BEAUTY NOTES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 June 1926, Page 17

BEAUTY NOTES.

THE PERFECT FINGER-NAIL. Have you ever longed for beautiful hands and finger-nails? You can have them, and enviable ones. too. Perhaps you have been reciting one alibi after another as to why it. was impossible for you to have those pink and white tips to your fingers. Do you know that the nails quickly bespeak one’s character? A person who has clean, well-shaped finger-nails, free from, hang-nails, and hard cuticle, is immediately recognised as a person of careful grooming and good breeding. Such people, you may be sure, are also careful of their person in other respects. You cannot afford to neglect your hands and nails. To keep them beautiful you will need to spend only, five minutes a day on them, and all the necessary equipment is right at your finger-tips. For washing the hands, use pure white soap with warm water. Lather the hands and finger-tips, and scrub them gently with a brush which has fairly stiff bristles. Get the habit of using a brush on your nails. This ■ will remove most of the dirt; it should remove all. Never remove foreign matter with the steel point of your nail file. If your hands are stained nib them with half a lemon, adding the juice to the water to soften it.) Rinse your hands and dry on w thick Turkish towdl. Here isi the most important part: With the' soft part of the towel gently push back the cuticle which has grown up round the base of the nail. The first time you may not make much impression on the cuticle, but remember this is a treatment for every day. When you have acquired the habit, you will find yourself almost unconsciously going through the same motions each time you wash your hands. Soon you will find the cuticle receding and clear, crescent-shaped moons appearing. Massage a little sweet oil or cold cream into the finger-tips, working it about the cuticle. This will soften any hard skin, hang-nails, and the cuticle as well. Bang-nails will become less and less with this treatment, and will finally disappear. Never cut hang-nails, unless they become too ugly, for they will only grow again. The skin about the nail is to guard the nail: cutitng it will spoil the natural beauty and contour of the nail and finger-tip. Never cut the cuticle; this is the skin which grows t 0 protect, the roots of the nail. Select a file that is thin, tide edge not too sharp, and the grains on the file of medium or fine texture. You will probably have your own taste as to whether you will wear your nails long or short, rounded or tapered. Correct usage calls for the mail to follow the shape of the finger. Study the outline of your finger, and fashion your nail accordingly. Do. not file your nails deep down at the sides.. Remember, in all cases, the nail is- to protect the finger. Let the nail grow high on the sides, and then round off, following to the 1 outline of the. finger. Never saw your nail, but- file it in one direction only. As to polish, this is a matter ot choice. Exceedingly brilliant polish *s never in good haste, but, if you do desire a shiny surface for your nails, by all means include it in your toilet.