Florence Nightingale Graham Better Known As Elizabeth Arden

Her begin was a Scottish grocer in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada, somewhere Florence was instinctive in 1878. She was the manage of five private and was named for the fantastic sensitivity investor. (Lots private in that period bore the extremely name of Florence Nightingale). Her blood relation died when she was six and she lived in Ontario for the first twenty-four soul of her life. She enrolled in a sensitivity program and took great make smile in glow creams and fleece salves not just as brew, but as a muscle for style creams and lotions.

She not here sensitivity school without graduating having the status of it was not meeting her emotional needs. Her brother had moved to New York and she followed him current. She straight a job in a cosmetic shop and then became a double agent in a style shop. Overwhelmingly, she opened her own style shop on Fifth Form and out of the ordinary her name to Elizabeth Arden. Acquaint with she began to discover, generate and sell her own products.

In 1918, she married Thomas Lewis, a backer, and control him became an American confined. She never decriminalized her husband to own finance in the company and when they divorced he went to work for Helena Rubinstein. The FBI, in 1941, investigated her company over allegations that the salons in Europe operated as cover Nazi operations. A second marriage to a Russian prince lasted only two soul.

At home the war, Elizabeth Arden saw the capricious needs of women as they entered the work authority. She qualified them how to handling their powder and outfit accurately for careers top the home. She started a form commercial with horrendous designers lie Charles James and Oscar de la Renta on obstruction. She created a powder named Montezuma Red for women in the arranged martial that apposite the red on their uniforms.

By the end of 1930 it was meant that "Expound are only three American names that are specified in every single fit of the globe: Artiste embroidery machines, Coca Cola, and Elizabeth Arden,." Several of her patrons included: Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Wallis Simpson and Mamie Eisenhower. The mascara Glum Plants introduced in 1934 is restrained the first all-American bouquet and is still being sold today.

In the nineteen forties and fifties, she turned to foal racing and spread. Her secure became the leading funds smash in the Together States. In 1947, her colt "Jet Hint" won the Kentucky Derby. The foal Busher was inducted into the Passageway of Acclaim and in 1954 and her filly "Fascinator" won the Kentucky Oaks.

Elizabeth Arden died in New York Municipality in 1966 and was hidden in the Drained Misleading Churchyard in Drained Misleading, New York. Her monument is adorned by a large word "GRAHAM' and in smaller letters "Elizabeth N. Graham." Her chateau was appreciated at surrounded by 30 million to 40 million. In 2003 the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company was bought by Unilever for 225 million.

Not bad for a Scottish girl who never gone astray sight of her daydream.