Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1933)

Finding Your Type in the Stars By Carolyn Van Wyck the benefit of our appearance, but much in the way of the little niceties of life, the fine points that always pave the way for any girl. Then when you see your own star in these pages, try her make-up tricks, her method of caring for her skin or arrangement of her hair. These things may not always be right for you. but often they will. And the difference that a well rouged mouth or well made-up eyes can make in anyone is tremendous. Sit right down at your dressing-table and try. Experiment. See if a bang would be becoming. You need not, of course, cut your hair for this. but simply pull it over the forehead in this manner. Take your hand mirror and study the effect carefully, and then ask a few friends. Or take a black or brown eyebrow crayon and see if a tiny, light extension of the brow does something for you; or try blending your rouge lightly and high up, almost to the eyelid. I do not think there are any standard, set rules for make-up. Every face is a new canvas. All of us, however, are not artists enough to know the correct application of color, line and depth of tone. This is how your star can help you, if you choose a type that is truly yours. She, as a rule, is a finished artist in the art of make-up and hair. It is her business to be. Tf she is not, studio artists teach her the trick, so you can hardly make a mistake. If your star has not been shown recently in this department or if you would like to see more of her, please write to me. and tell me just what phase of her appearance interests you. Then I will try to show her. THE whole purpose of this department, ever since its beginning, has been to bring to our readers true information about all the beauty, glamour and charm that is Hollywood; to try to show, in turn, how it may be accomplished by any girl who is truly interested in herself. But the reader is, none the less, left with a serious problem — that of finding her true star type. It is very hard to know what we actually look like. We grow accustomed to that same image in the mirror, and, then, perhaps no one really sees exactly the same picture in the same person. The matter of personal coloring is not important in trying to pick your type, except as it applies to make-up. The important points to follow, however, are the actual formations of your face — the shape of it, your nose, mouth, eyes — and then, yourself, the real you. If you possess that spirit of world-old sophistication, graphically portrayed by Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, the tricks of Janet Gaynor and Nancy Carroll, the embodiments of youthful loveliness, will not apply, any more than will the ways of poised Ann Harding and Kay Francis fit the Jean Parker or Hetty Furness type of girl. And so — if you are really interested in any special star, first study yourself carefully to be sure that your mentor is the righl one for you. Then if you really want to make the most of yourself, so far as your appearance is concerned, watch her. You will get Splendid ideas from her, particularly when you see her on the screen. There you have a real opportunity to study her, from every an^le, to decide if the back or side view is really as lovely as the front. Watch her figure; the way she walks, rises, sits down. If you apply yourself sincerely to this — and of course 1 mean when the star is in the character of a person you would wish to emulate— she can supply a sort of finishing school for you. We can all learn much, not only for PHIRLEY GREY exhibits a Obeauty kit that is a marvel of efficiency. Aside from its useful contents of cleansing cream, tissue cream, skin lotion, astringent and powder, in combinations for oily or dry skins, it is rubber lined. A slide fastener assures safety. The covering is a modernistic green silk. Very nice for travel u NA MERKEL'S advice on rouging lips. Begin at center and draw to the end of the lip, then fill in. Now bring the upper lip down over the lower for a perfect outline Carolyn Van Wyck is always happy to help you personally with your beauty problems, no matter what their nature. Her interesting new leaflets on hair. skin, make-up, perfumes, and personal daintiness are available on request. Enclose a self -addressed, stamped envelope with your letter — no post cards, please — to her at Photoplay Magazine, 221 West 57th Street. New York City. A GLANCE behind thescenes. Here is Jean Parker being made-up by Mel Berns for her part as Beth in "Little Women." The most perfect face requires make-up— and plenty— for screen