A BEAUTIFUL MOUTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20740, 6 December 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

A BEAUTIFUL MOUTH.

ITS EXPRESSION. More than any other feature, perhaps, our mouth is what we make it. A beautiful face can be spoiled by an unlovely expression of the mouth. A beautiful mouth is neither large nor small, and beautiful lips are neither thick nor thin, but any of us can do much to make our mouth beautiful, even though our lips a I*l not ideally perfect in shape. A friend of mine had a mouth that was anything but pretty, says the writer. She studied herself in her mirror as sho talked, until sho could decide which of her expressions was leaving an unbecoming expression on her lips. So persistently did she go about her attempt to subdue these expressions, that her mouth was completely changed within two months. v

Another one of my friends reduced the sizo of her thick lips by nibbing them with tannin. This is easiest to apply if the pulverised tannin is mixed with your favourite cold cream. Biting the lips is a disfiguring habit which nervousness isometimes takes, and when the skin has been broken, a rawness that often develops into a sore results. When the lips have become sore from this condition, it is a good plan- to use a combination of camphor and vaseline. Tho camphor dries the surface and forms a natural protection, and the vaseline is healing.