“He has the perfect face for makeup,” makeup artist Pierre LaRoche once said of David Bowie, whose extraordinary life is explored in the new documentary Moonage Daydream, out in theatres globally today. That lightning-bolt-slashed visage on his Aladdin Sane album cover; that gold-sphere-stamped forehead punctuating his celestial Ziggy Stardust persona; that graphic electric-blue gaze playing off his flame red mullet in the “Life on Mars?” music video. If the Brixton-born rocker’s love affair with makeup wasn’t a genetic predisposition, it was, at a minimum, written in the stars.
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As conscious about what he applied to his face as he was about the rapturously poetic lyrics he recited and the seductively strange costumes he slipped into, Bowie’s makeup collection was a menagerie of globally procured treasures. According to a 1973 Music Scene article entitled “David Bowie’s Makeup Dos and Don’ts,” he was a loyal patron of a little shop in Rome, Italy, that had multiuse, neon-bright colored powders, like Make Up For Ever’s Pure Pigments, in spades. In tandem with vivid shadows, he coated his lashes in black, sometimes blue, cake mascara and smudged intense Indian kajal, or kohl, sticks near the roots. To give his eye designs a larger canvas, he’d cancel out his brows by shaving them off. Thus, taking his steely, dual-color stare to an otherworldly new level.
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