COMPLEXION “PERMS.”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 20

COMPLEXION “PERMS.”

Feats of Plastic Surgery ••Apple-blossom” complexions and lips shaped like cupid’s bows are now attainable by women who care to go in for plastic surgery. To-day I sat in a fashionable beauty surgeon’s treatment room—the interior decoration a poem in pale sunshine gold and sea green—and watched while an apple-blossom (guaranteed permanent) was tinted into the skin of a woman patient’s cheeks. Throughout the operation she smoked a cigarette, and appeared impervious to any sensation, writes the Melbourne “Herald's” Loudon correspondent. Any type of mouth can be re-shaped by the same method, by working in the requisite colouring and is distinctly an asset to the woman who has very thill or very straight lips. Sparse, insipid eyebrows are improved by inserting a fine line of dark colouring on the brow and lids. This delicate touch gives emphasis to the face and has the effect of deepening the colour of the eyes. It was during the Great War that women first took advantage of the aesthetic surgeon’s skill. Much progress has been made since those early days of face-lifting. Nowadays a tuck may be taken in the skin of the face, a small incision made above the ears—and in a few days the-treatment is complete, with no trace of any scar. The specialist of to-day uses nonsurgieal plastic science to repair the damage caused by frown lines, and by deep nose-to-mouth lines. By using a compound resembling the fat of the body, the line is built up again and the dissolved fatty tissue is replaced. Even men are conquering their natural shyness and are repairing to the modern plastic beauty specialist to have facial defects remedied. A young man found that his future was . being jeopardised, both socially and in the business world, by a pair of protruding ears, which invited ridicule. Treatment lasting one hour made a different man of him.

Conservative at first, London women now regard a visit to the plastic surgeon very much the same as receiving regular dental attendance.