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 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!
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LYNDA CARES FOR AND STYLES HER HAIR |
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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.
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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
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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."
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| LYNDA'S
FITNESS SECRETS |
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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!
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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 ...
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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!"
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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."
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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!"
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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!"
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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!"
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| LYNDA'S
FAVORITE FASHIONS |
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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."
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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!"
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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!"
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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.
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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' |
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| MS.
CARTER'S MAKEUP SECRETS |
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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.
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"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."
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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!"
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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. " |
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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." |
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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."
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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."
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"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)'
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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."
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"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"
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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."
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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."
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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.
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"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."
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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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