Summer is right around the corner and we need to be ready! No look is ever complete without a great lipstick shade, so we made a list of our favorite colors this season. Whether you want to dress up or dress down, these shades will give you that extra boost to feel like a total summer babe!

Orange is The New Bold: PatMcGrath Labs MatteTrance Orange Lipstick in Elson 2

Dare to be bold this summer with a pop of orange! This PatMcGrath shade is the perfect way to change things up a bit from your go-to red lippie. Recommended for a spicy night out and will be sure to catch anyone’s eye!

Hot Pink, Hot Summer: NYX Professional Makeup Velvet Matte Lipstick in Miami Nights 

Who needs a vacation when you can look like one? This hot pink shade in NYX Miami Nights, will give you an outstanding pout with all the summer feels. Long lasting yet super light on the lips, a velvet matte is perfect for a night out or even a super busy errands day.

Cool Off in The Nude: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in 1993

Keeping it cool and breezy, everyone needs a great nude shade this summer. This Urban Decay brownish-pink will definitely be your go-to color. For one of those days when you just can’t get your outfit together, but want to have your makeup look on point. Perfect for almost any skin tone or occasion!

Glossy and Glowing: Fenty Beauty by Rihanna, Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminzer in Diamond Milk

Shine bright like a Diamond in this stunning Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Gloss Bomb. Goes with any look, any style, really just anything! Subtle yet explosive, we can’t get over this gloss!

Coral Smokeshow: Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Shine in #15 Corail Intuitive

When we think of summer, we think of coral. This smokey coral shade gives you the perfect amount of color with a great balance of sheer. Soft, smooth, and sets the mood.

Barbara Eden is an actress whose career has placed her in the spotlight on stage, on television, and of course, on the big screen 40 feet high. This is the story of how Eden became the actress she is today.

She wasn’t always known as Barbara Eden. In fact, the iconic actress was born Barbara Jean Morehead in a place far from Los Angeles, California. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Eden entered the world on August 23rd, 1931. This wasn’t made clear for a while since Barbara Eden — then, Morehead — intentionally lied about her age in order to appear years younger than she actually was. For decades, people thought Eden was born in 1941.

Being born in the 1930s, Eden and her family were living in the midst of the Great Depression — a time when the economy was flat and unemployment rates had reached 25%. As a result of this, money was difficult for her and the family to come by. It was a time before smartphones and household televisions as well, so in order to entertain the family, a young Barbara would often sing to lift everyone else’s spirits.

It was clear from early on that Eden was a talented singer. As a young girl, she first expressed her love for singing and music by putting on performances for her family. From there, she was placed in a church choir, where she was able to more freely express herself in front of crowds outside of her immediate family. By her teen years, Eden was actually singing in clubs making $10 a show, which is worth roughly $130 today adjusted to inflation.

As she got older, Eden and her family moved from Arizona out west to San Francisco, California. She attended high school at Abraham Lincoln High School and graduated with the class of 1949. By the time Eden was 16 years old, she became a member of Actors’ Equity Associate — an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, rather than film and television performance. At this point, it was evidently clear that Eden had a special gift.

Before graduating from high school, Eden took part in many extracurricular activities in order to pursue her interests more seriously. Not only did she study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music — a private school for gifted singers — but she also received acting training at the equally prestigious Elizabeth Holloway School of Theatre. After graduating high school in the Spring Class of 1949, Eden went on to further her education at a community college, but ultimately dropped out the following year.

Eden didn’t drop out of the City College of San Francisco on a whim. She knew she wanted to be an actress and singer, having felt the rush of entertaining crowds with her incredible singing voice. She first decided to put her stage presence to the test by entering the Miss America pageant and although she didn’t win, her career got a boost in 1955. Then, she was cast as a semi-regular on The Johnny Carson Show.

While many younger generations may not have heard of Johnny Carson today, during the 1950s he was by far one of the most recognizable names on television, and Barbara’s work on the series gave her serious exposure. Over the next couple of years, Eden would make several featured appearances on television shows. She appeared as Diana Jordan on I Love Lucy (1957), as well as being featured on The West Point Story (1956), Highway Patrol (1957), and The Millionaire (1957).

At this point, Eden’s career was only beginning but it was evident that this youngster had potential. Not only did she make appearances on different sitcoms at the time —Target: The Corruptors!, Crossroads, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, and December Bride among many others.

