BEAUTY NOTES FROM PARIS.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 22

BEAUTY NOTES FROM PARIS.

(From Onr S.eelal Correspondent.) PARIS, November 15. The woman who depends entirely on cosmetics for her charm lives in a world inhabited by a horrible phantom. What if someone—some time—should see her without her. make-up? What if her house should catch fire at night? What if the maker of one of the cosmetics should go out of business ? Don't, then, reader, rely for your beauty on cosmetics alone. Beauty and loveliness are inward things that cannot be got through artificial means. True beauty comes from the inside/ out; and is not put from the outside, in. Grace is inseparable from beauty. Given intelligence, money, and good taste, any woman who is not actually deformed or repulsive, by dressing herself artistically, and surrounding herself with beautiful furniture, furnishings, decorations, all in harmony, can create an atmosphere of beauty. And by so doing she invests herself with a delicate halo, and then it becomes difficult to separate her from the charms of her surroundings. Cosmetics, then, it will be seen, need play but a small part in the life of a woman with taste and intelligence. A fine painting needs but a simple frame, but unhappily few of us are masterpieces. What kind of hairpins do you use ? A little thing, but then beauty is largely a matter of trifles. Are they black and bent, with the wire showing through? Are they too large, sticking out in knobs all over your head ? Are they small and bent and old? Get hairpins the colour of your hair, no matter what kind you use, whether bone, wire, or invisible, and renew them at the first sign of age. They are an inexpensive trifle. It is just a matter of a thought toward dainti- ; ness. With regard to the back of your hair, see that there are no straggling bits; see that it is brushed up the way j you want it. You mustn't have a hair out of place anywhere. But more than ever is this important at the back of your neck. Nothing shows up an untidy woman more than wisps of hair hanging about the nape of the neck. See, too, that your collars are always immaculate where they touch the back of your neck. Put a dusting white powder on the back of your neck if you are to wear white. Don't powder if you are to wear a dark gown, or the power will show on the gown and won't add to your daintiness. Or, better still, powder pour neck lightly with some sweet-scented powder, and dust it off again with a soft brush, the kind they use for baby's hair. When you are spraying your hair and gown with dainty perfume, spray the back of your neck too. It is the one spot that everyone else sees, and.looks at, that you can never really see.