Glamour With Glasses

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31144, 22 August 1966, Page 2

Glamour With Glasses

Wearing glasses was once considered a dreadful handicap for a girl, even if she had plenty of charm and good looks to compensate her a little. Things have changed so radically since then that today even actresses and models who earn their living by appearing always poised and beautiful, are often photographed wearing wonderful, modern spectacles which actually add to their glamour, rather than detract from it. With the right choice of frames, glasses can be as flattering to the face as good make-up, for they work miracles in enhancing good fea'ures and offsetting unattracive ones. There has never been a vider choice of colours, shapes and styles available. Vou can have them encrusted with pearls, jewels and gold, ar they may be decorated .vith flowers and butterflies—ar you can really make your ’lasses a fashion accessory by choosing the interchangeable'

clip-on type that change: colour to match every frocl in your wardrobe. The most essential asped in selecting spectacles, how ever, is suiting your face Frames must follow the cum of the wearer’s eyebrows anc should invariably tend t( ’ make the eyes appear large: rather than smaller. Frame: ’ that slant upward and out ■' ward make close-set eyes seen 1 wider apart and add width t< ’ a narrow face, and small eyes ’ gain importance with extrs 1 large frames and lenses. ’ If your nose is rather largt , and prominent, or your chin . is too heavy and determined J looking, the latest bold all . round frames can immediately make them less notice able and give your features better balance. i Your eyes desearve every , possible consideration when , you wear glasses. Far from I hiding your eyes, spectacles , attract attention to them, so 1 basic care and the extra • emphasis of eye make-up is ’ very important Eyelids, often add unnecessary years to a face because

:s they are apt to show dryness :k and crepey-skin conditions more easily than other skin ct areas. They need regular v- applications of an isotonically e. balanced moist oil, such as oil r e of ulan, to keep them smooth id and young-looking. This is to also available in a vitalising ;r night cream base for night ?s application. *• Curl your lashes so that 111 they look pretty, yet do not t 0 rub against the lenses, and. is for the same reason, always a allow your mascara to dry thoroughly. Carefully define ;e your eyebrows and blend eyen shadow so that it deepens upi- wards to the brow. Eyeliner. 11- too, is probably the most i- effective way to give your e- eyes emphasis. :s Remember that only girls with definite colouring can y wear rimless spectacles or n pale frames, and even then n it is necessary to give an >s added glow to the face with o the help of rouge. Every girll a who wears glasses will find is that rouge is a valuable asset. It should be skilfully blended s- so that it fades just beneath e the spectacle rima.