Eden then guest-starred in four episodes of the 1963 detective series Burke’s Law in which the actress played a different role each time. The young artist also had an uncredited part in a movie called The Tarnished Angels, starring Rock Hudson.

The actress’s big break finally came when she was offered what every actor and actress covets when trying to become a Hollywood star — a screen test at a major studio. The screen test was for the motion picture, No Down Payment, which was released in 1957.

Although she had been invited in by director Mark Robson himself to stand in for the screen test, she was not given the role. Instead, she was offered a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Not getting picked for the role after auditioning at a screen test that the director himself invited you to must have been pretty disappointing for this starlet. Just when she likely felt that she had hit a new low in her career, though, Eden was offered a contract with 20th Century Fox which would soon pay off. In 1957, she was given a starring role in the television series How to Marry a Millionaire, based on the film released in 1953.

The series, How to Marry a Millionaire, aired from 1957 until 1959 and was based on the 1953 comedy film by the same name. The film starred none other than Marilyn Monroe in the lead role that Eden played for the series. Her role in that series was what caught the attention of numerous producers who felt that her talent should be on the big screen. She was then given a screen test for I Dream of Jeannie.

Eden’s professional life was going, shall we say, quite well for her. She had been featured in numerous series and had spent several years starring in a television show of her own. Not only was her professional life on the rise, though. In fact, her personal life was about to go through a major change as well. In 1958, the now-famous Hollywood star married Michael Ansara — a Syrian actor who’s best known for appearing in the 1956 film, Broken Arrow.

This blonde-haired beauty seemed like she already had it all, but she was about to get even more. In 1959, she was given her first starring role in the musical comedy film, A Private’s Affair. The film follows two men from New York — Luigi and Jerry — who join the army where Jerry finds himself in an accidental marriage. The film was well-received by critics as well as audiences and was even nominated for a Golden Globe the year after its release.

An actor’s worry in Hollywood can often be starring in a major motion picture one year only to suddenly disappear the next. Thankfully for Barbara, she didn’t have to worry about that. The year after A Private’s Affair came out, Eden was cast in a leading role in the Western film, Flaming Star. Based on a book that had been published two years prior, the film cast Eden next to none other than legendary rock star Elvis Presley.

While Flaming Star did reach number 12 in the box office charts the year it was released, it is not a movie that would survive today’s standards. The main reason being the film’s negative portrayal of Native Americans — portrayed as violent riders who raid homesteaders. That being said, the film was a hit for its era, and everyone seemed to know it was going to be such. Before Presley landed the role, Frank Sinatra was considered.

The battle of who would play in the starring role wasn’t just held between Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. In reality, the role of the leading lady was also being viciously fought over. Another famous actress, Barbara Steele — who yes, does coincidentally share the same first name as Eden — was originally being considered to star next to Presley. But after studio executives got a chance to see Eden act in the flesh, they were more than impressed and cast her instead.

Eden was clearly becoming a rising force in Hollywood, beating out other actresses to get the leading roles next to some of the biggest names of the early 1960s. By 1962, Eden was given her next major part starring in the film, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. The film became a hit, breaking box office records to become the highest-grossing film of the year. The next year, the film was even nominated for an Academy Award.

Eden’s relationship with 20th Century Fox had certainly been beneficial for both of them. She was now recognized as a major Hollywood star, and 20th Century Fox had become much richer after having cast her in numerous leading roles. By 1963, Eden was about to star in her final role with the studio that had done so much for her career. The film was a thriller called The Yellow Canary, after which she said goodbye to 20th Century.

Anyone who has left a good job knows it can be both very exciting and also very scary. While the prospect of being able to become more successful than ever before is certainly there, there is always the fear of being labeled as irrelevant. For Eden, though, the gamble turned out to be a good one. In 1965, she was approached by producer Sidney Sheldon who felt that Eden would be perfect for the series, I Dream of Jeannie.

