How Max Factor Invented Modern Makeup

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Who? When a brand becomes inextricably woven into the fabric of popular consciousness, it’s easy to forget its humble beginnings – and this is never more true than in the case of Maksymilian Faktorowicz, the Jewish-Polish cosmetician otherwise known as Max Factor, who first introduced movie-grade makeup to the masses. Faktorowicz was born on September 15th 1872 in Congress Poland, one of ten children in a family so poor that he had scarcely reached the age…