Rethink yourself, change your image. Imagine you’ve been chosen to play Daisy in The Great Gatsby: shape your eyes differently, your lips too, and hollow your cheeks. Here, huge eyes and tiny bow of mouth are coloured with Lancome make-up.
Model is Linda Dagenais.
Photographed by Sarah Moon.
Scanned from Vogue, March 15th 1973.
Photographed by David Anthony.
Scanned from Cosmopolitan, January 1974.
Claire Bloom is an exquisite dark-haired beauty, all actress without being the least bit stagey. She first caught the public eye in Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon, then made her film debut in Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight in 1952. This month she stars as Blanche in Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, produced by her husband, Hillard Elkins, and co-starring Stacy Keach. Recently Claire took the great step for an actress and had her hair cut.
“I couldn’t stand my thin shoulder-length hair a moment longer. I thought if I don’t give myself a new look now, I never will. Now I feel a different person.
“I start every day the same way. Coffee, then a delicious smelling Floris bath followed by half an hour of yoga. I was taught in New York three years ago and I’ve done it ever since. I took it up because I was getting so tense and nervous—it really has made a difference. I do it to a marvellous record of chanting Tibetan monks. I like the feeling of physical fitness it brings too. I’ve tried transcendental meditation, but found it too relaxing. When I started yawning through The Doll’s House, I just had to stop. ‘
“My make-up follows this routine: I use RedKen’s moisturiser, followed by Mary Quant’s Nature Tint Foundation, then puff on some transparent powder. The shiny look is not for me. I need to play up my eyes so I always wear eyeshadow and liner. My favourite colours are all the dark, smudgy ones—greys, browns, burgundies and greens. I only wear lip gloss as my lips are well-defined and lipstick makes me feel too made up. If I n a bit of brightening I use Boots No 7 powder rouge. I go to Countess Csaky (5 Carrington House, Hertford St, WI ; 01-629 3732) once a month for a facial. Twice a week I steam my face to get it really clean. I put on Countess Csaky skin food and I lie down with a warm moist flannel over my face for about five minutes. I don’t follow any special diet although I try not to eat anything between breakfast and dinner—just a cup of tea when I’m very thirsty. I don’t like spirits but I love wine with food. Every day I take a complex vitamin tablet—I get them from the States—and a vitamin C tablet. It may be psychological but I feel very well and haven’t had a cold for over three years. The newest find in my life has been a book called Feed Your Face (Duckworth, 90p)—a herbal guide to healthy and beauty. It’s full of the most marvellous recipes. I rushed out and bought some almond meal which is a fantastic facial cleanser, and I use cucumber slices as eye pads. I can’t wait to try out all the recipes!”
Originally accompanying an article on healthy skin, photographed by the brilliant James Wedge and showing off his beautiful signature hand-tinting.
Photographed by James Wedge.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, January 1972.
The photographer is uncredited (possibly Sarah Moon or James Wedge).
Advert for Boots 17.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, September 1975
Advert for Boots 17 Refreshers range.
Scanned from Honey, August 1972.
Summer’s sandals have lots of straps and knots and plaits and weaving, they are leather on huge slices of cork, in colours of caramel ice and salads. Toenails are as fresh and bright. Paint yourself a summer foot.
Photographed by Lester Bookbinder.
Scanned from Vogue, June 1972.
And who better than Maudie James, demonstrating here, exactly how she shapes and colours her face:
1 Starting with shining clean skin (thanks to Pond’s Cold Cream), she dabs on Mary Quant’s Skin Drink and blends it in.
2 Max Factor’s Nouveau Beige Pan Stick goes on with a small damp sponge giving a smooth ‘finish, covering tiny blemishes.
3 Several coats of Boots No 7 Black Block Mascara intensifies but does not cake upper and lower lashes.
4 Blackened lashes are curved to sweep up and out with eyelash curlers (45p from Boots).
5 Each eyelash is separated to look natural.
6 Eyelids coloured with Caran d’Ache purple pencils (Nos 110 and 120) blended up to the brows.
7 Short feathery lines drawn with Caran d’Ache pencil (No 80) outline the cheekbones.
8 And are then blended in towards the nose to make a soft rose-pink blush.
9 Caran d’Ache pencil (No 80) outlines then fills the lips with colour.
10 Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream glossed over lips with a brush—for protection and shine.
11 Biba’s Mascara Brush neatens the eyebrows.
12 The look: face dusted with Boots No 7 Nearly Natural compact Powder; hair: shining with Wella’s Shampoo and Lemon Creme Rinse.
Photographed by Patrick Hunt.
Scanned from Beauty in Vogue, Summer 1972.
Ingrid Boulting on the cover and inside cover of Beauty in Vogue.
Make-up, chosen from the Princess Marcella Borghese range, by Barbara Daly.
Hair by John at Leonard.
Hot pink bikini from a selection by Von Furstenberg at Liberty.
Photographed by Eric Boman.
Scanned from Beauty in Vogue, Spring/Summer 1975.
Model is Maudie James.
Photographed by David Bailey.
Scanned from Vogue, June 1973.
I’m not sure it gets much more 1973 than the styling here. Almost worthy of a Roxy Music cover. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was consciously or subconsciously influenced by that.
Scanned from 19 Magazine, July 1973.
Liz Eggleston 