14 - Sunday, June 23, 1991 —- North Shore News

FORGET THE ‘“iust) another
pretty face’? adage. Vancotiver's
successful models have more than
beauty in common, They ure real-
istic, well-respected and they're
reaching for the top.

Carol
Crenna

FASHION STATEMENTS

While no one is perfect, some
models have learned how to em-
phasize the good and ‘‘eliminate”’
the bad. They can conceal! their
imperfections effectively, and even
turn their worst features into their
most attractive personal assets.

When a model walks into a
room heads turn. Not just male
heads, but women, too, acknowl
edge, adinire and envy her because
they know she is one of the
chosen few who knows how to use
the tools that she’s got.

Though they may have well-
kept secrets, some models are will-

Photo submitted

JENNIFER STEWART... well-
travelled NV model has worked
in Europe and Japan.

ing to share their knowledge, and

disclose those ‘‘truths’’ learned
both on and off the job.
Here, some of the most

sought-after North Shore models
tell you how to look great and
stay that way all summer long.

© Jennifer Stewart, 21, lives in
North Vancouver and has an en-
viable list of passport stamps to
her modelling credit including
Milan, Florence, Paris, Tokyo and
New York. She is represented by
Richard's Model and Talent
Agency in Vancouver.

Stewart stresses a daily skincare
regime that was learned when she
began modelling at the carly age
of 13. She uses a cleanser, astr-
ingent and moisturizer vice a
day. Her preferred cleanser is a
gel, made by Shiseido and
LOreal, which she says is less of-
Iy than a@ cream but less harsh
thar a soap. She moisturizes with
European Nivea, which she chums
is much different than the product
sold in Canada.

She advises women to be aware

Role models

of their own skin tone when
choosing cosmetics, instead of
simply copying colors that they
have seen on models in magazines.

“F often seen wonien wearing
colors that are much too harsh or

muted for their complexion. |
have been experimenting with
cosmetics for years. | recently

discovered that eyeshadow powder
goes on much smoother, with no
streaking, and stays darker if it is
mixed with a little water. [ simply
dampen a sponge and pat on the
pewder.””

She feels that eyebrows are just
as important as eyelashes to
highlight the eyes, and uses cither
mascara or gel to shape and hold
them in place.

For long-lasting lip color, even
after eating, Stewart first applies
moisturizer, then covers the lips
with foundation, then uses a
lipliner (the coloring agent in a
lipliner Jasts much longer than a

lipstick), then) she applies the
lipstick, and then brushes on
powder,

She states that a fipliner is a
must to shape the lips properly:
“If you simply add lipstick, you
may get color, but the lips will
Jack definition and shape.”

For a dramatic and daring
change to her look, and perhaps
as a statement against the popular
60s inspired bouffant hairstyles
of which she has grown very tired,
Stewart now keeps her hair ex-
tremely short, in a brush cut
which she has styled by a barber.

“It costs $8 and it takes 10 to
15 minutes. They cut only short
hair there all day long, so they
know how to do it. My whole
family gets their hair cut at Park
Royal Barber Shop."’

To add interest to her look,
Stewart wears wigs, especially in
the evening. She has a couple of
styles which she says often get
compliments, even from people
who realize that it is not ‘the real
thing.”’

Through her international
modelling experience, Stewart has
learned that the most important
beauty factocs while travelling are
not to deviate from your usual
eating, sleeping and exercising
habits.

**r don’t know how many
madels that I have travelled with
who get ill, gain weight or simply
look frazzled because they chang-
ed their routines.’’ This includes
drinking lots of bottled water, and
tesisting jet lag by not steeping
until evening hours even if you've
taken a red eye flight, exercising
as soon aS you get to your desti-
nation, and not drinking alcohol
while travelling.
© Anna Bin, 31, feels her age is a
benefit to her modelling because
she is much more confident and
experienced compared to when she
modelled at 19. She agrees that

many of the successful modets in

Photo Ken Clarh

ANA BIN... teaches modelling
at Charies Stuart Agency.

Vancouver who are given the most
work are aged 30 and over.

Bin, who teaches modelling
part-time at Charles Stuart Agen-
cy in North Vancouver, modelled
in Toronto for many years and
then travelled across the country
as Gitano’s exclusive showroom
model.

