HOW TO BEAUTIFY A LADY.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2251, 20 June 1881, Page 4

HOW TO BEAUTIFY A LADY.

After throwing off my polonaise and having a peignoir thrown around my shoulders (says a confidential New Yorker for the benefit of the less knowing of her sex) my hair was token out of the little knot into which I had twisted it and was shampooed. It was then dried and combed up from my face and neck, and smoothed at the edges with bandoline, applied with a small fine sponge. My eyes wore then bathed with clair du luno. This is an eye tonic, and makes the eye exceedingly brilliant. Next, with a magnifying glass in her hand, my coiffeuse wont over my face, neck, arms, and shoulders, carefully inspecting every part, and with a pair of fine tweezers she removed every superfluous hair. From a little box she dipped with a small, fine, soft sponge a creamy rose-tinted cosmetic, and carefully applied it to my face, arms, hands, neck, and shoulders, rubbing and blending it carefully and evenly over the entire surface. She told me that aho used rose-tinted creme becouse I was pole; for ruddy blondes white creme ia used ; for brunettes, buff-tinted. There are finishing powders, too, in all these shades. After tho creme was rubbed in, I was ready for a bit of colour in my cheeks and lips. Thia was applied from a rouge cup with what is called, and I suppose is, a rabbit’s foot. Tho color was rubbed deftly into my (jheeks, a little around my eyes, on my nostrils, chin and ears, and then my lips were tinged with liquid vegetable indelible rouge. Then, with a powder puff of swans’ down, she wont over tho whole with a rosy-white blending powder, brushing it off carefully with another puff. Now, my eyebrows were brushed out and shaded with fard indien. This was done with'a leather stamp. As the creme and velontine powder had hidden all my veins, with a blue pencil they wore now traced on my hands, arms, nook and temples. With the same peneii a line was traced under each of my eyes, and shaded off with a fresh stomp. All this requires the eye and hand of an artist. Then a front coiffure, with waves falling on my forehead, and curly hair, 30in. long, falling back, was pinned on with invisible hairpins to my own scanty chevelure, and, twining it around a coil in the back, it was formed with a switch of moderate oiza into a low coiffure ala Grecque. A few little waving curls were added, falling on my neck, and behind my ears a few stray locks were drawn out aud frizzed ; for, as my coiffeuse said, the ears should ever be set, as it were, in a spray of hair. Then my eyelashes were trimmed, and last of all my noils were soaked, cut, tinted, and polished, and I was supplied with a set of toilotets des bougies, and all the cosmetics I hod used and a cosmetic mask. [All this, we presume, took place in Paris.—“ Queenslander.’’]