a mess with cake mascara.

By the way, I should like to add: you can just use regular mascara; you don't need to do this at all.

Although, to be fair, it does give you a really nice look.

I'm not gonna lie - I do highly recommend cake mascara.

Also, I'm not that precious - I do use regular tap water on my face.

This is regular tap water in a bottle.

See, it's I think way prettier than regular mascara.

I think it just looks nice.

It has a nice touch to it.

Mascara was invented in 1915

and credited to a man named Tom Lyle Williams, who founded Maybelline;

naming it after his sister Mabel,

who coated her lashes with Vaseline and cork ash.

Really, I guess it was Mabel who deserves the credit.