FASHIONS IN MAKE-UP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23004, 6 October 1936, Page 15

FASHIONS IN MAKE-UP

HOLLYWOOD GIVES A LEAD Let severity be your keynote if you wish to be the modern type. Avoid any suggestion of fiuffiness. The high-est-paid screen beauties are devastatingly severe in their outlines, but what perfection of detail and grooming go to make up that beautiful severity! Curls on the neck are still worn, but skilful hairdressing moulds the rest of the hair closely to the head (says a beauty expert). Wind-blown bobs or artistic untidiness are equally out of date. As for make-up, never has that been more attractive and charming than it is at the moment. Gone is the old idea of buying a pot of rouge and a box of powder and using them on all occasions. It is obvious that one needs different shades of lip or cheek colour for different outfits. There is one well-known Hollywood star who can completely change her type by a skilful change of cosmetics, thus endowing her own personality with an infinite variety of charm. "A few simple rules which everyone can follow may be laid down," says this expert. 'When you are wearing black, for instance—and black is becoming to almost everyone—see that neither your powder, rouge or lipstick contains any yellow. Your powder must be cream or peachbloom, with a suggestion of clear rose in it. Your rouge and lipstick, too, must be a framboise tone; that is, it must have a bluish rather than a yellowish tint. Knowing these beauty secrets one cannot possibly look sallow or older in black, as many girls declare they do. " Now just reverse for the wearing of white. There is hardly a girl who does not yearn to look lovely in a severe white evening frock, and there is hardly a girl who may not do so if she is just a little cunning in her face get-up. White can look so doll-like and uninteresting, but not if you follow this idea:

" No matter what the colour of your hair may be, choose a dark powder, either a banana or ochre. With this, put on a shading of paste rouge in a sun-orange tint, and lipstick to tone. A little dark mascara may be added, and the merest suggestion of an olive eye-shading, and let your hair be as smoothly waved as possible. In other words, go brunette, even Spanish. These hints in regard to the wearing of black and white will give you some idea of how to make even such difficult colours as yellow, grey or violet becoming."

Of course, all beauty specialists recommend cream rouges, because they seem to be procurable in a bigger variety of fine, clear tones, and also because they go on under the powder, and do not stand away from the face in a side light. There are also to be bought new varieties of mascara, in olive, dark blue, and black. Tljey defy tears and wet weather—so different from the oldfashioned one which trickled blackly down our cheeks if we gave way to a moment's emotion.

Few girls realise how important in cosmetic loveliness is the choice of exactly the right powder basis. An oily cream, well rubbed in, is often best for the girl with a dry ; fine complexion, but she whose skin secretes over-much natural oil must choose her powder foundation very carefully. A somewhat greasy skin texture, a dark ochre powder, and what do we see? A nose, towards the end of the day, like a brick kiln or a sulphur bag.