Tinting The Teeth

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 2

Tinting The Teeth

Painted Unger nails are still a sore point with many men in their wives' and girl friends’ beauty routine, but from Japan, comes what must surely be the last straw —manicured teeth. Four colours pink, blue, pearl and transparent—are offered at a dental beauty parlour opened by an organisation named the Scaling ; Centre in Tokyo. The transparent colour enhances the charm of white teeth, the head physician 'Mr Sukeji lino) says, while fpr the customer with yellow teeth the most appropriate colour was pearl. T’*e most flattering for young girls was

pink and for cabaret girls, blue. To decide whether your teeth were white or yellow could be as trying to one's personal honesty as deciding whether your skin's pigmentation was ‘dark rachel” or plain sallow for powder tones. And when does one cease to be a “young girl”? Are the teens or the twenties the line of demarcation? An injunction to a 12-year-old daughter to “wash that lipstick off” may yet be altered to ‘‘you are not a young woman yet—clean that pink off your teeth.” Mr lino said that the colours were only applied to the eye teeth; to colour the remaining teeth he thought “would be ridiculous!'’