Marilyn's make-up kit                       Washing her face                     Working out

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  • Marilyn used to wash her face up to 15 times a day.
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  • She used to apply vaseline or olive oil on her face when at home, because she believed that this way her face would remain fresh and young.
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  • As soon as she returned home, she would wipe out completely all make up from her face.
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  • Marilyn didn't want to become a blonde. She decided to have her hair bleached only after both her model agent and a photographer insisted she should change her hair colour.
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  • Marilyn always wore false eye lashes and eye-liner on her upper eyelid. She used to wear white eye-shadow in order to add 'light' to her look. She would combine it with brown or dusty blue eye-shadows.
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  • Marilyn used to brush her hair towards the left.

       
    Snyder and Marilyn                                  Having breakfast      

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  • She always slept with her bra on, in order to preserve the muscle tone.
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  • Marilyn didn't like to show her hands on the screen, because she thought they were fat.
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  • She put on a combination of many different lipstick colours in order to make her lips look full.
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  • She underwent two minor corrective plastic surgeries (nose and chin). She also had her upper front teeth fixed.
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  • After Marilyn died, her hairdresser was called to fix Marilyn's hair for the funeral, but he collapsed in the mortuary. They had to use a wig instead.
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  • Snyder (Marilyn's make-up man) used to say that Marilyn had many make-up secrets, which not even a professional make up artist knows.
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  • Marilyn used to brush her teeth with baking soda every day in order to whiten them.

    • "For breakfast I have two raw eggs beaten in a glass of hot milk. I never eat dessert. My nail polish is transparent. I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely. I wash my hair every day and I'm always brushing it. Every morning I walk across my apartment rolling an empty soda bottle between my ankles, in order to preserve my balance."
    • "You sit alone. It's night outside. Automobiles roll Sunset Boulevard like an endless string of beetles. Their rubber tires make a purring, high-class noise. You're hungry and you say, "It's not good for my waistline to eat". There's nothing finer than a washboard belly".
    • "I know what it means to go without breakfast!"
    • "I walk, exercise and study body control"
    • "My ass is way too big. They tell me men like it like that. Crazy huh?"
    • "And movement is, well, movement is good!"
    • "A photographer once told me that my two best points are between my waist and and my neck."
    • "I love food as long as it has flavour!"
    • "If you get massages, you'll never need another sleeping pill."
    • " I like different scents of perfume besides Chanel 5."
    • "I would take home photographs of myself to study how I looked and if I could improve myself posing in front of a mirror for hours and hours."
    • " It isn't Marilyn Monroe in the tub but Norma Jeane. I'm giving Norma Jeane a treat. She used to have to bathe in water as clean and transparent as a pane of glass. And it seems that Norma Jeane can't get enough of fresh bath water that smells of real perfume."

           
    Taking a bath                       Eating ice-cream              Marilyn and her hairdresser

    • "I don't sunbathe because I like to feel blonde all over."
    • "I can walk for hours and enjoy it".
    • "I like to wear chic clothes or nothing at all. Something in between does not please me at all."
    • "I always wear clothes appropriate to the occasion."