Maria Callas, her beauty rules always valid

Maria Callas was born, one hundred years ago, on December 2, 1923 in New York (not in Greece where many believe). A very modern icon, she cyclically returns to the limelight: angry, capricious, endowed with an enigmatic beauty, the Divine satisfies all the characteristics of a diva.

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His is in all respects the tale of a duckling with a bulky body and a voice misunderstood at the beginning, with a heart marked by difficult family relationships, which turns into a sparkling swan with a great need for love and a sad destiny. There obsessive and constant search for perfection it was for her an exhausting Odyssey which in destroying it made her, however, a myth. You can’t ask a fairy tale to be true, but to make you dream and excite forever.

And so is the story of Maria Callas, beautiful with a contemporary beauty which has left an indelible mark over the decades to date. These are her beauty lessons, valid and very important forever. Waiting to see the soprano relive on the big screen in the awaited film about her signed by director Pablo Larraìn and with Angelina Jolie in her famous role.

Make your «imperfections» strengths

Her unconventional beauty and the melancholy she concealed were the keystone of her immense charm. The large slightly distant eyes, the diaphanous complexion, the thick eyebrows and, above all, that important nose which made it so distinctive. Mediterranean in her so shameless beauty, with clear and decisive features, devoid of that grace of the Hollywood divas of the same period but full of the pathos of the south, Maria Callas has made her peculiarities her strengths, without homologating . A truly contemporary approach.

Eyeliner is never without for those who feel like divas

The melancholy gaze of Maria Callas has always been underlined by a stroke of eyeliner graphic, often very elongated a bit Cleopatra style combined with nude or sometimes red lips that enhanced the full mouth. Her bold make-up highlighted her large dark, deep and expressive eyes.

In the mirror try to love yourself

Few smiles, the fault of a happiness that not even success was able to give to Maria Callas, but also of a complicated relationship with her body. The Divine didn’t like herself and weight has always been his gripe bigger. It didn’t matter that at the time very thin women were not the most popular in favor of softer silhouettes. She fluctuated from almost one hundred kilos up to 54, she lost and regained them cyclically, now transforming herself into what everyone wanted her to be, a graceful diva and icon of elegance, now returning to withdraw into her solitudes.

To emulate (not copy) is not wrong

Once Franco Zeffirelli found Maria Callas in the dressing room with the photo that Audrey Hepburn had signed of her: he turned it over in his hands admiring the beauty and simplicity of that woman, her elegance, her look, her hairdo. Her physical change, her weight loss, was, in fact, combined with a look similar to that of the Hollywood diva: straight, pulled hair, gracefully gathered behind the neck, a short youthful, alluring fringe, all accompanied by a very thin waist, never provocative, always restrained, decorated with her beloved jewels.

The chignon is the hairstyle that exudes elegance

Maria Callas almost always wore collected hair, never left free: too much impetus and too much passion in loose hair, for flashes and the public has always preferred to keep confidential. Famous for her buns that have characterized her for years and that she too has helped to make the chicest hairstyle between all.