CORRECT MAKE-UP

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20105, 11 May 1935, Page 11

CORRECT MAKE-UP

ART AT THE DRESSING TABLE Most women know nowadays that the correct placing of their rouge—• wide apart on the cheekbones for the too narrow face, closer to the nose for the broad one, and a generous dab on the chin if this feature be disposed to recede—can make all the difference to the apparent shape of their faces. What they Often fail to realise, writes a London beauty specialist, is that clever make-up can go a long way toward concealing all sorts of temporary blemishes.

Suppose, for instance, that there are dark lines under the eyes, the haggard look that this gives can be relieved by a tiny touch of eye-shadow on the lids. It must not, of course, merely be the kind normally used to intensify the colour of the eyes, but should match the lines that fatigue has painted below them.

On the same principle, any reddening of the skin, whether this be the result of cold winds, hard water, or incipient acne, can be made less conspicuous by using, as long as the trouble lasts, a shade of rouge that precisely matches it, although in the ordinary way rouge for the day would be selected according to the background provided for it by the colour of the clothes worn. Even a serious disfigurement such as a bad sty on the eyelid can be improved to such an extent by this method that people will say your eye is "much better to-day,” when you know perfectly well that it

is really worse. Sometimes it will be found that only by using two shades of rouge simultaneously the extra effect required can be achieved. Certain conditions, such as the broken veins in the cheeks caused by too much exposure, for instance, need a touch of their own colour first, followed by the use of the particular shade that the clothes you are wearing demand. This is specially true of some of the yellow-greens which do not combine well with the rather mauvish hue that is best for concealing a weather-beaten complexion. In order to profit by this notion of compensatory make-up you will want three shades of rouge—pale scarlet, pure crimson, and framboise, which has a little blue in its composition. These will be quite enough for women of average complexion to experiment with until they discover exactly what suits their own particular type.