LESS POWDER AND PAINT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 19, 23 January 1926, Page 15

LESS POWDER AND PAINT

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.

_ —Hamlet. The dominion of powder and paint is over—at least for a while (says a London paper). Not so long ago the faces of many women were masked in white, pink, or orange, their lips red and carnivorous looking. To-day the majority have gone back to natural complexions, writes a correspondent, so much so that they do not seem to mind blue no«es in this Arctic weather.

Consequently, a revolution has had to take place in the many beauty salons.

What really happened was that disguise was discarded and hygiene discovered.

But now beauty culture has been compelled to abandon the process of distempering faces, and instead take up the process of cleansing them. Windows of perfumery shops exhibit an abundance of attractive jars, bottles, and boxes, containing material of mystical qualities for use in these beautifying rites. All sorts of masks, some of mud, others of chalk or the white of an egg, are employed' for the same purpose; and not only women but Also men resort to them. MYSTIC KITTJAL. It is quite the "done thing" for men, even those possessed of modest incomes, to indulge in this little' vanity, if a ritual that cleanse* the face is to be regarded as such. It i« not uncommon now to enter a coiffeur establishment and to come across an acquaintance sitting in a chair with a face smeared with greenish mud or white chalk, and looking for all the world like an archaeological specimen dug out of a Pharaoh's tomb.

It will be interesting to observe the, eonsequehces of this clean-face movement. At the moment it mainly expresses itself in blue noses and pale lipfl.