Tish Bellomo - Manic Panic Living in Color: A Rebellious Guide to Hair Color and Life
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Reveal your inner Aurora Borealis with Manic Panic Living in Color , the audacious beauty-and-lifestyle handbook from punk rock pioneers Tish and Snooky Bellomo, founders of the iconic hair color and make-up brand.
With a colorful foreword by RuPaul -- a customer/fan/friend and dye-hard for decades -- Manic Panic Living in Color is both the rollicking origin story of the sisters punk rock roots combined with a fearless guide to finding your color in the rainbow. This guide provides unique and fail-proof methods to achieve the perfect shade or combinations of colors that express the inner you, as well as maintenance, effects, tips, products, remedies, and attitude.
With hundreds of inspiring photographs, Tish and Snooky will inspire you to show off your unique sense of style whether you are Red Passion, Bad Boy Blue, Electric Banana -- or all three!
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Copyright 2019 by Tish & Snookys N.Y.C., Inc.
Foreword copyright 2019 by RuPaul
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ISBNs: 978-0-7624-9468-2 (trade paperback); 978-0-7624-9498-9 (ebook)
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Dedicated to our mother and guardian angel, Estelle Bellomo
SNOOKY, TISH WITH MOTHER ESTELLE McINNES BELLOMO, 1980
PHOTOGRAPH MARCIA RESNICK 1980
D ecades ago, before drag was just about anywhere, there were really only a few places that us New York City queens could get what we needed, and one of those places was the Manic Panic store on St. Marks Place, founded by two infamous punk rock singers and scene-stealers, Tish and Snooky Bellomo, formerly of Blondie.
I was first introduced to Tish and Snooky by our mutual friends Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey around the time we were collaborating on the soundtrack album to my film Star Booty. The sisters sang back-up on the album and a thirty-three-year friendship was formed. They backed me up for a performance at The Saint, and we even appeared in a B-52s music video together.
Ill never forget us all waiting on the corner for the production bus to take us to the location while traffic stood at a standstill. People gawked as I towered over the sidewalk during rush hour at Fifty-Second Street and Third Avenue in full drag. I didnt get quite the reception then that I would today.
What Ive always admired about Tish and Snooky is their commitment to honoring self-expression. Its a commitment I share. You can be sure well all continue to infuse the world with color and glamour for generations to come.
RuPaul
TISH AND SNOOKY IN THE EARLY 1980s
I f you had told us back in 1977 that doing what we loved and sharing our unique style would influence music, art, fashion, and beauty for the next four decades, we wouldve thought you were as crazy as us!
Before Manic Panic was ever a punk rock dream, we were two young, free-spirited NYC sisters who embraced the underground scene, singing at all the local dives and creating our own fashion looks while hanging out with our ultra-fabulous downtown friends.
We grew up without money. Our single mother taught us how to make the best out of whatever we had, using every resource available. Although we never fit in, we were certainly two of the most unusual-looking poor kids in the Bronx. I (Tish) would repurpose outdated hand-me-downs because I liked to sew and design, and I was embarrassed to wear long skirts when minis were in style. Some of my creations came out looking quite interesting, to say the least! And Snooky would wear anything and everything people gave us. Stripes? Polka dots mixed with unmatched plaids? No problem!
We remember once seeing our mother perched on the kitchen counter, hanging up some old curtains using a string because we couldnt afford a curtain rod. She turned to us and said, Dont ever be poor. At that time, we actually thought that our neighbors who were on welfare were rich! Being poor didnt matter; we thought it was amazing that our mother had invented a rod-less way to hang curtains! Our mothers creativity and resourcefulness inspired us throughout our lives and especially when we opened Manic Panic, the first punk boutique in the United States!
MANIC PANICS OWN MOHAWK DAVES ICONIC ROCK N ROLL RED MOHAWK, EMBLAZONED WITH OUR LOGO USING ROCKABILLY BLUE AMPLIFIED COLOR SPRAY
PHOTO BY RENAN BARROSO FOR MANIC PANIC
To this day, we never waste anything. Even if a run of hair dye ends up being slightly off spec (too dark or too light), we dont compromise on color, but we dont throw it away either. We add it to the attractive failures/Manic Mix-ups collection; give it a new name, description, and explanation; and offer it at a discount to our fans who love one-of-a-kind colors and appreciate a good deal. While a shade might not be an exact match to a standard shade, it could be perfect for them.
As our single mother worked day and night to raise us, we saw firsthand how, against all odds in that day and age, she made her girls feel loved and encouraged and made them believe in themselves enough to do whatever they set out to accomplish. A gifted commercial artist and professional illustrator, her tools of the trade were our toys. We played with her glitter, colorful pencils, and paint. Not all of it landed on paperwe considered them our cosmetics as well! She always supported our creative and performance ambitions, both literally and figuratively, trading her artistic services for dance classes for us. She also endured countless stage shows wed put on in the living room, always the attentive audience, no matter how exhausted she was.
The importance of self-esteem was something our mother tried to instill in us because she struggled with it all her life. It didnt come easy to us either, but her infinite faith in us gave us the confidence to believe in ourselves, which has been a driving factor in our success. A feminist before the term existed, our mother was a role model for us and many others, proving that sisters really can do it for themselves!
Like most successful businesses, Manic Panic was conceived as a solution to a problem. The idea to start our own business came from seeing the reaction people had to our trendsetting looks whenever we were out in clubs and onstage. The hip downtown crowd loved our unique punk style and wanted a place where they could buy it. Working for someone else had never really appealed to us, but we did need day jobs to supplement our love of the nightlife and our singing careers. Running a boutique that catered to rock and rollers and artists meant we didnt need to start work until somewhere around noon. There was a fashion void, and we were the right gals to fill it. We knew the underground culture because we were a part of it. NYCs East Village was the perfect location; it was the epicenter of punk. The city was almost bankrupt; there were lots of empty stores, and rent was dirt cheap!
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