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I'm the girl on the right, in this picture in the newspaper, January 14, 1965.  One of the lead players in my High School Play, "Home Sweet Homicide."  I was in the drama department at Culver City High School and my dream was to be discovered have a Film career.  But, that didn't happen.  Here's why... follow my new blog, Postcards to my Fairy Godmother for another hilarious adventure http://docu-blog.blogspot.com/2015/01/postcards-to-my-fairy-godmotheris-nana.html

Can you imagine the time it took to dress up everyday.

I lost my High School Year Book in the 1993 Firestorm that destroyed my home in Laguna Beach and haven't seen it since.  For Valentines Day a friend sent me these pictures from my Culver City High School Olympian and I'm so happy to finally have a missing piece of my past back.  

I hope you have something special happen for you as well...

Making up for the Senior Play, looking the same as always.

I was very proud to be a National Thespian and part of the Theatre community. I wanted to be an actress and a Maybelline model and was very involved in my aspirations.

Always had to stand out. I'm the blond in the double breasted coat,

 in the picture on the left.

I always wanted my name on the Marquee!!!

Here is the cast from Home Sweet Homicide. Can you pick me out of the lineup.

My 1964 High School Diary is now a blog called Saffrons Rule come visit me when I was 17 at saffronsrule.com

COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE EDITOR HELEN GURLEY BROWN HAD A BIG INFLUENCE ON ME IN THE 1960'S.

"She was the sexiest suffragette of them all." —Lorraine Candy, The Daily Mail
"If she wanted to sleep with a man, she did."
—Suzi Parker, The Washington Post


American author, publisher, businesswoman and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years (from 1965 until 1997), Helen Gurley Brown, has passed away at the age of 90 years old.

                  Helen Gurley Brown dishes it to young ladies.

July 1965

Brown shocked America in the 1960's with her book"sex and the single girl" then carried on doing it for 3 decades as the editor of cosmopolitan magazine, from 1965-1997.. Sex talk, voluptious models and titillating cover lines were all created by her influence.  She would dispense advice on how to “properly” carry on an affair.  The series Sex and the City would not exist without her. There would be no Carrie Bradshaw.

Helen on sex: "If only one of you is in the mood, do it. Even if sex isn’t great every time, it's a unique form of communication and togetherness that can help you stay together with a good degree of contentment."

Sharrie Williams and Pearl Peskin, 1965.

I had just graduated from Culver City High School when Helen Gurley Brown became editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and her first issue came out in July, 1965.  My friend Peal was the first to buy the new issue and we quickly browsed though it to gather sex tips for young ladies heading to College.  We considered the new "Cosmo" a female Esquire, bordering on a respectable Playboy magazine for young girls.  Being a virgin, I was especially interested in Helen Gurley Brown's advice on sex and I never missed an issue of "Cosmo"..... hoping to become an actress, Playboy Bunny or an Airline Stewardess.....  But in the end I wound up taking Browns other advise, "Marry a decent, good, kind person who will cherish you." which I did and lived happily ever after for a long time."

The AMC show, Mad Men, takes place during the 1960's, just as Helen Gurley Brown was changing the way young single girls viewed themselves in the work place. Another 60's flashback show is Pan Am, about 4  interesting women leading complicated lives, ranging from affairs to broken engagements to international espionage. Along with these to sexy shows was The Playboy Club.  Sadly Pan-Am and the Playboy Club have been canceled I hear.  But my point is, obviously I wasn't the only young girl seeking the kind of attention Brown was selling in the 1960's if three network and cable stations produced shows on the same line of thinking.  So needless to say, Brown not only had tremendous influence on me and my girlfriends she is still influencing the media today.  So Rest in Peace Helen, you may not be missed but you sure didn't miss a trick in an era so thirsty for what you had to say.

Between 1964 and 1968 Ultra Lash was the sexy breakthrough mascara every girl had in her make-up case.  I had the thrill of being part of the excitement when Ultra-Lash, Ultra Brow and Ultra-Shadow were introduced to the public and you can read all about that and the 1960's from my point of view in my book, The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It.  Thank You for following the Maybelline Book Blog and if you'd like to be a guest blogger, just contact me at maybellinebook@gmail.com and give me your idea along with a few pictures and contact information.  Check my past guest bloggers by looking under past posts on the right hand side of this page.

Maybelline coins the word Ultra for Beauty.

"Ultra Brow Brush-On is the Secret" the ad read in 1965, and a new word for Beautiful was coined by Maybelline.

The Ultra Girl takes the place of the IT Girl, in 1965

Here I am on the left with my sister Donna,
 the Ultra Saffrons.

With my best friend Pearl.  Senior's in High School and me with dreams of becoming a Maybelline Model.

So when I graduated I drove my blue and white hard top 57 Chevy straight up to Unk-Ile's and asked him point blank if I could be a Maybelline Model.  He said I certainely had the the eyes, the personality,
and the talent, but, that if he let me have such a special position it would cause jealousy with the rest of the girls in the family.  "But, Sharrie," he said, "if you go to college and get a degree in Marketing I will open every door for you!"


Did I take my great uncle's advise, knowing he had the power to take me straight to the top of the ad game?  What do you think?  What would you have done? 


If you want the full story please get your copy of
The Maybelline Story today and find out if I made the right decision or not.