LOOK PLEASANT PLEASE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 955, 27 December 1933, Page 9

LOOK PLEASANT PLEASE.

Making Up to the Camera Man. AT THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S. Perhaps the title sounds somewhat “forward”—but it may be misleading! The photographer is probably of all men least susceptible to feminine beauty. He must grow blase about the plethora of female loveliness with which he is continually beset. lie will regard one’s “ making-up ’’ efforts with a strictly technical eye. His concern will be purely with the possibility of a successful photograph. Make-up may be a help to him, or else it can spoil what would otherwise be a good picture. Rouza heavily applied on the cheeks will quite posriblv give a sunken appearance to the face, for instance. If you are not in the habit of using make-up it is a mistake to use it to be photographed. It will probably make a caricature portrait. quite unlike your usual self. On the other hand, if you habitually use lipstick and possibly rouge, you must make yourself lock as much like your usual self as possible. It is wise to consult your photographer on the question of where to place the rouge on the cheeks. It will depend on the light he uses for your portrait, for one thing. Perhaps he will decide to emphasise the bony structure of your face, in the modern manner, and rouge must be very carefully applied for that result. The shape of the mouth can be brought out by a judicious use of lipstick, but an artificial Cupid’s bow, when Nature has perhaps given you an entirely different shape of mouth, is merely grotesque. Yet many people imagine that it will look well in a photograph. A tiny smear of rouge can be applied to the outside corner of the eyes to enlarge their apparent size, and the lashes might well be darkened without taking away from an effect of naturalness. The eyebrows must be brushed smoothly to shape, but not darkened. Use very little powder, as it is likely to have a deadening effect on the skin. The natural translucencv of the skin is more effective in a photograph than anv artificial covering.

Do not visit the photographer immediately after having the hair washed and waved. It is inclined to look a little stiff and set for two or three dayg, and a more natural effect is gained on about the third day.