Born: Unknown (circa 1890s), United States (assumed)
Died: Unknown
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
When Thomas Lyle Williams was nineteen, he saw his sister Mabel using a homemade concoction of petroleum jelly, coal dust, and burnt cork to darken her eyelashes. The results were commercially manufactured mascara, and his company, Maybelline, was named for his sister.