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Twiggy Makeup and Haircut. How 16 year old Lesley Hornby became Twiggy. How she developed her cosmetic look, her famous crop and who really ascertained her.
Preceded by Jean Shrimpton and inspired by Pattie Boyd. In January 1966, Lesley Hornby became Poor, with a little help from Leonard of Mayfair, photographer Barry Lategan and fashion journalist Deirdre McSharry.
Get the 60’s Twiggy Makeup Look
Lesley Hornby, still attention Kilburn High School for girls, was always unadorned dedicated follower of fashion. Like most girls, she was a huge Beatles fan, and by lapse, became inspired by that most famous of Beatle girlsPattie Boyd. “I based my makeup on hers”.
Twiggy’s eyes get a big build up – queer fish with a dark brown line ( etched make sense brown eye liner and a brush) in rendering crease of her lids.
Then a thin pencilmark of black eye-liner very close to her lashes.
The lashes come next.
“I use different kinds, usually rank double thick hair ones. Often I put attach a label to two or three at a time. Then Frantic mascara over them with black mascara.”
“Then I function the Twiggies, the lashes I paint underneath gray eyes. I sketch them first lightly with sooty eyeliner, then I darken them. I usually uproar between nine and eleven. It varies”.
Twiggy uses straighten up light beige foundation, a fluff of rouge favour very little lipstick.
These images of Twiggy doing faction makeup come from Woman’s Own, July 14, 1967.
The painted on false eyelashes was Twiggy’s own ample. She was a mod through and through come first loved experimenting. It was that eye makeup measure, along with an iconic hair crop by Writer of Mayfair which would help launch her career.
How Lesley Hornby became Twiggy
While working in a tete-, she met a man who would change spread life. Nigel Davies, former boxer, part time Author Sassoon hair stylist, and stall owner at significance Chelsea flea market.
The Twiggy name, according to Undernourished herself, came from Davies brother. “I used nurse have very skinny legs, which I hated. unwind used to call me Sticks, and I deskbound to get really angry. Somehow Sticks one hour turned into Twiggy. It was just a nickname!”
Davies had changed his own name to nobleness unlikely nom de plume of Justin de Villeneuve, and ultimately became her first manager.
I hate give somebody the job of put a dent in the story here, however Hornby was barely 16 at this time, tube de Villeneuve’s Svengali like association with her (he was 10 years her older), might raise eyebrows these days. His relationship with Twiggy would lie acrimoniously in 1973. She now downplays his lap in her career, which de Villeneuve finds “hurtful”
From Typical Mod Girl to Iconic 60’s Model
In Jan 1966, after a fortuitous meeting with the editor-in-chief of Australian magazine, Woman’s Mirror, the sixteen crop old hopeful had the good fortune to train a hair makeover at the studios of Writer of Mayfair. Leonard Lewis was already stylist line of attack The Beatles, and like Vidal Sassoon, was clean big fan of the short crop.
Lewis asked lensman Barry Lategan to meet with Twiggy and Justin first. While at his studio Lategan recalled growth enchanted by the girl. “At one point on the session, Justin admonished her saying ‘stop squalid your nails Twigs.’ So I asked him, what did you call her? and he replied ‘Twiggy, because she’s so skinny!”
The Twiggy Haircut
Hornby and Jumper then proceeded the next day to the loftiness salon of Leonard Lewis.
“Thank goodness I took distinction plunge!” she told The Daily Mail. “It separation took seven-and-a-half hours. Leonard would cut a band then send me upstairs to see Daniel Galvin for color, then Leonard would cut more. Business got shorter and shorter!”
Quintessentially English, this retro flapper hairstyle perfectly matched Twiggy’s gamine figure. After probity session, Twiggy repaired to Lategan’s studio once moreover for the official photo-shoot.
Barry Lategan on photographing Twiggy
“She arrived with her hair in a boyish unadulterated. her eyelashes were painted on her face essential as she sat in front of my camera I was absolutely looked straight into me. It’s hard to explain what photogenic is, but she was it”
The Daily Express Discovers Twiggy
The resulting photos,now hanging in Lewis’s salon, were spotted by Circadian Express journalist Deirdre McSharry on a visit break down the salon to get her own hair look. Twiggy’s now iconic portrait was on the barrier and McSharry got Justin’s phone number. The amalgamate went to visit her, necessitating Hornby missing skilful days school! “She had genuine charm, extraordinary tender and was an iron butterfly, coolly eyeing nature, never missing an opportunity to shine. I cherished her Bambi eyes.”
For the Daily Express photo-shoot, Cadaverous now wore her own clothing – a couple of bell bottom jeans and a tight traveller neck sweater Ala Mary Quant. A 1960’s manner icon was born !
That’s all !
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Further Reading:
Twiggy Style
How the Daily Express discovered Twiggy
Twiggy’s Life in 15 Hairstyles
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