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Marilyn Monroe Look
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thanks! I love Marilyn ^_^ /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I'm actually going through my Marilyn phase again hehe..
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That sounds cool, I love Marilyn Monroe, however I am new and cant see any pictures yet. Bummer!
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*siiiigh* marilyn.. the most beautiful woman in the world
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I am a HUGE marilyn fan and I have studied her makeup to the smallest microscopic detail! Lemme tell you...that diagram is nothing like Marilyn's actual makeup..it's so much more than smokey eyes and red lipstick.
First, Marilyn's foundation was a mix of foundation and vaseline done in layers to provide a "glow". She contoured like nobody's business so cheekbones are a must but also, the eye area is done in the following manner...(keep in mind, she never really used eyeshadows..she used a brown to contour her eyelid)
Notice how the center of the browbone is much lighter ... but the end is brown to enhance that bright spot.
Her eyeliner (this is where people always make hte mistake of just lining their eyes with black..definately wrong!)
...Take a BROWN eyeliner..marilyn hardly EVER used black, and line the top BUT make sure to extend the line out and DOWN so it gives a "sleepy look" effect but also elongates your eyes. False eyelashes are also a must. For the bottom of the eye..start in the middle of your eye (right under your pupil) and extend the line right out..its supposed to look basically straight. Then take some white eyeshadow and apply to the space btwn your top extended line and lower.
For eyebrows, Marilyn's eyebrows were always pointy to make her forehead appear wider...and this is an important step people miss: apply white eyeshadow on the TOP second half of your eyebrow and make sure to blend in well, itll make your eyebrows stand out more.
Lips..line the lips with a darker pencil but NOT the middle part of cupid's bow..line the top to come OVER the bottom lip which makes your lips appear bigger...take a dark red lipstick color and put it on the edges of your lips and blend the lipstick to cover the middle of your lips (both top and bottom).
To complete the look, take a shimmer highlight and put it on your chin, your cheekbones, your nose, your eyelids and browbdone and on the T zone. It gives you a really nice glow.
*Something that's aways worked for me is to take whiteyeliner and put on a THIN THIN THIN line above the black line on my eyelids to make the black stand out more and put it on my top lip line too (again, very faintly).
First, Marilyn's foundation was a mix of foundation and vaseline done in layers to provide a "glow". She contoured like nobody's business so cheekbones are a must but also, the eye area is done in the following manner...(keep in mind, she never really used eyeshadows..she used a brown to contour her eyelid)
Notice how the center of the browbone is much lighter ... but the end is brown to enhance that bright spot.
Her eyeliner (this is where people always make hte mistake of just lining their eyes with black..definately wrong!)
...Take a BROWN eyeliner..marilyn hardly EVER used black, and line the top BUT make sure to extend the line out and DOWN so it gives a "sleepy look" effect but also elongates your eyes. False eyelashes are also a must. For the bottom of the eye..start in the middle of your eye (right under your pupil) and extend the line right out..its supposed to look basically straight. Then take some white eyeshadow and apply to the space btwn your top extended line and lower.
For eyebrows, Marilyn's eyebrows were always pointy to make her forehead appear wider...and this is an important step people miss: apply white eyeshadow on the TOP second half of your eyebrow and make sure to blend in well, itll make your eyebrows stand out more.
Lips..line the lips with a darker pencil but NOT the middle part of cupid's bow..line the top to come OVER the bottom lip which makes your lips appear bigger...take a dark red lipstick color and put it on the edges of your lips and blend the lipstick to cover the middle of your lips (both top and bottom).
To complete the look, take a shimmer highlight and put it on your chin, your cheekbones, your nose, your eyelids and browbdone and on the T zone. It gives you a really nice glow.
*Something that's aways worked for me is to take whiteyeliner and put on a THIN THIN THIN line above the black line on my eyelids to make the black stand out more and put it on my top lip line too (again, very faintly).
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If I may add to this thread.
I found this website that claims that they have her routine and products she used to achieve her look. Please go to the website to see the pictures of the products, I will just post the meat of the article.
