@infamousamazonian
I am so unbelievably glad you're filming longer content regularly. You have such profoundly engaging, informative, well researched videos and I always feel as though every one is time very well spent to watch.
@bil8647
Marlene never got a face lift because she believed that once the skins was permanently pulled taught it would soon start to stretch and sag again, by not getting the procedure she believed she was preserving the elasticity. Deitrich's hollows were created by a procedure called a "buckle" where the back 4 molars on each side (2 up and 2 lower) would be pulled thus creating the hallow. In addition to hair pulling and face tape Marlene would also use gold chains attached by small sutures to "pull up the slack" aka the Croydon Facelift. Once the performance was over the sutures could be easily snipped, the hair let out, and the tapes removed. Marlene broke her thigh bone in 1965. It didn't heal correctly and was a constant source of pain. That is why the last televised performance she doesn't move much. The way Dietrich would get her gowns to look so smooth was by strategically wrapping ace bandages from her lower hip to just above the bust line. It would pull her in without the telltale boning of a corset or girdle. She was a fascinating and remarkable woman.
@nitapitts6407
I think I read in her daughter's book that to make her body look "snatched" she had a full length nude body suit that basically "sucked" in everything. It was long sleeved, came up almost to her neck, and ended at her ankles. Although she kept in reasonable shape and was seriously disciplined about her diet, this supposedly kept things from "wobbling."
@creepydoll2872
My husband was watching this with me and when you said “Im in my 20s again” he said, “Shes not?” I told him youre in your 40s and he said, “I dont think thats right.”
@MaliciousMalcontent
Erin's serving us evaporated tea. I'm so here for it.
@palevixen666
I was trained by a French Master Hair Colourist who worked with Dietrich. He was 75 in 1984 when I trained under him. We worked side by side for 8 years. His name was Pierre Tessier. He never once told how to do hair. He allowed me to observe and assist. Always said that we can steal with our eyes. I never asked questions. He was that good. Taught me cotton highlights which no one does anymore. Cannot get highlights closer to the scalp. I have that knowledge. It ends with me. His tutelage. Anyway, he told me that when working with her in Paris that they sprinkled gold “dust” into her hair . At the end of a day she would turn her hair over and finger brush flecks onto black silk. Apparently it was easier to see under the lights. They reused it day after day. Scandalously she actually stitched her own face behind her hairline at the temples only at that time.This was before the rubber bands. I wish he had left a memoir. He started as a wig maker for the Garnier Opera in Paris as a wig maker. I believe he was born in Aix au Province around 1909.
@ericagreco6905
Thanks!
@Angelac3152
Marlene used to live in the vintage Hollywood building that I now live in. I feel a little magic when I go in her unit. There is a built-in vanity, and I always imagine her sitting there preparing that beautiful face. I love your channel and your excitement of vintage beauty. ❤
@ladysnowblood
Freddy Mercury has replica pics of him doing the same poses as Marlena. The photos are stunning and are also featured in the Bohemian Rhapsody og vid, and also a spread of the same poses with Freddy in all white. He was a huge fan of hers.
@Be12397
Did anyone ever see the ABFAB when Patsy used face tape for a photo shoot and she pulled her face so tight but in different directions? Core memory just unlocked! 🤣
@RaelNikolaidis
Can we all just acknowledge how stunning Erin is? Without face tapes? 😊
@pobstrel
Under her stage dresses she wore flesh coloured Spandex neck to ankle and sometimes flesh coloured latex again neck to toe. The latex pulled her body in where she wanted it to. So it acted as a full body corset! She loved using a spotlight with a lavender gel for her theatre tours as it was the most flattering. Dita Von Teese has adopted the use of the lavender light for her shows. Pete Burns from Dead Or Alive used to watch his mother apply her makeup and she used to do the carbon tip for her crease. She was German and some of her family worked at Babelsberg studios and there's a photo of her with Marlene.
@emilyb5765
This is some "Death Becomes Her" level of face taping 😂Love it.
@BadBadAngel3
Erin, your passion for vintage makeup, hairstyles, wigs etc is so wonderful to watch. You explain things in such a user friendly way...oh and by the way you look stunning as always!
@AnEclecticGentleman
This is the most informative, interesting makeup content on the whole of YouTube. Amazing historical content - like the Karina Longworth of makeup. Would love a whole series on historical actresses make up regimes. Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Veronica Lake and so many more would be so amazing ❤
@auberjean6873
Thanks, Erin Parsons, for revealing the classic Hollywood techniques. You are beautiful naturally--some of us need more help.
@mimsymusings278
As someone who used to do her own makeup every single day for her profession, only to lose my job due to illness, and then the isolation of Covid combined with starting a new work-form-home job... I've barely done any form of makeup in three years. But discovering you through your shorts and then your channel has been an absolute blessing, and reignited my passion for makeup! You are so educated and engagingly informative; I'm always so excited to see a new video from you! So thank you so much for being so wonderfully you, and all the joy you bring for all of us!
@karas.6438
I loved you before today…but after hearing your issues with CPTSD, like myself, with severe social anxiety & anxiety in general…I admire your work & you, even more. Thank so much for sharing that today.
@challengeocd7835
Erin I follow you religiously on all platforms. I ADORE your thin eyebrows! My hair is so similar to yours, you've inspired me to shave my eyebrows off for the first time and do them ultra thin. I love it. Thank you for being iconic
@rosamwen2267