Check out my Class of 65 Yearbook pictures, like me on FB if we would have been friends in High School

Like my new Sharrie Williams Fan Page on Facebook and share the post.  https://www.facebook.com/maybellinebook

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 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

My Guest Blogger, Wedding Planner Lizzy Camacho, offers her clients Maybelline Makeup Tutorials

I am Lizzy, I am 30 years old and love it because with products like the Maybelline Age Rewind line I can stay looking young forever! I am a mom of a very active 2 year old. I am a wedding planner and that is where my love began with blushing makeup. My teen years were filled with bad late 90's makeup applications and no YouTube to fix it. When I started my internship for Wedding Planning in NY in 2006 I was hooked. The makeup artist's beautiful work under pressure was done so artfully. Most artists didn't need high end makeup either.

So in 2008 when I began my own Wedding Coordinating firm I decided to include Makeup Trials as well because I had picked up so many tricks. Now living in AZ in April of 2012 being home with my son more and watching existing beauty guru's I decided instead of watching I will be the one to show women how to enhance their beauty with products that would complement their skin tones and styles of application I had picked up over the years. Maybelline is one of my favorite brands for obvious reasons and here is my Maybelline Love in YouTube form.  

                     Maybelline One Brand Challenge:

                      Irresistible Ivy Makeup Tutorial:  

    Barely Branded and Double Wing Makeup Tutorial: 

            Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Routine/Review: 

            Makeup Tutorial feat Color Tattoo in Too Cool: 

Valentines Day feat Color Tattoo in Pomegranate Punk:

Golden Globes Miranda Kerr Makeup Tutorial feat Barely Branded and Color Sensationals in 980 Plum Jewel

Hope you enjoy!! Lizzy


President and Lead Coordinator: Lizzy Camacho

Email: LC@thegoldentouchweddings.com

Phone: 480.256.9923

New Location: East Valley Arizona.  Spanish/English

The Golden Touch Weddings: http://www.thegoldentouchweddings.com/

Lizzy's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/LizzyJosh?feature=mhee   Lizzy's Channel  has over 550 Subscribers and over 57,000 Views

Foreign Rights Picked up by Spain, Poland, China and Estonia so far.

My Publisher Bettie Youngs of Bettie Youngs Books, has confirmed that Poland just signed a contract translating my book into the Polish language.  

I'm thrilled and honored to have Spain, China, Estonia and now Poland, reading my book. It's all about word of mouth in this new world of Social Media, but Foreign Rights would not be  possible without Bettie Youngs,...who won't stop until The Maybelline Story circle's the globe.

Here are the top 10 Countries following my Blog.

United States
United Kingdom
China Happy New Year
Canada
Germany
Ukraine
Poland
France
Russia
Australia February 10th year of the Snake

I must pay tribute to the great Polish Silent Film Star Pola Negri who was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood and became one of the most popular actresses in American silent film.

Book Description

Publication Date: 2011

Before Greta Garbo or Marlena Dietrich, there was... Pola Negri. She was the first exotic European actress imported to Hollywood during the Silent Film Era, with much fanfare and hoopla. A mesmerizing combination of the animale and sophisticate, Pola became the highest paid actor in the movie business and her glamorous lifestyle, was discussed almost daily in gossip columns worldwide. She was affianced to Charlie Chaplin, all but engaged to Rudolph Valentino until his untimely death, and was the wife of a count then Prince Mdivani. Yet today, oddly, she is still little known. Born in Poland to impoverished minor aristocracy, she was classically trained in song, dance, theater and cinema. Pola originated the cinematic femme fatale. She was discovered by Max Reinhart, became a protégée of Ernst Lubitsch and a favorite of Adolf Zucker. Pola made more than 60 films in Europe and America, both in drama and comedy. Her fortunes reversed many times throughout her prolific career, and she ended her days as a supporter of the arts and companion to an eccentric millionairess in San Antonio, Texas. read about her fascinating career in the latest biography from Mariusz Kotowski (2011 - Polish language only)

ICON vs iCON, all things Pop Culture features Author Sharrie Williams

click here.....Icon vs. icon 

Sharrie Williams, June 10th 1967, just after appearing on the TV show, 1967 Dream Girl,  (looking pretty disappointed she didn't win.)  The show was a short-lived attempt at placing a beauty pageant program in the context of a regular daytime game show - a sort of early American Idol format without the focus on talent.  

