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Get glamorous this holiday season with tips from Paula Dorf,
makeup artist to the stars.

BY LINDA BACHRACK

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he's just a girl from
the Bronx, of Polish
descent, the daughter
of a religious man who
became disenchanted with
Judaism after most of his fami-
ly was killed in the Holocaust.
Although her parents didn't affil-
iate, and she never attended
Sunday school, Paula Dorf, the great-granddaugh-
ter of a rabbi, knows who she is in her heart.
The makeup artist and designer of the world-
renowned Paula Dorf Cosmetic Collection lives with
her husband and business partner Sandy De Kovnick
in Lincoln Towers on the Upper West Side. "We live in
a community with lots of elderly people," says Dorf,
"and Sandy and I have enjoyed volunteering our time

for Dorot, an organization that delivers
food to the elderly on holidays.
"Our dream, however, is to help raise
funds to secure a rabbi for a wonderful
synagogue in the Village. The small
congregation meets in an old dilapidated
brownstone. It's an incredible group of
people, and, idealistically, Sandy and I
would like to be in a position to contribute
enough money to hire a permanent rabbi."
It is her tireless pursuit of personal goals and
her ambitious desire to follow her heart that has
propelled Dorf from unsatisfied manager of artist
relations for a major record label 20 years ago, to
successful makeup artist and entrepreneur.
"I knew I wanted to be a makeup artist but I want-
ed to make sure I was good at it," says Dorf. "I wanted

to know that my talent
was real."
Dorf started out in the
music industry, securing jobs for 1.
album covers. In 1982, the rock
band Kiss hired her to create their
new image, and her talent was
revealed on the cover of their Platinum-selling
1983 album "Lick It Up." As her reputation
spread and the music video era emerged, Dorf
moved into MTV, working with Billy Joel, the
Bangles, Run DMC, Paul Simon and Carly Simon.
Meanwhile, other musicians and actors called
on Dorf's expertise for live appearances and mag-
azine covers.
"I've always worked on real people, not picture-
perfect models," says Dorf. "There was no room to

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