At this point, Sheldon had auditioned several brunette starlets and beauty queens. Still, he wasn’t convinced that he found “the one.” It was 1964 and Bewitched was the number-two show on television. He knew he could make something worth watching but he’d have to find the right look, which is when he approached Eden. He had actually seen the blonde star in The Brass Bottle — a 1964 fantasy-comedy film that follows a modern man who accidentally acquires the friendship of a long-out-of-circulation genie

Sidney Sheldon certainly gave the bombshell a tempting offer, and she was happy to accept, especially after Sheldon was so flattering in regards to Eden’s resume. But when Eden realized that her competition was against pageant contestants, she was a little taken aback. In an interview with Channel 10 News in Australia, Eden admitted that when she was first approached for the part and heard who she was up against, she asked her agent if they knew who she was.

In spite of having had her doubts about being cast against pageant contestants rather than the formidable actresses that Eden was used to competing against, she accepted the role. Before long, I Dream of Jeannie had gone from an idea invented by Sidney Sheldon to a full-fledged television series starring none other than movie star Barbara Eden. In the show, Eden plays a 2000-year-old genie who ends up falling in love with an astronaut that finds her lamp.

The show would end up running for a total of five seasons, during which 139 episodes were filmed. The film also made history in another big way. Originally released in 1965, I Dream of Jeannie would become the last NBC series to be released in black and white. Afterward, for the next four years that it was on the air, the sitcom switched to color — reflecting the advancements in television taking place during that transformative era.

The series was a mix of many themes and subjects, many of which were visualized in the show’s costume designs. For the beloved actress, this was a dream come true. The beautiful custom-fitted clothing was considered by the actress to be some of the best pieces of clothing that she had ever had the pleasure of wearing. The costumes combined designs that were inspired by classical ideas from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia — mixed with the style of the counterculture era.

Aside from the unbelievable clothing and costumes that Eden had the pleasure of wearing throughout the series, she also became a brunette…temporarily! Let us explain. While she may not have actually dyed her hair, the actress donned a brunette wig for eight episodes. Why? Well, Eden also portrayed Jeannie’s evil fraternal twin sister — whose name happens to be Jeannie, too! This character proves to have a wicked streak starting in the third season when she repeatedly attempts to steal Tony for herself.

Looking back on her time starring in I Dream of Jeannie, Eden discussed with the Today Show about how she was treated while she was on set. According to her, the actors and actresses were treated with not only the respect they deserved but were also given many luxuries that were not afforded to many others starring in similar roles. In her words, “We were treated like royalty! Anything we could fathom we would have it delivered to the studio!”

Can you imagine working at a place where anything you want would be immediately delivered to you with no questions asked? What sort of cool things might you order? Well, Eden knew exactly what she wanted to have sent to her. A not so well known but very fun fact about the famous actress is that she has a hankering for bagels. According to her, “While we were filming, I would custom order heaps of bagels from my favorite shop.”

Eden’s male counterpart on the show, the astronaut that her character falls in love with, was an actor named Larry Hagman. According to Eden, her chemistry with Hagman was what she considered to be the backbone of their sitcom. The two characters had a classic on-again, off-again relationship that is common with popular television shows even up to today. By the fifth season, both characters were married and Eden considered that to be the end.

Eden was no Joe Exotic, but that doesn’t mean that she didn’t have experience with big cats. In fact, during an interview panel, the beloved star revealed an interesting bit of information about herself. According to the actress, she had some experience working with actual lions after several movies had required the use of them. So when I Dream of Jeannie decided it needed a lion for one of its scenes, Eden quickly made friends with the majestic animal.

It was the first season of this brand new series, and the pressure was on from the studio for it to be a hit. As a result, the producers thought it would be a good idea to stand out from the crowd by bringing a lion on set and featuring it in one of the scenes. At one point, when the cameras were rolling, the lion let out a tremendous roar leaving everyone but Barbara running away!

A fun fact about the show that many people didn’t realize at the time was that during its first season, Eden was actually pregnant with her future son, Matthew Ansara. This was a big blowback to the production team who desperately wanted Eden’s acting skills but whose character — being a genie and all — couldn’t be pregnant. Rather than cast a stunt double, the crew made good use of close-ups along with costumes that hid her belly.

It’s a strange idea to have a genie who falls in love with an astronaut. How many people could think of a creative television show like that? According to Barbara, the character wasn’t even fully formed in its backstory. Jeannie actually had conflicting explanations for her origin. One episode explained that she came from a family of genies, whereas in another, Barbara’s husband — Michael Ansara — played the “Blue Djinn,” who turned her into a genie for refusing to marry him.

