POWDER BAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 30

POWDER BAR

D.I.C.’S NEW SERVICE

The day of haphazard cosmetic buying has gone. Cosmetology is a science that is destined to play an important part in the lives of women, and Miss Jeanette Curtis, Paul Duval s leading operator from London, who is at present at the D.1.C.. has made a special study of the subject. Behind the powder bar-—a new innovation here —she blends powder to individual requirements, first studying the colouring and texture of the skin beneath the penetrating rays of the all-reveal-ing Duval lamps. Miss Curtis, who has been responsible for establishing these powder bare in different parts of the world, thinks we are not sufficiently cosmeticconscious. “ Rachael ” and Naturelle ” are the only powder shades that many New Zealand people know. The majority of the skins she has studied in New Zealand have been dry, almost weather-beaten. This, she thinks, is due to the outdoor life of the people, the bracing climate, and in part to the water, which she find.? rather hard. Water, she says, is necessary to give that feeling of cleanliness to skin, but she thinks Dunedin women would be wise to wash their faces but once a day. By the correct use of cleaners, powder base, and muscle oil. they could do much towards regaining their natural colouring and fine texture of the skin. . There are 26 different shades ox powder from which to blend your own particular shade, either in winter or summer, for the colour of the skin sometimes varies with the seasons. Th° coloured powders are the evenins shade', so necessary because night lights often take away the natural colouring and give the face a hard appearance.