CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 133, 7 June 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

CARE OF NERVE STRAIN.

VALUE OF PURE BLOOD.

(By A PARIS BEAUTY SPECIALIST.)

Perhaps' you are determined that .nothing -will make you abandon your becoming, neat, labpur-saving, shingle while life endures. All right, you are still in fashion and will probably be so for a long while to come. Perhaps you started to grow your ; hair long, and, having nearly lost your reason through straggling ends, dropped hair-pins, and general untidiness, had it cut off, with the fervent resolution, "Never again!" But there is a third possibility. Some of us who couldn't be bothered. with really long hair have realised the*attraetiveness of curls at the nape of the neck, and are determined to grow enough to make these, and stop at that. N

Now, these curls are either very becoming or a fatal mistake. It depends upon your type, age, and the shape of your face, which they prove to be. .Fortunately, it is quite easy to try the effect before you take any steps in the matter—unlike the first shingle, when the dreadful deed was done once and for all. Up to a -certain age, which varies in each individual, curls will make you look younger —provided of course, that they suit you. But when there is .'any sort of really "set," or elderly look, they will accentuate it. So that, unless it is possible for yt>u to give an effect of youth in your appearajpee, don't attemptthem. The effect will be grotesque, especially with a body at all inclined to be portly! Curls aje not for the stout, in face or figure, they are not for the long nosed woman, or even for the woman with an aqueline nose. When the face is yery thin, the width of their outline oftefl helps it considerably, making a romantic frame for "it.-'Thay are not for the*boyish type, they suggest, and demand, femininity and softness. And, as I have said, they'have also a romantic, unpractical suggestion about them, so that they do. not suit the efficient, bustling type. And if. you wear glasses or pince-nez, please neyer never attempt them! But if they do suit you, you and your friends will be delighted with the change., When the ends are just no-length-at-all, the best thing to do is, when your hair is waved, to have them turned round with the tongs. If your hair curls naturally, a water-wave -will be enough to .keep them in place, whatever length you wear them. They can be rolled into little flat "snails" under the cap, and dried in the ordinary way. But, if your hair is straight the best plan is, when the ends are the length you wish, to have them permanently curled. Then —how to wear your curls? Above all things, I beg you, don't sacrifice neatness. Keep the shape of your head well defined, and do not let your curls hang loose at the sides. If you have pretty ears, you can obtain a delightful effect by taking the curls behind the ears, leaving the latter bare. This style of hair-dressing looks well with a flat, curly fringe on the forehead. But a fringe should on no account be worn when the ears are covered by side curls, as this gives an effect of too much hair round the face. I ... .! I • • Nerves. A French doctor recently delivered an address to a Paris gathering; on nervous,, too emotional and melancholic types. He said that what people these days required, if they were going to resist the "assault on their nervous systems from the outside world," was to divide their activity and more especially to diversify it. If they were mentalworkers, he said that they should relax by some manual labour or sport. The condition, which in the war was described as "degonfle" 6r "blown-out," as referring to a person completely exhausted, is a condition quite «common in these days even of peace, the doctor explained. And it is due to an exhaustion of nerve control. , *

Most of our depressions, it appears, come from the fact that we have no 4'eleases for our stored-up or unsatisfied sensibilities. We become like stagnant water. We need outlet.

The people of southern climates, he said, are more likely to have outlet than thpse in ones in which the correct and gentlemanly Nordics, predominate. The Latin has a tendency tp spend his sensibilities, his emotions, his stored-up feeling, little by little. There is thus no great explosion. The Englishman, the American, the German, is more likely to preserve a rigid front for a long time, and then smash something. I Wrinkles. The one great cure for wrinkles, is good circulation of pure blood to feed the impoverished skin from within, and plenty of cleansing and rubbing to help it from without and, most of all, serenely steady nerves. There is no quick road to the loss of wrinkles. Everything that makes . for "health arid ' happiness will help to eradicate the wrinkles that came from nervousness 'and the abuse of health. -Try peace of mind for a wrinkle cure, it may sound.like cheap advice,i but if you went, to a Paris "beauty-doctor" and. paid a -large sum for a month's "repairs," peace of mind would be the first thing he'd order you to get.