BEAUTY CULTURE

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 19 November 1932, Page 13

BEAUTY CULTURE

NO NEED TO GROW OLD.

FAMOUS SPECIALIST’S ADVICE

“There is no need to grow old; there is no need to be sallow or withered or flabby. And this business of gradually rounding, which comes on when youth has been left behind, can be easily overcome. It’s just a matter of time and careful training,” said Miss Kathleen Court, a beauty expert, when interviewed in Christchurch recently. Miss Court regards her work as a mission—an obligation to show women just how tq. pnake the most of themselvefc, to keep their youth, to emphasise their individuality.

“The present age does not ask for great beauty,” she said. “It is, for most of us, a matter of being as attractive as we can, keeping away lines and sallowness, and developing individuality, personality and general attraction. You can’t be attractive if you become big and broad and flabby and tired.” And there is hope for all. Yes, it’s as good as that! “No face is beyond help. Rejuvenation is possible for all. I don’t say that we shall all look like young girls—we wouldn’t want to—but with exercise, the muscles of the face become hard, ancl the skin no longer sags. The muscles of the face need exercise just as games and walking exercise • the limbs. ■ Take a winter apple—it grows wrinkled because the pulp has withered. The same thing applies to the muscles- of the face. They wither. Exercise the muscles and the wrinkles and the tired lines will go.” Most women regard this beauty culture business as something laborious, something that will need endless labour, patience and effort. “And it’s j just a matter of ten minutes a day,” said Miss Court. She has little .patience •with the woman who is content to sit down and grow old. She herself has the almost unbelievable slimness of a Hollywood star —and “what I have ■done" others can do” appears to be her motto.

“New Zealand w'omen are welldressed,” is her opinion. “To toll the truth I rather expected to find frocks old-fashioned here perhaps because you are so far away from the rest of the world. Instead I have seen some most beautifully-dressed women. And I like your sense of colour. Everyone seems to desire some dash of colour in their dressing, and there seems to be a sense of colour values.” •So far as dress is concerned New Zealand women have little to learn from the rest of the world. But with regard to cosmetics they have yet to appreciate the value of the individual effort. Every woman should recognise her own individuality and “make' up” from that.

Miss Court finds that fair hair, blue or grey eyes ,and darker skins typical of so many of the women and girls of this country, quite unusual and very attractive. Our eyes are inclined to be tired-looking, though. “I think it is the strong light,” she suggested. “I find I cannot bear the light here. “Who are the best-groomed women in the world? Undoubtedly the women of America. Women there regard beauty culture as a social obligation. In America I think the woman herself comes first, and her home second. In the rest of the world it is the home first and the woman perhaps third. But it certainly reacts to the advantage of the American woman for nowhere else in the world is woman so considered.” Now about dieting—that most important item of beauty culture. “You shouldn’t make life a misery because of it,” said Miss Court, very sensibly. “But after 25 women only need one good meal a day. Milk is a most important item, but it should not be taken as an addition to food, but as a part. The same thing applies to fruit. Walking and dancing are the best exercises.”