Maybelline coins the word Ultra for Beauty.

“Ultra Brow Brush-On is the Secret,” the ad read in 1965, and a new word for beautiful was coined by Maybelline.

So when I graduated, I drove my blue-and-white hardtop ’57 Chevy straight up to Unk-Ile’s and asked him point blank if I could be a Maybelline model. He said I certainly had the eyes, the personality, and the talent, but that if he let me have such a special position it would cause jealousy with the rest of the girls in the family.

“But, Sharrie,” he said, “if you go to college and get a degree in marketing, I will open every door for you!”

Did I take my great-uncle’s advice, knowing he had the power to take me straight to the top of the ad game? What do you think? What would you have done?

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