The reasons for the return of retro style are mainly as follows:
The circular nature of fashion: fashion itself has a circular nature, designers often draw inspiration from history, the popular elements of the past in a new form, making the retro style once again into people’s vision.
The promotion of social media: In the digital era, information spreads rapidly, and the retro style content on social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok is popular, and a large number of videos of retro dress and makeup are widely spread, which arouses the imitation and pursuit of young people and forms a new fashion culture.
Changes in consumption concept: After some social changes, people began to re-examine the concept of consumption, the pursuit of more meaningful, unique and personalized goods. Vintage goods appear through second-hand markets, vintage stores and other channels, both environmentally friendly and full of story, to meet people’s needs.
Cultural identity and emotional needs: In the fast-paced modern life, people yearn for the simple lifestyle of the past, resulting in nostalgia for the past. The popularity of retro style just responds to this emotional need, allowing people to trace and express their identity and love for the past culture by wearing and using items with retro elements.
Here’s how vintage lipstick reinvents the classic:
Classic colors: Classic retro colors such as positive red, bean paste, menstrual color, and red brown continue to be used. For example, Saint Laurent’s small gold bar 1966 high fixed red brown, these colors are high color saturation, with a unique retro style, and can match a variety of skin tones, showing women’s confidence and elegance on different occasions.
Bring back the retro feel: Recreate the retro look by creating matte, velvet and other textures. Such as retro small tube lipstick, can show a delicate as silk paste, after application into light mist surface, bring velvet touch, lasting color, full low-key luxury.
Draw inspiration from history and culture: Draw inspiration from the culture of different historical periods for design. Such as Oriental carved retro lipstick, drawing inspiration from China’s ancient mouth fat culture, using carved technology on the shell or paste, displaying exquisite eastern elements such as phoenix, flowers, auspicious clouds, and inheriting the traditional retro charm.
Modern touches of vintage lipstick include:
Innovative formula and technology: In order to increase practicality, into the non-stick cup technology, the use of special formula to form a lasting protective film on the lips, so that the lipstick is not easy to fall off and stick to the cup, such as some “dragon year limit” national style retro luxury gilt lipstick has the characteristics of non-stick cup.
Diverse texture fusion: On the basis of traditional retro textures, more diverse texture choices are added and fused. In addition to the common matte, velvet, and other textures, like the addition of fine gilt powder lipstick, can make the lips show a unique metallic luster, increase the three-dimensional sense and modern fashion charm.
The modernization of packaging design: the combination of retro elements and modern design concepts to create packaging that has both retro charm and modern aesthetic. For example, the design of the delicate and small gold tube makes the lipstick like a work of art, highlighting the unique taste.
To meet the needs of multiple occasions: In order to meet the needs of modern women in different life scenes, retro lipstick is more diversified in color selection and makeup effect. There are rich shades for formal occasions and natural lightweight ones for daily commutes, allowing women to easily switch looks depending on the occasion, such as some vintage lipsticks that can be layered or smudded to create different makeup effects.
Post time: Jan-03-2025