HINTS AND IDEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

HINTS AND IDEAS.

MODERN DINING ROOMS BY

CANDLELIGHT

MOST BECOMING ILLUMINATIONS.

COLOURS TO AVOID.

Light should be considered as a most inipoitant beauty aid. Especially is this tine of artificial light. A woman is very careless about herself if she does not ir.ind how she looks during the evening. Unshaded lights bring out wrinkle? uid accentuate the worst features. Low lights are more becoming than high ones. Inverted ones do not cast shadows —this is a great aid to beauty. Where ceiling lights are entirely abolished women invariably look their best at night. Wail lights are far more becoming, while floor and table lights are the nost becoming of all. Do not have too many lights at night. Let the lights you have be softly shaded ■uid placed conveniently for reading or sewing. Use candles in the dining-room. There is nothing so lovely, so romantic, or so becoming as candlelight. But do not use shades. The natural flicker of the I candle is too attractive to bide. Do not :D\evdo the number of candles. Arrange 'from two to eight, according to the size ; if the table. Entirely avoid purple and lavender lights. They accentuate imperfections. Fur tin- same reason avoid blue lights | whenever possible, although occasionally [blue lights are needed in the colour >clieme. Red lights are warm and comfortable looking, but are not nearly so becoming as was once thought. The red tilde l-imp of the last generation is not forgotten. Put it is best as a memory. ] Uroen lights are attractive and beginning it tl'fy are a pale yellow-green. ;Tlie green light is one of the most soothjing to the eyes, and if a great deal of !reading i- I<> !>p done it is best to choose ji shade of thi> colour. A yellow light is becoming, but difficult—that is, if a j woman look-; well under a yellow light ;shn will probably look very beautiful I indeed. But there are many chances that jsb<- will not look well at all. ; Thi* brings us to the best two colours foi indoor lighting—oranjre and rose. .Under rose co;nes the various shades of :phik. Pink is the most suitable for bed- ! rooms. With the soft colours of negligee |it is lovely and becoming. For the living room it is out of place. Rose suits I the average complexion best of all. Still, orange lights are often preferred, and jtbey. too, are kind to complexious.