A BEAUTIFUL SKIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 12

A BEAUTIFUL SKIN.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD. (Copyright). Through the ages a beautiful skin has remained a woman’s greatest asset. Men may have their own peculiar ideas about make-up or nail polish shades or coiffure styles for women; or they may at least pretend to protest; but they all love a lovely complexion. Of course, you want your skin to be lovely for your wedding day. And you want to keep it flawlessly clear, petal smooth, youthfully firm for many, many years to come. To some extent you can control the appearance of your skin on the important day. First, get all the rest you can for lack of it will soon show in a dull, yellowish tinge. Second, if you can afford it, enroll for a course of salon facials. If you cannot, then give yourself a short facial treatment every day for at least a week or two. As a matter of fact, it is a habit worth forming—start now and keep it up after you are married. THREE THINGS. The average skin can get along with three essentials—clensing, toning and nourishing, and for this a good cleansing medium, a skin tonic and a tissue cream are necessary. If the skin is oily the cleansing medium should he a complexion brush and bland soap/or the increasingly popular beauty grains sometimes known as pore paste or cleanser. A combination of cleansing cream and the pore cleanser, a grainy, delightful soap substitute is ideal for every type of skin. With these three things and a ten-minute routine night and morning the skin can bo kept really beautiful. As the milestones keep adding, a few essentials should be added too—a throat cream, a muscle-tightening preparation, a chin strap to keep the contour firm. For specific difficulties, specific correctives are necessary—an acne lotion for the occasional blemish, and anti-wrinkle cream for lines under the eves and around the throat and mouth; a heavier nourishing cream ii the skin is verv oily and so on. There’s an old proverb which warns “Show not a fool, an old man or a child a piece in the making. J ’ _ It is doubtless a reflection on their lack of imagination to picture the full beauty of a half-finished product. All men should be included in that category so far as woman’s beauty rites are concerned. It isn’t so much that they lack imagination. The charming'bubble of illusion hursts when they see their loved one’s lovely chin covered with cream, or a chin strap holding that line, or synthetic roses being applied to the cheeks. They may know that you use creams, lotions and cosmetics, but they prefer not to see you use them. When one of their club cronies p>nys compliment to your lovelv complexion and asks do you use anything friend husband prefers to lie able to answer very truthfully. “Most likely she does, hut, honest Boh. I’ve never caught her in the act.” The wise woman plans her daily heantv routine at moments when she is entirely alone. Map out your schedule each day _so that it will include not only the major beautv care of the skin and hair and exercise for the figure, hut also the minor details. For instance, you will want to bleach and cream your elbows and arms. A good time to do that, is when von are bleaching and creaming vour faee. Use the left-over cream and massage hands, arms and elbows with it. It saves cream and time, both. Yon enn cut a lemon in half, bind one half to each elbow and sit com fori ablv bv. readme- or sewing while the lowly lemon does a lovely job of whitening the elbows. Arm can sorub with bnish and sonp "while talcins; your hath, or use -omvdored miniio<T on the elbows while using it on the nails. . . You may he wearing a long-sleeved bridal gown, but be ready to step out of it into an evening gown the verv next day and on innumerable evenings thereafter. And all the time let him wonder how von do it, and let him murmur something about satin instead of sandpaper.

AA : hen sewing fur on to a garment, rub the back of the fur with paraffin wax. The needle will then go through the skin like a piece of silk and save the usual tugging and pulling.