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In the 1930s, beauty innovation often walked a fine line between science and spectacle — and few treatments captured that spirit better than the contouring mask. Popularized in elite salons like Helena Rubinstein’s Fifth Avenue location, these sculptural facial devices promised to “reshape” and refine a woman’s features through pressure, heat and strategic molding. TheContinue reading “Contouring Mask (1937)”