
A makeup company gets a facelift
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What Do You Know About Make Up?
In the 19 sixties and early seventies, there really wasn't a national make up brand that catered to women of color. And if you had money, you could go to the big cities for custom blends. But who had the time or money for all that? Here backstage, audrey says, it was a little bit of this and alittle bit of that. It was like making spice blends at a kitchen counter and putting that on their faces. We couldn't eat everywhere, so then we would send the very fair skined girls to get us some food. In those towns. Don'ask, don't tell. Got everybody dinner.
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