BEAUTIFUL HANDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23137, 8 September 1938, Page 5

BEAUTIFUL HANDS

NEW NAIL POLISHES VARIETY OF RICH COLOURS CHOOSING CORRECT SHADES Smart women are displaying smarter fingertips than ever now that high style and femininity have joined forces, according to Miss Gladys Byrne, who arrived in Auckland recently. She said that the new nail polish shades had a richness and colour hut with an underlying softness that made the hands look more feminine, instead of sharp, vivid reds, the new colours included creamy colours that toned in with the natural ivory ol the skin.

"No matter how gaudy your polish may be, it will beautify your hands if the* shade is correctly chosen," said iliss Byrne. "It is only when one's polish clashes with one's colouring and «lothes that- it screams at the passorsbv and seems to dominate the hands

"The now colours include the indefinite shades'of rose and dusky pink, while thistle, clover and tulip are very becoming to most. Parisian dressmakers work on tho lines that when the clothes are sober coloured the finger nails are tinted with a gay polish and when the clothes ,are gay tho finger polish is leutral. Polish shades were equally divided between the regal blue, red and the golden reds dusted with brown.

Use by Royalty Miss Byrne said that vividly coloured nails were accepted now in the very best society. She mentioned also that quite recently nail colour had been perriiitted in the Court. Tho Queen used a shade of bisque, while the Duchess of Kent was very fond of clover colours. _ 1 "Though there are hundreds of shades of nail lacquer on the market, most of those in use at present have three basic foundation shades," continued Miss Byrne. "There are the clear reds, the blue-rods and the yellowreds. There are, of course, scores of j variations of each shade, the clear reds varying from pale pink to uncompromising scarlet. Yellow-reds vary from light orange tones to dull rust ones and blue or mauve polishes range from toiies as delicate as mother of pearl to a deep. purple. Changes Needed Miss Byrne strongly advises that women should find out which colour suits them and then adhere to that colour. This still enabled a woman to have a' variety of polishes in different intensities of tho same tone, to wear for different occasions and with different costumes. i As the skin was changed by sun tan or for anv other reason, it was important that' the nail polish should be changed accordingly. Many wonien, who used rosv tones in the winter changed to deep clear orange when the summer sun had turned their skins brown.