Hands Must

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)

Hands Must

filing {hem to slender tips, and skipping the sides of tile nails when you apply polish. The colour of your nail polish should l>e in harmony with the colour of your lipstick and your costume. Not all nails can stand as sharp a colour as you use on your lips, but pick a softer shade in the same blue-red or yellow-red group from which you select your lipstick. As for the care of the hands, they need constant lubrication. Make it a point to use a hand lotion after each washing. Massaging cream well into the skin, and encasing your hands in a pair of overnight gloves is a beauty treatment which lias not been surpassed. Put cream on your hands, and then don rubber gloves for household work.

If more than one van is necessary see that the beds and bedding are dispatched in the first one to be sure of a good night's rest. It is a good idea to plan where everything is to be pUicod on arrival by tying <S> .

Use the same brand soap on your hands that you use for your face. Harsh soaps not only roughen Ihe skin, but they will make nails brittle and weak. Give your hands some independent exercise * to keep them limber and llcxible. Stiff hands arc rarely beautiful. Try the limbering exercise Kntli Hawk uses before she sits for a photographic pose. Press the palms of your hands down hard against a table, and move your wrists up and down, forcing all your weight against the arched palius. Two other simple hand exercises are to play live-fingered exercises on .an imaginary keyboard, ami to make fists, first straining your lingers wide apart and then digging them slowly into the palms.

different coloured wools on to the furni ture and other articles. Then arrangi with a friend or member of the house hold, to be at the new home to see ilia the pieces so identified go into thei speciiicd rooms. — -<$