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Max Factor (1877-1938), Polish businessman and founder of cosmetics company, Max Factor, demonstrates the technique of applying lipstick on a woman who sits in a chair as a second woman looks on watching, circa 1930. (Photo by Margaret Chute/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Max Factor (1877-1938), Polish businessman and founder of cosmetics company, Max Factor, demonstrates the technique of applying lipstick on a woman who sits in a chair as a second woman looks on watching, circa 1930. (Photo by Margaret Chute/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)