Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

Eft BOTTLE THAT "R-£-T-c-H^-s tilla Lotion costs so little . . . and meets so many beauty needs with a few drops at a time . . . that it stretches your beauty lotion allowance w-a-y o-u-t! 60-year favorite for chapped, red, roughened hands, elbows, faces ... is perfect for all dry skin. Try Frostilla as a protective powder-base and after a depilatory. There are many household and beauty uses. Buy a new bottle; read the accompanying leaflet! *Don't be "switched" when you ask for Frostilla. 3 5c, 50c, $1 sizes at druggists. 10c bottle at 5 & 10c stores. (Harold F. Ritchie . &Co.,Irtc.,N. Y. C, Sales Reps.) FROSTILLA LOTION inexpensive — for lovely skin! H AV E you a sensitive sense of smell? That will tell you the difference between Kwik and varnishtype nail polishes. Kwik has a delightful fragrance and its brilliant gloss lasts for days . . . even office or housework will not dull it. Large purse sizes at 5 and 10= .tee,. NAIL POLISH IO* EACH Ruby Natural Colorless Vivid Liquid Polish Remover Cuticle Remover Liquid Nail White KWIK COSMETIC CORP. NEW YORK you CAN have a nice Complexion— AND QUICKLY'. ir It's easy to have a finetextured, beautiful skin. El Estado Lemon Creme cleanses deeply, naturally. Makes skin remarkably clear, radiant. Use over freckles, sunburn, windburn. 'ihousands of women use it exclusively. On sale at toilet goods counters. Buy smaller size at your ten cent store or send 10c direct. * EL E/TADO LEMON CLEANSING CREME 206 Alpha Building Seattle, Washington ON SALE AT TEN CENT STORES Modern Screen onions from hands which have been preparing the family dinner. It has a mild bleaching effect, in case your hands became slightly freckled last summer. If you want to know about it, write and ask me. Now, the manicure. Whether to go to a beauty parlor and have it done for you, or whether to save money and do it yourself — that is the question. I do both. Once every two weeks, I have my nails done. I give them a complementary manicure myself every week and a little attention every day. But if you have the time and wish to save that amount of money you can easily learn to take care of your nails entirely yourself. Let's take the subject up right from the beginning. File before soaking. That is the first rule. Use a nice, long, bendy file. Use it underneath the nail — not directly on the edge. Later you will smooth off with an emery board the "nail dust," but for the moment you merely want to s'hape your nails properly. Old liquid polish should, of course, be removed before filing. And after filing the hands and nails should be scrubbed with a little brush in warm, soapy water. Now start to work on the cuticle — and be prepared to spend at least half an hour on this part of the manicure. It's the most important part. If you will faithfully use a cuticle softener every night, you won't have much trouble. You'll just have to push around the base of the nail with an orange stick wrapped in cotton and dipped in cuticle remover. Bits of dead skin will rub away, deepening and beautifying those pretty half-moons which make or mar the manicure. But' if your cuticle is rough and ill cared for, give it a thorough massage with cuticle remover — take plenty of time, mind — and then cut the dead skin away neatly and not too close with a pair of manicure scissors. (And, by the way, you can't economize on these scissors. You should pay a dollar seventy-five or two dollars for a pair of really good scissors and they'll repay you amply in wear and service.) Try "to discontinue the use of the scissors for trimming the entire cuticle, however. Keep them on hand for merely trimming the tiny bits of dead skin that will appear now and then on the best-groomed nails. WHEN you have done a really good job on this important part of the manicure, you can proceed to polish vour nails with any sort of polish you prefer — light, medium, or bright starlet— I don't care. I will not offer any advice about the color of the polish, as I have offered none about the shape ^ ou file your nails — oval, gothic or very jvinted. But I really must point out that extremely long, extremely pointed, red-enamelled nails do not belong in an office, or a classroom, or a kitchen or nursery or whatnot. Nor . even at _ a simple little home town social affair. They belong to the very sophisticated, to city night clubs and dazzling society. They look well on a woman of the exotic' type if she is wearing evening clothes or a striking afternoon costume. But why in the world little Mary Smith, who is secretary to the vicepresident of the local department store, will persist in using bright red polish, I can't understand. It doesn't belong with her youthful prettiness and her simple clothes. Her boss (if he happens to notice) wishes "that nice little secretary of mine wouldn't put that red stuff on her nails." Her boy friend probably doesn't like it. I have found that, in addition to the above rules and hints, a five-minute soaking in warm olive oil once or twice a week will make brittle nails strong and lustrous. That a massage of the hands with a good, rich cold cream — smoothing the cream in as if you were pulling on an imaginary pair of gloves — will slightly taper thick fingers and improve the contour of the hand a little. Any sort of manual exercise — like playing the piano or running a typewriter— makes fingers supple and quick. If you are troubled with red hands — a redness not due to roughness or exposure to the elements — you can tie a silk or linen band rather tightly around your arm just above the elbow and leave it there for ten minutes, holding the hands up all the time. Such redness is often due to nervousness or impaired circulation and a little care and thought will get rid of it. Wringing -the hands, bending the fingers of one back with the palm of the other, flapping them loosely from the wrists — all these simple exercises are grand for relaxation and to ward off that old, veiny look which some young hands get. Never make the mistake of wearing too tight gloves in the belief that they will make your hands look smaller. The fleshy part of the hands will merely bulge in the glove and, further, tight gloves impede the circulation. Form the habit this winter — if you have especially sensitive hands — of wearing a pair of loose white chamoisette gloves to bed, first buttering the hands well with cold cream. Now, that's practically all the space I have. But I want to remind you once again — as I did last month — of the mimeographed treatments, the diet and the exercises which I have had mimeographed : a treatment for blackheads and a treatment for the removal of superfluous hair ; an eight-day diet which can be followed indefinitely ; exercises for reducing the hips, abdomen, bust and legs. And< there are also the names of certain products in which I have great faith: a cuticle softener and remover which will do the things I've just been talking about above; a product which will effectively cover burn scars, pock marks or acne pits ; a whole half dozen new preparations and improvements on old preparations for the eyes, including an honest-togoodness painless tweezer and a pocket "mascara toucher-upper" which requires no brush. There is also a reasonably priced facial mask which you can use at home yourself easily and efficiently. It tightens up relaxing muscles and, even if your muscles aren't relaxed and you have no wrinkles, it's never too early to begin. If you want to know about one or more of these things, just drop me a note. 90