Actresses like Hedy Lamarr, Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor were so gorgeous in their heyday that they left viewers breathless! Lamarr was famous in pre-war black and white films, and was once considered the most beautiful woman in the world. Taylor was breathtakingly lovely in films like “The Last Time I Saw Paris” and “Cleopatra.”
Makeup has become specialized since it was first considered an essential part of theater. In the beginning, make-up merely tried to approximate aspects of nature. Sound and make-up were strongly patterned after animals hunted by tribes.
SOMETIMES, people look at the face of an actress or actor and wish that they could also be beautiful or handsome. Some traditional Filipino proverbs that offer cautionary insights into beauty.
WHENEVER there’s a poll about “most beautiful” celebrities, it almost always becomes controversial, because beauty is in the beholder’s eye—and there will always be detractors.
Before Mariah Carey, Beyonce, J. Lo, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Adele, there was Whitney Houston. Her music holds special meaning to me because her self-titled debut album was released in 1985, the year when I became a first-time mother.
For some days now, we’ve been seeing newspaper photos and TV promo plugs about veteran actresses who’ve somehow retained their looks and have been proving that beauty can be “ageless.”
Last Tuesday, September 13, “Miss U” morning, we woke up really early to do some writing before we put everything on hold to catch this year’s finals on TV. Hopes were high in our household that our bet, Shamcey, would do really well in the beauty pageant, having topped an early online poll. We wanted [...]
IT WAS in 1976 when I finally got to work with Miss Universe ’69, Gloria Diaz, who had entered the local movies as “Ang Pinakamagang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa,” where she, along with Elizabeth Oropesa, popularized the “wet look.” I first became aware of Gloria when she joined the tilt (put up by Stella [...]