Most people, when asked what their favorite food or song is, find it difficult to come up with an answer. It’s not too surprising — with so many choices how could someone pick just one thing? For the series, that question wasn’t any easier after Barbara was asked out of 139 episodes, which one her favorite was. But she responded quickly anyways, saying that for her it was the episode titled “The Lady in the Bottle,” even though beach filming was uncomfortable.

For those who didn’t grow up during the 1960s and sadly missed out on arguably some of the best music ever, The Monkees was a rock band that was very active between 1966 and 1971. I Dream of Jeannie made several nods to The Monkees show, which starred the famous band. In fact, two of The Monkees writers — Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce — made several cameos as two of Barbara Eden’s character’s bandmates.

Looking to purchase yourself a souvenir from the famed fantasy sitcom? Well unfortunately you — along the thousands of others who loved the show — are out of luck. Once the show wrapped up its fifth season, the studio executives decided that the best thing to do was burn the set, since keeping it would incur storage costs. Barbara, however, couldn’t bear to see it all go up in flames and so kept one of the magic lamps, which she later donated.

For many actors and actresses in Hollywood, they often have a defining role that audiences remember them by for generations. This is not necessarily a bad thing — it can just mean that they played a character so well that audiences could never forget it. For Eden, there was no doubt that Jeannie would become the character that she was known best for. When asked if she minded this in spite of a long Hollywood career, she said she didn’t.

Once the hit series went off the air in 1970, Eden kept herself busy with various projects including two unaired pilots. Not only did she film for The Barbara Eden Show but she also shot a pilot for a show called The Toy Game. The series, which was never released, follows two rival toy company CEOs — played by Eden and her beloved former co-star, Larry Hagman.

Since being known for playing the role of Jeannie, the actress began associating herself with the world of comedic acting. So it wasn’t so shocking that after the series went off the air, Eden was getting approached by directors and producers who were offering her roles in various comedies. The first included the 1971 film, The Feminist and the Fuzz, a made-for-television film about a woman becoming a police officer who has to deal with her stubborn bosses.

The Feminist and the Fuzz may have been the first TV-film she did after she played wish-granting genie but it certainly was not her last. The very same year that this cop comedy came out, Eden starred in another made-for-television film called A Howling in the Woods. Unlike many of her other roles, this one was a thriller and starred Barbara Eden as Liza Crocker, a housewife who starts to become suspicious of local townsfolk.

At this point in time, Eden was certainly keeping busy, even expanding her audience to children when she appeared in Out to Lunch — a prime-time special that aired on ABC in December of 1974. Not only did the special include the Sesame Street Muppets and the cast of The Electric Company but it also featured Eden herself as well as Elliott Gould and Carol Burnett! The premise of the show was that the ABC newscasters had all gone out to lunch, and it was up to The Electric Company and the Muppets to make up an hour of programming.

Dallas was a long-running, primetime television series that aired in April 1978 and ended in May 1991. During its run, the primetime soap was one of the most popular television series on the air, often reaching number one in the Neilson ratings. During one of the last episodes, Eden got to reunite with her old co-star, Larry Hagman. Unlike their previous comedic work together, their two characters in Dallas had a dramatic and convoluted story arc.

As if she didn’t have enough going on with the primetime soap in 1978, Eden also starred in the feature film Harper Valley PTA — inspired by the popular 1968 country song — that same year. The film follows a widowed single mother, Stella Johnson (Eden), who sells cosmetics door-to-door. Directed by Richard Bennett and Ralph Senensky (who left the production during filming, and was replaced by Bennett), it was a major box-office success!

The movie was such a huge hit that it ultimately led to a namesake television series a few years later. Eden plays the show’s heroine, Stella Johnson, in both the film and television series. During its first season, the show won 11 of its 13 timeslots. After its initial release in January 1981, the series was renamed to Harper Valley. It was during this time that Eden also became the spokeswoman for L’eggs pantyhose and even appeared in a series of print ads as well as TV commercials for the brand.