Marilyn's Make-up Secrets: Take Two! | makeup secrets, Marilyn Monroe | teamsugar - Women's Social Network & Community.
Marilyn's Make-up Secrets: Take Two!
Tue, 04/03/2007 - 12:14pm Post by Tnkrbelli
Tip #1: Setting the Base ♠
Marilyn didn't wear much as far as the base goes but here are a few products that she used as foundation!
1. Anita d'Foged Day Dew Make-up in Ivory Medium
(now known as Anita of Denmark these products are available at this website: http://www.daydew.com/, just a warning though, the website is very illusive and it seems as though you will have to call to get info & there aren't any images).
2. Erno Laszlo
www.ernolaszlo.com
♥ Application:
Apparently Marilyn washed her face with Shu Uemera cleansing oil and then would splash her face 15 times with cold water to seal the pores. She would then wear Vaseline on her face as a moisturizer and would alternate between thin layers of Vaseline (or you could use Active pHelityl Cream, as she did later in her life) and powder (from the ones above and she also used Elizabeth Arden's Pat-a-creme) to create a base. This is what gave her that beautiful glow. Although she did grow a thin layer of little baby-fine blonde hairs on her face for using hormone cream all of those years, it just added to her glow in the studio lighting.
Tip #2: Accenting Her Features
Marilyn was described as a true "artist" when it came to applying her make-up and she definitely knew how to accentuate her features. Here is a break-down of what she did to highlight her face, cheekbones, nose and eyes.
1. ♥ She used blush to enhance her cheekbones and shorten her nose. She would dab the blush on the tip of her nose and then would go over it with vaseline and powder. She probably would do this until the desired affect of the perfectly shaped nose was achieved. This way in photos she wouldn't have a nose that looked too elongated.
2. ♥ Next, she would sweep blush across her cheekbones, underneath the top of the cheekbone(ever so lightly) and this would accent her cheeks. Her blushes were generally pink or coral.
3. ♥ Using a light light illuminating powder and/or a highlighter creme(I have been using Benefit LemonAid which works perfectly, sounds weird I know but it works wonders) blend around the nose, avoiding the tip of the nose but blend everything else around it! Blend the LemonAid in a highlighting motion above the cheekbones, under the eyes and over the eyelids(I would not recommend doing this part with the powder, never put powder around the eyes it will enhance the fine lines in that area). So use a cream to do this part and then put it in between your eyes(in those dark crevices by your nose). SO the whole idea here is to highlight the whole area of your face that you want to look flawlessly light and also wider, which would be the eye area and the forehead area. Here is a good picture of Marilyn that will kind of show you that the top of her face is highlighted and the bottom is shadowed and contoured.
Tip # 3: Eyes eyes eyes!
So, Marilyn would call her own eye make-up "the Greta Garbo eye". She took cues from the sultry star from the Golden Era, and tried to re-create that look. Here is how she did it!
1. ♥ She would cover her eyelid with a lustrous white stick shadow, which she would use White Lustre by Elizabeth Arden, which I haven't been able to find but you just need a shadow that is silky and won't crease. She would apply it liberally all over the lid up to the brow bone.
2. ♥ After that she would apply(with a brush) a smoky-toned color into the outer crease of her eyelid. The colors she used were Autumn smoke and Pearly Blue By Elizabeth Arden. So light silvery blue or a soft smoky brown are two options. She also used light green at times depending on her wardrobe.
3. ♥ Eyeliner. So, she would use a black or brown eye stopper Elizabeth Arden eye-liner, or a fluid liner(black liquid liner), to line her eyes. It all depends on your eye-shape, but the idea is to make your eyes look wider.
There are three-steps to this process: the upper lashline, the lower lashline and the gap in between the liners on the outer edge of eye (sound confusing? I know, but hopefully it will make sense below).
♠ Upper lash-line: Marilyn would line the whole top lash-line starting from the inner corner of the eye going all the way to the outer corner and sweeping the line up and out.
♠ Lower lash-line: This is the secret of all secrets to achieving the Marilyn eye. Take the pencil and start at the beginning of where your iris starts and line out and downward (not too far downward but just enough to look like it's a line created by the shadow of your top lashes). This may sound silly but once you get it down it creates the illusion that you have a lower lashline that is to die for! It also opens up your eyes a tremendous amount!
