Soapdom.com
April 12, 2004
Look Like A Soap Star

OLTL’s Catherine Hickland Shares Beauty Secrets on Video and DVD

When One Life to Live’s Catherine Hickland (Lindsay) sets her mind to do something, not only does she do it, she does it big. Several years ago, she dreamed of singing on Broadway. She coached and trained and auditioned and after a call back, landed the much sought after role of Fantine in Les Miserables. All this while still starring in front burner storylines on ABC daytime! With her singing in full swing, she launched a cabaret act and sang at several clubs in New York and at Super Soap Weekend. She produced a CD of her music and sold it online and in stores. Real life husband and star of All My Children, Michael E. Knight (Tad) said that he could not be more proud of her work and achievement with the CD.

As her acting and music career continued to soar, however, Hickland was still unfulfilled. One of her all time biggest desires was to share her knowledge of beauty and make up. A little known fact about Hickland is that one of the very first jobs she held in the entertainment industry was as a make-up artist. She continues to do her own make up on One Life to Live today. All this experience combined to make her Soap Opera Digest’s Product Queen. Not long after she landed her monthly column in Digest, she launched her own line of high-end, professional quality, make up, brushes and skin care, Cat Cosmetics.

Still, she was not satisfied. What good was having a line of fantastic make up, if all us potentially gorgeous beauties out there didn’t really know the first thing about how to professionally apply it?

Comes the dawn for Cat. A how-to video (in DVD and VHS cassette) called “Simply Gorgeous” that takes you step-by-step through her 8-minute make over.

I was inspired to do a makeover video because during the course of my teaching classes, I realized that though most women know the bare basics, they didn't know how to ratchet their skills up to the next level to make themselves drop dead gorgeous in just a few minutes,” Hickland says. “It's all technique and all people need is to be shown how to do it, and what it does.”

Not to mention how easy Hickland makes it. “These are the techniques I created in the beginning of my quest to make my own face more unique, clean, fresh and sexy looking, no matter what my age. It is easy once you are taught, then you can do a variation on that technique,” she says. And don’t worry if you botch things up at first. “Making mistakes can create new and exciting looks,” she insists. “For example, ‘The Smokey Eye’ was probably born out of someone making a mistake smudging their eye pencil, and voila! There it was. ‘The Smokey Eye’ rocks because it looks great on just about everyone!”

But Hickland works a full time day job as the manipulative, ever scheming yet vulnerable Lindsay Rappaport on One Life to Live, and runs the successful Cat Cosmetics in her off hours. How did she find the time to shoot a how-to video? “I MADE the time,” she says emphatically. “Believe me, I have no time. But when you have a goal, (and everyone should have those, whether they are personal or professional) you have to get on a course and stay on it. Focus. I was also that way when I decided to lose weight and change my body shape. Even if you make little teeny baby steps every single day, as long as you make a move in SOME direction towards that goal, you'll feel good about yourself and the goal WILL happen!” Like everything the upbeat and forever positive Hickland embarks upon, shooting the video was a well-orchestrated endeavor.