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Hello Gorgeous!

This time around let’s talk about powdering your nose and pressed powder. Culturally, powdering one’s nose had various implications.

Image of perfectly powdered midcentury woman courtesy of Pexels

When powdering your nose meant more than powdering your nose

In the midcentury when beauty and salon culture became accepted, powdering your nose could mean that quite literally your nose was shiny and you needed to go powder it. Part of the hyper-femininity of midcentury beauty culture involved heavily ornamented compacts that were pretty enough to use in public for a quick touch-up. Those compacts were used as flirtation devices, or even as a pause in flirtation, powdering one’s nose might mean taking a moment to dial back anything that became too risque.

But in the realm of beauty culture, a woman telling her com…