♠ Lastly, the gap between the two lines you created on the outer edge of the eye should be about a millimeter wide. So in that gap use a white highlighter pencil (any white eyeliner pencil will do) or brush (like Benefits High Beam) and sweep a little white line in.
4. ♥ The last part of the eye includes curling the lashes and putting on some falsies if you would like to(just put them on the outer corner of the lids, not the whole eye). Add a little bit of mascara and then you're done!
Quick Tip: Make sure that your eyes are highlighted all over! On the brow bone, in the inner corners of the eye and underneath the eye! It really lightens everything up, it takes practice but it's worth it.
Tip #4: The Lips
I know I touched on this before but I thought that I'd go-over it again with the information that I now know about Marilyn's lipstick regimen.
She would use a lip brush and she would use five different shades of lipstick to achieve her look. She also would use a white highlighting color of some kind that she would put on the middle of her lips after the layering of the reds were all done. This would give the illusion of plumpness. So it was pretty much as follows:
1. ♥ Red liner(a little dark but not too dark) would go on the outer line of the lips.
2. ♥ She would then apply with a lip brush three different layers of red lipstick. I'm assuming she used Guerlain lipstick, Elizabeth Arden lipstick and Max Factor lipstick. So these were the basic layers that were put on first.
3. ♥ The way she would shadow her lips was to give the effect that they were voluptuous and plump. She shadowed her lips so the darker reds were on the outer edges of her lips and the lighter were in the middle of her lips.
4. ♥ The white highlighter was put in the middle of her lips to soften the middle and leave the edges of the lips stunningly dark.
5. ♥ Her gloss was also added intermittently in this process, so a layer gloss (known as a concoction of beeswax and vegetable wax) and a layer of lipstick, then the shadowing happened and then the last layer of gloss was used. I have no idea what gloss she used but people say it was her own invention and a mix that she would not tell to anyone what was actually in it!
Marilyn's Make-up Secrets: Take Two! | makeup secrets, Marilyn Monroe | teamsugar - Women's Social Network & Community.
Marilyn's Make-up Secrets: Take Two!
Tue, 04/03/2007 - 12:14pm Post by Tnkrbelli
Tip #1: Setting the Base ♠
Marilyn didn't wear much as far as the base goes but here are a few products that she used as foundation!
1. Anita d'Foged Day Dew Make-up in Ivory Medium
(now known as Anita of Denmark these products are available at this website: http://www.daydew.com/, just a warning though, the website is very illusive and it seems as though you will have to call to get info & there aren't any images).
2. Erno Laszlo
www.ernolaszlo.com
♥ Application:
Apparently Marilyn washed her face with Shu Uemera cleansing oil and then would splash her face 15 times with cold water to seal the pores. She would then wear Vaseline on her face as a moisturizer and would alternate between thin layers of Vaseline (or you could use Active pHelityl Cream, as she did later in her life) and powder (from the ones above and she also used Elizabeth Arden's Pat-a-creme) to create a base. This is what gave her that beautiful glow. Although she did grow a thin layer of little baby-fine blonde hairs on her face for using hormone cream all of those years, it just added to her glow in the studio lighting.
Tip #2: Accenting Her Features
Marilyn was described as a true "artist" when it came to applying her make-up and she definitely knew how to accentuate her features. Here is a break-down of what she did to highlight her face, cheekbones, nose and eyes.
1. ♥ She used blush to enhance her cheekbones and shorten her nose. She would dab the blush on the tip of her nose and then would go over it with vaseline and powder. She probably would do this until the desired affect of the perfectly shaped nose was achieved. This way in photos she wouldn't have a nose that looked too elongated.
2. ♥ Next, she would sweep blush across her cheekbones, underneath the top of the cheekbone(ever so lightly) and this would accent her cheeks. Her blushes were generally pink or coral.
