Marilyn Monroe's bespoke skin-care routine from March 1959. Starting from the top, Marilyn's morning skin routine began with cleansing using Erno Lazlo Active Phelityl Soap and warm water.
To get her signature on-camera glow, Monroe would apply thick layers of Vaseline or white Nivea Creme under her makeup, while dermatologist Erno Laszlo kept her well stocked in his Phormula 3-9—a reparative botanical balm, specially created to heal a scar of hers—and Active Phelityl Cream, an all-purpose moisturizer.
Like many women, Marilyn had a favorite drugstore skin secret. She used to douse her face in Vaseline before applying makeup for a luminous glow, and often said she used it on her body head-to-toe before going in a hot bath in the mornings for smooth skin. In today's world, how does one rationalize this practice?
For her face, Monroe used a natural hormone replacement, Active Phelityl Cream. Although it helped to improve her skin, it also caused her to grow blonde peach fuzz all over her face—which she shaved off (more on that in the next slide).
Marilyn's famous beauty mark was on her right cheek above her lip. She used to highlight the mole slightly with makeup. While she was alive and thriving in Hollywood, all the young girls and women of America went crazy following the beauty trends she set.
Marilyn Monroe's signature red lips were famously achieved with five coats of Guerlain's Rouge Diabolique lipstick.
Marilyn Monroe famously told interviewers that she wore Chanel No. 5 to bed (and nothing else), but it wasn't her only favorite. Like millions of other women, Monroe was a fan of Chanel No 5. However, in 2002, it was revealed that she also had a secret penchant for Floris Rose Geranium.
Marilyn may have had a milky complexion, but every skin tone can benefit from avoiding the sun's harmful rays. “I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blonde all over,” Monroe reportedly once said.
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on 1 June 1926 at the Los Angeles General Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker (née Monroe), was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico to a poor Midwestern family who migrated to California at the turn of the century.
The classic red shade Marilyn so often wore on her nails was revealed to be the Revlon colour 'Cherries a la Mode' which the brand has since sadly discontinued.
For dinner, she never dined out. Instead of opting for the best restaurant in town, she'd stop at a market near her hotel for steak, liver, or lamb chops, which she'd broil herself using an electric oven. On the side, she'd eat raw carrots. And when she wanted to treat herself, it was all about an ice cream sundae.
It is said that Marilyn Monroe's eye color is brown. But in fact, it is hazel. The reason why people think her eyes are brown because she wore a brown contact lens to make her eyes look bigger and more attractive. Marilyn Monroe had hazel eyes, not brown.
According to Vogue, the author Pamela Keogh noted that Monroe had her hair bleached every three weeks and swore by dry shampoo— baby powder on her roots.
Hollywood icons Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor used a common grooming tool to battle unwanted facial hair: a razor. Aesthetician Kate Somerville tells Style.com that the stars shaved their faces in order to obtain completely bare skin with the added bonus of exfoliation.
Entering her bathroom a natural curly-haired redhead, Norma emerged as the most iconic blonde of all time: Marilyn Monroe. Yep, you read right, Marilyn Monroe's natural hair colour is red.
Marilyn Monroe's Scarlet Stories
Guerlain's Rouge Diabolique and Max Factor were among Monroe's go-to brands for her textured, siren red lip.
More importantly, Monroe's appearance in Levi's® jeans helped popularize the denim pants — women wanting to dress as Marilyn bought their own blue jeans.
Marilyn used a base of white cream on her eyelids for every look. She'd blend it all the way up to the brow bone, then apply the rest of her makeup. This left a bit of white in the corners and underneath the brow to act as highlight, while the rest of the white worked as a primer for eyeshadow.
Her evening skincare routine began with an oil cleanse, using the Erno Laszlo Active Phelityl Oil, then she applied the Active Phelityl Cream and washed it off. She finished with the Controlling Lotion. All of these products are still available today.
Revlon Cherries-a-la-Mode Nail Polish. Elizabeth Arden Cream Eyeshadow Stick in Autumn Smoke. One unidentified white product tube. Anita d'Foged Day Dew "Creme Makeup"/Foundation in Ivory Medium (supposedly available here)
Green is considered by some to be the actual rarest eye color in the world, though others would say it's been dethroned by red, violet, and grey eyes.
Hugo was a Basset hound who lived with Marilyn and her third husband, Arthur Miller, at their East 57th street apartment in New York in the late '50's. Once, Marilyn and her friend Norman Rosten spoon-fed Hugo straight scotch to cheer him up. When Marilyn and Arthur split up, Arthur retained custody of Hugo.
Marilyn Monroe did have an extreme hourglass shape, according to a dressmaker who listed these measurements: Height: 5 feet, 5½ inches. Weight: 118-140 pounds. Bust: 35-37 inches.