


I had editorial work, for which I hadn’t been considered so long and suddenly I became this edgy white haired model. So I went to their boss, who let me out, and I just went to a different, smaller agency and the next thing you know, in a few months, I had billboards in Times Square and Madison Square Garden. I went up there and sat in their office and said, ‘You will let me out of my contract’, but they refused and said I had another three years. “My then-model agency said to me, ‘You’ll never model again.’ And for six months they wouldn’t send me out. But my best friend Julie told me to chop it all off, so I did.” Then, when I was coming to my sixties I decided: I’m tired of colouring my hair - and, you know, I was still mainly a dietician more than a model - so I’m going to grow my hair out. While to many it represented a puritanical time in history, to others it served to open the door to ultimate liberalism. The Victorian period was, in many ways, an exercise in opposites. A period of corsets and petticoats galore Author: Charlotte Kuchinsky September 22 2007. “Suddenly I was a blonde model and to keep it going I had to do my roots every four weeks. The Glamorous 1950s To capture the look of the 50s, we looked to global beauty icons like Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn. Beauty through the ages - the Victorians. “As a teenager, I had mousy brown hair and I started colouring it blonde,” Musk says. Musk has been in front of the camera since she was 15, but her modelling career really kicked off around 10 years ago as she approached her sixties, when she stopped colouring her hair and chopped it short. But for Musk, this milestone is worth extra attention because last year, at 69 years evergreen, she was made a face of CoverGirl - the oldest in the cosmetics brand’s history. This may not seem significant - after all, she’s not the first woman to hit 7-0. Maye Musk tells zaneta cheng why it’s never too late to have it all - Zaneta Cheng It’s only recently that we’ve managed to do it without causing some sort of long-term damage. A Beauty Through The Ages Prestige Singapore | February 2018 People through the ages have done all kinds of strange things to themselves to achieve true beauty.
