Q: David M. Trilling asks: Wow, for someone so good with makeup, you sure type fast. I was wondering, as such a beautiful woman, what advice can you give to men who are intimidated by yours or other women's looks? Cindy Crawford: That's a good question. I think to know yourself and find your own sense of self-worth, then that's very attractive to people in general. Women or men. You want someone who comes with some self-esteem, and so I think just learning to be proud of yourself and liking yourself is probably advice that I would give anyone. It's not easy to do. Which is why there's so many therapists out there in the world, but I think that's really the journey that we're all on, and that's what makes people attractive because no one wants someone they have to completely take care of, that's not attractive. I hope I answered your question. Kind of intense for the Internet. Michael Bolanos: It's the family hour. Q: What will you be for Halloween this year? Cindy Crawford: What will be I be for Halloween this year--should I give it away? How about this? I'm not going to give it away because I'm not committed 100% yet. What we'll do, can we do this? Can we have people give ideas? Because here's the deal. I'm going to be on Jay Leno that night and I really think I should wear a costume and I have an idea if anyone can better my idea, I would be willing to entertain this. Maybe we could have like a thing on our web page where people can send in ideas and that would be really cool. Set that up, Steve! Steve's all over it. Michael Bolanos: Steve has run away and is coding web pages as we speak. Cindy Crawford: I would need to know by this weekend. Because I need a few days to get the costume. Some radio guy this morning had the idea of having me go as a cup of hot chocolate because he knows I love hot chocolate but that's not very figure flattering. Michael Bolanos: If you have an idea for Cindy's Halloween costume get it to her before Sunday. Cindy Crawford: We should do something fun like with the best idea if I use it, send an autographed book or something. We do that even if we don't use your idea. The idea we vote the best, I will sign a copy of the book and send it. Michael Bolanos: Great! Cool, that will be great. Cindy Crawford: Send sketches or anything, designs. Q: Have you ever considered writing an autobiography? What would it say about you? Cindy Crawford: I've been approached about writing an autobiography. First of all, I'm only 30 so I feel like it's a little premature. I'm not planning on checking out this early. Secondly, I feel like I'm not funny like Paul Reiser or Jerry Seinfeld or someone who's a comedian and can make eating tomato soup funny. Thirdly, I don't really want a kiss and tell. I've read Dennis Rodman's book because I had to interview him and I was shocked and appalled at some of the details. I was like, ew, too much information. Unfortunately when you do an autobiography, the publisher wants that included. I'm not interested in that aspect of it. If I ever felt there was something of value I could offer, I would consider doing it. At this juncture, I feel like I'm trying to figure it all out for myself. I'm not ready to say to the world this is who I am because I still feel like I'm forming. Tonia/Host: Q: What are qualities you consider beautiful? Cindy Crawford: Well, we touched on this a little bit. I think for sure self-confidence is beautiful. Passion. I don't mean the cheesy movie passion, but being passionate about something, caring about something. I think laughter and humor is beautiful. I think people-- people who like themselves, take care of themselves and that's-when someone takes good care of themselves and treat themselves to things, it usually means that they think highly of themselves in a positive way. You know, the physical things are nice, but in the end, they're so unimportant because someone who's maybe not that attractive can look as if they just have that thing, that self-esteem thing, then they instantly become attractive. Michael Bolanos: Before we get to the next question, are there a couple of tips in the book we could let people know about? Like what is the one piece of make-up you would want if you were on a desert island. Cindy Crawford: Other than taking care of skin, there's also that wonderful thing called concealer that does camouflages maybe if you're dark under your eyes or your skin is red or if you have a zit. But also some of the tips in the book, we talk about like a lot of women end up with that line between their face and their neck where their foundation is the wrong color and we talk about how important it is to buy the right color foundation, that if it disappears on your skin, that means it's the right color and that to check it in daylight, not just in your mirror at home because your mirror might be a different kind of lighting and it's harder to see. Go stand by the window, take your mirror and make sure it's the right color. We talk about shopping, that a lot of times you go to the department store and get talked into buying all of the stuff you will never use and it's expensive. So look at the person's makeup who's telling you to buy it before you buy it. Make sure you want to take their advice. In the book there's a cartoon of someone saying to me saying, honey, you'd be real cute if you wore makeup. I had come in after the gym and this woman was only interested in selling me makeup. She didn't even look at me, just saw I wasn't wearing any and said, hmm, potential buyer. Michael Bolanos: You did say something that you could use a pencil if someone had a zit and make it look like a mole. Cindy Crawford: A mole, yeah. A lot of models do that for the runway if they have a zit that won't cover up with anything. What you can do take a eyebrow pencil or brown pencil and make it a dot like a Marilyn Monroe or we call it a mouche. Good luck spelling that. It's a French word. I can't do that because I already have one mole. It starts getting crowded if I add anymore. My zits I have to cover up. Michael Bolanos: This Christmas if we see gangs of teenagers with moles it is because of you. Cindy Crawford: The funny thing is I did meet these two girls once who had tattooed moles on their lips like myself. I thought you guys, you can draw them on with an eyebrow pencil but they were fans. Michael Bolanos: It is truly the most written about mole in the history of the world. Cindy Crawford: Actually, my mole is writing an autobiography. Michael Bolanos: Do you want to talk a little bit about our web page? Cindy Crawford: Yeah. our web page. It's really breaks down the book into different segments and does give little bits of what's in the book and we have a lip section on there, we have an attitude adjustment on there, Also we're looking at an interactive makeup application thing. We're working on -- it's actually a kind of color computer that you can play with. Michael Bolanos: What is this about getting lipstick off your teeth? Cindy Crawford: Joan Lunden already knew about it. She learned it from Madonna. Madonna and I probably learned it from the same makeup artist. Michael Bolanos: Really. Cindy Crawford: A lot of times when women wear a red lipstick, it gets our teeth. The way to prevent that, put your finger in your mouth, closing your lips around it and pulling it out. I know this sounds suggestive when it's being typed in. It's not, it's really a tip. The extra lipstick inside your lips, comes off on your finger and then it won't get on your teeth. Ladies, it does work. You might not want to do it in public. Michael Bolanos: Ladies, try that in front of your computer right now. More... © 1996, Broadway Books, All Rights Reserved.