She states that women do not
have to spend a lot of money on
beauty products. And although
she knows many models who use
odd substances for beauty pur-
poses, she sticks to Ivory soap and

water for cleansing, and cold
cream for removing makeup.
“Simple usually works the

best,”’ she says.

Though she is naturally blonde,
Bin dyes her hair red. She keeps
her naturally curly hair long,
washes it every other day, and
uses a moisturizing pack by Fer-
mydol once a week.

She has oily skin, made worse
by humid weather, and has to
check her makeup often
throughout the day to make sure
that it stays put. She wears only
water based makeup, and says
that most cosmetics wil cake if

not put correctly on oily skin,
She stresses that powdering is ex-
tremely important for her skin
type, and uses basic Corn Silk
powder, which is coarser, and
therefore absorbs oil better. Bin

uses a mud masque to clean pores,
and says that lower priced Max
Factor and Revion both make a
good mud product.

Bing who is often told tial she
does not look her age. feeds that
eNersise fs oa okey to tooking
youthful.

“hhave always been urse Peed in
phsastal activities, and o-oo kinaw
that keeping the blood circulating
and the heart rate up miakes the
shin took younger.”

clean the skin’ from) the inside
our’ because she has very dry
skin. She also takes vitamins B,
C, cabsium and cad liver oil cap-
sules daily.

She describes her hair as being

thin, and merely ftlutts it dry with
her fingers, without blow drying
it, She uses products available at
salons, and avoids other brands
which she feels contain high levels
of detergent that strip the hair.
Two of her faverite products are a
spray-on conditioner called = In-
fusium 23, @ vitamin treatment
which is lightly sprayed from the
roots to the tips. Vollowing the
conditioner, she uses a ‘hydro
gel’? by Rajoc from California
which is feft in the hair, making it
very shiny, eliminating smells such
as smoke from the hair and mak-
ing dirty hair look clean,
* Catherine Forbes, 26, has not
only acquired a large number of
modelling jobs to her credit
recently, but has also just had her
second child. She has been
modelling off and on since she
was 19 and is now with Charles
Stuart Agency.

Forbes, a North Vancouver res-
ident, actually weighs less now
than before she was pregnant,
declaring that she simply cut out
fat, as opposed to sugar, in her
dict, and she gets regular exercise.
She drinks more than eight glasses
of water every day, which she
feels also contributes to weight
loss, as well as a clear complex-
ion. For exercise, Forbes walks a
lot, and takes periodic ballet and
acrobic classes.

On her very long, naturally cur-
ly hair she uses Neutrogena
shampoo. She prefers Paul Mit-
chell sculpting lotion to keep her
curls full, because she’s found
that while a gel makes her hair

Photo submitted

LISA BARLOW... has worked extensively in New York, Australia

and Germany.

e Lisa Barlow, 21, of West Van-
couver, is represented by

Richard’s Model and Talent
Agenes, and has worked exten-

sively in Germany, Australia and
New York its a model.

She believes in healthy doses of
vitamin supplements and water,
and ne exposure fo sun or seap.
Barlow advises all women, no
matter how young. to wear
sunglasses at all times in the sun
to protect the chin under-eve from

damage. She wears a strong
sunscreen every day, even in
winter,

Barlow simply washes her face
with water. She uses a facial serub
to remove dead skin periodically,
wad a very fight moisturizer, both
by Clinique. She drinks at decast
erghic gkisses aio water daily and
takes lecithin oil ovice a day tro

ne

frizzy, a liquid does not. She
washes her hair every other day
and lets it dry naturally.

She says that although she has
skimpy" cyebraws, they are an
important feature on @ face, so
she thickens and defines them
with dark eyeshadow. She follows
the new urend of not using
mascara Git her bottom eyelid,
because it tends to draw the eye
down, and uses dark liner,
sitdow and mascara on the top
id.

She has dry skin and washes her
face only with water because she
Says “Tit does not make sense te
use such diarsh soap treatments.”’
She dightly moisturizes her skin
with Mu Skin, an American pro-
doetoonie available Chrough a rep:
tTascrer.ths