Posts Categorized: Beauty

Norma Jean Before Marilyn

I usually do a Marilyn Monroe post on our shared birthday, June 1st, but I decided to wait a couple days and look back on Marilyn before she was MARILYN. I have this wonderful book by Andre de Dienes, Marilyn – Mon Amour – The private album of Andre de Dienes, her preferred photographer.  In… Read more »

Perfumes I Wore In The 80s

Flipping though a 1987 issue of Vogue magazine brought back all sorts of memories of my life in the 80s.  It seems so many lifetimes away, but most of the 1980s for me was spent in corporate banking; working downtown and sporting shoulder-padded power suits.  Egad.  Considering that I am more of a Bohemian at… Read more »

Twiggy Eyes 1968

Yardley of London had most of us American girls in thrall in the late ’60s.  Of course we all wanted to look like Twiggy or Jean Shrimpton, you know, mod British models who just happened to be impossibly gorgeous.  Not the reality of pimples and gawkiness that most of us faced (OK, maybe it was… Read more »

Cybill Shepherd & Cover Girl Clean Make-up 1969

I really love this Cover Girl Medicated Make-up ad from the September 1969 issue of ‘TEEN magazine.  Featuring a fresh-faced Cybill Shepherd, after her win of the 1968 “Model of the Year” show.  I can remember watching that Model of the Year broadcast (I was babysitting), and thinking how incredibly beautiful Cybill was.  She just… Read more »