FINGER-NAIL FASHION

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 5

FINGER-NAIL FASHION

An English beauty specialist in Bond Street finds that “mother-of-pearl finger nails” are rapidly gaining favour among her clients.

An opalescent, semi-luminous effect is obtained on the finger-nails by coating them with a rose-pink enamel, letting it dry and then applying a new liquid varnish which contains the lovely tints found in mother-o’-pearl. This treatment is applied only for evening “wear.” For daytime use the “sports nail” is the favourite—a coating of pale shell-pink waterproof enamel.

“I am interested in the ediet that has gone forth from the director of the Stockholm Opera House that prima donnas must reduce their weight—principally because there is but little necessity for the prima donnas of to-day to do so,” writes a Londoner. “I could, of course, name some heavyweights. But they are in a small minority, for it is a welcome fact ■that eminent operatic singers are now for the most part quite slim, and frequently beautiful. One of the most beautiful women of the century, Lina Cavalieri; is an operatic singer—and sliiii. Lovely, too, is Jeritza. Elizabeth Schumann, Fanny Heldy, Maggie Teyte, Gota Ljungberg, Eva Turner, Eide Norena, Lipkowska, and Pampanini, are only some of many famous singers who do not carry an ounce of superlluous flesh.”