HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU

July 27, 1941

Every star of our acquaintance has some system of aids to good grooming, but the set-up we like best is Lucille Ball’s. Lucille designed a wooden tray with sides and a handle, the tray divided into compartments. In one compartment is make-up, in another manicure utensils, in another brush and comb; one contains a mending kit, another whisk broom and shoe brush, another cleansing tissues. Everything Lucille needs is there. It goes back and forth to sets, into her dressing room with her. While the average girl’s beauty needs are less peripatetic, such a tray is still a good idea. Have such a set-up in your dressing table at home; have another, in miniature, in your office desk.

With this set, Lucille can use bits of time to keep herself together. Between professional manicures she gives herself a “clean-up” manicure. Perhaps she doesn’t even need to remove the polish.

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