On 04 May 2009 17:34:31 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
>news:pl6uv4psipih681rcdd1ec2pe1aphtrfti@4ax.com:
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>> Max Factor
>>
>> Max Factor was born in Lodz, Russia, in 1877. At the age of 14 he
>> became an apprentice to a wig maker. At 20, he was running his own
>> makeup shop.
>>
>> In 1904, Factor brought his family to America for the St, Louis
>> World's Fair, and they never left. First, Factor opened a cosmetics
>> shop in St. Louis, but the motion picture industry, then beginning in
>> Hollywood, beckoned. Factor moved to California and got a job with the
>> Pantages Theatre.
>> Max Factor
>>
>> By 1914, he was perfecting makeup for the movies. He found that die
>> grease paint used in the theatre looked dreadful on screen, so he
>> improvised. He created false eyelashes, the eyebrow pencil, lip gloss,
>> and pancake makeup. Of course, once they had been made to look so
>> stylish on screen, actresses wanted to maintain that allure off
>> camera, so they wore the makeup in personal appearances.
>>
>> It was not long before non-actresses were asking for the makeup so
>> that they too could look glamorous. It was in 1927 that Max Factor
>> introduced his first cosmetics to be sold to non-theatrical consumers.
>> Before Max Factor, few women used cosmetics. Factor popularized both
>> the word "makeup" and the wearing of the stuff.
>>
>
>Its not make up now, the new name is polyfil. LOL.
>
>Mercury.
or botox.
lol,
darkshadiows
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