Importance Of Beauty Culture

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 14

Importance Of Beauty Culture

Hints For Modern Women

Whether or not we approve the importance modern woman places on beauty culture, we have to admit that makeup is generally adopted nowadays, says a London writer. Hence the necessity for making provision in the bedroom for the housing of all the necessary bottles, boxes, packages and jars. The modern architect, designing the bedroom of a wealthy client, likes to arrange a special alcove for make-up. when space permits. The alcove will be subtly illuminated by electricity concealed along the sides and the ceiling, so that face and hair may be thoroughly scrutinised yet not harshly lit up. The equipment of the sides is often a little suggestive of the cocktail cabinet built in to the walls of modern dining rooms. The walls are fitted with a series of shelves, all within easy reach, and the shelves are designed to accommodate the rollers, patters, tweezers, scissors, files and polishers that, with other things, form the equipmen*. The woman who is neither building nor adapting a house but has to make the best of what she Jjas will find that she too can keep her make-up handy arid all together by taking advantage of the various contraptions offered in up-to-date stores. Here she will find clever Jittle trays made to slip into a drawer in the dressing-table or even into the comer drawer of the chest, and so subdivided that the compartments manage to take conveniently the various pots and jars. The trays, made with an enamel finish in a variety of delicate shades, are easily kept clean, so that a

smear of lip-stick or a spot of liquid - rouge doesn't matter. For liquids and lotions there are s •’harming sets of bottles fitting side by ,r side on long narrow glass trays. The r bottles range from tall ones in the centre • to small ones at the sides, and the stoppers are often in a contrasting shade to - add to the decorative effect. A jade J green glass tray may hold white glass • bottles ’adorned with lines of green and 1 black, while the stoppers may be black. - To indicate the nature of the liquids . there are tiny bottle labels inscribed: •' “Hair Lotion.” ”Eau de Cologne.” “Clean- - sing Lotion,” and so forth. 2 And. of course, the'e is the make-up t box in coloured metal, with divisions into . which everything can be fitted, and this f has the advantage of being ready for - travelling at a moment's notice. - It is amusing to wonder if any girl s exists nowadays who could cheerfully ;, assert, with the smug milkmaid of the old ditty, ‘‘my face is my fortune.” It i needs phenomenal beauty to be in any e way outstanding in these days, when t schoolgirl complexions can be encouraged •' from the chemist’s store, and when per- :: manent waving provides the fascination i «>f curls that used to be envied in vain 1 by the straight-haired, i The naturallv beautiful girl may wish 1 'he had been born in an age when, like i grandma, she could be the acknowledged & “belle” of every ball, but it adds to s the gaictv of nations and the general i contentment when nobody need accept s j the miserable knowledge that her face h i u her misfortune! Beauty treatments

Grilled Liver. Prepare slices of liver 4 inch thick. Sprinkle with salt and pep|»er. place on greased wire grillcr and grill 5 minutes, turning often. Spread with butler and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Garnish with rolls of grilled bacon and parsley. (If using beef liver, and it is tough, parboil slices 5 minutes.) Liver and Bacon Pie. One lamb's fry, jib. bacon, 1 onion, cayenne, lib. cold mashed potatoes. $ pint water. Cut liver into very thin slices. Peel and slice onion. Remove rind from bacon. Grease a piedish. Lay the slices of livci, bacon and onion In.

I rank now among the subtler arts, and experts seldom admit defeat. The plain j fan he made presentable, and ill-assorted

j features are hailed with acclamation by | lhe beauty specialist, who sees promising i material for an intriguing individuality ! to be made manifest.

