Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1954)

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• Do you know that at night, when she’s all done up in a lovely, floating formal. Piper Laurie wears gold on her eyelids? Do you know that Joan Crawford, when she wants to he particularly startling, and especially when she’s wearing a plain black velvet dinner dress, wears rhinestones on her eyebrows? And do you know why, with or without rhinestones, she wears her eyebrows so thick? Did you ever stop to think what it might do to emphasize the color of your eyes, if you blended your eye shadow using a combination of green, blue and silver? This is one of Debra Paget’s favorite make-up tricks. Do you know why, though Marilyn Monroe is the first to admit that she bleaches her hair, she keeps her eyebrows a dark brown? Or why Debbie Reynolds sees to it that the space between her eyebrows exactly matches the length of one eye? Or why Joan Evans never goes to sleep at night before she has put oil on her long lashes? The reasons are simple: to make the most of their eyes. And every one of these little tricks can help you make your eyes the most beautiful in any gathering. Whether your eyes are naturally too small, too colorless, or too dull, they can be adorned Portrait of Debra Paget by Stern to look like the most exquisite in the world. It’s all a matter of the right eyebrow pencils, correctly used, the right eye shadows, ditto, mascara, ditto, a color sense and imagination. Ask any make-up man in Hollywood and he’ll tell you that the eyes chalk up forty per cent of the beauty of your face, with the mouth registering thirty per cent and the nose another thirty. Though there’s not a lot you can do about the mouth and much, much less about the nose, there’s almost no limit to how striking you can make your eyes. Hollywood is so all gone on this subject that in Beverly Hills there is actually a shop devoted entirely to eye make-up. It’s run by eye expert Aida Grey, who “custom tailors” for the glamour girls — shadow^ concocted of two, three or even more tones ; mascaras ranging from black through deepest brown to blue, green, gray or gold; brushes of the proper textures; pencils of the proper shades. It was Miss Grey who originally persuaded the girls to put their eye shadow on, not horizontally, but diagonally, up from the inside corner of the eye to just under the brow. Try it yourself, sometime. You’ll be delighted with the exciting new effect. As Debra Paget says, “Most girls don’t experiment with their make-up, {Continued on page 80) 63