CULT OF BEAUTY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 20 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

ATTRACTIVE EYES ARE MADE BY GOOD HEALTH (By A BEAUTY SPECIALIST.) It is perfectly right and proper for one to spend time before one’© mirror, closely scrutinising the eyes and their surroundings to discover their attractive and unattractive features. In this way only will it be able to determine what is necessary to do to cultivate their beauty. Remember the eyes will speak, you cannot keep them mute. Whether they speak intelligently, cheeringly, lovingly, cleverly, beautifully, or stupidly, rests with your health, your natural and acquired mentality and psychic development, and the training you give them in conversing in expression. In other wordit rest* with you, what your eyes say and how they say it. They are your weapon of defence, your instrument of attraction, fascination, influence, and charm. Make them offer no apology, make no undesirable confession; instead, let them speak—train them to speak of you a« you want the world to know you. By the law of cause and effect we gradually become what we most earnestly desire to become. If you want your eyes to speak well of you, beautifully to others, they gradually will learn the languago if you aid them by improvement of your health and by cultivation of self and the eyes themselves. The first requisite to beautiful eyes m good health. Everything which affects the physical health, the blood of the nervous system, affects the eyes in the same direction. Hygienic habits of living and thinking are absolutely necessa'iV if the eyes are to be fascinating expressive. Whatever promote* ami increases the general health, must, of necessity, improve thia index of health. Pessimism, melancholy, worry, grief, and all other mental and emotional states reduce the eye fluid, dull and deaden the eye, which then gives no beam to catch another s eye or fancy, and trace unattractive lines about the eyes. Many people are for ever abusing the eves in work and pleasure that cau>B a tension of the features, weakness in tho eyes, without knowing how to relax the eyes, to overcome the harmful effect of such abuses For long retained perfect vision and for best appearance of the eyes, rest of the eyes is as important n« the rest of the physical body and the mind and the nerves. The General Health. General exercises are necessary for general health, it is almost impossible to have a dull eye when exercising energetically. Idleness of the eye and the body is both ruinous for eye-beautv and tho health. All sports requiring a keen eye, a« tennis, baseball, archery, and punching the bag, are excellent, also movements involving the neck muscles and the spine. The latter have more direct effect than the others. Of course, a daily eye bath is necessary, as everyone know**, and for tired eyes pads of cottonwool soaked in some soothing lotion and left on for three minutes—no longer—are very beneficial. Do not rub the eye 6. If eome foreign object enters the eye, rub the other eye. This at least spare* the affected eye from undue injury. However, a little pure vaseline rubbed between the lids helps to remove the offending object far better than water. “Rub the eye with nothing but the elbow” is good beauty advice, for rubbing makes tho eye red, and may wrinkle and pound the surrounding parts. Better results maybe obtained by making small circular movements with the fingers to the eyebrow* ao|d other parts surrounding ithe eye, not harshly, nor for a long time. Protruding eyes and puffy eyes are often the result of an excessively thick fatty cushion in which they are set. Less luxuriousness in diet and habits will reduce this cushion somewhat, place the eye in a better position, and remarkably improve it* appearance. A regimen including more complete relaxation of the body, nerves, and eyes, more fresh air and moderate exercise, frequently will correct these faults and also improve eye-lustre as well. Improved Appearances. Contracted eyelids that make the eyes too small for beauty inay be improved in appearance by practising opening wide the eyes, lifting the flesh immediately above the upper lid* with gentle out-ward-upward pressure massaging upward from the upper lid to the top of the forehead, and gently stroking movement*, both above and below the eyeball from angle to angle. Unruly eyebrow* may bo trained to stay in place by outward stroking with tho fingers, or better, an eyebrow brusli or a fine tooth brush used night and morning. For particularly stubborn eyebrows, a little sweet oil may las brushed across them at night, and it is a good plan if you want your brow* and eyelashes to grow thick, to eoalc them and the eyelid* as well in yellow vaseline every night before retiring. Short eyelashes may be made to grow somewhat longer, and more attractive, by clipping their tips regularly for a few mouths. Only the tip* should be clipped and often it is better to have another do this to avoid clipping too much, or irregularty. Lashes that are long and up-curling are fascinating in women. It is not attractive to colour the lashes or brows. Leave them the colour Nature has given them. The colour of thg brows and lashes harmonises with the hair of the head and the eyes. Summing up, the cultivation of the eyes for beauty, fascination expressiveness and the revelation of desirable physhral and psychic qualities and traits, health first must be cultivated, nerves must be fed and kept alive and given ample rest. Every habit that promotes vigour and vitality must be adopted. An honest, wfide-awako interest in humanity and everything that makes a well-rounded life, lias more to do with the brilliance and sparkle and alertness of the eye and its beauty, than anything else outside of health/ The two are equally important. Legitimate love of everything worth while give* a glow to the eye, but selflove puts a deadness there that the most superb health cannot brighten. Glassce may cover up some eye defects, but usually they detract from eye beauty. If they must be worn, be sure - that they conform to your features as much as possible. Proper living and suitable eye exercise often make it possible for people to discard glasses, even after they have been worn for many years.