A signature look doesn’t necessarily take a village or array of fancy products to create. It can be as simple as the way you part your hair or do your eyeliner. No one knows this better than Dolly Parton, who knew exactly who she wanted to be—and what that version of herself would look like—from an early age. In her new book, "Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones," the 77-year-old recounts the steps she took to beautify herself as a young woman growing up in rural Tennessee, including foraging in the woods for her own beauty products.
“If a girl has dreams and creativity, she can come up with all kinds of ways to look, and feel, pretty when she doesn’t have the real thing. I used to squash up honeysuckle blossoms to make perfume,” the Grammy winner writes. “And pokeberries! Pokeberries were major because you could mash them up and make a stain that—boy!—takes forever to come off. I would paint my lips with that.” (Fun fact: Parton's Tennessee Sunset perfume features honeysuckle as a top note.)