The Maybelline Company sold to Plough Inc Dec of 1967 and the entire family's life changed forever.  It's interesting to think that even today, nearly 100 years later Maybelline is still the number one cosmetic brand in the world.


Maybelline New York is the number one cosmetic brand in the world, available in over 129 countries. The brand is currently the sponsor of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City and 9 other fashion weeks worldwide. For more information, log onto www.maybelline.com also available in Spanish. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline.  READ MORE 

1924 Maybelline ad features Ziegfeld Follies Star, Mary Eaton

Mary Eaton - Photoplay Magazine February 1924.

Mary Eaton made her Broadway debut in 1917 with Adele and Fred Astaire in Over the Top. After that, she appeared in three editions of the Ziegfeld Follies

Mary did have a somewhat successful career. Her most notable films were both in 1929, including Glorifying the American Girl and Cocoanuts with The Marx Brothers. 

I'm always thrilled to discover another Vintage Maybelline Model who Stared in early Silent Films.  If you want to know more about this beautiful Ziegfeld Girl click on...

SILENCE IS PLATINUM

Another star who's career ended by 1930 and died
 sadly in 1948.

1933 BEFORE AND AFTER Maybelline ad

Click here...1933 Vintage Maybelline Cosmetic Eyelash Darkener Mascara Ad

NICHE MAGAZINE featuring Author Sharrie Williams as Celebrity Columnist.

NICHE magazine is... Fca

Read in full screen by clicking on the box at the right side of the bottom of article...
Take a peak inside NICHE magazine http://issuu.com/nichemagazine/docs/niche_2013_janfeb_final_pages?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage

Sharrie and Chuck Wiillams BB1, celebrate their great uncle, Tom Lyle Williams 117th Birthday at the Barrett Jackson Classic Car Auction

Maybelline Family Classic Cars Slideshow

Barrett Jackson Classic Car Auction with Sharrie and her Maybelline Cousins.

Sharrie and her cousin Chuck Williams, BB1, Cousin Nancy Williams Fesler and her husband EJ Fesler, toast their great uncle, Tom Lyle Williams, 117th Birthday.

Sharrie, EJ and BB1 at Barrett Jackson Classic
 Car Auction standing next to the Lexus LFA, V10,
8 speed, Carbon Fiber, $375,000 showpiece. 

Cousin Chuck, BB1, owner of REEEEEL Convertibles, was able to speak with George Barris about the Batmobile.   Barris knew what others thought about the car, but that did not change his belief at all!  BB1 was wrong about the price but not the car. BB1, along with George Barris we're on both sides of Right and Wrong but both on the same page.   Barris, designer and owner of the Batmobile believed his car would sell for 4-5 million...He was right... It wound up selling for $4.2 million, to Rick Champagne, of Arizona, for his girlfriend, he said...The Batmobile, was the big
 surprise winner of the entire auction.

Of course the big event for me was seeing the Packard's and comparing to our great uncle Tom Lyle Williams 1934 and 1940 Packard's.

The Packard closest to Tom Lyle Williams 1940 one of a kind Packard Victoria.

Tom Lyle Williams 1934 custom 1934 Vee Windshield Dietrich Packard.

Tom Lyle Williams with his 1940 Packard Victoria.

Tom Lyle Williams 1940 Packard is now owned by Bill Snyder.

Walk with me through a 4 hour photo shoot at Glamour Shots

Hair and Make Up Artist Summer Tercero, gave me an Old Hollywood Movie Star image, using Maybelline of course. She has Maybelline shadow in her hand in the picture and boy did Maybelline make my blue eyes pop

Check out Summer transforming me into a Vintage Star.

