Jane's Makeup
Why is her make up so pale I just wondered
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Davis designed Jane's makeup.
She figured Jane never washed her face; she just applied another layer of makeup every day.
So, presumably, we're looking at layers and layers of powder and whatever.
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It's stage makeup. It was worn that way to accentuate the facial features washed out by the stage lights. Basically, the features; cheekbones, lips, eye outlines, etc.; had to be painted back on so the audience could make out the actors features. Since "Baby Jane" was the vaudeville star, she reverted back to "the look" that made her famous.
shareIt's stage makeup. It was worn that way to accentuate the facial features washed out by the stage lights. Basically, the features; cheekbones, lips, eye outlines, etc.; had to be painted back on so the audience could make out the actors features. Since "Baby Jane" was the vaudeville star, she reverted back to "the look" that made her famous.
Is that fact or an opinion?
You may be right; that may have been the character's motivation.
But still, what I said is true: Davis designed the makeup to look that way.
I personally think that Jane never bothered to wash her face, before applying another coat.
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I doubt Jane wouldn't wash her face; that's what they did in the 1700's.
I think the stark make-up was to accentuate an eccentric aging woman, and her wrinkles since the overuse would be filling in the facial creases. She would have looked younger with less make-up. It also had good effect due to the B & W photography.
I doubt Jane wouldn't wash her face; that's what they did in the 1700's
It was Davis' idea that Jane wouldn't wash her face. No one said this is written in stone.
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She said it, it doesn't mean that's what the character actually did, it would be physically impossible to exist that way without some major facial illness, surely Davis knew that too and she was being ironic in her comment, something that clearly you didn't get. Also, it was a black and white movie and her skin DOES NOT look unnaturally white in the film as it does in the color pictures of the movie, even when acting next to Joan Crawford, her skin only looks two or three shades lighter than Joan Crawford's, which is easily explained by the fact that Jane was "lighter" and blonde when compared to the dark Blanche.
shareShe said it, it doesn't mean that's what the character actually did, it would be physically impossible to exist that way without some major facial illness, surely Davis knew that too and she was being ironic in her comment, something that clearly you didn't get.
Of course it was irony and sarcasm.
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You are right: Davis did design Jane's makeup.
Makes me wonder: Jane's must have bathed or showered, yes? It seems to me that people, in general, bathed/showered less often than they do today. Would you imagine that, perhaps, Jane bathed once a week, maybe?
Depends on what part of the world you're from. There are people from other, more humid countries that bathed multiple times EACH DAY.
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