Look to Your Looks

Southland Times, Issue 22107, 30 August 1933, Page 5

Look to Your Looks

SKIN, SLIMMING, SLEEP. One of the things for the complexion is a sudden change of temperature and it is a golden beauty rule, particularly if your skin is sensitive and your circulation not too good, to get into the habit of dressing for the evening in an unwarmed room. This sounds spartan, and it is, but it is better than coming out of a warm room into the cold night air and back again into a very hot dance hall or dining room. It is these sudden changes of temperature that make your carefullypowdered face turn mauve in the icy wind, or cause that quaint effect (only to be remedied by an extra allowance of rouge) of a bright-red nose against pale cheeks. ' Dressing in unheated rooms and washing in cold instead of hot water help to harden the oversensitive skin which retains its softness and delicacy by generous applications of nourishing skin foods and oils so that your complexion will actually benefit by the hardening treatment. If your figure is a little fuller than you would wish, it is quite easy to lose as much as four pounds in a few weeks. Don’t begin with a martyred air, to give up one big meal every day —Harley Street physicians, who specialize in weight reducing are actually advising their clients to eat more often! The method, now, is, little and often, and a little of everything is much nicer than that dreary missing out of meals or denying oneself all the trimmings. Also, the new way happens to be twice as effective and not in the least injurious. We are all inclined to eat a little too much of the things we like. Very often it is only a habit, like a second cup of tea we don’t really want, or another helping of pudding, so please remember that we really could do without all those second helpings and still eat what we like. So there it is—the latest and most pleasant form of reducing. Just a little less of everything, and several small, balanced meals instead of one or two outsize ones.

And now we come to sleep—one of the best aids to beauty. What is more attractive than bright eyes, clear skin, quick wit and enthusiastic manner? Who can cultivate those after nights and nights when bed has not been thought of till the small hours. My advice is this—allow yourself at least two nights out of every week to go to bed before nine o’clock. It has been said by doctors that, if you go to bed before nine for nine nights in succession, your health would be improved a hundred per cent. Nine nights of it might be too much of a strain for some of you but do remember that if you want to be happy and attractive you must give up at least one or two nights each week to that good old friend, your bed.