Marilyn Monroe Make-Up Secrets!

Here's a fun treat! After lots of research on Marilyn Monroe, her make-up artist, Allan "Whitey" Snyder, who did her make-up from her very first screen test at 20th Century Fox to, even doing her funeral make-up....I present to you:

MARILYN MONROE'S MAKE-UP LOOK & HER BEAUTY SECRETS 

BEFORE MAKE-UP TRICKS       &    AFTER            

(how to go from "natural Marilyn Monroe to glam icon, Marilyn Monroe)

(that not even Whitey would share some of these tips with Marilyn! ha ha)

 SKIN:

Marilyn used Erno Laszlo Active pHelityl Cream (you can still get it here) or vaseline to moisturize (I  use Alba Un-Petroleum, much better for your skin than Vaseline!)

 FOUNDATION:

Marilyn Monroe wore Elizabeth Arden Pat-A-Creme foundation or foundation from Erno Laszlo, she also used the Erno Laszlo Duo-Phase Face Powder (which you can still buy! CLICK HERE to see!)

MARILYN'S HIGHLIGHTING TRICKS:

She used a highlighting powder (I can't find anywhere what the name was!)..to highlight certain spots on her face that she liked to highlight!

I used SHELL (a cream color) from MAC to highlight, then I went over it with SILVER DUSK highlight powder from MAC. You could even use a frosty eyeshadow to dab on highlight areas I show above!

MARILYN'S LIP TRICK:

She used up to 5 different red lipsticks at once to get her perfect red mouth. All reds were a bright blue-red, because the film cameras back then had a way of making everything orangey.

You can see in the video, but her make-up artist would draw above the top lip curve with a white eyeliner to make it look larger and more highlighted.

Also, she extended her top lip liner out at an angle above her lower lip (take a peek at the pic above!).

*She also fully drew in the curved, rounded bow-shaped mouth on the top. And she used a darker red lipliner to shade the underside of the lower lip and the outer edges to make her lips look even larger and more "sexy-pouty"! (see the picture above of her without make-up, her lips are totally different shaped than after her make-up!)

*They would also dab a white eyeshadow in the center of her lips to make them look fuller and grab the light, as you can see in the photo above!)

MARILYN EYEBROWS:

Marilyn's eyebrows were drawn into very pointed eyebrows, which was because she thought she had a wide forehead, and adding such sharp peaks makes it look like your forehead doesn't take up so much room!

MARILYN'S EYELINER:

*Whitey would draw in a white triangle on the outer corner of her eye with a white eyeliner, and blend it outwards. 

*He also lined the waterline of her lower eye with white eyeliner, this was a very popular trick in that era, to make the eyes look bigger and brighter on camera!

*Next they usually used a brown eyeliner (contrary to all the popular Marilyn looks that use black), and drew the liner like I show in the red above, and slightly below the eye-LEAVING the WHITE SPACE on the corner UNTOUCHED. This trick makes the eye look wider, in combination with drawing the top eyeliner out longer.

MARILYN MONROE'S EYELASHES:

They would take a full strip of lashes and cut them in half so that they were just on the outer corners, like a demi-wispie lash. I used URBAN DECAY LASHES in LURE.

CONTOURING & EYESHADOW:

I show you this much better than I can type-explain (ha ha) in the video below!

COSTUME GOODIES: (what I used in the video): 

MARILYN WIG:

DIAMOND EARRINGS:

DIAMOND NECKLACE:

RED GLOVES  

you can even get the white MARILYN MONROE dress!

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sit back and enjoy a glamorous adventure into Marilyn 

Make-Up with me!

diamonds and red lips....marilyn, I mean, kandee (ha ha ha)