3. ♥ Using a light light illuminating powder and/or a highlighter creme(I have been using Benefit LemonAid which works perfectly, sounds weird I know but it works wonders) blend around the nose, avoiding the tip of the nose but blend everything else around it! Blend the LemonAid in a highlighting motion above the cheekbones, under the eyes and over the eyelids(I would not recommend doing this part with the powder, never put powder around the eyes it will enhance the fine lines in that area). So use a cream to do this part and then put it in between your eyes(in those dark crevices by your nose). SO the whole idea here is to highlight the whole area of your face that you want to look flawlessly light and also wider, which would be the eye area and the forehead area. Here is a good picture of Marilyn that will kind of show you that the top of her face is highlighted and the bottom is shadowed and contoured.
Tip # 3: Eyes eyes eyes!
So, Marilyn would call her own eye make-up "the Greta Garbo eye". She took cues from the sultry star from the Golden Era, and tried to re-create that look. Here is how she did it!
1. ♥ She would cover her eyelid with a lustrous white stick shadow, which she would use White Lustre by Elizabeth Arden, which I haven't been able to find but you just need a shadow that is silky and won't crease. She would apply it liberally all over the lid up to the brow bone.
2. ♥ After that she would apply(with a brush) a smoky-toned color into the outer crease of her eyelid. The colors she used were Autumn smoke and Pearly Blue By Elizabeth Arden. So light silvery blue or a soft smoky brown are two options. She also used light green at times depending on her wardrobe.
3. ♥ Eyeliner. So, she would use a black or brown eye stopper Elizabeth Arden eye-liner, or a fluid liner(black liquid liner), to line her eyes. It all depends on your eye-shape, but the idea is to make your eyes look wider.
There are three-steps to this process: the upper lashline, the lower lashline and the gap in between the liners on the outer edge of eye (sound confusing? I know, but hopefully it will make sense below).
♠ Upper lash-line: Marilyn would line the whole top lash-line starting from the inner corner of the eye going all the way to the outer corner and sweeping the line up and out.
♠ Lower lash-line: This is the secret of all secrets to achieving the Marilyn eye. Take the pencil and start at the beginning of where your iris starts and line out and downward (not too far downward but just enough to look like it's a line created by the shadow of your top lashes). This may sound silly but once you get it down it creates the illusion that you have a lower lashline that is to die for! It also opens up your eyes a tremendous amount!
♠ Lastly, the gap between the two lines you created on the outer edge of the eye should be about a millimeter wide. So in that gap use a white highlighter pencil (any white eyeliner pencil will do) or brush (like Benefits High Beam) and sweep a little white line in.
4. ♥ The last part of the eye includes curling the lashes and putting on some falsies if you would like to(just put them on the outer corner of the lids, not the whole eye). Add a little bit of mascara and then you're done!
Quick Tip: Make sure that your eyes are highlighted all over! On the brow bone, in the inner corners of the eye and underneath the eye! It really lightens everything up, it takes practice but it's worth it.
Tip #4: The Lips
I know I touched on this before but I thought that I'd go-over it again with the information that I now know about Marilyn's lipstick regimen.
She would use a lip brush and she would use five different shades of lipstick to achieve her look. She also would use a white highlighting color of some kind that she would put on the middle of her lips after the layering of the reds were all done. This would give the illusion of plumpness. So it was pretty much as follows:
1. ♥ Red liner(a little dark but not too dark) would go on the outer line of the lips.
2. ♥ She would then apply with a lip brush three different layers of red lipstick. I'm assuming she used Guerlain lipstick, Elizabeth Arden lipstick and Max Factor lipstick. So these were the basic layers that were put on first.
3. ♥ The way she would shadow her lips was to give the effect that they were voluptuous and plump. She shadowed her lips so the darker reds were on the outer edges of her lips and the lighter were in the middle of her lips.
4. ♥ The white highlighter was put in the middle of her lips to soften the middle and leave the edges of the lips stunningly dark.
5. ♥ Her gloss was also added intermittently in this process, so a layer gloss (known as a concoction of beeswax and vegetable wax) and a layer of lipstick, then the shadowing happened and then the last layer of gloss was used. I have no idea what gloss she used but people say it was her own invention and a mix that she would not tell to anyone what was actually in it!
