the sun never sets on lucille ball

Hi, first off I apologize if you sent this ask a while back, I just saw it today since I don’t check this account regularly & my inbox notifications don’t work. Anyways, to your question - I totally understand your situation. The thing is, I’ve actually never uploaded a full length movie to Youtube before so I’m not exactly sure how it would work out, but what I could do is try to upload it and, if that’s successful, make it private to only those with the link, so it doesn’t get taken down for copyright. Then I could share the link with y’all on here. I’ll take a stab at it and if it works I’ll post the link on here. And thank you, I’m so glad you like it! :) 

“Their relationship with each other was very intense. He knew her in a way that I don’t think anyone else ever could. And because of that, and because they both didn’t have any help in handling their emotions, they could wound each other deeper than anyone else ever could.”

Happy Birthday Lucy  ➪August 6, 1911 - ∞

"Most comedy writers consider themselves lucky if a star realizes 60% of the values they’ve written into a script. Lucy, somehow, returned about 125%. Unexpected qualities appeared out of nowhere. Little, human, ordinary, recognizable values. Inflections that were exactly the way your mother, or the lady bus driver used to sound. She was everywoman. Ask her to be a tough showgirl and you got back a broad who simply could not look and move like that unless she’d been pumping bumps and grinds in a burlesque house for twenty years. Ask her for royalty and she became a queen. And she kept astounding us that way. The audience never had the feeling that they were watching her act. If you looked carefully, you would marvel that every fiber in the woman’s body was contributing to the illusion. Her hands, her feet, her knees, every cell would be doing the right thing. This was an exceptionally talented young lady, and I don’t know enough superlatives to do her justice.”

To be quite honest, I’m not really sure if I’ve seen any pictures of Lucy without lipstick. In some of the home movies she appears to be wearing less makeup, particularly not full eye makeup (she was a fan of false lashes lol), but almost always lipstick. I could be blanking here, but I just can’t think of anything I’ve stumbled across at the moment. Even photos of her as a teenager, which aren’t very hq but from what I can tell, she seems to be wearing lipstick. So as for the natural shape and size of her lips, I guess this photo of her as toddler is as best of an indicator as any:

It looks like her mouth was very naturally full to begin with. I think the main effect of the lipstick was its emphasis/overdrawing of a cupid’s bow, which is the trademark look we associate with her - she wore it all through I Love Lucy. I would also say that she overdrew the lipstick to widen her mouth a bit, as well. I definitely think she had a very beautiful natural shape and it would’ve been nice to see it more often, but this was really the fashion of the time. Her style actually reminds me a bit of Joan Crawford’s famous smear lip. 

“The first lady of television - her face was seen by more people more often than the face of any other human being who has ever lived. Who can forget Lucy? She was like everyone’s next door neighbor, only funnier. Lucille Ball was a national treasure who brought laughter to us all. This nation is grateful to her.” - Inscription for her Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1989

“She had a tenacity, an amazing ability to keep going until she got it right. Bravery. She was the first to do things that women didn’t do. She was gifted. She had genius, like Chaplin. Artistry of the top rank.” - Lucie Arnaz

“I once told Lucy that she was a beautiful clown. She didn’t want to hear it because it embarrased her, but it was true. She might be dressed in a baggy suit and a battered top hat and wearing big, funny shoes but she was still beautiful. And unlike some actresses who worry that they won’t look good, or that their hair will be mussed, Lucy would get into any crazy costume we would think of. She couldn’t wait to black out her teeth or get soaking wet or put on a funny wig.” - Madelyn Pugh Davis, writer for I Love Lucy

“One of the most important things that Lucy showed us was that women could be funny and attractive all at once - a groundbreaking concept for the day. This was particularly admirable considering Lucy was beautiful enough to be a conventional film star. But she shrugged off the persona of a cool beauty, instead reveling in the chance to get a laugh. She was never afraid to look foolish, silly, or even ugly for the sake of a good gag and her public loved her for it. By proving this formula, she paved the way for generations of funny women to come. Think of Carol Burnett, Roseanne, Gilda Radner, and Candice Bergen - they all owe at least part of their success to the amazing Lucy.” - Commentary on her role for women

Hattie Carnegie taught me how to slouch properly in a $1,000 hand sewn sequin dress and how to wear a $40,000 sable coat as casually as a rabbit. Since I was her youngest and least experienced model, I was soon covered with bruises where she kicked me in the shins to remind me to bend my knees properly, or pinched me in the ribs to make me raise my chest higher. Fiery, volatile Hattie fired me at least once a week, but like all the other models, I responded not to her outbursts but to her great warmth, and loved her.

Mostly I modeled long, slinky evening gowns and suits - thirty to forty changes in a day. With each change I had to slip into matching shoes, whether they were my size or not, and go wobbling out over the ultrathick carpet. By nighttime my feet were as swollen and sore as my shins. Connie and Joan Bennett were frequent customers, and I lost no time in bleaching my hair the same color as Joan’s and matching her style: flat on top with dippy waves on each side. Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson, and Ina Claire’s came to Hattie’s. I tried to analyze their styles: how they walked and moved their hands and eyes, what they wore, and how they talked.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was storing up a lot of useful knowledge.