Youth and BeautyNow that he’s taught teen-ager...

Youth and Beauty

Now that he’s taught teen-ager Mary Lou Retton and most of her U.S. Olympic gymnast teammates how to apply their makeup, Steve Paras says he’s ready to take on the high school girls of greater Los Angeles.

A specialist in makeup for teen-agers, Paras was a member of the hair and makeup maintenance service that Vidal Sassoon offered to Olympians. As he did in the summer of ‘84, today he advises teens to apply makeup with a light touch. Lip gloss is more youthful than lipstick, he says, and neutral eye shadows--pink, tawny brown and yellow-gold--are better than deeper shades. He prefers buff-tone eyeliner colors--such as khaki green--to black, and minimal mascara.

Paras provides tips to girls, two at a time for $30, at his Campus Make-Up Center, 16917 Ventura Blvd., Suite 8, Encino.

With a Twist

When fashion designer Bob Mackie first used the term layering, he meant putting a jacket over a sweater over a shirt. That was before he got into the fragrance business last spring with his freesia-scented perfume, cologne and body lotion. Now, he says, layering means putting on a scented body lotion in the morning, cologne at noon and perfume at the cocktail hour.

Yet Mackie doesn’t advise mixing scents. “Fragrance can be like cooking,” he says. “Unless you’re a real expert at it, experimenting can lead to some awful conclusions.” Adventurers ought to mix their favorite scent with a lemon fragrance, he says, taking his cooking analogy one step further. Bob Mackie fragrances are available at Bullock’s.

In Quotes

“We are at our sensual and sexual best in our maturity--mid-life--when we know who we are. That’s beauty.”

This and other mature takes on beauty are part of a new book by model Kaylan Pickford , who began her fashion career 10 years ago at age 45. “Always Beautiful” will be published this fall by G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Events