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...reason the beauty industry has failed to get U.S. women to buy more perfume is obvious: she takes a scented bath, puts on lipstick, cream, powder, deodorant, hair spray, hand lotion...
...farmer's wife, and this letter is prompted by Max Factor's remark and insinuation that farm women do not wear lipstick! I would like Mr. Factor to know that my hair is styled at Antoine's, I buy Rubinstein, Arden and Antoine cosmetics, and did buy Max Factor's lipstick...
That night, though, when he gets home, Alma is still up, and she sees the lipstick on his shirt, and they have a row, and it all comes out. "She's not cheap," he shouts back. "She's young and kinda lost. I'm her world. It's like I was 20 again, the way I never was, the way you and me never knew love could be like." She slaps him then, and he walks out, and the next day he comes back for his clothes. "I've tried; I've done...
Lilies & Placenta. But the beauty industry is far more interested in finding new products than rescuing old ones, is moving more and more into research. Revlon has more than 70 chemists on its staff, and about half its current sales are from products introduced since 1950, e.g., high-gloss lipstick. Top Brass hair dressing for men and hair sprays. Charlie Revson, who proclaims that "research is a deep religion with me," likes to don a white coat and take a turn at the retorts. On the average, a product takes from a year and a half to two years from...
...Lipstick. The saga of royal jelly is a striking example of one of the most significant aspects of the whole beauty business-one that puzzles many a woman, irritates many a husband. Says Mel Finkelstein, president of the House of Westmore: "In this business, price is not consistent with cost." When it first came out, royal jelly cream sold for $15 an ounce despite the fact that an ounce contained only about 150 milligrams of jelly, worth about 17? today a woman can still buy creams containing royal jelly in some stores for $15 an ounce, but she can also...