Beauty Icon of the Week

 

This week's icon is Carmen Dell'Orefice. The 80 year old supermodel has been consistently working for 67 years! Muse to Salvador Dali at age 13, on the cover of Vogue magazine at age 15 in 1947, and more in-demand than ever today, she has been the picture of grace and beauty for any age.

Carmen (the mononymous name she is known by) stopped dyeing her hair in her mid-40s saying, "I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look." She embraced the natural stages of graying and now has her hair toned 4 times a year to lift the color to a pure white.

She says beauty starts with thought and attitude. She also lives a healthy lifestyle. "I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore. I get up and move to get blood to my brain. Train like an athlete, get enough sleep, not too much booze, and never smoke." She also credits her sex life as a key element in maintaining her youth. "Sex is part of it. Life has to be a balance, and I've figured out the balance for myself. Sex always!"

When asked her favorite beauty product, her answer is the cult favorite Bag Balm, an ointment developed by a dairy farmer for softening cow teats and horse hooves. "If it's good enough for horses, it's good enough for me."

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Beauty Icon of the Week

This week's Beauty Icon is the gorgeous Debi Mazar! She is an actress in films like Goodfellas and shows like HBO's Entourage. She also has a cooking show Extra Virgin with her Italian husband on the Cooking Channel and hosts a similar web series on youtube called Under the Tuscan Gun. The unique beauty started out her career as a makeup artist and most notably did her good friend Madonna's makeup for a Broadway play in 1988. In addition to her busy schedule she has also recently formulated her own line of natural body creams and scrubs made from the olive trees on her property in Fiesole, Italy.
With her remarkable features, its no wonder she is often compared to the vintage face of Barbie.

Mazar, 46, attributes her good looks to following simple rules such as drinking plenty of water to smooth out lines, red wine for its antioxidant power, taking vitamins, doing cardio for circulation, and getting proper sleep (she was once an insomniac). Also, she claims to have been using Dr. Hauschka Skin Care products for almost 30 years and is a loyal devotee of the moon manicure (or half-moon manicure), a retro look which leaves the "moons" (or the 1/8 inch portion of nail closest to the nailbed and cuticle) nude or white in contrast to the color of the rest of the nail.

 

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Beauty Icon of the Week

That's right! Its none other than Christina Hendricks! Its no surprise that this buxom bombshell was named Esquire's Best Looking American Woman in 2010. The Mad Men star has caused mouths to drop all over the country due to her hourglass shape and confident, come-hither gaze. Her character, Joan Holloway has everyone at the Sterling Cooper offices wrapped around her well-manicured finger.
Hendricks herself is also confident with her curvacious body. She is 5'8" and wears a size 14 dress but says she felt more beautiful when she was 15 pounds heavier a few years back, modelling in Italy. "I was having cappuccinos every day! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it." She still says she breaks all diet rules by eating salty and creamy foods, but now exercises to balance her indulgences.

A natural blonde, Christina says she started dyeing her hair red at the age of 10. She experimented with her style in earlier years saying: "I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time". In 1999 she stared in a commercial for Clean & Clear Oil Absorbing Sheets and now says her beauty routine isn't so different than that of  her iconic character. "Joan is a classic beauty, and my everyday makeup look isn't much different from hers: coral lips, neutral eyeshadow, liquid black eyeliner. It's the hair that makes us so different."

See Christina's favorite products and get her makeup look after the jump!

Beauty Icon of the Week

This weeks beauty icon is none other than Nigella Lawson! This British food writer and TV host has it all - brains, beauty, and kitchen skills. Much to her dismay, her sarcastically titled book How to Be a Domestic Goddess has permanently earned her the title's nickname. She, however, considers herself a home cook and loathes being incorrectly labeled a chef or professional. Her biggest drive is her passion for food, saying "I think what ages a face most is disappointment and a lack of enjoyment. So I try to do what I love"
In terms of beauty, Nigella radiates a sexiness that is mostly natural and partly clever enhancement. Her look is that of the low-key sex kitten. She claims to have not changed her makeup routine since the age of 17, choosing to play up her eyes and play down her lips. She has hair that falls in fat curls around her shoulders and to call her hourglass figure "curvy" seems an understatement.
To get her look, Nigella uses a variety of products. One of her favorite staples is Laura Mercier's Tinted Moisturizer in Fawn, calling it "the best stuff in the business" for making her look "natural but improved". She washes her hair only once a week with $4 Thicker Fuller Hair by Schwarzkopf. "I don't go along with this modern fad to wash it, if not every day, then every other day." she says. Nigella claims to not keep much in her handbag except Estee Lauder eyeliner pencil, Max Factor's Masterpiece Max Mascara, and Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Lip Protectant Stick. For nails she turns to a vampy shade by Butter London, called Come to Bed Red. Her favorite fragrance is Coco by Chanel.

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Beauty Icon of the Week

Its only fitting that the first Beauty Icon of the Week is Ms. Lana Turner. She graces the background of this webpage in a still from the film noir classic, The Postman Always Rings Twice. The ultimate femme fatale, she radiated attitude onscreen and glamour off.

Some Lana Turner beauty tidbits:

• Her hair was naturally auburn until, when auditioning for a role in 1939's Idiots Delight she dyed it platinum. She didn't get the role but she kept the hair color. 
• Early in her career she shaved off her eyebrows for a role as a harem girl and they never properly grew back. She had to draw or paste them on for the rest of her life.
• When Eva Peron changed her image upon entering the political spotlight she modeled her new look after Lana Turner.
• Lana was rumored to have owned almost 700 pairs of shoes in a room where they lined the walls floor to ceiling and were accessed by a library ladder!
• According to legend, when a fire broke out in her apartment she grabbed only what she thought essential: lipstick, eyebrow pencil, and a hairdryer. 
• She exfoliated her skin with Boraxo Powdered Hand Soap once a week and followed with Nivea Cream.
• Her favorite fragrance was L'Air du Temps.

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