HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY /ECRET/

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 13

HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY /ECRET/

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HOLIYWOOD MAKf UP GENIUS

WINNING HANDS Hollywood hands are the most. beautiful in the world. Their grooming and adorament is a careful study, and an economic and artistic success. Hands are given the spotlight, they are featured hy close-ups, and are one of the greatest assets to b'e had in acting. ' Kfitherine Hephurn is an accomplished artist when it comes to handling hands. Billie Burke impresses her public as a gesture genius with the clever manipulation of her beautiful hands. Probably the most striking innovation in fingernail decoration is the new 3937 streamlined effect. It is especially adaptable to summer clothes and makeup, since'it is achieved by the skillful use of dark shades of nail enamel. It you would go Hollywood to your fingertips/ seleet one of ' these vivid, red eolours and then paint the entire nail, after manicnring, except for a smooth even. strip down the centre of the nail, about a sixteenth of an inch wide. This style adds length to the hands, and adds to the effect of 100 per cent. perfect manicuring. ( Fingernails are long in Hollywood, and wandering from set to set, one i3 struck with the new artistic line to hands that seem to be jewelled with ,long streamlined nails. With the sport clothes, and street clothes, with bright. patches of colour that are in vogue in the film capitol now, this style of fingernails is especially appropriate.

But fingernails must chango with costumes. Soft pastels, in negligees, evening and afternoon clothes do no,; make a good backgrouud for glittering, strc-amlined fingernails,

The shape of the nail does not change, ' but the colour must. Rose or coral nails hlend iu beautifully with the softer shades of clothes. The matter of good taste in nail decoration has been for sometime a subject for animated argument, "hoth in Hollywood and elsewhere. Bright colours were frowned upon as beiug conspicuous at first, but now nails have become just one more means of expressing miladv's individuality. DreSs and make-up no longer follow tradition or conventlon. Each. woman dresses and . makes up to suit her own personality. There is one case in whieli briglit ' nails are very distasteful. That is when the hands are not smooth, soft anti well manicured. A good manicure cousists of more than painting the fingertips. Hands must be immaculate, to begin with. ■ And if they aro roughcned or red, they sliould be started o£c with a vigorous rcmtins of tissus ei'eam and

cotton gloves for a few niglits. Then they can be kept in condition by i'requent applications of hand lotion. A good manicure can be had at home, if you use professional tactics. Don't tr-y to get along without the little bowl of soapy rvater that the manicurist uses, nor the snub-nosed scissors that she wields. Study the contour of your hands before you shape your nails, • and be sure that it is done accordingly. Your rings sliould also be chosen to blend with your Gostume and your nail, enamel, and to flatter the contour of your hand. The details of hand beautification are as important as thoso of your face. You use your hands to gesture, in everything you do, but you are less conscious of the oonspicuousness of yotir hands than of your faee. Milady holds her romance in tne palni of hcr hand, but romance, especially when it is now, is a very fragile bubble, and rough, ugiy hands are very iikoly, t« shntUr ife - _J