More Use Of Eye Make-up Will Come

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30602, 19 November 1964, Page 2

More Use Of Eye Make-up Will Come

“Women in New Zealand do not use very much eve make-up but it will come,” said the make-up expert from Rome, Mr Gil Cagnie, while giving make-up demonstrations in a Christchurch store yesterday.

“If you start practising now you will be experts by the time eye make-up is as popular here as overseas,” he advised.

Mr Cagnie thought it was lack of guidance rather than lack of interest that New Zealand women did not use much eye make-up. “If you have not used eye make-up before, start gradually and then later you can exaggerate it,” he told a woman who had come in for advice.

“He has certainly helped me,” she said. “I have never done anything about my eyes before but I always thought I needed to. This is a definite improvement,” she said after Mr Cagnie had made-up her eyes. “I will definitely follow his advice.” Enthusiastic Response Crowds of women, from schoolgirls to grandmothers, gathered to watch the demonstrations and to get advice on make-up. Mr Cagnie said he was amazed at the enthusiasm of the women in Christchurch. The response in Wellington had been good but the women were not as enthusiastic. As he demonstrated, Mr Cagnie told the women that it was very good to have make-up and even if it was

simple it should always look different from other women’s. “Put value on what you have—make-up is a part of your personality,” he said. The young girls watching Mr Cagnie were serious and keen to learn and did not mind the long waits before their turns while they watched him helping other women.

Two older women said: “It was all right for the young things but it wouldn’t help us much.” But many of their contemporaries were happy to wait in the queues with the “young ones.” One satisfied woman said she would now have to get up an hour earlier in the mornings to put on her new face. Mr Cagnie demonstrated sophisticated night make-up, natural day make-up and practical, fast make-up for busy housewives and women with a limited amount of time to care for their faces.

Mr Cagnie is assisted by Miss Roslyn Scott-Waine, from a London beauty house.