How to make a sex icon out of an ordinary girl: 8 secrets of makeup artist Marilyn Monroe

Allan "Whitey" Schneider is a personal makeup artist, stylist and close friend of Marilyn Monroe, responsible for turning an ordinary-looking girl into a sexy beauty who was admired by the whole world. We talk about the main beauty tricks of the master.

Long before Kim Kardashian and her makeup artist Mario Dedivanovich seriously excited the Internet with all sorts of contouring, strobing and highlighting, there was another, no less famous couple with their beauty secrets. In Hollywood, Allan "Whitey" Schneider has always been listed as a personal makeup artist, stylist and close friend of Marilyn Monroe.

Future star Norma Jean Baker before meeting her makeup stylist, early 1940s

They first met in 1946, when she successfully passed the first acting auditions in her life at the 20th Century Fox studio. Since then, Allan has taken responsibility for her makeup - both on set and in life.

Marilyn Monroe and her signature makeup and hairstyle, 1950s

He was by her side throughout her dizzying career, starting with the debut film Monkey Business in 1952 and ending with the last make-up, which he performed with tears in his eyes on the day of her funeral in 1962.

All those legendary images that still serve as a source of inspiration and an object of admiration are his golden handiwork. We learned and gathered together several professional secrets of Mr. Schneider and his muse — they are, most interestingly, relevant to this day.

Allan always applied a thin layer of vaseline to moisturize the skin and give it a glow in the spotlight.

Nowadays, when choosing a tone due to its assortment can turn into a small headache, this method is not particularly suitable. But it's not worth ignoring vaseline as a handy highlighter — it looks great on the cheekbones and under the eyebrow.

In an era when lips were not yet enlarged by injections, for the sake of plumpness, it was necessary to go to tricks and use at least five means of different shades.

For the illusion of depth, Allan drew the contour of the lips with a chocolate-colored pencil. I used a brick-colored pencil to stroke the lips from the periphery to the center. With a bright red pencil, moving from the center, he mixed all the shades together.

In order not to disturb the recreated depth and volume, he wielded pencils near the contour most carefully. I put a dot in the center of the lower lip with a cream highlighter and completed the procedure by applying a "greasy" lip balm on top (namely a balm, not a gloss).

At that time, wet eye makeup was considered the height of sexuality.

In the absence of metallic textures, Allan simply took and applied a thin layer of petroleum jelly or coconut oil over compact eyeshadow.

For the actress Greta Garbo, one make up trick was noticed, which Allan successfully used with his muse. For a noticeable opening of the look over the entire eyelid, it is enough to shade white shadows (powdery), and put a point of shadows of the same shade in the inner corners of the eyes, but only of a mother-of-pearl texture.

Alan drew the contour simultaneously with black and brown eyeliner, white eyeliner highlighted the ciliary contour from the inside and the outer corner, and put a pair of red dots inside the eyes - this gave the whites brightness or whiteness.

Although Marilyn Monroe had a forced rhinoplasty, it still seemed to her that her nose was too big.

To correct this shortcoming, the makeup artist simply touched the tip of his nose with pink blush.

Alan has always ruthlessly chopped false eyelashes exactly in half, gluing them only from the outside. This made it possible to make the eyes elongated and almond-shaped.

Allan has always intensively highlighted the shape of the eyebrows, jewelry drawing "triangularity".

First of all, to reduce the breadth of the forehead of the star client. In this case, this trick works, in all others it requires attention to avoid an unnecessary house.