In the Beauty Salons

Southland Times, Issue 21853, 2 November 1932, Page 5

In the Beauty Salons

(From a Correspondent.) London. It is now the boast of the midem beauty specialist that there is no type of feminine beauty in the world without its suitable make-up. A special rouge for the red-haired girl is made by one specialist, with a view to toning with the shade of the hair, while remaining suitable to the milky fairness of a red-haired girl’s complexion, A.iother rouge is compounded for women whose life in the country—hunting, playing games, gardening and exposing their skin to all weathers — has given them broken veins on the cheek-bones. This rouge is blended to tone in with the flush of the broken veins and takes away the weatherbeaten look entirely. There is a rouge in a pinky tone that is only for debutantes, and even the most strict chaperone would be unable to object to object to the delicate fresh colour it produces ca a very youthful clear skin. Women are buying a powder base that contains no grease at all, for use during the present tropical heat. A small quantity is patted over the face Ith the finger tips, and no powder is applied for about half an hour or longer. Constant repowdering is very bad for the pores of the face, and modern beauty specialists are always working on inventions to prevent the r.ecessity of this. A good dusting powder to be used whenever a bath is taken, a lotion that removes freckles and an infusion of cucumber and elder flowers to close the pores o fthe over-heated skin, are other items of the heat-wave beauty outfit. Pleasant for the bath and the washbasin are toilet waters from sevent enth century recipes, once made up in country house stillrooms by the hostess and her maids. The same recipes are still in use at a Bruton-street salon. The oueerest little parcels are being sent all over the plages and playgrounds of Europe and the United Kingdom this month from the salons of a beauty specialist in Park-lane. They contain bottles full of artificial eyelashes to replace those that come out aft • they have been stuck in in London, as well as the apparatus to put them on. These artificial eyelashes, made from the luxuriant tresses of Hungarian and Bohemian girls, are withstanding the sea-water test nobly, but they begin to come out after a fortnight’s hard wear. Each eye needs about sixty of them. The amount of activity going on in the fashionable parlours of the moment is almost all devoted to leg treatments, for those who are dancing nightly in London have discarded stockings in the heat-wave as much as those who are off to the seaside. When reducing treatments by means of wax baths have been done, massage is given from the knee to the toes, and the legs are finished off with talc powder in either white or sunburn shade.