Pretty Parisienne brings the latest news on make-up around the world

Press, 11 May 1979, Page 12

Pretty Parisienne brings the latest news on make-up around the world

As New Zealand women face the prospect of winter weather, European women are making up for spring and summer. According to Blandine Bachellerie, fashionable Parisians will be putting on a bright face. When she left Paris in April the boutiques and fashion store windows were alive with reds, electric blue, yellow, navy and white, and lots of dramatic black. Disco fashions, and a return to a sharper silhouette, have brought radical make-up changes

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a Staff Reporter

too, she told a group of Christchurch women attending her cosmetic conferences recently. So the pale, pastel faces that Miss Bachellerie, beauty adviser for Lancome, demonstrated when she was in Christchurch last year are now passe. Lipstick shades and nail polishes are uncompromising, as are the blues, red, and yellows of current fashion. Cheeks carry a forthright blush of colour. Eye shadows are bright, obvious touches of colour, with eyes outlined with kohl pencils: blue and rose eyeshadow with bluetoned, red lipstick; green and gold eyeshadow with orange-toned lipstick. As well as demonstrating the latest make-up trends, Miss Bachellerie discussed analysis of skin types and skin care. Balancing the natural oils and moisture, cleansing, and protection are, she told the group, the three

golden rules of skin care for all women. New Zealand women have, she said later, fine skins which are inclined to be dry. “They need a lot of protection from your outdoor living, and lots of anti-de-hydrating creams and nourishing creams,” she said. Blandine Bachellerie spends only three months of the year in Paris, The rest of the year she travels about her “territor” —■ Asia and the Pacific. Brought up in the country, where her parents run

an inn specialising in local foods, she enjoys her visits to New Zealand. On this trip she took time out to spend a week-end in Queenstown. “So beautiful,” she said. “Don’t let your country change too much.” In spite of her busy schedule, she keeps to a programme of skin care and make-up which is a routine exercise wherever she is staying. “Some women do say they haven’t time, but it all a matter of habit. Cleansing and nourishing takes no more than five minutes, a good make-up can be done in 15 minutes,” she said. On a working day that can extend well into the evening, Blandine Bachellerie just keeps her powder compact handy. “If you follow the rule of applying cream on cream, and powder on powder, a morning makeup should last all day.”