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

The three pictures of Frances Dee above show, by means of.the little arrows, the proper way to apply cold cream and massage the face. First, follow the arrows up and out from the point of the chin. Second, smooth the cream with the palms of your hands upward and outward over the cheeks from the nose. Lift the facial muscles when you do this and alternate the lifting with brisk, light pats. Third, follow the arrows around the eyes. The skin is sensitive here and so are the membranes under the skin, so go lightly. Gentle massage along those arrows between the brows helps wrinkles. consistency. Apply it to the face after cleansing and leave it on until it begins to flake. Rinse away with warm water. And here's another simple — but superficial — remedy : get some powdered pumice from the drug store and a bottle of peroxide. Dip your finger in the peroxide and while it's still wet, dip it in the pumice. Scour the blackheads with this. Remember, I said it's a superficial remedy and so it is. But if you want to clear up your skin in a hurry for an evening date, bet \] ter do this than resort to fran 2 tic squeezing without the proper treatment before and afterwards. 4* 5. OILINESS will disappear 6. as the pores are closed. 7 In the meantime, the oily skin g should, if possible, be treated with a powder base that is thin, ^' shine-removing and slightly 10. medicinal. No cream powder bases for oily skins. Pimples — another pet oily skin evil — may have resulted from infected blackheads or from the wrong sort of food. Sweets, starches and fats should be eliminated from shiney-faced people's diets. Pimples should be removed from the face in the same way that blackheads are removed and the spot afterwards touched with alcohol dusted with boracic powder, or anointed with an acne remedy. Now the dry skin troubles. Dry skin usually looks prettier than oily skin— but it ages much faster. There's always something ! Many girls with dry skin claim that they simply cannot wash with soap and water. They feel "all drawn up." And' while I am a firm believer in the use of soap and water on the face — in conjunction with cleansing cream — I have finally come to accept the statement of these young ladies and say, "Well, all right. But be sure to use a mild, slightly stimulating tonic after the cream or you'll be stretching your skin or growing sup6rfluous hair or something." If the dry skin can stand a preliminary cleansing with a bland soap and warm water, 34 so much the better, I think. If not every day, then two or three times a week. Otherwise, the tonic. And regularly— about every other night, say — there should be an application of tissue cream for the dry skinned girl over twenty. Norma Shearer, whose skin is apt to be dry, uses a rich, gooey feeding cream to keep it supple. That's really all there is to the treatment for dry skin until the years advance and wrinkles appear. Then there's muscle oil. IT'S about time I was getting on to the second commandment. Here it is: Guard the beauty of your eyes! You say your eyes are not beautiful ? Nonsense! Or if they're not now, they can be. Shape and size and color and long lashes aren't the only things that make eyes beautiful. Expression makes them lovely and vitality makes them sparkle. Intelligence makes them interesting and — but there, I'm just raving and not telling you anything. There are three things necessary to eye-beauty: rest, exercise,. and grooming. It's a fallacy to believe that constant use of the eyes weakens them. On the contrary. Just as exercise strengthens other muscles. But there must be a good light coming over the left shoulder. And there must be periods of rest in between the periods of work. I don't mean sleep — although, of course, that's of major importance. I mean that you should take your eyes off your work every once in a while and look at something else. Preferably something nice, like a pretty picture or a green tree. Or close the eyes. And remember to blink the eyes frequently, while you're reading or sewing. And exercise them by rolling them in a complete circle in their sockets. Look up as high as you can without tilting your head and down as far as you can without bending it. Close the eyes and try to "see black." And bathe them with a weak solution of boric acid — or a storebought eye wash. Relax them (Continued on page 112) Make and keep your skin beautiful! Guard the beauty of your eyes! Glorify your hair! Keep your hands young and lovely! Take care of your feet! Work hard for a beautiful figure! Study your own color scheme! Be sensible about your make-up! Use perfume— and in the right way! Take baths for beauty!