Vintage Mascara Advertising

By Sharriewilliams

From Sharrie Williams, Maybelline family archives Mabel Williams, original Lash-Brow-Ine ad placed in "Popular Mechanics" magazine,  1915, Silent Film Star, Viola Davis.
Read The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It, by original Maybelline family descendant, Sharrie Williams.  

1919 Maybell Laboratories Color-ine

One of the marketing strategy of Lash-Brow-Ine was that they claimed that it ‘nourished and promoted the growth of eyelashes and eyebrows’. In the pamphlet that came with the mascara suggested it could also be used to cure baldness. At the time it was belived that Vaseline would stimulate hair growth, so many men also used to apply the product on their bald spots on their head.
There were also instructions advising how to use the product:
Take a little “LASH-BROW-INE” on the tip of the finger and rub gently over the Brows and Lashes, always rubbing in the direction in which the hair grows. Be sure to rub well into the roots, and then take a soft cloth and wipe around the Brows and Lashes, leaving the “LASH-BROW-INE” only where you wish the hair to grow. To produce the very best results the very tip end of the Lashes should be clipped every two months. The clipping should be done by another person, using small manicure scissors, so as only to clip the tip ends. The Eyebrows should never be clipped.


1920 Maybell Laboratories Lash-Brow-Ine

in 1920 the founder was sent to court to dispute the name with the founder of “Lashbrow Laboratories”. Williams was ordered to remove the name and then he changed to “Maybelline”, in honor of his sister Maybel.


1920 Winx Waterproof


May 1920 Winx waterproof


1923 6


1925 Maybeline


1926 Maybelline – Actress Viola Dana


1929 Maybelline Eyelash Beautifier


1931 Kurlash Lashpac


1933 Maybelline Eyelash Darkener


1934 Maybelline


1935 Klytiacil cake mascara


1936 Maybelline Cream Mascara


1937 National Cosmetics Modern Eyes Mascara


February 1947 Maybelline


1957 Helena Rubinstein Mascara-Matic


November 1958


1958 Revlon Roll-On Mascara, the company’s first automatic mascara


1959 Azizamatique Mascara


1959 Dorothy Gray Beauti-Lash Automatic Mascara


1959 Maybelline Magic Mascara first automatic mascara that used a spiral wire brush


1959 Maybelline Magic Mascara


1960 Maybelline


1960 Mascara Wand


1961 Revlon Brush-On Mascara


1963 Max Factor


1964 Maybelline Ultra-Lash Mascara


1965 Germaine Monteil French Formula Cake Mascara


1966 Maybelline


1967 Maybelline Ultra Lash


1968 Maybelline


1969 Helena Rubinstein Long Lash Mascara with nylon fibres to lengthen the lashes.


1972 Aziza Double CremeCake Mascara


1975 Max Factor Super LashMaker Mascara


1976 Maybelline Comb-on Mascara


1980 Max Factor


1981 Maybelline Dial-a-Lash Waterproof Mascara


May 2015 Max Factor advertisement in Cosmopolitan magazine



Maybelline Makeup Commercial (1956)


Commercial for Maybelline eye make-up (1959)


Rene Russo – Aziza Mascara Commercial (1980)


Maybelline Makeup commercial (1980)


Christie Brinkley Cover Girl Make-Up Commercial (1981)


Maybelline Mascara Commercial (1984)


1986 – Maybelline – Great-Lash – I’m at my Best


Maybelline Commercial (1987)


Maybelline Great Lash mascara ad from (1988)


Ultra Lash Mascara Maybelline commercial (1988)


Maybelline Commercial (1991)


Maybelline Great Lash Mascara (1991)


Salma Hayek Revlon Everylash Mascara Commercial (1999)


Maybelline Lash Stylist Mascara (2006)


Revlon Jessica Biel Grow Luscious Mascara (Oct 2010)


Maybelline Jade Cat Eyes Mascara Commercial (2011

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