Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

114 SCREENLAND The Beauty of Daintiness — continued from page 95 There is no more important detail of £,ood-grooming than vibrant, live, shiningly clean hair becomingly worn. It's so easy, too, to have nice hair — scalp massage, daily brushing, a shampoo that suits the individual need — and there you are. Hair never before has cost as much in dollars and cents — but it's worth it. Each head, spun-gold, red-brown or coal black, may demonstrate the beauty of daintiness. And clean faces! You can't be dainty unless your face is clean, and this isn't always such an easy matter, especially in cities. I believe thoroughly in the merits of cleansing cream and I believe also in good old soap and water, intelligently used. The relation of clean faces to per' manent skin beauty is a close one. Study your skin and find out what soap and creams best agree with it. Treat your skin with watchful care and you'll not need to mourn the passing of extreme youth. If you're clever, you can be better looking at thirty, at thirty five, than you ever were before! Well-cared for hands contribute largely to the effect of daintiness. Don't make the mistake of using harsh soaps on the hands, and avoid hard water without a softening agent. Don't let the hands become, or at least remain, stained. Keep a cut lemon at hand to remove any stains that appear. Have hand creams and lotions always within reach. Have one on your dressingtable, one in the bathroom cabinet, and one near the kitchen sink and use it after each washing and drying of the hands. Shape your nails prettily and give them some attention every day. Add to your beauty care each day a brisk walk, good posture, plenty of fresh air and food — and you ought to keep moderately fit. Now don't ask, young brides and older brides, when you are to find time to acquire the effect of daintiness morning, noon and night. You can easily do it if you make your beauty rites a part of the daily routine. Your new home keeps you busy, of course. You thought you were busy before, with business or professional cares, never a minute to call your own. But now — well — what with jumping out of bed early in the morning to let in the ice man and start the coffee and order the groceries, with meals to plan and prepare, shopping to do, and a few social occasions with 'the girls' — you've hardly time to breathe before it's time to slick up your hair, powder your nose and wait for John's return. You don't want to 'slump' or grow unattractive, yet as for spending a lot of time beautifying before retiring — No, girls, you don't. You know a man's beauty habits are comparatively simple. He has had no experience with going to bed encased in cold cream, waving combs and bob caps or wearing gloves to keep hand lotions off the bed linen. He has no understanding of why it's necessary to spend a lot of time in beautifying, particularly just Countess Rina de Liguoro, Italian screen star, demonstrates the beauty of daintiness in smoothness of skin and dazzling perfection of well-kept teeth. Countess de Liguoro lends charm to Cecil B. De Mille's new picture, "Madame Satan." before retiring. He probably expects you to 'prink' before going out just as you did before you were married; but he won't be able to understand why you must begin all over again when you get home! Of course, certain things such as brushing the teeth and cleansing the skin must be done at night. But your real beauty rites may be performed in the morning after your work is done or in the afternoon after your rest period. In fact, you can do your special cold creaming while doing the dishes or taking your bath or reading the paper. Do all your beauty stunts when most convenient, but without publicity. The main thing is, do them. Baths play an important part in the beauty schedule, and what about your bathroom? Is it a place where you love to linger? A place where you can revel in freshness of color, the charm of colored towels, exquisitely colored bath mats, delicately colored cleansing tissues, jars, bottles and containers topped or painted in exotic or pastel colors to suit your fancy? What has all this to do with beauty? A great deal if you are susceptible to color harmonies, as most of us are. Did you ever spend a luxurious hour in a bathroom with green walls and tiles, violet and white checked curtains at the windows, violet and white towels on the racks, a generous supply of violet soap, green bath salts in a violet glass container and violet-scented dusting powder in a green glass bowl with a luscious violet puff? If so, then you know the part that lovely surroundings may play in the beauty of daintiness. When you are ready to bathe, drop a handful of spicy and fragrant bath salts into your tub of warm water. Have a clean wash cloth and a cake of your favorite soap. Today, there is a soap for every skin — olive oil, almond oil, glycerine, oatmeal, lemon, cucumber, c a stile, plain unscentcd soaps if you prefer them, and there are many exquisite scented soaps from which to choose. After the soap and water cleansing rinse with a quick shower or spray, dry well, and dust the body with fragrant powder. Speaking of soap, we are reminded of a unique bath accessory in the form of a goodly sized wooden bowl with a cake of soap that just fits. This is placed in the tub for the length of the bath, then taken out and set aside for next time. This lasts several months, it is said, one thing greatly in its favor — no starting to take a bath and finding at the last minute that we're all out of soap! It is put out by an English firm which specializes in powders and perfumes of quality, and is now bringing out a new cream especially lauded for its protective qualities. An interesting feature is that the design on this jar was copied from a jar discovered in the tomb of an Egyptian Queen, thus revealing woman's vanity 5,000 years ago! If the water in which you bathe is inclined to be hard, use a prepared water softener or a hard water soap. An oldfashioned method of softening water and whitening the skin was to place in the tub a small bag of cheese-cloth filled with oatmeal. A salt bath is tonic, as everybody knows who enjoys salt water bathing. Sea salt may be purchased for this purpose; rubbed vigorously over the body, followed by a shower and a brisk rub with a coarse towel, this bath is a marvelous stimulant in the morning upon rising, or at the end of a tiring day. Our grandmothers knew the soothing quality of starch as a dusting powder and