THE BEAUTY EXPERTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3662, 20 May 1924, Page 63

THE BEAUTY EXPERTS.

I j WHAT THE BEST OF THEM HAVE i TO SAY ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.— HOME RECIPES. THE MACNETiSM OF BEAUTIFUL HAIR. Beautiful liair adds immensely to the personal magnetism of both men and women. Actresses and smart women are - ever on the lookout for any harmless I thing that will increase the natural | beauty of their hair. The latest method is to use pure stallax as a shampoo on | account of the peculiarly glossy, fluffy, J and wavy effect which it leaves. As j stallax has never been used much for tills purpose it comes to the chemist ouly’ | in jib sealed original packages, enough | ior 25 or 30 shampoos. A teaspoonful J of the fragrant staliax granules dissolved | in a cup of hot water is more than sufiii cient for each shampoo. It is very beneficial and stimulating to the hair, apart from its beautifying effect. TO HAVE SMOOTH WHiTE SKIN, FREE FROM BLEMISH. Does your skin chap or roughen easily, or become unduly red and blotchyV Let me tell you a quick and easy way to overcome the trouble and keep your complexion beautifully white, smooth, and soft. Just get some ordinary mercolised : wax at the chemist’s and use a little i before retiring, as you would use cold i cream. The wax, through some peculiar action, flecks off the rough, discoloured, or : blemished skin. The worn-out cuticle j comes off just like dandruff on a diseased j .calp, only in almost invisible particles. Mercolised wax simply hastens Nature’s i woi'k, which is the rational and proper i way to attain a perfect complexion, so | much sought after, hut very seldom seen. The process is perfectly simple and quite I harmless. PERMANENTLY REMOVING SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. How to permanently, not merely temporarily, remove a downy growth of disfiguring superfluous hair is what many women wish to know. It is a pity that it is not more generally known that pure powdered pheminol, obtainable from the chemist’s, may be used for this purpose. It is applied directly to the objectionable hair. The recommended treatment not only instantly removes the hair, leaving no trace, but is designed also to kill tha roots completely.

may say that it is more so. The style here is another great favourite —the one with the cross-over front that fastens on the side. Perhaps from a tailor's standpoint, this example of it is a long way the better of the two, meaning the pictures. I can see plainly enough that the Egyptian patterns are on the wane. At no distant date they will be found to have passed out. And then what will take their place? If I am any kind of prophet at all I think those regular little floral designs our dear grandmammas liked so much, as evidenced by the way the artists used to picture the period. We must always have patterns of some kind, and there it is—normally speaking, there are only three: stripes, checks, and spots, with the floral as the alternative, or in some form of comb'nation. At present, by the way, where we go in for stripes and checks, the lines or squares are immense. This came for “sports,” but I think the idea is being extended. The only thing to say of an extra large pattern is that the garment must be very carefully cut out for the making, as naturally such a pattern is always harder than a small one to balance.” But this is arbitrary: all these large designs should Ire of very subdued tone or the effect will be startling. Some ! ttle time ago I spoke of the growing liking for mounts, trailed from the hat on to the shoulder. You get a good idea of what was influencing me in what you see with this. These sweeping feathers, and they need not be feathers at all, sug-

gest, as so used, a kind of draping. I expect that that is how they came to be thought of. The hat is a good one—a becoming shape with a rather novel front., in that this is something like a brim that has been sharply turned up. And it may be decorated, and the sketch show's a very good method. But there it is -hats are of all kinds just now.