Free Preview: Playmate of the Month August 1982 - Cathy St. George
Sometimes, you get lucky. You get a beautiful package, open it and find something even more beautiful inside. It was that way for us when Cathy St. George showed up at our West Cost offices back in 1980. A free-lance make-up artist and a model, she came to us on a routine modeling call for a possible cover shot. During the interview, she mentioned that she also did make-up. She was hired on the spot - to pose and to do her own make-up. The next day, she was called back - this time to beautify another model - and her career was launched. For the past two and a half years, Cathy has been entrusted with the most critical of duties associated with this publication: preparing our pictorial and centerfold stars for the camera. She has done make-up for several pictorials, hundreds of Playmate tests and at least 15 Playmates. And in August of last year, she finally got that cover. Cathy's credentials were very much in order. She had previously worked for such prestigious cosmetic firms as Estee Lauder and Max Factor. Playboy, though, was a change of pace. "It's a different sort of make-up from what I did before," she explains. "I used to work more with color; it was closer to high fashion. Playboy wants a girl to look natural, pretty much as she does in real life." The art of maquillage takes a good eye and a deft hand. Cathy developed hers early, winning an art contest at the age of seven and gaining entry to a school for gifted children to develop her talents. Perhaps prophetically...
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