![]() ![]() Every time he had an affair she would go out and buy herself some jewellery. ![]() Even as she was earning a fortune making other women feel desirable, her first husband told people he had never desired her. Rubinstein so hated physical contact - she often flinched when kissed - that she rarely indulged in beauty treatments herself. Both women had first husbands who slept around, both hired private detectives to investigate them and both subsequently married men who claimed, falsely, to be Russian princes.īoth were sexually unfulfilled, both workaholics. ![]() The title of Rubinstein's posthumously published autobiography was My Life for Beauty, but she herself apparently had not enough to make her happy. She was 38.īoth women went on to found and run companies with multi-million dollar turnovers, which rested on the notion that youth could be preserved, and beauty might materialise from nowhere. Chaja Rubinstein had left her large orthodox Jewish family in Poland by then and, armed with a recipe for a beauty treatment she called 'Krakow Cream', had set up beauty salons in Australia and Paris. Within three years, she had changed her name to Elizabeth Arden (in honour of Elizabeth I, famed for her penchant for cosmetics) and launched a range of beauty products. She was 26 years old and had considered a career in nursing, but could not stand the sight of blood, so she got a job as a cashier at a beauty parlour instead. Florence Nightingale Graham arrived in New York from Canada in 1907. ![]()
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