Congratulations to the family who brought Maybelline into the World.
Maybelline founder Tom Lyle Williams
Happy New Year to all my followers around the World, looking forward to a very exciting 2015, MAYBELLINE'S 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
1915 - 2015
The Maybelline Story is translated in Spain, China, Poland and Estonia, here are the Top 10 Countries following my blog
It's already 2015 in Sydney Australia, look at this spectacular fireworks show. Waiting for midnight here in the States.
Nana's most important Beauty Secret - Total Relaxation with Moist Heat Therapy
What kept her amazingly youthful until her death at 77? "hot steam packs."
Evelyn Williams, 1966
I too have been using them for over 30 years and here is why... Hydroculators are packed with soothing relief. Chiropractors use them relax a patient's tight back after an injury and for management of pain do to: Arthritis, Bursitis, Sprains, Strains, Backaches and stress.
Nana had been in a couple of accidents and loved how the hydroculators relaxed not only her back but the stress on her face. It works by releasing steam from the pack penetrating so deep it gets blood back into pinched nerves and relaxes them completely.
I have to admit that after lying on my hydroculators or hot steam packs I sleep like a baby and my face shows no stress. Try it and see how this secret will work for you. Read more about Nana in my book "The Maybelline Story."
Nana, Evelyn Williams at 77
Try my old fashioned Beauty Secret, "Nana's MUD!" for radiant skin
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| Nana in 1917 at 16 years old. |
I have been asked to give another one of Nana's beauty secrets and I know she'd be thrilled that people are interested in her potions today. All my young life, Nana preached about having beautiful skin. "Sharrie," she'd say "the first thing people notice is your eyes and your skin, and you only get one chance at a first impression." Nana believed that your skin was your "calling card," and either draws people to you or sends them away.
I can still see her mixing up a batch of "mud" as she called it, while I sat in wonder as a little girl. She'd mix a couple of tablespoons of rice flour, a capsule of vitamin E, a little rosewater and enough yogurt to make it the consistency of putty. Next she'd smear it all over her face and neck, lay on the floor sometimes on her hydroculators and rest her legs on a chair so the blood would flow in reverse, and relax her tired muscles.
Now this wasn't a Kodak moment and few people ever had the pleasure of witnessing this "secret of the Harem," but I never forgot it. To this day I refuse to buy over the counter skin masques, because there is nothing better than Nana's Mud. It brings the blood to the surface and feeds the skin with nutrients. By the way it's funny that her son, my dad Bill, called his mother MUD! Give it a try and let me know what you think. If you want to know more about Nana, buy my Book right now onAmazon, kick back and enjoy the full spa treatment, while reading "The Maybelline Story."
Let's make 2015 the year we finish that special project and make it a reality. Keep Running With the Wolves
Here I am in 1989, with just one dream I'd had since I was 15. To become a published author and tell my family's story. It took me over 20 years to make that dream a reality, but it happened because I never stopped believing in myself and my dream.
As we end another year and begin a new one, I hope all of us commit to our dreams and work hard next year to make them a reality. I plan to come out with my second book in 2015... Maybelline's one hundred year anniversary... and keep writing as long as I live.
Please take the time to sit down and review the past year, preferably in a journal and make a pledge to stop what ever is sabotaging you from getting that project finished...Believe in yourself and complete that dream.
Make 2015 the best year ever...
Best Always, Sharrie Williams
My father Bill Williams, an artist and a dreamer, who by example, taught me to never give up no matter how tough the road became. Paint your dreams and watch them grow.
Oil painting of my father, Bill Williams Classic 1977 Clenet.
Maybelline founder Tom Lyle Williams, goofing off with "google eyes glasses," 1959...so many fond memories of holiday fun!
Best Christmas Gift was from my cousin Cooper Astin, the artist who painted this oil, of my father, Bill Williams 1977, Clenet, # 13 out of 250. I'm proud to say our family still owns the car, 8 years after his death.
Valentine's Romance Story week. Tom Lyle Williams and Bennie Gibbs.
