HOW TO DEFY THE SUN

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 27 (Supplement)

HOW TO DEFY THE SUN

u Tanning/’ Minus Discomfort

• the business girl who only sees the > sun in the lunch-hour for many months at a time, it is a hopeless proposition. But there are lucky people who could manage it, and don’t. Sun-bathing, sports and motoring holidays, demand special beauty care. The amount of stin that each individual can stand varies considerably. But no woman’s skin is improved by constant burning, and it rests with herself and her beauty specialist to see that precautions are taken against a ruined complexion. The Victorian mothers who kept their little girls’ faces under cover of shady hats and sun-bonnets, and their hands encased in gloves on every walk abroad, achieved results that were sung by the poets of every country. Few of the modern sports or bathing beauties would be able to face the light without a spot of makeup, though the dashing effect of the tanned skin w-hile the owner is actually engaged in sport, is certainly extremely pleasing. Care of the eyes should be a point of considerable interest for these sun- . bathing beauties. In all good beauty parlours the right and sensible pro_cedure may be learnt, whether the method consists of bathing, packing, or exercise. “Crowsfeet” are the natural result of hatless days in tlie sunshine, or of the constant wearing of the funny little crocheted caps that have luckily gone out of fashion with the winter. The eyes should always be protected in- some way if wrinkles are to be avoided. Above all, don’t slouch, don’t slump, just because the weather’s hot. Take a holiday from your your household or your job, but don’t take a holiday from your looks. Get close to nature if you like, but not without a beauty kit. Think of the future, and the impossibility of reconciling a suntanned, leathery skin and tired eyes w’ith the new autumn styles and colours.

the girl," says a wellknown beauty specialist, ‘‘who comes back from her summer holiday with .a built-up body, perhaps, but a marked-down face!" The summer bathing girl is very apt to take a chance with far more serious consequences than she imagines, for the sport and enjoyment of sun-bath-ing, in backless suits on scorching beaches. The sun, as a matter of fact, should be approached with tremendous diffidence on re-acquaintance every year. The woman who shops in big department stores on Mondays can often tell a tale of sorry service from girls whose arms and shoulders have been blistered over the week-end by a sudden rush into the temptation of sea and sun bathing. ’ A New Zealand doctor stated last year that in the mid-summer months the direct rays of the sun on the human skin between the hours of 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. were definitely dangerous to the health of some people. There was a great deal written on the subject a few’ years ago in connection w’ith infantile 'paralysis and meningitis. In spite of this, there still seems a sort,, of defiant disregard for the eotb sequences of sunburn. There is no manner of doubt but that the fashion for a tanned skin is a most attractive one, but people who wish to tan must do it slowly and break the shock to the skin by using the proper oil to prevent painful burning, and give- an even colour. People who dash to the seashore on a Saturday afternoon or Sunday, get into the almost nothing of the modern bathing suits and expose themselves to the sun, which perhaps has only seen a'fraction of their anatomy for over six months, are asking for trouble. The ideal procedure is to sunbathe at every available opportunity all the year round. In flats in cities this is ■ almost impossible to arrange, and for i