HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SECRETS

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 37, 24 February 1939, Page 19

HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SECRETS

By

MAX

FACTOR

Jun.

® Brushes and. brushing are becoming more and more important as accessories to the modern art of accentuating feminine beauty. @ Smail complexion drushes work marvels in cleansing the sometimes roughened skin surfaecs of the elbows, the knees, and the knuckles. @ The eyelash brush, quite aside from its value in applyimg mascara, serves to help stimulate the growth of the lashes and to keep them in place. 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 ensembie, effectively acts to prevent face powder from caking, and enables it to be spread so smoothly. that this make-up material will cling to the face much longer than it would ordinarily.

Of course, the hairbrush, one of the most thoroughly timetested of alf feminine grooming aids, should be first and fore. most in our brush considera. tions. Regrettably, however, ever since the time bobbed coiffures became the general feminine preference, the .use of the hairbrush has become a gsreatly-neglecteéd procedure-with this neglect often evidencing itself in a noticeable lack of hair lustre and pliability. — Bobbed hair should be brushed just as thoroughly’ as were the longer locks of yesteryear, even theugh this lengthy brushing procedure is no longer an _ everymorning necessity for snarl-remov-ing purposes. : Dorothy Lamour HE beneficial results of very thorough hairbrushings are repeatedly demonstrated by the lustrous tresses of the ladies I know here 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-eonditioner shows in the sheen and softness of her lovely locks,

On the other hand, we have suck personages as Sarbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn, with their comparatively abbreviated tresses. Neither of these fadies is forced, primarily, to brush her hair daily in order to keep it free from entanglement. And yet both Miss Stanwyck and Miss Hepburn spend just as much time brushing their shorter hair as Miss Lamour does her more-than-twice-as-long locks.

Beau MENTION these two stars, not because they are Hollywood’s sole appreciators of the merits of thorough hairbrushings, but because the hair of both Miss Hepburn and Miss Stanwyck is so exceptionally heautiful 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 the film capital who is not such an appreciator. The choice of the brush used for the hair is of utmost importance. The bristles should be firm, but resilient. Medium-length bristles are generally to be preferred to extra-long or very short ones. But the bristles should not be thin and sharp at their ends, because needle-like bristles can be very injurious to the sealp. | _.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 skin to remove any powder surplus, and to clear the minute lines around the eyes, mouth, and nose. Regularly employed as a finishing touch every time you apply your make-up, this most modern of brushing practices will result in the same type of satin-smooth complexion surface that is so glamorously apparent on the lovely faces of Hollywood’s most alluring screen stars.