advantage in possessing naturally the charms that others have to spend time and money on acquiring, and the effort involved may still place beauty beyond the reach of the industrious and the indolent. Many women are far too busy all day to perform the rites and exercises reauired at night for the sake of their appearance, and there are others who confess themselves too lazy for any consistent effort. One eminent skin specialist has declarer! that sustained courses of treatment are feasible only for the woman whose face actually is her fortune —in other words, there is adequate incentive for the actress and the artist's model, but not for the woman who merely likes to look her best. it is often positively inadvisable to commence a treatment that you are not sure -/ill be carried out faithfully and without interruption, and women sometimes use this argument to justify utter slackness and neglect of appearance. They quote cases where muscles, stimulated by intensive massage or electricity, have sagged to an abnormal degree when the treatment has been suddenly discontinued; and other cases where glands and cells have dried up and withered when deprived of the fatty diet with widen they had been temporarily indulged. But there is an important distinction to he realised here. It is unwise to adopt anv treatment which has its perceptible action on the skin or any other feature unless the full course prescribed can be completed. Where there is action, there is always the potention re-action. It is easy to see, for instance, that any tightening of the face muscles by masks, nr of the skin by drastic astringents, involves the risk of corresponding collapse on discontinuance. On the other hand, there is no such "snag” with cleansing and nourishing treatments which aim only at restoring the normal healthiness, and erasing the effects of exposure to harmful conditions. Occasional cleansing and care is lie tier than none, and just sufficient benefit may lx? derived to maintain a stale of reasonable well-being which will respond to a course of sustained treatment when opportunity offers. Who of us has not at .some period or other contemplated with dismay the prospect of a party or dance at the end of an exhausting day? The rush and stress of modern life tends to overstimulate the nerves, and this in turn shows in the face as fat'- e lines, salluwness .and dull eyes. In view of all this, it is very cheering to know that it is possible to whisk away all trace of nerve strain in a few minutes. It. is the blood stream which carries to the tissues their supply of nourishment and a sluggish circulation may lx? laid the responsibility for wrinkles, sagging tissues and Slowness. It was a clever person who, thinking along these lines, evolved the obviously necessary something to "pep up” the circulation without over-stimulating it. in the guise of a sweet-scented creamy paste and aptly described as a circulation mask. Now we in the beauty world know that there are many methods of stimulating the facial circulation, but for a quick “pick-up” there is nothing to equal a circulation cream. In choosing this stimulating mask cream, be sure of your skin type, for there arc the two varieties Pineapple and Orange Jam. Pee I and core a pineapple of medium size and stew it with A cup wgter for 20 minutes. Wash and cut up 5 sweet oranges and 1 bitter orange. Soak them for 24 hours in 2 pints water, then bring to the boil. While it boils for 10 minutes, cut the stewed pineapple into small pieces, stir this and the pineapple juice into the oranges, then add 61b. sugar and boil for i hour. Irish Moss Jelly. Obtain a packet of the moss from a chemist, and allow It pints of milk to each quarter ounce. Wash the moss in cold water, heat the milk and add the

Sprinkle with cayenne (salt if neces-1 sary). Add water, bake in slow oven : about 1 hour. Mash potatoes, add butter t and milk. Spread over meat and re- ; turn to oven to brown. ; « Rhubarb and Banana Surprise. 1 Cut up 6 sticks of rhubarb, put it' i in a buttered pie-dish and add ilb. « sugar. Slice 3 bananas on this and add a cup of water. Cream 2oz. butter . f with 2oz. sifted sugar, add 2 beaten 1 eggs, then stir in Ilb. plain flour, sifted P with a pinch of salt and £ teaspoon | baking powder. Pour this over the ( fruit and bake for 1 hour. Serve cold « with boiled custard or cream. |<

—mild and normal. The latter is suited to skins ranging from average to heavy and oily, while the mild is for the thin, dry, sensitive skin.

People with tough and oily skins can stand a fair amount of stimulation, but great care must be taken with the thinskinned type for fear of over-stimulation and consequent damage to the capillary system.

Before applying the mask, remove the make-up with as little friction as possible. Then spread the cream on in an upward and lifting movement. Be careful not to go too close to the eyes, although the crepiness over the eyelids and any puffiness under the eyes will benefit greatly by this treatment. It is a good idea to relax on your bed while the mask does its good work, for 10 or 15 minutes, but if time is in question, leave it on while taking your bath. It comes off very easily with warm water and a face washer or small Turkish towel. When carelessly applied, it sometimes gets in the hair around the hairline. and is difficult to remove with* t disarranging the coiffure, so guard against this. Witli all the fatigue poisons flushed away the skin should now be glowing and tingling. Examine your face carefully for red patches, for if present you will need to apply emollient cream and leave it on for a few minutes until all unevenness of colouring disappears. Should ther much redness, it is possible that the wrong type of cream has been used, a milder one being indicated for future use.

When applying the inake-up. very little rouge will be necessary, for the mask will have brought up the natural colouring. The beneficial effects of this type of mask will be evident for days following the application, in the improvement in the skin texture. More than one treatment in a week is inadvisable.