Friday, March 30, 2018

Take that stuff off your face before your mother sees you.

Jake Houseman has provided first aid to Penny and now angrily is taking his daughter Baby back to the family's cabin. He says to her:
I don't want you to have anything to do with those people. Nothing! You're to have nothing to do with them ever again!

I won't tell your mother about this. Right now I'm going to bed.

And take that stuff off your face before your mother sees you.
The "stuff" on Baby's face is makeup.

Neither parent -- Jake or Marjorie -- objected to Baby's wearing makeup. Both would notice immediately, however, if she were doing so, because Baby never wore makeup.

Jake was worried that Marjorie might wonder to him to him about why Baby was wearing makeup, and then he might feel morally obligated to tell her what had happened at Penny's cabin.

Baby's father told her to take this stuff off her face.
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Although Baby went with her father back to their cabin, she simply waited until he went to bed, and then she snuck out and went to Johnny Castle's cabin. There she still was wearing her makeup.

Baby made an exception to her no-makeup practice
when she went to Johnny's cabin to seduce him.

Imagine the surprise of Baby's mother if she had seen
Baby wearing so much makeup that night.
Although Baby did not normally wear makeup, she did so on this special occasion when she intended to sexually seduce Johnny. If wearing makeup might help her to do so, then she would wear makeup.

Whenever dopey girls make YouTube tutorials about how to look like Baby Houseman, they teach this look, even though Baby normally did not wear makeup.

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On the following morning at breakfast, the normal contrast between no-makeup Baby and much-makeup Lisa could be seen.

Two sisters -- one without makeup and one with makeup
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On the following afternoon, it was raining and so the the Houseman family was sitting in the cabin. As normal, Baby is not wearing makeup.

Baby not wearing makeup on a rainy afternoon in the family's cabin.
(Click on the image to enlarge it.)
Suddenly Baby's older sister Lisa remarks that she cannot find her beige iridescent lipstick.
Lisa Houseman
Where is my beige iridescent lipstick? I know I put it in this drawer.

Marjorie Houseman
Baby, where are you going in this weather?

Baby Houseman
Uh, they're having charades in the west lobby.

Lisa Houseman
Quite the little joiner, aren't we?
Lisa notices that her beige iridescent lipstick is missing.
Baby's mother and sister have no idea that the lipstick-thief might be Baby. Perhaps Baby's father realized that Baby was the thief, but he remained silent.

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At the Rouge 18 website, makeup expert Amber Katz reveals to her readers her five favorite beige iridescent lipsticks.

E.L.F. Essential Lipstick in Nostalgic

Esteee Lauder Pure Color Lipstick in Beige

L'Oreal Paris Colour Riche Stars
Lipcolour Lipstick Aishwarya's Beige

Sephora Collection Rouge Shine Lipstick
No. 2 Golden Girl Shimmer

Urban Decay Midnight Cowboy Lipstick
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Lisa made a special point of mentioning that her missing lipstick was iridescent, because this lipstick feature was rather novel in 1963. The Cosmetics and Skin website has published an article titled Max Factor (post 1945) that summarizes (with the below illustration) the development of iridescent cosmetics in the late 1950s and early 1960s (emphasis added).

A 1959 Max Factor ad introducing its new product line --
Iridescent Magic Lipstick in seven shades:
Petal Frost, Flamingo Pearl, Orchid Pearl, Desert Pearl,
Essence of Pearl, Apricot Frost, Golden Frost. 
.... when the American Lipstick Wars of the 1950s started, the company [Max Factor] felt it was necessary to release yet another one called Color-Fast (1952). By then Max Factor had embraced more marketable shade names so this lipstick was produced in in eight shades: Party Pink, Golden Flame, Wild Orchid, Coral Spray, Cheery Cherry, Red Red Rose, Clearly Red and Brighter Red. The Hi-Fi lipstick range (1955) was also made with a long-lasting formulation.

As the fashion for indelibles waned, Max Factor introduced Hi-Society Lipstick in a cream formulation in 1958, then added Iridescent Magic Lipstick (1959) using the same cream formulation but now in pearlescent shades: Essence of Pearl, Golden Frost, Petal Frost, Flamingo Pearl, Apricot Frost, Orchid Pearl and Desert Pearl shades. Essence of Pearl was colourless so could be used under or over other lipsticks to add iridescence to any lipstick colour. ....

Hi-Fi Eye Make-Up came in a much wider range of colours than its pre-war counterparts. By 1959, Hi-Fi Eyeshadow came in cream, iridescent and pastel shades with names like Azure Blue, Blue-Green, Blue, Iridescent Blue, Blue Mist, Iridescent Silver, Iridescent Gray, Iridescent Brown, Iridescent Frost, True White, Lilac Mist, Iridescent Lavender, Lavender, Green Mist, Green and Iridescent Green.

Hi-Fi Eye Shadow Stick, a lipstick-like eye shadow was added in 1958 and Hi-Fi Powder Eye Shadow with a matte finish was added in 1962. Customers could also purchase Hi-Fi Fluid Eye Liner in Black, Brownish Black, Brown, Iridescent Silver, Lilac, Iridescent Gold, True Green, Iridescent Green, Green Mist, Blue Green, True Blue, Blue Mist, and Iridescent Blue shades and a self sharpening Automatic Eye Pencil to outline their eyebrows in shades of Brown, Gray, Black, True Green, Light Brown, True Blue and Auburn. ...

Te increased emphasis on matching them [nail enamels] with lipsticks ... meant that the colour range of its nail enamels needed to be expanded in order to ensure sales of its other make-up lines. The Nail Satin Nail Enamel range (1961) came in twenty shades – many of which were duplicated in iridescent finishes – with colours that matched Max Factor lipsticks. Fashion Matt Nail Satin colours were released later in the year to match Sun Pastel Lipsticks.

Thereafter, new shades were released in gloss, matte and iridescent forms concurrently with new lipstick colours.
So, in 1963, having iridescent lipstick was something that Lisa might brag about.

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See also my previous posts titled The 30th Anniversary Dirty Dancing Makeup Palette and Beauty News About the "Dirty Dancing" Eye-Shadow Palette.

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