A Hollywood reporter, Lydia Lane, wrote a nationally distributed article about Stephanie Griffin's beauty secrets. One was that she used a very fine lead mechanical pencil to draw the tiny black lines on her eyebrows to make them look like hair. She also revealed that she used a secret pioneer recipe which she read about as a child that encouraged the growth of eyelashes and eyebrows. Stephanie was quoted as saying that using a banana peel "you scrape the soft white stuff from the peeling and mash it and stroke it on your lashes with your finger.".