WAY BANDY

MAKEUP ARTIST

A best-selling author of books on beauty care and a highly paid freelance makeup artist, Bandy worked on some of the most famous feminine faces of our time. One of his most beautiful clients, Elizabeth Taylor (see card 104), said that he worked "like an artist using a palette."

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Way Bandy was educated there and in Tennessee. He worked his way through college by painting portraits. After graduating from Tennessee Technological Institute, he taught English for four years, and in 1966 he went to New York, where he became a specialist in cosmetics and skin care. The director of the makeup department at the Charles of the Ritz salon from 1969 to 1971, he left to work with individual clients and as a consultant to manufacturers of cosmetics, earning an annual income in six figures. Besides Elizabeth Taylor, his clients included such celebrated beauties as Catherine Deneuve, Farrah Fawcett, Lauren Hutton, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Sigourney Weaver.

Bandy's first book, Designing Your Face (1977), was a bestseller, and he followed it with Styling Your Face (1981). The fashion photographers he worked with included Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Francesco Scavullo, who described Bandy as "one of the most beautiful men in mind and spirit." Bandy himself said that "real beauty is inner" and that by the way we live our lives "we enrich our souls and earn our natural beauty."

Bandy was 45 when he died on August 13, 1986. Like Jerry Smith (see card 52) and Max Robinson (see card 45), he wished it made known that the cause of his death was AIDS.

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