Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)

has dried for a more brilliant lustre, more protection against wear. If you are a very busy girl— and I expect you are — then choose a color that goes well with your skin, your lipstick and your costumes. You won't have time for too frequent change, though this is a good idea if you do have the time. The brilliant, true reds are generally good for everyone. Darker tones are in the fashion picture, some with a deep note of plum, some with a warm, henna note. The plum note goes beautifully with plum, wine, black, white, green, and blue and gray. The henna note is smart with beige, the whole family of browns, greens and some of the blues,' as well as black or white. Never, however, make the error of decidedly deep nails and a pale lipstick, or vice versa. Try to keep the two somewhat in harmony. Recently, I had a fascinating hour with Juliette. She is the lady of the unbelievably long nails — three and a half to tour inches and who has made a career of letting her nails grow to extreme length for the testing of nail products. I went with some misgivings. The idea did not appeal to me. But I had a welcome surprise. She has a delightful personality, and has several times grown nails to this astounding length to prove that nails with care will grow 1 For almost a year now she has been testing for a prominent company a new product designed, among other _ welcome purposes, to protect nails and their "growing power." Every nail was intact except one. The end of this one was blown off by a firecracker the Fourth of July, but Juliette's hand was not injured. A manicure with this amount of nail takes half a day and requires a full bottle of polish. Juliette was soon to have a normal manicure again, and she says when this happens, she cries. "It's like losing your long hair the first time.' Juliette uses her hands beautifully, because she must be careful of her nails. I had wondered about shaking hands on my way to her hotel. Somehow, she slips her hand into yours for a warm greeting, and you do not notice the nails. Later she looked at my own. "Strong and healthy," she said. "But you shape them too closely at the sides." We talked about the nailbiters — usually young girls, and her advice is to give the biter a beautiful professional manicure with smart, bright polish, even if she is young. Vanity is aroused, the biter will try her darndest to stop. Then, if she absent-mindedly raises fingers to lips, the bright red will react like a traffic light and cause her to stop. This plan is well worth trying and works in most cases. Juliette, of course, cannot wear ordinary gloves in cold weather, so she resorts to the convenient and smart large muffs. This nail-growing career of Juliette's came about in a strange way. As a girl, she had tiny nails that would not grow. She detested them and experimented with this and that. Thus she came to the attention of laboratory chemists and now is tops in the nailgrowing business. She says the reactions of women are varied. Some scream when they see her nails; others won't believe they are her own and investigate them tho'roughly, but only a few wish they had them. Of course, Juliette has had to learn to do things quite differently in extreme stages of growth. For instance, she applies face cream with the knuckles instead of fingers. Juliette is an unsual and personally an animated and very attractive example of how the claims of many products in the beauty field are proved in this day. The product' that Juliette has been proving is a clear liquid that enables polish to dry twice as fast; it also makes the polish set one-third faster. Juliette is certainly a dramatic example of what a protective base can do for long, strong nails. Yours for Loveliness A wave of redecorating spreads to beauty — beauty designed to redecorate you A PRIZE-WINNING face powder, to my way of thinking, — Lady Esther's — recently appeared in a kind of prize-size box. It's between the small and the large ; it costs 25^, is big enough to permit a generous swoosh of your puff, but not too big to carry with you or to clutter up a drawer. It's perfect for the business desk hide-away, and comes in the sweet fan box in pastels. And the powder is tops ! TOUSHAY LOTION is newer than new! Not I only is it just making its bow to the public, but here is a lotion that upsets lotion traditions. You apply it before you put your hands in water, do your dusting, put the rose bushes to bed for the "Winter or other miscellany in feminine chores. It does not seem to wash off the skin, except with real scrubbing, so you can imagine the true protection and softening it offers. It has a delicate, pleasing scent, is a warm skin tone, and attractivelv bottled. It makes a splendid body rub; will soften knees, ankles, elbows. It is really something ! POND'S presents three fine products in the new Dreamflower packages, powder, freshener and Danya hand lotion. The powder is brand new in texture and tone, and is softer, smoother and more clinging. The other two products, however, are not changed. In powder, there is a little box, a middlesize and a big one, and the six tones are all designed to give more warmth to skin and are simply named so that you may easily recognize them. The freshener should follow the use of cold cream to give that final and complete sparklingly clean feeling. And Danya is an excellent softening lotion. A BATH of bubbles for body beauty! Troubles and bubbles are good companions, for there is nothing like a nice, warm tub Blanketed with snowy bubbles to wash away the blues and make vou feel like a million again. Bath of Bubbles by Djer-Kiss is a wonderful bromide for the worries of the day, and a real beautifier of body skin. The elegant container holds tubfuls of bubbles, rich with the sweet, persuasive, unforgettable fragrance of Djer-Kiss. It seems to me that this is a good thought for Christmas giving. Not every girl will get a little Nylon stocking full of bath bubbles! I OVERS of that Early American Old Spice I— scent will be glad to know that a fine face pow^der is now available. The powder was designed expressly for "American character beauty," is"exceedindy light and transparent in texture and comes in five flattering tones. Pictured, is the large, deluxe package, looking like a quaint, oldfashioned chest, with the traditional little Early American ladv. The powder is redolent of that pervasive Old' Spice fragrance, and the box will add to the decor of any Early American dressingtable. It is something, too, for the hard-to-please. AND more new packages from Coty ! From time to time, Coty has redone completely its various scent ensembles. Now it is L'Origan's turn. We have sketched the dusting powder and the "informal fragrance" (toilet water), just to give you an idea. The colors are ivory, flame and rosy gold with gold butterflies and lacey leaves. Truly beautiful, and complimenting the fine products and precious L'Origan scent within There are eight sdamor aids in this "family." and they've been tempting me from practically all the beauty counters these last weeks. Advance gift tip! C. M. AV\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ VXXNX^ 55