BEAUTY SECRETS

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 14

BEAUTY SECRETS

No doubt you’ll bo interested in a novel make-up experiment which furnished conversation material for Hollywood for several weeks. It all started as the result of a wager. “Sure, make-up can improve most any girl's appearance! ” said one sceptic, ‘ ‘ but as far as making them look like Joan Crawford or a Claudette Colbert, it just can’t be done! ” The challenge had been flung. Acceptance was quick. Tho sceptic was asked to name four feminine stars whose facial features he wishes to see duplicated. “Greta Garbo, Mae West, Claudette Colbert and Joan Crawford,” he rattled off in rapid succession. Wo chose four young ladies whose colourings and physical features were as near as possible to those of the stars we wished to imitate. The sceptic still scoffed. “You’ll never do it,” ho chided. His presence dispensed with, we went to work. The comely miss who was to represent Claudette Colbert underwent the first treatment. She winced as her eyebrows were plucked to tho thin, Colbert line. When it came to apply the rouge, we avoided placing any on tho cheekbones, thus capturing the effect of Claudette’s high cheekbones. In the case of all the “doubles-to-be” we knew that tho lip make-up would be easy. It was only necessary to conceal the natural mouth by applying make-up blender to the lips. Then tho desired shape could be drawn in. Well, after deepening the lustre of the eyes with brown eyeshadow and shadowing, ja rather prominent chin with a darker shade of powder, we had an authentic edition of Paramount’s

gift to the cinema, Miss Claudette Colbert. Joan Crawford presented quite a problem. We had to increase the body of the eyebrows by darkening them with a black pencil. An extremely heavy application of black eyelash make-up helped to bring the eyes out into greater relief. After numerous tries, we finally achieved a close enough imitation of the famous Crawford mouth. We found it necessary to reverse our former procedure and highlight the chin with a lighter shade of face powder ... in order to re-create Miss Crawford’s firm, full lower jaw. We were exceptionally lucky in finding a woman who bore a striking resemblance to the great Garbo. Just a bit of work on the lips and the help of a pair of artificial eyelashes brought us remarkably close to the real thing.

BY max FACTOR

HOLLYWOOD MAKE UP GENIUS

After we re-dressed her hair, the impersonation was startling. The hopeful Mae West-to-be had also to submit to a short session of eyebrowtweezing. Most difficult of all to achieve was the enigmatic, half-smiling mouth of the famed blonde siren. After finally succeeding in this endeavour, we decided to do away with any rouge, thus getting the full benefit of tho subject’s round, plump face. When we lined up this array of feminine pulchritude and performed those last little touch-ups on hair, lips and eyebrows, they looked amazingly like a battery of filmdom’s highestpaid stars. The sceptic had a smirk on his face as he re-entered the room. Our tense feelings relaxed in just one moment, howver, as his falling jaw indicated sweet victory.