JAPANESE BEAUTY.
Beauty appears to be purely geographical. The ideal of Japanese lovliness is a long narrow face, with a high receding forehead. The hair must be plentiful and silky, jet black, and perfectly smooth and straight. If a Japanese lady has the misfortune to possess curly hair, she devotes as much time and trouble to make it smooth as European ladies, with curling tong-s and pins, to making- theirs curly. Japanese taste demands long-, narrow eyes, almond eyes, in fact, sloping upwards slightly to the corners. The brows should be the finest lines, high up from the eyes; and razors and eyebrow pencils are freely used to attain this effect. The nose should be sharply cut and aquiline in form, but not hig-h in the bridge, for a certain flatness of face is prized.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 25 September 1912, Page 7
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