BEAUTY TIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 264, 7 November 1935, Page 14

BEAUTY TIPS.

N.Z. COMPLEXIONS

SUNSHINE AND EYESTRAIN.

"Women should drink water regularly and drink a great deal of it. It is one of Nature's best beauty treatments," said Miss Geraldine Plunkett, a London expert on matters pertaining to beauty, who arrived in Auckland by the Wanganella yesterday morning.

London specialists, said Miss Plunkett, had very different methods from the Americans. The latter believed in the liberal use of creams, whereas in London soap and water was used in conjunction with creams and lotions. "Not the sort of soap, of course, that you wash your gloves and hankies with; there is too much soda in that; but with a pure, gentle soap. This is the only efficient means of getting the face really clean," she said.

English women, said Miss Plunkett, were renowned for their fine complexions, but although she had never been to Auckland before she had visited other parts of New Zealand and she had noticed that New Zealanders also had good skins. They took, however, little care of them ana only too readily blamed the weather and climatic conditions for ravages which were really caused by laziness. If only Now Zealanders became "face conscious" they would have remarkably fine complexions. In her opinion the climatic conditions were good for facial beauty. There was plenty of rain and it was not too hot. On arriving in New Zealand one was struck by its freshness and moistness. The Australians had a harder proposition. Their country was more burned up and dried.

New Zealanders, continued Miss Plunkett, were like the English women in a great number of things. Their love of an open-air life and their methods of dressing were very similar. Speaking of dressing generally, Miss Plunkett said that the movies had had a great influence on women's appearance in recent years. They had made women have more imagination about clothes. The French designers had had a • tremendous influence in London until trade conditions interfered and caused English designers to exert themselves, with the result that the English had come into their own and brought forth styles that were individual.

Women throughout the world were realising the psychological effect of a well-groomed and attractive appearance. They realised they had a duty to the social community and that "looks" reacted on the home. A shiny nose and "that depressing morning feeling" could be terrifying home-breakers. They were easy things to remedy when a woman became conscious of her appearance.

"There is one thing that the women of this country do not seem to take very much care of —the eyes," said Miss Plunkett. "Girls sit around in strong sunshine with their eyes all screwed up, positively courting wrinkles - which are ugly and ageing. In the English sunshine, which in comparison with yours is quite weak and anaemic, everyone wears coloured glasses. A very few wear sun glasses in this country; tliey seem to think they will look conspicu-

ous. The conspicuous people abroad are the ones without their coloured glasses."

To keep young, said Miss Plunkett finally, the chin must be attended to. Tt was only when a woman became forty-ish that she began to realise that her chin was multiplying. If only she would keep her head up and not bend the neck down she would not be faced with this trouble. It was not too late to begin at forty to carry the head well, but younger women should be aware of the danger before it arrived.