HOLLYWOOD Beauty SECRETS

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 2

HOLLYWOOD Beauty SECRETS

by MAX FACTOR, JR.

FAMOUS MAKE-UP ADVISOR TO TKE SCREEN STARS

•‘MAKING FACES” •‘Making faces” is a childish habit, and one waich obviously doesn't even make children any prettier. The same habit, carried over into adult womanhood, can make you look old. The adult face-making to which I am referring is the kind caused by squinting, frowning, twisting the mouth askew, or any other such lace-distort-ing habits. Practically all of these practices, if pursued long enough, will tend to make you look older than you actually are. Oniooking Eyes This is due to the iact that such feature contortions can, eventually establish premature wrinkles. And wrinkles, jn the minds of onlookers, almost automatically denote the passing of years, even though in many instances these crevice patterns in the skin may result from an entirely different cause. Even if you can’t concern yourself with the far-distant possibilities of shell mannerisms eventually briugiug wrinkles, you should consider their immediate effect upon beauty and glam- ♦ • our. Irene Dunne Suppose, for instance, that you saw a motion picture drama in which bcauti- „ ful Irene Dunne's countenance always ~ -«preaeafed a deep frown; one in which lovely Lucille Ball was constantly bit iog her lower lip; or one in which -Alyrna I.oy went through every seeue with sqinting eyes or a wrinkled nose. The effect would be neither lovely nor glamorous. Such glamour-conscious ladies as then, see to it that such detractions from facial beauty never habitual ly mar their countenaneees, either on or off screen. Breaking such habits isn’t difficult, and my advice to readers who may be concerned is to take steps to do so immediately. A little concentration and will power is all that is necessary. . You squinting, locate the cause. Such manipulation of the muscles iu the eye and forehead areas may come from lack ot needed glasses, or improper lighting while you read or work. Or they might be purely nervous habits, traceable to no obvious source. But, regardless to the cause, by nl! means remedy the matter. Deep fore- j head and eye-area wrinkles can result in the future otherwise. And don’t forget j that squints ot frowns aren’t attractive J

even before they have managed t o bring on wrinkles. Wrinkling the nose, contorting the mouth, biting the lips—all of these can unduly stretch the muscles of these areas of action, and finally result in muscle sag und wrinkles in the locale* concerned. Red Teeth It shouldn’t be forgotten, incidentally, that lip-biting, quite aside from the face-contorting perils which it offers, can also result iu unattractive breaks in the skin, ffawing of the lip-stick pattern and rouge staining of the teeth. Even cupping your chin in the palm of vour hand as you rest or read is a wrinkle-risky procedure, and the action 'of this form of feature distortion is one which can be easily displayed and checked up on by yourself. Action Try cupping your chin while looking

into your dressing table mirror with your elbow established on the top of this table. The following is the action which you may then observe. Your chin will become visibly pushed out of line. The jaw muscles will become tautly stretched on one side, and loosely slack on the other. Your mouth will be noticeably pulled out of shape. Wrinklo-Etchings If, alter you have mirror-checked this chin-cupping habit, you don’t exert yourself slightly and break yourself of this face-contorting practice, I suggest that you try to remember to conduct the same sort of a looking-glass inspection some two or three years from now. At that time all of the mentioned features will probably bo wrinkle-etch ed to a noticeable degree.