HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SECRETS

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 15

HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SECRETS

by MAX FACTOR, JR.

1 Filmdom’* Foremost Make-up Authority

BRUSHES BRING BEAUTY Brushes and brushing are becoming more and more important as accessories to the modern art of accentuating feminine beaut}'. Small complexion brushes work marvels in cleansing the sometimes roughened skin surfaces of the elbows, tho knes, and tho knuckles. The eyelash brush, quite aside from its value in applying mascara, serves to help stimulate the growth of the lashes and to keep them in place, ringernails Fingernail brushes are invaluable aids in removing the last fragments of dead and unattractive cuticle from the borders of the nails. Long-handled bath brushes serve to condition the skin surfaces of the back which can be reached by no other means. And the powder brush, a comparatively new arrival in the brush ensemble, effectively acts to prevent faco powder from caking, and enables it to bo spread so smoothly that this make-up material will cling to tho face much longer than it would ordinarily. Hair Of course, tho hairbrush, one of the most thoroughly time-tested of all feminine grooming aids, SHOULD be first and foremost in our brush considerations.

Rcgretably, however, ever since tho time bobbed coiffures became the general feminine preference, the use of tho hairbrush has become a greatly neglected procedure —with this neglect often evidencing itself in ft. noticeable lack of hair lustre and lability. Bobbed hair should bo brushed just as thoroughly as were the longer locks of yesteryear, even though this lengthy brushing procedure is no longer an every-morning necessity for snarlremoving purposes. Dorothy Lamour The beneficial results of very thorough. hairbrushings are repeatedly demonstrated by the lustrous tresses of tho ladies I know hero in Hollywood. Dorothy Lamour, one of the very few long-haired screen stars, naturally MUST brush her luxuriant hair regularly and thoroughly to keep it from matting, with a result that the value of this treatment as a hair-conditioner shows in the sheen and softness of her lovely locks. On the other hand, wo have such personages as Barbara Stanwyck and Katherine Hepburn, with their com-

paratively abbreviated tresses. Neither of these ladies are forced, primarily, to brush their hair daily in order to keep 1 it free from entanglement. And yet both Miss Stanwyck and Miss Hepburn spend just as much time brushing their shorter hair as Miss j Lamour docs her more-than-twice-as-long locks. Beauty I mention these two stars, not be--1 cause they are Hollywood’s sole appreciators of the merits of thorough liairbrushings, but because the hair of both Miss Hepburn and Miss Stanwyck is so exceptionally beautiful that their names spring into my thoughts at the mere : mention of coiffures. As a matter of fact, I don’t know even one star here in tho film capital who is not such an appreciator. The choice of tho brush used for tho hair is of utmost importance. Tho bristles should bo firm, but resilient.

r Medium length bristles are generally to > be preferred to extra-long or very short ) ones. But the bristles should not be j thin and sharp at their ends, because l J needlelike bristles can be very injurious s to the scalp. 5 Powder Brushes For those of my readers who are not yet acquainted with the use of the powder brush, let me suggest that the - powder should be dusted over the face -in a liberal quantity, and the brush - should then be lightly drawn across the l skin to remove any powder surplus, and ) j to clear the minutes lines around the i' eyes, mouth and noq§. 3 Regularly employed as a finishing P touch cverytime you apply your makc--3 up, this most modern of brushing i practices will result in the same type of satin-smooth complexion surface that is > so glamorously apparent on the lovely 3 faces of Hollywood’s most alluring . screen stars.