MAGS AND BOOKS
Date and Issue: Volume 3, Number 5, November 1980.
Pages: 4 pages.
Pictures: 1 full-page color picture and 5 black and white pictures.
Article: 3-page article.
Author: Not stated.
Country: USA.
THE NEW SOPHISTICATE'S BEAUTY GUIDE Lynda Carter (aka Wonder Woman) Has Been Named Everything From Best Tressed, Bessed Dressed, And One Of The Ten Most Exciting Women In The World, To ... Her Present Capacity As Beauty & Fashion Director Of Maybelline. How Does She Achieve This Ultra-Sophisticated Image? Read On In Our Exclusive Interview!
HOW LYNDA CARES FOR AND STYLES HER HAIR
In order to get a better idea of how Lynda cares for her hair, we thought we'd take it from the top! What type of hair does she have? Dry, Normal Or Oily? "I would say normal to dry," Lynda explained. "I wash my hair everyday and condition it. I have a hairdresser that I've worked with for eight years that does my hair. Her name is Cheri Ruff, and she does a Henna Pac." Cheri does use a natural henna on Lynda and according to our multitalented celebrity her hair color is indeed her own.
     What are her favorite styles? "Back in a ponytail and off my face," My Carter explained. "I do enjoy taking photographs because you can play with your hair... but as a general rule I like it very simple. It's very, very fine, but I do have a lot of it ...but it's so fine, that when I put it in a ponytail it looks like I don't have any hair. It's a real skinny ponytail. If I didn't wash my hair one day, I could squeeze it into one of those teeny ponytail holders!"
     When Lynda's on the road, once again, she relies on her favorite stylist, Cheri Ruff to create the many looks necessary for her various performances. She does have to use spray during these times, because as Ms.Carter put it, "when I work I perspire so much that we have a hard time keeping it in place. I'll spray it a little or put it up with combs."
LYNDA'S FITNESS SECRETS
O.K., we all know that Lynda has the type of body we'd all love to have. But she does have to work at it and proves that with some discipline and dedication, anyone can improve what nature has given them!
     We had read that Lynda did some 250 leg lifts a day, and asked her if she still does these? "Not everyday," she confessed. "I do do something everyday though. Swimming tennis, running, leg lifts, squats I even do glides - where you take those little barbells and you lay down and bring them up and backdown again. If I do something everyday, I feel good. if I've been laying around all day and haven't done anything ... boy, my energy level is way down!"
     So, you really don't have a strict program you follow? "Right, I just try to do something everyday. Sometimes I do everything. Sometimes I do a lot of ballet and MOM, I stretch everyday. A lot of ballet stretching and that sort of thing. Then I feel good the rest of the day. But if I did everything, all of it, it would take my whole day!"
     Under normal circumstances, when Lynda's not on the road, what is her usual diet like. "I try to eat a lot of vegetables, take vitamins, I try to eat as much roughage as I can. I try to trick myself. I have tricks so that I don't eat too much. Like leaving a little something on my plate ... so I can't ask for seconds ... because I've got them! 4 I'm hungry for some Doritos, I go and get a bowl of radishes and chomp on those." And pretend? "Yes. I think it's the crunch!" Oh, the association thing? "Right. Oral gratification . . . and I'm perfectly satisfied. I also eat something with lettuce, cucumbers and yogurt and salt & pepper. It's great and crunchy too. It's good for you."
     When you're on the road, and not able to nibble the things you prefer. - how then do you stay on your diet? "I order a lot of appetizers! Soup and salad or oysters rockefeller or something like that. I don't order entrees and won't eat potatoes. But I do like to order three appetizers!"
     If you feel the need to binge, what kind of foods do you do it on? "Mexican food is my downfall," the shapely brunette explained. "It's my one thing I could just eat all day!"
     O.K., so now you've binged and need to shed the extra pounds in a couple of days. How do you do it? Exercise? "No, exercise doesn't help you lose weight. If you're perspiring and using a certain amount of calories, yes. But I just stop eating. It's a lot easier to firm up when you're thin than to firm up when you're not thin. If you're the right weight and you want to firm up, it's a lot easier. If you're carrying about ten extra pounds and you're doing leg lifts, I'll tell you, that ten extra pounds will really make it seem like there's a ball on your leg!"  
LYNDA'S FAVORITE FASHIONS
We've seen you in fashions ranging from super-super chic to jeans and T-shirts. What type of clothing do you fed mom comfortable in? "I've got fourteen closets," Ms. Carter explained. "I must have forty pairs of boots, one hundred pairs of shoes and two hundred blouses! I just took nineteen pairs of slacks that I never wear to this charity, because they were bells. I couldn't wear them. I'll splurge each season and get something for dinner, and of course I've got things that were made for premiers and that type of thing. Basically I do wear a lot of sports clothes. I wear Organically Grown stuff ... T-shirts and gym (warm-up) suits."
     So you're really into a more casual look? "Very much. As a matter of fact I'm in a T-shirt, blue jeans, clogs, cowboy belt with my hair pulled up in a ponytail, right now!"
     What do you look for in the fashions that you wear on your specials, do you try to coordinate them with the various numbers? "Well, that's been a problem, I've never been happy with much of the clothing that I've worn on the variety shows. But now I'm using Bob Mackie (who by the way designed the fashions, Lynda is wearing on our cover) for a special, he's done some incredible things. I think I'll be really satisfied and broke!"
