- [Freddie] This is truly a time for reflection.
- [Devin] What are you reflecting about?
- [Freddie] My past, my present.
- [Devin] Lots going on over there, huh?
(jazz music)
- Today we're trying skincare from the 1950s.
- I feel like skincare has gotten so like overwhelming
as the time goes.
Back then they probably kept it pretty OG,
kept it pretty simple.
- I feel like in the '50s,
it was either don't get wrinkles or don't get acne.
- What is the phrase?
Cleanliness is godliness?
- Yes.
- Like rub, scrub a dub your face.
Scrub it.
- Same principles probably exist.
People just wanting to look their best
but I think we've just gotten a lot more fussy about it.
- The only thing I think of
when I think of the 1950s is cold cream
which I do use to this day.
(gentle instrumental music)
- (gasping) Cold cream!
I love cold cream.
I use cold cream every single night.
It's a very grandma thing to do
but that's the type of person I am.
- So I know from my mom that she used
to use olive oil to take her eye makeup off,
but again, I think that might just be a Sharon Leidel thing
and not like a 1950s thing.
- Yeah, there probably was a mom
who was just like, "Well, I use jello to get my makeup off."
- (Laughing) Yeah. - Another mom who was just
like "Mm, you probably should use cold cream instead."
- The other one's like I bathe in milk.
- Yeah.
- Instead of taking off just our eye makeup,
apparently we have to take off everything with cold cream.
- Okay, I've done that. - You have?
- Yeah, I've dabbled in just putting it everywhere
just to speed up the process.
- Whenever I see people in movies putting on cold cream,
I'm always just like "Mm, girl, your t-zone hates you."
- Okay, so, I have a theory
that cold cream doesn't actually take off all your makeup.
- I already see it working.
- What? - I see it at work.
- How do you see it (laughing)?
- Because it's spreading around the foundation.
- Really? - Yeah, it's at work.
- How did our mothers do it, though?
- There's still a fair amount of makeup coming off my face.
- Not gonna look at that wipe.
- (laughing) Okay.
- So our first skincare tip is from Audrey Hepburn.
- Ooh. - She used to steam her face.
- Steam her face? - To open up her pores.
- All right, so we're just gonna hide under here
for a while.
- [Devin] When Audrey Hepburn says steam your face.
- [Freddie] You steam your damn face.
- [Devin] That's right.
- [Chantel] I wish I was just kinda like
steaming naked right now.
- [Kristin] I just wish I was naked right now.
(laughing)
- Oh, man.
- Aah, I do feel great though.
- So, the next skin care tip from the 1950s
is to actually submerge our face in hot water.
- Do you have a shower cap?
- Marilyn Monroe was the person
who came up with this bad boy tip.
I understood steaming your pores.
I really don't understand putting your face in hot water
other than a torture tactic.
- So we just our whole little faces in there?
- It's too hot.
This is too hot.
I can't do it.
- I don't know why this is so hard for me.
I've taken baths before.
I've taken showers.
I've swam. - I know.
- I don't know why I'm all of a sudden unable
to have my face under water.
- Because we're big babies. (laughing)
- I do feel like this is some kind of weird baptism
of new skin.
(bells ringing)
- We are gonna now wash our faces with bar soap
because that's what they did in the '50s
and this is the brand that Jackie Onassis used.
- I'm on board with that.
She was a classy lady. - Yeah.
It's 45 dollars of soap, man.
- Yeah, you gotta be precious with that.
- I haven't used a bar of soap since I was five.
- I feel like my grandma would have looked
at this and been like,
my soap was eight soaps pressed together.
(laughing)
(groaning)
- This was a terrible idea.
- I have to splash my face 20 times.
- (laughing) 20 times.
- 20 times, not 19.
- Splash yourself in the face 20 times.
- Until you go insane.
- One, two.
- Okay, well, I definitely feel clean.
- Devin keeps trying to get out of doing it 20 times.
Well, I think I feel clean.
Well, I feel good.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- Devin, you still have 10 more times to go.
- I don't wanna do it.
I'm like a cat.
- My skin hasn't felt this clean in a long time.
- My entire body is covered in water,
but my skin is doing fantastic.
(bell ringing)
- We are rounding out this whole regiment
with this 8-hour cream.
- Soothe dried hands and smooth cuticles and nails.
This is like basically the windex of moisturizers.
- Yeah, it feels like we're about to be rubbing Blistex
all over our skin.
- It feels like lip gloss all over your face.
- Mhmm. - It's the best way
to describe it.
- This is quite greasy.
This is quite oily.
- It smells like something your mom would slap on your chest
when you have a cold.
- But then again, they smoked cigarettes a lot back then.
- Definitely not something I would do every day.
I would do it on like a cold winter's night.
- The '50s, man. (laughing)
Crazy times. (laughing)
Crazy times to be alive.
- Yeah, there were a lot of steps, but I feel good.
Like, I think my face feels
like it was worth all the effort.
- I feel refreshed. - Yeah.
- I feel revitalized.
- So 1950s skin care, lady tested.
- Lady approved. - Lady approved.
- What they also did back then, get this,
was to put cold cream on as a primer.
- That, nope, gotta draw the line somewhere.
I am done with that.
- Nerp.
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- Ay. (laughing)
(funky instrumental music)