Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1925 - Feb 1926)

98 Where Do the Stars Buy Beauty? Continued from page 27 You feel that you'd rather die than have that stuff on your face any longer. You're told that it is good for you, that it increases your circulation, makes the skin active, tautens up relaxed muscles, closes enlarged ] lores — and you helieve all that, for you can feel the blood rushing from the very tips of your toes into your face. In the mirror you can see that your skin is beginning to redden beneath its brown coat. When you feel that you'll commit murder or suicide in another moment, the brown stuff is removed with pads of cotton dipped in a soothing oil. Your face is still red, it still burns a little. The oil is left on for a while, then is rubbed off, and a skin food is rubbed in. Your skin absorbs that greedily. A little later, when that comes off, you want to turn handsprings just for joy. The little, fine wrinkles that you may have had, have vanished. Your skin is soft and velvety as a baby's. You feel as if the woman at whose shop those treatments are given ought to go out on the street with a parody of Aladdin's cry, shouting, "New faces for old !" I know one very beautiful girl, a famous movie actress, who uses this treatment every morning when she is working, because it makes her skin photograph so well, and makes her eyes look so bright. She buys jars of the brown ointment and bottles of the oil, and puts it on herself. To Have Beautiful Hair. I took in the various hair specialists, too, in mv adventures in quest of beauty culture. To a motion-picture star it is most important that the hair be in good condition, so that it will photograph well. And there are several excellent systems of caring for the hair. Alma Rubens, whose black hair is remarkably beautiful, used to apply hot olive oil to it before it was shampooed. The best way to do this is to part the hair and rub the hot oil on with a pad of absorbent cotton, then part it again and repeat the procedure. Afterward, the hair should have the oil rubbed on each strand. Cocoanut oil is used .by several of the specialists, and is applied in the same way. You can buy a jar of it for a quarter, and use it twice a month ; the hair should be shampooed each week, or every ten days, at the longest. A beauty treatment for the hair that brings sure results consists of the use of iodine. It is applied to the scalp with a small brush, each day until the old skin of the scalp has all scaled off. Pure soap makes an excellent shampoo, and if you want to wash your hair in the most approved method, get a small sponge, and when you begin to wash your hair, dip the sponge in very hot water, rub it hard on the soap, and then on to your scalp. Part the hair and go all over the scalp in this way, then apply the soap to the hair. Massaging the scalp with the finger tips is a good practice, one that should be indulged in for a few moments every night. When you are caring for your hair, don't forget your eyebrows and lashes. The brows especially need attention, for powder gets into them, and they lose the lustrous look that is so essential if they are tto add to your beauty. Hot vaseline is good for both lashes and brows ; the brows can be washed in hot soap suds first, so that they are thoroughly clean. Apply the heated vaseline with an eyebrow brush, to the brows, and with your finger tip to the lashes. Leave it on overnight if you can ; if you're just dressing for a party, take it off after a few moments. Remember this, if you go in for caring for your looks: it isn't just what you do to your skin in the morning, or when you're dressing in the evening, that counts ; the skin that is not properly cleansed and cared for each night may look well when you finish powdering and rouging it, but after a little while it will look gray and dull. The girl who looks as nice when she goes home from a party as when she arrives is the one who devotes at least five minutes every night before she goes to bed to caring for the skin of her face and neck. , She may vary it ; may use a skin food one night and a bleaching cream the next, may wash with soap and water occasionally, and use cleansing cream at other times. But she sees to it that her skin is clean, and well nourished, every night. Don't neglect your complexion, no matter how tired you are. That one night of neglect will show for days afterward. It's really a small pri ce to pay for beauty, five minutes a day! You Can't Ignore Her Continued from page 47 business, but I think it is more a desire to keep a firm hold on the few other interests for which she has time. Clothes engage her passing interest, motoring she loves, and Waley's translation of poems from the Chinese is the book with which she whiles away waiting hours at the studio. But her real interest is in homes. At the moment, she is going around studying the little country places her friends have bought, trying to decide on a locality that would be near enough to the studio for commuting, and yet would give her the surroundings she desires. There must be a little rambling cottage with lots of flowers that look as though they had been growing there for years ; there must be quiet and solitude — and a cow and chickens. Carol is adamant about the cow and chickens. Accord ing to her, no home is complete without them. If you saw Carol, you would carry away just one impression — that of unmarred beauty. Her features are beautifully delicate, her hair wavy and dark red. Her brown eyes are thoroughly alert and untired, and about her delicate, mobile mouth there hovers a smile. Life has been good to her, and she is enjoying every minute of it. A Fan Returns to Movieland Continued from page 53 much. I haven't many friends here and I'm generally with older people. I have relations here — my grandmother and mother are mostly with me, so I spend my time with them. I get a lot of pleasure out of making a picture, so I hope the movie fans get as much enjoyment out of seeing them." Which we do, I'm certain. Little Miss Bronson is fortunate in having what we girls call a "line" all her own. Neither does she look like, or fit into the type of, any other movie favorite. Creating her own niche, and original in her style of acting, she furnishes the "something new" we fans are always wanting. But I wonder if we should be able to get all our fun out of just playing in pictures, as Betty does? It isn't everybody could be a Betty Bronson, you know.