     When you do have fashions designed specifically for your variety shows, how do you go about communicating to the designer what type of clothing you have in mind? "I describe the various numbers to him and he does all the rest ... he comes up with the costumes," Lynda says.
     What colors do you feel best accentuate your positive characteristics? "Black, white. Simple, dark colors, dark green, red. I bet you thought I was going to say red, white and bluer'
MS. CARTER'S MAKEUP SECRETS
Before we go No the makeup routine we thought we'd ask Lynda, how she became Maybelline's Beauty & Fashion Director. "Maybelline was looking for a spokesperson to do all their commercials and ads... and they wanted someone who had a good image she explained. "From what I understand I was their first choice. I spent a lot of time with David Brittain the head and president of Maybelline. I really went into a lot of research, and toured their labs.
     "I know a lot about makeup personally, I've experimented with it. I taught myself how to do my own makeup, and experimented with different kinds of my own concoctions. A lot of different things ... so I know what's good for your skin and how it's used."
     So, now to get down to it, was is the first thing you do in the morning, before you go out? "I wash my face. Basically it's just keeping your skin clean, and putting moisturizer on that's not so heavy that when you apply makeup it skips. If you have to use too heavy of a moisturizer, your makeup skips and that's no good!"
     And then? "I use the Moisture Whip line of Maybelline. I mix beige and warm beige, because I do have a more olive complexion. I apply very little, you don't need very much. And, I especially use it when I'm going to be out in the sun. "
     As far as blusher is concerned, what colors do you me) "A lot of different ones." Lynda explained. "I use a darker one under my cheekbones. When applying the base, I put it on my eyelid and under my eyes. Then I apply a darker blush under my cheek bones. A lighter one over the top and on my eyelids."
     What tones do you usually go with? "I use the browner ones for shading, and a really light pink for the color. But if you use dark brown and you apply it you must lift up onto the cheekbones, instead of doing a line. I usually don't put the lighter color on until I'm totally complete with my makeup."
     Lynda's eyes have always looked very dramatic and we know that makeup has an important role in playing them up. How does she create this super-chic look? "I use pencil first, because pencils an really soft. You can use pencils as long as they're not had, around your eyes. My theory in applying makeup is if you blend it, you can wear as much as you want or as little, as long as you blend it and smudge it out."
     "Then I use these eyeshadows from Maybelline, called Blooming Colors... which are great. I apply the brown in the crease and along the edge of my eyelid ... then I blend upwards toward the brow. If I want a little color, I just take a color and put it in the top corner, bottom corner and outside corner of my eye - and blend them into he brown)'
     These colors do of course, depend on what Lynda is wearing, It Night be a "little clash of green or a little clash of blue or burgundy ... or whatever."
     "The thing about these Blooming Colors," Lynda says, "is that they have almost a skintone color and I apply that new the top of my eyebrow, just below my eyebrow. . . to help blend the browns together. Instead of, you know how they used to use white. Well, you don't use white anymore! And, I always take the blusher brush at he end and blush over my lids"
     That gives you the total look you were talking about. "Yes, I have a little trouble with my eyebrows because they're short, so I just have to add a little pencil there. But when you apply the eyebrow pencil, don't ever draw. Dot." Ms. Carter does use a dark brown pencil for this particular instance. And as far as mascara is concerned, Lynda does use it and offers a great hint. "I have a lot of eyelashes," she explains, "but you don't see them unless I put mascara on! I use a brownish-black color. And by using the tip of he mascara wand you can keep your eyelashes separated. First you brush as close to the lid portion of the eyelash as you can, and then you take the tips and feather out. You must dip the wand into its container to take off as much mascara as possible, because you don't want globs at the ends. Then you use the tip and you go back and forth, over your bottom eyelashes and then feather them again, but just using the tip of the wand. My eyelashes an so long, and if I get some of the ends too dark, I'll take the top of my finger and touch the edges, so hey won't go onto my eyelid." As far as lipcolor and technique is concerned, Lynda uses both a pencil and gloss. What colors do you use, we asked. "Every different color! I use Ultra Slim Lipstick from Maybelline. It's in the shape for your lips already so that you don't have to use a bash. It's made on an angle, so you can follow your lipline exactly. You know how some lipsticks are round? And, you really can't apply them properly? Well this stuff is great. You can just zip, zip and look great. It's one of my favorite things."
     Colors of all makeups are great and fun to experiment with to the point of making you feel like a whole new person, inexpensively. "You can use color, with pencils and things on your eyes for the new fashion look," Lynda agreed. "As long as it's blended and as long as you don't apply it down. You should apply in the opposite direction, going up toward your eyebrows instead."
     How does that help? "Well, it gives your eye a more cat-like look. Your eye won't drag down ... it'll drag up. Another little trick is to take a cover stick or a little bit of real light, nonfrosty powder shadow and go up on your eye right from the edge of your eye to the eyebrow. This will open them up. It makes a difference between where your eye ends and where your cheekbone begins, without looking like you stuck a bunch of white on.
     "And, always follow through onto your throat with the same color, make sure it goes out to your ear. There is nothing worse than seeing a line like that. if you have a double chin, you can use a dark blusher right under your chin."
     If you could describe your skin type, dry, normal or oily ... what would it be? "It's all of the above! Like everybody else's is. There are places where you're oily, places where you're dry. My skin is very transparent and very sensitive. If I have or get a blemish or something and I mess around with it, I get a scar. Every little thing shows on it." What about facials, do you have any favorites? "I use the egg white one and I also do a lemon one."
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