TINTING THE EYELIDS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 143, 13 March 1937, Page 26

TINTING THE EYELIDS

Dangerous for Amateurs

Coloured eye make-up. preseut dny fashion craze, causes medicine’s newest disease, "t’albebritis from eyelid shading,” says the "Daily Express.”

Palbebritis —one word way of saying inflammation of the eyelid—has been found by Dr. Henry C. Semon, Winipole Street eye specialist, in four women who used coloured eyelid makeup.

Fashion i.s to paint the eyelids blue, green, brown, silver, gold or orange, matching natural eye colour. Make-up adds size and glamour to eyes. Certain colours, like those used by actresses, are charcoal. vegetable, and harmless. In others, aniline dye,; are fixed chemically inert, in fatty subDances and are harmless. Extracts from Dr. Semen’s ''arebook, given in “The Lancet,” include:

Mrs. IL. who had no eye irritation when her evening engagements wore few.

Airs. G., who was first treated in Vienna for extreme sensitivity to sun. Mrs. T., who used green eye shading by night and blue by day for four years.

Dr. Semon, who is physician to the dermatological departments of tlie Royal Northern and King George General Hospitals, points out that so long a.s shading is done, with i':irb<>n-bu*e substances it is harmless.

'That is the .method, of actresses; some women adopt other methods.