Archival makeup test with Beverly Johnson (1977) | From the Videofashion Library

A 1977 short film produced by Videofashion, starring iconic model Beverly Johnson - most famous for being the first Black woman to grace the cover of American Vogue.
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Absolutely stunning !!!!

[@deanie28]

The 70s supermodels really were built different. It was all about the face. Beverly Johnson, Margaux Hemingway, Cybil Shephard, Christie Brinkley, Jerry Hall, Lauren Hutton, Iman, Gia Carangi, Patti Hansen, Brooke Shields, Grace Jones. Back then you had to have the most extraordinary face to be a top supermodel. These days all you need is a rich, connected family and thousands of instagram followers and bam, you get labelled a supermodel and given priority for all the top jobs at the top modelling agencies. Hence, why we now have a lot boring, dead faced models on the catwalk and all over the covers of magazines. I'm looking at you Kendal Jenner.

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allure
In the '70s and '80s, top makeup artist Joey Mills was a model's best friend. Those bushy brows and piercing eyes you see in #BrookeShields’s Calvin Klein Jeans ads were a Joey Mills special. Before there was a Kevyn Aucoin, before there was a Sam Fine, or a Bobby Brown, Francois Nars or any others there was JOEY MILLS!! Joey Mills was the first African American Makeup Artist and Makeup Artist in genral Black or white to have the most magazine covers...ever! Over 1600 magazines to be exact! He was also the Key Makeup Artist for the 70's film "The Eyes of Laura Mars".
So were the glossy lips and bronzed cheekbones of model Darnella Thomas when she appeared in Revlon’s Charlie ads in the 1970s. He painted the faces of Beverly Johnson, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Diana Ross, Rachel Welch, Melba More , Pauline Poritzcova and Mariel Hemingway.
Joey is also the author of New Classic Beauty: A Step-by-Step Guide to Naturally Glamorous Make-Up. Still going strong and lively where his contemporaries have long since passed away.
Mills did all this when magazines and advertising were still whiter than white. It was an unexpected trajectory for a basketball-loving kid from Philadelphia, the son of a single mother named Doshie Mills.
"My first model was my mother," Joey Mills told Make-Up Artist magazine in 2011. "She was very chic." According to Mills’s friends, Doshie was also very accepting of a son she recognized was gay early on. She died during Mills's teens, which friends say led to a period of housing instability. "He was living in a bus station, having a hard-knock life," says Thomas today. "He became strong.
Mills did not want to be known as a "Black makeup artist." In 1983, he told Shop-talk magazine, "When you say, 'I want to be the top makeup artist,' that’s okay. But when you say, 'I want to be the top Black makeup artist,' you have defeated yourself. Ninety-eight percent of my magazine covers are for white publications. I've done 150 covers for European magazines. I claim more covers there than any other makeup artist. You cannot let your Blackness be your limitation. Do all makeup."
Model Peggy Dillard-Toone was still in college at Pratt when she met Mills during a Mademoiselle shoot. "Some of my favorite pictures ever are the ones Joey did," she says. "I felt like I looked like myself. [When] I was the only Black girl on set, Joey never made me feel different. He treated us all the same."
Sometimes Mills would look at layouts with editors. "He'd say, ‘I'm sorry, but Black women don't wear white stockings with everything. I don't know what demo you're looking at,'" Dillard-Toone recalls.

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wow she's a beauty, she's like Lauren Hutton's little sister

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That's an insult Beverly Johnson is in a class by herself. Don't need no compares especially with a white woman