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By the time Apples emerges from the ministrations of Rory Bernal, the Chinese-Jamaican makeup man, she looks like Aphrodite in the year 2001. Gallant stretches her out across his glass dinner table and arranges her blouse to show her right breast. The makeup man starts a blower to make her hair blossom. Gallant clicks away: "That is great, wonderful . . . bring that hand just a little closer . . . that's right, give me tits again ... let me fix the hair. . ." Between shots Apples curls up like a cat and sings softly to herself. The next morning she is booked on a flight to Europe, and that night she is sleeping like an angel in Le Grand Hotel in Rome .
Tilt the cardboard tube and the glass shards shift; the pattern seen through the prism changes:
> Janice Dickinson is a fiery, funny brunette of 26. A few years ago , when blonds not only had all the fun but all of the modeling jobs, she managed to talk her way into a trip to Paris. Her eyes were supposed to be the wrong shape to sell magazines in the U.S., but she appeared on seven straight covers of Elle and came back to New York known a s a woman who could radiate a highly sexual kind of mischief. Now she is in the making past up year to she $2,000 has a day, worked in China, Bali, Grenada, Martinique, Rome, Paris, Germany , Japan and the U.S.
A few days ago in Manhattan, she filmed a 30-second commercial for Alberto VO5. Director, to Dickinson: "I want you to be a knockout." Dickinson: "You got it, Jack." Director , later: "Hot, hot, smiling hot. Now sparkle. Beautiful, beautiful.
Lots of shoulder. Hot, hot." Dickinson visibly strained to generate the required radiance. She is well aware that to be an exciting model you need more than mere static, knockout looks.
In fact, you may be a flagrantly flawed Venus; what counts is to be able to turn it on for the camera, to have a sort of shimmering communion with the lens. "You create an illusion," she says. "I have no breasts, but by holding my body a certain way I can create a cleavage. You can create cheekbones or take a bump on your nose and make it disappear with makeup. " After twelve spongy hours, Dickinson went to her West Side Manhattan apartment to share egg rolls and wine with her boyfriend, who is also a model. Nowadays, models tend to bunk not with princes or playboys but with other practitioners of their trade — makeup men, photographers' assistants, advertising tyros. Before retiring, Dickinson removed her makeup with mayonnaise, washed her face with yogurt and then splashed apple cider on it as an astringent — a ritual she learned from Makeup Wizard Way Bandy .
> Carol Alt, 20, is the youngest model to tie down an exclusive cosmetics contract. Hers is with Lancôme, and she signed it after dropping out of Hofstra University, where she had been a straight A pre-law student. Modeling, she says, "can be a head trip, and you can get carried away. You have to be a businesswoman." She talks sometimes of returning to college to get a business degree. "I'm interested in the way that money works."
> Nancy Decker has her eyelashes dyed every six weeks but otherwise does little to her face except bathe it in moonbeams.