A couple of years after Harper Valley went off the air, Eden was cast as the star — Tess Harding Craig — in the Lee Guber and Shelly Gross national production of the John Kander and Fred Ebb Tony Award-winning musical comedy, Woman of the Year. The show follows the relationship of a busy television personality (Tess) and a handsome cartoonist (Sam). As Tess is about to win a ‘Woman of the Year’ award, she ultimately realizes that she values her relationship with Sam more than her hectic career…

In 1991, after Dallas had come to a close, Eden proved to be an unstoppable force — starring in the stage play Same Time, Next Year alongside Wayne Rogers. Aside from that, the beloved starlet reprised her role as Jeannie in a television movie-of-the-week. Then, in 1993, Eden showed that she had no intention of slowing down when she starred alongside Don Knotts in an 11-city national tour of the play Last of the Red Hot Lovers.

Throughout her career, Eden starred in several musicals including Nite Club Confidential, The Sound of Music, Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific, The Pajama Game, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Aside from that, Eden has appeared as a musical guest star on various variety shows such as The Carol Burnett Show, The Jonathan Winters Show, The Jerry Lewis Show, This Is Tom Jones, Donny and Marie, and even 21 Bob Hope specials. With her talent, it’s no surprise that Eden also decided to release an album entitled Miss Barbara Eden in 1967 for the record label Dot Records.

In 2000, when Eden was 69 years old, she began starring in the national touring production of the play The Odd Couple: The Female Version. She played the role of Florence Unger, opposite Rita MacKenzie as Olive Madison, up until 2004. The play — which first premiered on Broadway in 1965 — was written by Neil Simon, who ended up adapting the screenplay in 1985 in order to feature a pair of female roommates.

Throughout the years, Eden has also been known to do voice work, specifically for the animated children’s TV series Shimmer and Shine. In the show, the actress voices the genie teacher — Empress Caliana — a retired genie mentor of Princess Samira. Eden’s character helps the main protagonists rescue Samira from a crystal cave. Eden also voices the same character in the season-three episode “Samira and Zeta,” which reveals that Caliana taught at Genie Hall, a genie school attended by both a young Samira and the main antagonist of the series.

As much as audiences loved seeing Eden playing Jeannie the genie, audiences also couldn’t get enough of the actress and Larry Hagman on screen together. The two had years of acting and chemistry together, which people seemed to respond to very positively. As such the two performed again together in 2006, but this time on stage rather than on the set of a television show. The performance was called Love Letters, and had two performances at Staten Island College and West Point.

After starring in Love Letters alongside Hal Linden in 2006, Eden landed a guest-starring role on the Lifetime series Army Wives — a drama television series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families. The show happens to be written and produced by Eden’s niece, Katherine Fugate! In 2008, Eden began filming the TV-movie Always & Forever for the Hallmark Channel. The film was released a year later in October of 2009.

There are many honors and awards that an actor or actress can get while starring in films, appearing on television, on stage, or singing for the eager masses. While many dream of Oscars and Tony Awards, there is one that will likely last longer than all the others. We’re speaking, of course, about the Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Hollywood Boulevard. The celebrated actress received her star — which is placed next to Roger Wagner and actor Barry Fitzgerald — in 1988.

It’s safe to say that anyone’s climb to the top is fraught with perils, and it’s often that before people reach success, they have more than a few failures. Generally, people who suffer failures and succeed regardless of them consider these moments very teachable. Some even credit these times as helping them reach the level of success they were able to arrive at. For Eden, one of those moments was a pilot for The Barbara Eden Show, which never aired.

Sadly, in November 2012, Eden’s co-star from I Dream of Jeannie — and work partner for a major portion of her career — passed away from cancer. In looking back on her first day of shooting she said, “I can still remember, that first day on Zuma Beach with him, in the frigid cold. From that day for five more years, Larry was the center of so many fun, wild, shocking…and in retrospect, memorable moments that will remain in my heart forever.”

Acting and singing aren’t the star’s only talents, although they are the ones that she is known best for. She is also a published author, with two books to her name. The first is a 1986 autobiography called Barbara Eden: My Story. The book primarily covers her younger years and her rise to fame and success. The second book was published much later, in 2011, and was called Jeannie Out of the Bottle.

A memoir of sorts, Jeannie Out of the Bottle chronicles Eden’s personal life and Hollywood career that spanned over 50 years. The autobiography includes intimate details from throughout her life — her early childhood, her rise to popularity in her teens and early 20s, the relationships with her co-stars over the years, and her work leading up to I Dream of Jeannie. Beyond that, Eden’s novel discusses her marriages to Michael Ansara (1958-1974), Charles Fegert (1977-1982), and Jon Eicholtz (1991-present).