Silver Screen (Nov 1930-Oct 1931)

HAIR Your Finest Accessory You can change not only your appearance hut your whole personality if you learn to wear your hair correctly. Marguerite Churchill believes that a girl who casts a few reflections on herself soon gets wise to her own beauty B 7 M a r y L e e To BE original, you must always be a little bit daring — and when you are a little bit daring you are always a personality. Which large sentence, believe it or not, brings me up to the subject of how to dress your hair. We began having a nice hair renaissance when the bob really got general — along about 1920 to 1922. Up until that time hair was either hair worn down, or hair worn up. The only distinction it had was in its color and its thickness. And most of the time, on most heads, it looked pretty awful, being quite untidy. Then came the bobs and our older sisters discovered the hair ■bmmhhbbmmb dressers. Waves became general. Scalp treatments became general. First everybody had a bob. Then everybody had a shingle. Then came the permanents and there we rested. There we rested — but there the movie stars didn't rest. They learned more than the rest of us had learned and they started, the pets, to show us things. They began using their heads and the hair upon them to express anything from love to the urge for an ice cream soda. And was it fun! That tendency has reached the rest of us now. It has come to the point where in a roomful of ten smart women you will see ten different styles of hairdressing — and the girl who goes just meekly along with the same old bob and wave is regarded as a very flat tire indeed. Honestly, I don't know of anything that can mark you so distinctly as being a girl that knows things as the way you dress your hair. Not that it's easy — but then personality, acquired personality, never is. Still I have more BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING Mary Lee will be glad to advise you on any beauty problem — skin, hair, eyes, the best colors to wear, the little tricks of personality. Send her a stamped, addressed envelope, for personal replies. Miss Lee's address is in care of Silver Screen, 45 West 45th Street, New York. respect for the girl who makes herself distinctive — who makes a real creation of herself — than I have for almost anyone. And the rewards such a girl reaps in party bids, and heavy dates, and maybe real romance are jolly well worth the working for. The first thing to do, toward dressing your hair distinctively, is to have clean, healthy hair. If you don't know all the simple little rules for this, write me and I'll send them to you personally. Here I'll just repeat the obvious ones. Keep it clean. Brush it daily. Keep your brushes and combs spotless. Don't expose your scalp to too great heat or cold. Don't let your ■a^M hair get burned either with hairdressers' irons or the sun in the heavens. The next thing is to consider the shape of your face, the shape of your head, and the lines of your whole figure. For, really, you must think of your head in alignment with your body. It isn't something separate floating off into space. It is the final touch of perfection, the summit of you, if you don't mind my putting it that way. For that reason I don't feel that the first thing about hair is to make it flattering to your face. My own personal hunch is that, first of all, it ought to suit the line of your head. And remember what the Greek sculptors knew — that the most beautiful head is small and round. If you have a large skull, then, don't wear your hair ■■^ fluffing out around it. Have your head thinned out so that it lies close and flat. (Incidentally, the smaller the head size, the taller you look.) If your head is long, shingle the head close at the back, or wear it long on the neck, or wear it in a soft swirl, completely around the base of the head. But don't stick little curls out on it, or knots of hair. If you have a tiny, round head, the hair is charming brushed toward the front, curling softly around the face, but kept plain and sleek at the back. Long or short hair all depends {Continued on page 62] Silver Screen