By Lois Leeds
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Harmonizing Lips and Nails
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27. — There are just two ways to solve the problem of which shade of nail polish to buy. The easiest is to match it with your lipstick. This is always correct, but it does limit your choice of wardrobe colors.
The other way is to harmonize rather than match the two. This method, has the approval of Max Factor, jr., Hollywood make-up adviser to the film stars. Because it permits a greater variety in her personal color scheme, Carmen Lorales, who played one of the feminine leads in “The Long Voyage Home,” prefers this harmonizing of shades.
Keynote Color
Whichever system you follow, remember that lipstick should be selected first. Don’t be tempted to buy a luscious shade of nail polish or harmonize your lipstick with it. Do just the opposite.
Your lipstick is the keynote color of your entire cosmetic grooming. People look at your lips before they notice your fingertips. Real artistry comes in when you harmonize the three color high spots – lips, nails and costume. This is not quite so simple as a two-color scheme, but it has greater possibilities for flattery and variety.
Lipstick Trio
Lipstick itself should, of course, be chosen to complement your natural skin tones – This does not mean, necessarily, that only one shade of lipstick is possible for each woman. You’ll find that you can wear at least two different shades — one darker, one brighter.
Sometimes you will blend the two, sometimes you’ll use the darker one for daytime and the other for evening. It’s a good plan, too, to have a shade that hardly tints your lips to use when you are not striving for decorative effects but want to look perfectly natural.
Posed by Max Factor, jr., and Carmen Lorales for Lois Leeds.
Your lipstick is the keynote color of your cosmetic grooming. Harmonize your lips and nails with your costume.
Nail-Polish Wardrobes
For a complete nail-polish wardrobe to use with these three shades of lipstick you’ll want besides, a matching set of nail polishes several harmonizing shades in lighter or darker tones. The latter you will select with your favorite clothes colors in mind. Combining in this way the two methods of choosing nail polish shades you can be sure to have the right cosmetic harmonies at all times.
Today’s Beauty Questions
Dear Miss Leeds – I have to wear my fingernails very short because of my work. My hands are short and broad. Should I wear dark nail polish?
Clarabelle.
Answer – Dark polish will make your hands seem shorter and will call attention to the stubby nails. Better use a light shade, harmonizing with but not matching your lipstick. Cover half-moons and tips of nails with the polish when nails and fingers are short.
Dear Miss Leeds – How can I remove blackheads from nose and cheeks so that they will vanish forever? I take them out one day and they are back the next.
Lou Bonnie.
Answer – You cannot solve this problem in a day, or a month. Not only must the skin be cleansed thoroughly every day, at least twice with a warm complexion brush, warm water and soap, but it must be stimulated and refined. please send me a three-cent stamped, self-addressed envelope for my folder “Care of the Skin.” This tells how to banish the blackheads, not by magic, but by patient day-by-day treatment.
From The Charleston Gazette. Charleston, West Virginia. February 28, 1941.