After my hair and make up were perfect, I posed with three different accessory changes for my Photographer, Joseph James of Artography, who specializes in vintage fashion photography.  He was a master at talking me through 52 dramatic changes, until he captured the Vintage Diva lurking inside me..dying to come out for the last 20 years.  

The final results were spectacular, and after 4 hours of working with real professional's, I couldn't be happier with my stunning sepia toned photographs with special effects.

If you want a certain look that regular Photo Studio's don't seem to get, I recommend you try spending time and money at Glamour Shots. I bet you'll be as thrilled as I am... with the real you... caught in high resolution.

Josephjamesart.com

646-484-1298

jjafilms.com

Summer Terero

pamtercero@aol.com

glamourshots.com

My mother's friends included Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Deanna Durbins and even Fox girl, Shirley Temple when little Shirley made pictures at M.G.M. with Bill Bojangles Robinson.

My father's mother, Evelyn Williams, Tom Lyle Williams, my father Bill Williams with his girlfriend, (my mother,) Pauline Mac Donald at Tom Lyle's Villa Valentino in the Hollywood Hills 1941.  Sparkie the dog is in the float.

My mother Pauline Mac Donald, was a "Studio Brat"  and was used to rigorous training at MGM, where she was training to be a professional dancer. Her father Andy Mac Donald, was a special effects pioneer who ran seven departments, including the construction department and supervised hundreds of men who built sets for the studio's musical extravaganzas.   Pauline's friends included Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Deanna Durbins and even Fox girl, Shirley Temple when little Shirley made pictures at M.G.M. with Bill Bojangles Robinson.

As a young girl, my mother was invited to all the cast parties and was loved by everyone who knew her.  As a teenager, she spent every free minute at the studio practicing dance routines with her teachers, Bill Bojangles Robinson and Eleanor Powell, who were both impressed by the young girl's ability to move her feet so fast, master complicated steps and work tirelessly.   Eleanor Powell believed she had a career at  M.G.M., and encouraged some of the biggest producers and directors to keep an eye on her.

Pauline's father  worried about his only daughter becoming a Louis B. Mayer puppet. He knew how the heartache of rejection many starlets faced could take them to the the point of throwing themselves off the Hollywood Sign committing suicide, doing drugs or drinking themselves into ruin.  Her mother, Elna, wanted my mother to have the career she'd always dreamed of, but was concerned Pauline wasn't prepared to deal with the Mayer's Hollywood Studio/Star system, at only 15.  My grandmother hoped Pauline would meet a nice boy, get married and have a family someday, so to balance out her daughter's ambitions, she enrolled her in Cotillion hoping my mother might meet well bred young men, while preparing to be a Debutante. 

My mother met my father, Bill Williams, (Tom Lyle Williams, founder of the Maybelline Company's nephew) at Cotillion and my grandmother got her wish, though not without paying a very high price.

Read more about Bill and Pauline in The Maybelline Story. You can order a signed copy from me at http://www.maybellinebook.com/p/buy-my-book.html

Dying to be a perfect Maybelline Princess even if I lose my real self.

My grandmother, (Nana,) Evelyn and me, (at 18,) with my father, Bill Williams and my great uncle, Tom Lyle Williams. Christmas,1965.

                 Keeping it real on the inside

It was important to always look perfect or risk criticism from my perfectionist grandmother, Nana.  Some people said I was conceited and aloof, however if they got to know me, they realized I was just a nice girl from a tight knit family.
  

After marriage and a child, I realized my inside didn't match my outside so I went into therapy. Getting to know my real self was a lovely surprise and opened me up to a wonderful new life. Today I sincerely try to be authentic and not rely on my looks for approval, yet still appreciate my Maybelline legacy.

You can order a signed copy of The Maybelline directly from me and pay with Pay Pal at.

http://www.maybellinebook.com/p/buy-my-book.html