She also primped in a massive mirror behind her vanity table, topped with a light-up mirror, beauty potions, and perfume bottles.
The known exhibitionist pioneered many anti-aging tricks: She had makeup artists twist tiny strands of hair around pins, which were then pulled back tightly enough to draw blood, and later ran a gold chain under her chin to lift sagging skin. Marlene Dietrich famously said, “Glamour is what I sell-it’s my stock in trade.” So it’s unsurprising her beauty space was sufficiently opulent. Here, nine inspiring glam rooms from the past couple of centuries. “The glam room is a status symbol of the millennium and a product of necessity for both privacy and peace of mind-a sanctuary within your home built for beauty and fantasy,” he says. His signature: bulbs surrounding the mirror on three sides to provide the best shadow-free visuals for makeup application. Since anyone can play paparazzi now, such a space is critical for allowing high-profile personalities to get iPhone camera–ready (“ready for their closeup," as Gloria Swanson would muse) in the privacy of their own home, thus, says Bullard, “no one gets ‘undone’ shots or breaks the glamorous illusions that are part of today’s society." We envision film stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era seated at glamorous boudoir and vanity tables, but things have come a long way to incorporate custom-height makeup chairs, sapphire glass mirrors, flat-screen televisions, and the latest studio-quality lighting.Īccording to Bullard, the latter is the biggest key.
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