CULT OF BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

CONTOUR OF THE NECK. HOW TO IMPROVE. (By A BEAUTY SPECIALIST.) The following method, painstakingly adhered to every night for three months, will develop a scraggy neck into a column worth one's possession.

Open the pores of the neck with water as hot as you can stand, applied with a cloth. Then soak the hands and wash the neck thoroughly, rinse well in hot water. Apply cocoa, butter or a good skin food. Begin at the base of the neck, just at the back of the ear, and pat up to the hair line. Again commence at the base of the neck, forward of the ear, and pat up and out. Continue this treatment all over the neck for ten or fifteen minutes. One should count and concentrate on the part under consideration. Since the beginning of the Bible history, the number seven (and its multiple) has been looked upon as lucky. Try it also while you are working on your neck; visualise it as you would like to have it. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," is no less true to-day than it was in Solomon's time. The skin will absorb all the cream of which it is capable in thirty minutes, though you may leave it on longer if you wish. Remove the cream with a cloth in which there is no grain, and run over the skin with a piece of ice or bathe in cold water. Pat dry, then apply an astringent. To make the back of the neck shapely and prevent the old-age lump, which often comes early, bend the head forward till the chin touches the chest. Resist this bending vigorously. Concentrate on tlia back of the neck where you feel the pull. The Face. Hero is a "colour secret," known to perhaps every actress, which will give a natural glow" of colour, lasting an entire