Screenland (May-Oct 1929)

SCREENLAND 109 Beauty While You Wait Continued from page 73 is down in the water and see how the ache and tiredness will disappear. You are now ready for a short rest. But first, you must prepare your face for a rest. You know about resting your mind and body, but when anyone tells you to rest your face it's a joke or an insult. Yet it's impossible for the muscles of the face to rest unless you release them from tension. While you are cleansing your face and eyes, have a portion of skin food heating. It can be used cold, of course, but if you never have used hot skin food on your face and neck when you are tired, try it. When you feel it seep into the pores of your tired skin you will realize how comforting it is, and it is particularly good for a dry skin. On a stand within reach of your bed place a bowl of ice water containing several pads of cotton, a jar of astringent, a bottle of witch hazel and the hot skin food. Lie down on your bed and quickly apply the skin food, smoothing it well into the face and neck. Pat briskly with the tips of the fingers for a couple of minutes, using both hands. Pat from the base of the neck to the ears, from the chin to the corners of the mouth, to the nose, over the cheeks to the temples, under and around the eyes very gently, across the forehead. Squeeze the pads from the ice water, douse generously with astringent, place one on each cheek, one on the forehead, a big pad on and under the chin and strap on with a face towel. Over each eye place a pad wet with witch hazel. All this can be done in much less time than it takes to write it, particularly if you are careful to have everything at hand for this beautifying and rest period. And remember, if you really are going to 'rest your face' you must shut your mind against every thought of worry or hurry and think rest, peace, sleep — until it actually overtakes you. When your rest period is over, though it is no more than ten or fifteen minutes, you will just naturally begin to feel and look more beautiful. If you don't believe it, look in the mirror. Remove the skin food with tissues or a soft towel and pat the face gently with a wad of cotton wet with astringent. Now take a quick sponge or shower. Rub the body with your favorite soap and shower with warm water. Rub again with sweet scented bath powder and shower with tepid or cold water if you can stand the shock of cold water. Dry briskly with a rough towel and dust with talcum, and you are ready to dress. There is another quick trick of beautify ing which I want to tell you about. It was told me by one of the most beautiful and popular of our screen stars. "Aside from studio make-up," she said, "I use no cosmetics except cleansing cream and a little powder. When I'm unusually tired and want to freshen up for the evening I cleanse my face and use a white-of-egg mask. I simply smooth the egg white over my face and neck, then lie down and relax while it dries. If I can, I drop off to sleep for a few minutes. In about half an hour I remove the mask with cold water, and dust on a little powder. The egg mask tightens the skin, smooths out tiny lines and gives one a fresh rested look." This 'trick' may be included in the quick beauty treatment. Use the skin food as directed, leave on a few minutes, remove with skin tonic, then apply the mask. When you come to the finishing touches you will be surprised to find that even your hair looks better for the rest and falls more softly and gracefully, and when you make up, you will find that you need very little. Just a bit of foundation cream, a dusting of powder — and by the way, here's another little trick I learned from a movie star. It will help to wake your eyes and take away all the appearance of tiredness if you use a darker shade of powder around your eyes, especially under them. Then powder the rest of your face with your usual shade. The darker powder must not be overdone. Make-up of any kind must not be obvious. Finish with a suspicion of rouge, shading naturally into your normal color. Work in with an upward movement. At the edges deftly tone the color down in order to break any conspicuous outline. A skilful touch of rouge low on the chin extending back along the jaw bone will tend to soften the effect and make it inconspicuous. If your lips have a good color, rub a white lipstick over them to make them soft and fresh. If you wish to touch up your lips with a bit of color, apply the red lipstick to the bow of the lips and with a motion to the corners, blend the color until it is not conspicuous. Now then! Would you ever think that the radiant young person who looks out from your mirror is the same weary, dejected creature who came slinking into your room less than an hour ago? Blue looks have given way to blue skies, sourness to sunniness! 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