GUIDE TO CHARM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 2

GUIDE TO CHARM

HOW TO KEEP FRESH WHEN TRAVELLING (By Jacqueline Hunt) Honeymooner, vacationer, or weekender all face the same problem—how to look particularly charming when travelling. It seems like a gift that only a rare few posses, this ability to get off a train looking as fresh as a daisy when everyone around you looks smudged and bedraggled. But actually there arc a few simple tricks any girl can learn. Here are some travel tricks that may save many an important situation for you. Do you know how to keep a clean face on a smoky train? This is the first lesson. Use a good foundation cream under your powder. It prevents dirt from grinding into the pores, and you

will find it easier to freshen your makeup. Simply go to the washroom, let the water run as cold as it will and pat handfuls of it all over your face. Now pat carefully with a fresh towel and see how much soil it picks up. Yet there will be enough of the foundation left to hold a fresh application of rouge and powder and leave your face feeling fresh and firm. Of course you can’t repeat this trick indefinitely without a thorough cleansing. but it will work two times successfully. For the complete cleansing, use a liquid cleanser. You can buy this in small bottles suitable for travelling

purposes, and besides cleansing your skin thoroughly, it also serves as a foundation for your fresh make-up. The cleanser should be applied with cotton-wool, a supply of which takes up very little room in your case or bag. If your journey is overnight or several nights, cream the skin thoroughly before you go to bed. leaving a little around your eyes. Remove the rest thoroughly and pat the oily areas with a good astringent. Chapped lips is another bugaboo of travellers. Smooth a little rich cream or pomade into them at night. Put lip pomade or foundation lipstick under your lip rouge. It really works if you take the time to put it on. Travelling, with the usual difference in water, is hard on the hands. Take your own cake of toilet soap, always, and avoid those to be found on trains or in hotels—unless it happens to be your own favourite brand. Have a big bottle of soothing hand lotion and use it every single time you wash. Use a nail brush to cleanse around your nails and use a nail white pencil under the nail tips. A whitening hand cream of the vanishing type is a good make-up for your hands during the day. Keep your hair tidy, by having it shampooed and set the day before you leave home. Brush it at night even though you cannot do a perfect job in the cramped quarters of a pullman berth or dressing room. Push the waves and curls into place and slip a light net cap or a hair net over them. Better carry three or four curlers along for an emergency or to prevent straggly curls around your neckline, and use them at night. Comb out your curls and spray or comb a little brilliantine through your locks to keep them shining and manageable. Bright, clear eyes are something that every traveller should strive for. It isn’t difficult if you pack a bottle of eye lotion and a pair of sun glasses for motoring or for resting your eyes when the sun glare becomes too great If you get a cinder or a speck of dust, try the old trick of pulling the upper lid over the lower one and holding it there for a minute. Then bathe the eye with lotion.

Looking nice while you travel is important, but getting off the train looking spic and span is even more so. A half hour before the train is due to arrive. put on a fresh blouse, take out a clean pair of gloves, and completely renew your make-up. Cleanse your face thoroughly, then dip a pad of cotton in cold water, douse with eau de Cologne and sponge your face and neck. Then apply your make-up. You’ll feel grand.