Picture-Play Magazine (1938)

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Anita Louise Watches Her Step 69 For she realizes that she was fortunate in being born with fine, delicate skin, and purely chiseled features, with -oil olden hair and great blue eyes. But she also knows that rom neglect her skin would lose its freshness, her hair its heen, her eyes their luster. So she has worked out a comdete but simple routine of care which she has disclosed in letail for the first time to readers of Picture Play. "A clear skin is a healthy skin — and to keep skin healthy t must be cleansed thou Highly every day, not just on the urface, but deep in the pores," she explained as she sal >efore the satin-draped dressing table of her white-and:each bedroom. "While this is an important rule for ever) woman to folow, it is especially important for an ictress who spends so many hours of very day with heavy make-up clogging ler pores, preventing them from breathng and discharging impurities or aborbing the health-giving rays of the sun. "Therefore, I have worked out two eparate cleansing routines — one for the norning, to cleanse and protect my skin hrough the day, the other for night. to leanse and nourish my skin before reiring. "M\ morning routine begins with a horough cleansing with one application if cream, which I massage gently into he pores, and then remove with tissues. "Next I go over my face with a rough rash-cloth dipped in warm but not hot later. This is to remove any surplus ream that the tissues may have skipped, nd is also to stimulate circulation, as I lo quite a bit of firm but gentle rubbing >ith the rough cloth. "1 follow this by patting mi a mild astringent or skin tonic and after this dries, I use a Inundation of the emulsion type, before applying make-up. I find that this foun dation protects m\ skin from m\ make-up, preventing the rouge and powder from seeping into my pores to cause I >Ii -in i-ln — ami iiiiiaiii.n-. ami it serves a a shield From dust and dirt as well. "For make-up I use powder and a liny bit of rouge, no <\c shadow (hiring the day, but a bit of blue shadow smoothed on my lid for evening, ami I use black mascara, of course, and Int. of creamy red lipstick. "My evening cleansing routine is a far more intense and thorough one. and begins with three applications of cleans ***** * ing cream. For alter a day of either work or play, [here's so much dust and dirt, as well as make-up whether of the street or screen variety — collected on m\ face, that one (learning doesn't begin to remove it all. Therefore I apph m\ cleansing cream — it's one especially blended for me — work it carefully into m\ pores, and remove with tissues not once, but three times. "Next I saturate a small piece of cotton w ith a deeppore cleanser and wipe away any surplus (ream that may remain. And you ma) be sure that b) ihi time my skin is as clean as that of a newborn baby. "But all of this cleansing has (Continued on page77)