Ironically, Parton’s authenticity lies in all the fake stuff she wears.
I’m short, so I wear high heels.
“I might be artificial, but I’m real where it counts right here in my heart.”
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Below, the icon walks us through 10 of her best beauty moments from the 1960s to today.
I was doing that back in high school.
I was one of the few girls in high school that was having that big, old bouffant hair.
Portrait (1970)
“I love the idea of wigs.
And my hair, I love it to be bleached.
I’ve got a wig for every occasion.
Still big, though.
My hairdresser, Collen Owens, at the time, was so big on doing those big hairdos.
She thought that I was larger than life so she tried to make my hair even bigger.”
The smaller I got, the bigger the hair seemed to be.
My husband used to say, You look like a Q-tip.'
I was like a little stick with all this hair."
I was working with professional people.
I was working with Tony Chase and Robert.
I felt like during that time I was probably the most fashionable I’d ever been."
You just have to go with that and that’s the same with your makeup.
That’s the same with your hair.
A lot of people say, ‘Oh, don’t wear blue eye shadow.'"
I say, ‘But I likeblue eye shadow.
I don’t care if it’s fashionable.’
I love blue."
I still have the hair.
It’s not as wild or crazy, but it’s still big.
If I don’t like it, I’ll change it.
It’s still me and it’s mine."
