ACTRESSES' MAKE-UP.

Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 34

ACTRESSES' MAKE-UP.

'• Nothing is so exaggerated or mysterious to the outside world as the 'make-up' process oi! actors, 1 ' said a prominent member of the profession. " Well, I suppose actresses adopt the same process of fashionable women V " Not a bit of it. Actresses have to follow simple and quick methods to make up for a stage appearance. The actress who wishes to make a good appearance usually washes her face in water and then in bay rum. Oriental cream or a whitish liquid is next applied with a sponge. When the face is dry it is then powdered with the softest chamois skin. Then the background, as it were, is ready, and carmine is, delicately distributed with a fine velvet sponge over the features. The lips next receive attention by the homeopathic application of a red liquid. All of this is done with incredible swiftness, and without any apparent effort to obtain artistic effect. The particular part of the toilet now begins — pencilling the eyebiows, A small camel's hair brush of the beit quality is moistened with the finest India ink, and work on the eyebrows is fairly inaugurated. A delicate lino is also drawn under the lashes on the lower Jid. This is the way tho actress prepares to make her appearance upon the stage when she is personating a character thai does not require hey to look older than she really is. In that, case, of course,, she uses cosmetics and paints to produce wrinkles and the necessary aged appearance. Lead pencil*, Xo. 1, are frequently used instead of India ink to pencil the eyebrows. The enamelling process, which originated in 'France, is very rarely resorted to on account of its baneful effects. It gives the face a ghos llike, waxy v look, and is , far from bemt; beautiful. It is a perfect arfc, though; and frequently very old actresses can build a new. and youthful face for the stage with enamel. Used to a great extent it fills the pores of the skin, and poisons the muscular glands, producing disease. Some, of the great and successful actresses, Jiowever, have outfits that a harem of Oriental women might envy. To enumerate a few articles— Glycerine, India ink, powders, carmine, lead pencils, sponge, powder puffs, crimpers, frizzes, chamois skin, puffs, braids, hair pins, pieces of steel for short cnrlsj tooth paste, bay rum, Florida water,' arsenic, nail brush, tweezers for pulling^ oiit j grey haira, cardamin seeds, dyes, aromatic, pills.f or the breath, invigorators; sheet. of zinc for curlJDg hair, 1 two hand $lafises,"besides other articles. The effeot.of long years of paintirig'a face is quite visible anl noticeable bj the generally dead ex-, of the skin, I wonld adVise every

actor and • Actress to pay a great deal of ; ttention to scrubbing their faces after tho performances. • They do wash the paint off, but oftentimes, being in a hurry, they do nofc wash hard enough. There is an art in • rnak-ing-up 'as well as in acting. "— N.Y. Mail and Express.