Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1938)

Photoplay's Own Beauty Shop (Continued from page 10) too artificial to blend with a natural appearance." So now I'm letting my eyebrows grow in, too — I can take a hint. If your eyebrows are too light, though, don't make the mistake of using a dark pencil down the middle of them to make them more obvious. Try this instead: use a brown mascara on the light hairs and extend the brows lightly at the ends with the brown pencil. Keep the mascara brush barely damp, so the mascara doesn't cake on your brows. If you're plucking out the stray hairs, be sure to pull them in the direction in which the hair grows, and use witch hazel, or an antiseptic, on your brows afterwards so they won't grow red or swollen. If you're dissatisfied with the shape of your brows but aren't quite sure how to experiment with them, try covering them up with grease paint or a very heavy foundation cream and then draw in new outlines with your pencil until you find just the right outline to frame your eyes and add to the symmetry of your features. After Loretta, at the director's call, had sauntered gracefully away, I plodded wearily back through the sand thinking that it's easier to look delicate and fragile if you have Loretta's naturally fair skin and blue eyes, but suppose you're a decided brunette with olive skin, dark eyes and blue-black hair. What do you do then? I THOUGHT of Gale Page, one of Warner Brothers' newly made stars, who's a lovely, definite brunette, and went over to see her. "What are you going to do this fall?" I asked her. "That's a very fine tan you have now, but you can't look so extremely glowing and healthy when you're wearing a romantic type of gown. So tell all." "I know," Gale admitted ruefully. "Here I take such a swell tan that it's practically impossible to avoid it during the summer — even if I wanted to. which I don't. But now I'm bleaching out. So I'm having softening and bleaching creams smoothed into my back and shoulders as well as my face. And see my hands? I saturate them with a good rich cream before I go to bed at night and then I sleep in a pair of white cotton gloves. I feel like a mammy singer, but it softens and bleaches your hands and it's fine for the nails, too." An eye-wrinkle or emollient cream is good to pat into your lids and the area around your eyes at night also, to counteract the drying effect of the sun and to soften and lubricate the tissues. "I'm right in the midst of changing my make-up, too," Gale sighed wistfully. "All summer I've been using sun-tan powder, and just a faint touch of rouge that has sort of an orange cast to it, and a flame color lipstick to show off the tan. But now — that all has to be changed — I have to look pale and romantic." "And how are you going to do it?" I asked avidly, settling myself to hear all details on how to look as though you could go into a graceful feminine swoon at any moment. "Well, you see, I can't go in for that pink and white make-up that blondes or girls with fair skins can use with such great effect, because even at my palest I'm pretty dark. So in the daytime I use an olive powder and no rouge at all because somehow that makes you look paler. My lipstick is still vivid to accent the pallor but it doesn't have so much orange in it as when I'm more tanned in the summer. And then a touch of grey eyeshadow to finish up." This last tidbit is a very good tip for you glowing brunettes, because Gale feels that a brown eyeshadow doesn't give her the same effect that the grey does. If you have an olive skin and black eyes, try the grey, too, and see if it isn't more flattering than brown. AT night when Gale goes out to a formal affair, she goes in for more sophistication than during the daytime. If you're blonde and delicate, a truly romantic gown will make you look like a dream, but if you're dark and more of the sophisticated type, accent your sophistication and don't go in for the naive effects that do so much for a blonde. Unless, of course, you're the type that can have the contrast of a sophisticated face and a dress that is incredibly naive and girlish. If you can get away with it. you'll be a huge success— but. I warn you, it's none too easy. Gale has found that a powder with a mauve tone gives her skin pallor and translucency at night under electric lights. "The rest of your make-up has to have sort of a bluish cast too, though." she explained, "so my rouge is a purplish pink, rather like cyclamen. I put it high on my cheekbones to bring them out. and you'd be surprised at the exotic effect I can get that way. And naturally my lipstick is exactly the same shade as the rouge. A deep mauve eyeshadow is the glamour touch, too." At night. Gale smooths the shadow into her lids all the way up to her brows. It's heavier near her lashes, of course, and then is shaded away to her brows. This is very glamorous under electric lights, but it's too artificial for daytime wear, so. during the day. Gale uses the grey shadow just on her lids. A faint line drawn very close to her lashes, both upper and lower, thus outlining her eyes, is also a fine trick for evening but too theatrical and harsh looking for daytime. And then, to frame the whole effect. Gale has her hair rolled up off her face to get that brand-new old-fashioned appearance that's so smart for fall. So you see, by following these girls' tips, it's easy enough to look glamorous and romantic, even though you're just recovering from a healthy strenuous summer. As for me. I plodded wearily back to my office thinking small thoughts about the vicious circle of this beauty-seeking and romance-searching occupation of ours which demands the ridingbreeches and steak for dinner approach one year, and the lavender-andold-lace-camisole setup the next. Anyway, fade out your complexion first before you fade into glamour. The smooth loveliness of Loretta's shoulders made me hunt to find the perfect exercise to develop and round out your shoulders so you'll look equally romantic in your new evening gowns. I've found it, and if you write me I'll be very glad to mail it on to you. Be sure, though, to enclose a stamped, selfaddressed envelope. Write to Carolyn Van Wyck, Photoplay Magazine, 7751 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California. MODELS PREFER NAIL ENAMEL It wears better. It's more flattering. Its shades are so right, fashionably. And since I've been using it, my nails are in grand condition all the time. So — naturally I prefer Revlon. Who wouldn't?" 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