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Here is an article written in 1893 regarding Shawneetown as a lovers destination for quick marriages resonates from Tom Lyle and Bennie's journey.
Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois has long been the destination of young couples wanting to marry quickly and secretly. This is especially true of those living in western Kentucky counties bordering the Ohio River. The following is one account of such a marriage and is from the Evansville, Indiana Courier of 31 July 1893.
Morganfield, – Quite a breeze of excitement was created on the street last night by the rumor that Tom Sales and Miss Minnie James had gone to Shawneetown for the purpose of getting married. It seems there was some opposition on the match on the part of the young people’s parents so they decided to steal a march on them and hied them to Gretna Green, where loves young dream might be consummated without let or hinder. Mr. Sales called at the Givens House, where his lady love was boarding with her mother about, ostensibly for taking a moonlight drive. To disarm suspicion, they started out on the Sulphur Springs road, but turned about soon, came back by a street skirting the Givens House to the Shawneetown road.
They drove rapidly to the river opposite Shawneetown, were ferried over, and at this morning were married by Justice Hart. The happy twain returned at once o’clock.
Mr. Sales is a popular young salesman in the dry goods firm of Newton, Robinson and Waller and the bride is the attractive daughter of Mrs. McIntire, formerly of Union City, Tenn., who has been a resident here several months, engaged in teaching music and dancing.
Christmas Day at our house was more than just Santa Claus and presents, it was the love that still remains today
Maybelline's Tom Lyle Williams, Christmas 1959.
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| Bill Williams With his uncle Tom Lyle Williams Christmas 1959. |
Unk ILe looked like a million bucks as he stepped out of his beautiful white Cadillac convertible with red leather seats and whitewall tires that Christmas in 1959. I remember Nana and I waiting with baited breath for him to pull up and park in front of our house at exactly 5:00
There was a plenty of laughter and hugs as he
handed them all the goodies he'd brought for us.
handed them all the goodies he'd brought for us.
Gifts from movie stars, magazine executives, studio executives
and advertising executives.
This was exciting for sure, but not as exciting as when
he pulled out our Christmas envelopes with a crisp $10.00
bill in it for us kids. I sang Bali High from South Pacific
and danced a hula because he loved the Hawaiian Islands.
My ten year old sister Donna dressed up like Marilyn Monroe with a pink
he pulled out our Christmas envelopes with a crisp $10.00
bill in it for us kids. I sang Bali High from South Pacific
and danced a hula because he loved the Hawaiian Islands.
My ten year old sister Donna dressed up like Marilyn Monroe with a pink
wig, long cigarette holder, long false eyelashes and did a song and dance routine toBobby Darin's, Mack The Knife while Unk Ile cracked up laughing
and
slapping his knee. When the laughter calmed down, my little 4 year old
sister Billee got up and did an adorable little dance routine for him while
he watched in amazement as Nana
so proudly beamed with delight. I will never forget
that Christmas and will forever miss those
that Christmas and will forever miss those
wonderful old day's when we were all so young and Innocent and the
magic was still so bright.
Vintage Merry Christmas 1943 during WW11
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| Christmas poker game with Noel J, Dick, Neppy, Frances and antie Ida, (Frances sister.) Chicago. Click on pictures to enlarge!!!! |
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| Noel J, with two of his four children, 23 year old, Neppy and 11 year old Dick Williams. |
Dick Williams, playing with one of his Christmas presents, a toy, WW ll, bomber plane. Dick was fascinated with speed and was the first kid in school, to have a motorcycle, when he was only 14 years old.
In January, I will be posting more about Dick Williams and the beautifulExcalibur's, he collected after the sale of the Maybelline Co. during the 1970s.
Christmas Past with some of my Maybelline Family Cousins
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Noel A. Williams Christmas, 1967. Chuck Williams BB1, 1967 |
Chuck and his mother, Jean Williams, Christmas, 1970.
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Nancy and Chuck Williams with cousin Ann Louise Williams-Corbett, 1970.
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