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Marilyn Monroe during the filming of “The Seven Year Itch” in New York, September 1954.

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Marilyn during the shooting of The Seven Year Itch

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Dress, 1924-25, China.

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Among your hounds of love And feel your arms surround me I’ve always been a coward And never know what’s good for me

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Marilyn Monroe & Her Journey as a Blonde ⁣ Starting in 1946, she went through roughly nine shades of blonde until her untimely death in August 1962.⁣ ⁣ She was born with blonde hair, but as she aged, turned a curly haired brunette. In 1950 - 1952, she went from an ash blonde, to golden blonde, silver blonde, amber blonde, smoky blonde, honey blonde, topaz blonde, and unbleached dark blonde, and then to her iconic platinum blonde in 1952. ⁣ ⁣ Her hair was often styled by Sydney Guilaroff, who, in 1995, said, “When I first saw Marilyn, I felt she was wearing her hair too long. She resisted cutting it at first, but I convinced he that a shorter style would flatter her bone structure and bring out her lovely facial features, which of course it did.” ⁣ ⁣ Over the next nine years, her hair fluctuated a bit in color, and she was receiving treatment a couple of times a week. ⁣ ⁣ In 1960, her hair was so damaged from all of the dying, that she wore a wig in The Misfits, not to mention it also helped as Nevada was vey hot and dry. In 1962, she had “pillow-white” hair, as she described.⁣ ⁣ Aside from Guilaroff, she worked with stylists like Agnes Flanagan, Peter Leonardi, George Masters, Kenneth Battelle & Gladys Rasmussen. ⁣ ⁣ Rasmussen once spoke about the blonde and said, “There are several problems with doing Marilyn’s hair. Her hair is very fine and therefore hard to manage. It get’s oily if it isn’t shampooed every day. And her hair is so curly naturally that to build a coiffure for her I have to first give her a straight permanent… The way we got her shade of platinum is with my own secret blend of sparkling silver bleach plus twenty volume peroxide and a secret formula of silver platinum to take the yellow out.”⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Some fun hair facts ♡︎:⁣ ⁣ » She styled her hair to the right.⁣ ⁣ » She’d wear a black wig if she didn’t want to be recognized.⁣ ⁣ » She hated having a widows peak. ⁣ ⁣ » Her hair inspired stars from today like Gwen Stefani, Madonna in some of her music videos, & Scarlett Johansson.

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The Misfits (1961)

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Afternoon dress, Peggy Hoyt, printed chiffon trimmed with lace, 1935.

Meadowbrook Hall Historic Costume Collection accession no. 02_11_35

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Not bad for over 2,000 years old.

Made of emerald, carnelian, amethyst, and gold, this string of Ptolemaic jewels was made into a necklace by Getty conservators. However, these beads may have been worn as earrings by the lucky Alexandrian woman whom they once adorned.

Beads and a stud, Greek, made in Alexandria, Egypt, 220–100 B.C. The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by fans on 50th Street in New York, April 1955.

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Dress

Elsa Schiaparelli, 1939

The Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes in Malibu, 1949.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Eve Arnold in Bement, Illinois, 1955.

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A rare photograph of Marilyn Monroe at the Morosco Theater in New York to see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955.

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A rare photograph of Marilyn Monroe and fans, 1955.

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of Bus Stop.