![]() ![]() She lightened the fuchsia lipstick stocked in the commissary with pearl powder. “I used to stock up during those six months because I knew I couldn’t get what I wanted for the next six months after that,” says Princess.īut she mostly made her own makeup using items from the arts and crafts shop and other odds and ends. Princess says the committee alternated the stock of lighter and darker products. The commissary committee of black and white inmates decided what makeup was available every six months. Princess also used cherry Kool-Aid to dye her hair red. “Of course it’s not permanent, so I would put it on every time I washed my hair and put a T-shirt on my pillow so it wouldn’t leave stains,” she says. Then she would painstakingly color her gray hairs. Since dye was prohibited, she bought non-toxic markers from catalogs. ![]() As the years passed, she began noticing gray hairs. “You have to be creative and take care of yourself.” “You have to create your own environment in prison and find the best products that work for you,” she says. Prison, where she lived from age 36 to 58, allowed her to get more inventive. To compound matters, she started chemotherapy in jail and lost her hair. ![]() Then Princess spent three years in jail, where she explains that the rules were so strict and the resources so limited that she had no choice but to let her looks go by the wayside. “Before I went to prison, I always had makeup, dressed up beautifully, and had my hair done.” “I learned from my mother and I used to read in magazines that makeup completes your elegance,” she says. ![]()
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