The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 67

'1 Section Nov. 24,1983 IB lap. Mf 1 I ill It II i 1 Hi I I Li LMAi Fashion c-TPT- JFa TVUSTIiSGS CLASSIFIEDS if i IOWA BOY A romamitk look that's easy to. do Barb Pinter: You turkey! JACKSON JUNCTION, IA. What was it that happened here, in a space of an hour or two the other day, that gave me such a kick? Was it that in perhaps too short a time, I jumped from the present into the future and got giddy I' in a time warp? Or was it more the people around me 5f i ill that I went from I commiserating with the whipped to celebrating with the BARB PINTER AH Susan Herrick before the makeover By DIX HOLLOBAVGHPhotos by WARREN TAYLOR Rwbtar SMI Writer and her romantic, upswept hairdo afterward.

7 iC 7 I ohn Herrick has definite ideas about his wife's hairdo. He likes long and softly romantic styles. But is this possible for a young wife and mother of two toddlers without spending hours with rollers iff The answer a resounding yes should be en- miiracino tn manv nf th vniino mnthors urhn hnv Lipstick Is applied with a brush. ti Illiii x-yyTMfhij Sandy Rollison studies Susan's hair. written to The Register with just such a query.

These young women do, indeed, want an easy-to-care for and romantic hair style that they know will please their husbands. Most of all, these young mothers want to look prettier. The magic of makeup and the marvel of new techniques in cosmetology are willingly explained and demonstrated in many salons here and throughout the state. We wish we could show readers, live, the marvelous transformation that takes place with the right shades of hair color and makeup, expertly applied. Susan Herrick of Polk City wanted a pretty and romantic style, left long enough to pin up, because "my husband loves to see the back of my neck and he likes to see my ears." The three owner-stylists at Up Your Image, 2925 Ingersoll Ave.

in Des Moines, said it was all possible, and more. Sandy Rollison, Pat Frey and Judi Griffiths talked with Susan about her lifestyle, schedule and the kind of look she wanted. They first treated Susan's very fine but dry and slightly damaged hair with protein, cut it very short over the ears, tapered the top and left the back long enough to pin up nicely. Her hair was lightened around the face and in back, permed and trimmed again. "Where did all this hair come from?" she gasped.

A matter of blowing the hair dry to give volume, then using a hot comb for curls, according to Rollison. Susan's medium skin tone and lighter hair color presented a problem her very black eyebrows. Color expert Griffiths lightened the brows for a much softer effect, then took our model through a new cosmetic routine. Besides everyday makeup of foundation, mascara, blusher and eye shadow, Susan wanted to hide the naturally dark circles under her eyes. A foundation and concealer, with darker shading to shorten her chin and also contour cheeks, was followed by plum gray eyeshadow and aqua and French blue eyeliner.

Blusher, lipstick and mascara completed the new look; Susan's hair can be worn shoulder length or pinned up for romantic evenings. hopeful? One minute I was having lunch in Mary's Hi-Way Grill in Jackson Junction, a town of 94 in extreme northeast Iowa. It's a place where nothing much ever changes, except that Mary Lou Bigler's collection of snapshots of truckers and their rigs keeps getting bigger. This is no put-down. It's a warm place she runs.

And you know the code If truckers eat there, it's good. I sat with a couple of other men and a couple of women. Everybody looked tired. We were watching "Days of Our Lives" on TV. "All of our customers want it on," said Mary Lou.

"They arrange their noon hours so they can be here for the show. If I don't have the TV tuned to it, they get ugly." This day's drama was a bonbon-popper's delight a seamy saga of divorce, dashed dreams, affairs and unwanted pregnancies. Seemed to mesmerize everybody. Then I went around the corner to Turkey Valley High School where here we come world! they've got fire in the belly, as the saying goes. Charge! That's what my annual, Thanksgiving-time trip up here is all about for me directly, for you vicariously, to get a shot of youth and recharge with it.

The seniors in the preposterously named school (well, it's that way if you don't know the location, between the branches of the Turkey River) and I have a four-year-old alliance. At the time of this particular holiday, they smile at their school's name and pick one of their best as a Good Gobbler. Then I come up, proclaim the kid "Turkey of the Year," buy him a real turkey and then introduce him to the rest of the state. I say "him" because the first three years, they gave me torn turkeys, but this year we have our first hen. So meet Barb Pinter, the pride of Gobbler's Gulch, as athletic opponents sometimes call this place.

Farm girl. One of six kids of Donald and Ellen Pinter. Stronger than I am. Spent last weekend grinding hog feed and cleaning pens "and all that fun stuff." Great smile, a plzazzy personality that only now, late in her high school days, is being fully discovered by classmates who "have always thought of me as Miss Plain Jane, Miss Conservative." But best of all about her a neat mind. She ranks fourth in her class of 103, is "excited by literature," wants to be more involved with the arts in college and loves to write.

She also does the farm chores twice a day, will disc but not plow, hates baling hay but does it, cooks, cleans and sews. "Sometimes," she said, "I wonder what city kids do with all their time. What do they do from 4 in the afternoon when school's out until 8 or 9 at i ight? That's when I'm doing chores. What are they doing? Hitting the tube already?" It's a good life she has had growing up on the farm, she is sure, but not quite good enough to be the future. "It has always burned my case," she said of a woman's too common role on farms.

"Everybody works all day, but then the men come in and rest while the women have to keep working." She doesn't understand why farm women accept being called "farmwives" Instead of "farmers." In short, she said, "I want something else. "I see myself being a sophisticated businesswoman in a city, with a plush apartment, an 8-to-S job, boyfriends and all. And I want to travel." When she talks like this around Turkey Valley, she said, guys most often will answer by saying, "ERA!" or "Jane Fonda!" She'll maintain her feminism anyway, thank you. And while we were on the point, she put a turkey scowl on me and suggested there was something inherently sexist about me bringing all this up, "probably only because I'm the first female Turkey of the Year." Guilty, I admitted. And then I told her I admired ber outlook.

I just doubt we'll ever encounter her doing bonbons and "Days of Our Lives" on down the road. Chuck Offenburger -I :7 if 1 iiii Sasan's hair is lightened. A perm adds volume. I '-7 i 4 1 4 i v. 7 I Rollison, Pat Frey and Judi Griffiths consult on Susan's makeup.

Susan's early new look,.