CULT OF BEAUTY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20233, 17 February 1934, Page 20 (Supplement)

CULT OF BEAUTY.

Three Guides to Womanly Charm. WHAT CARE CAN DO, (By a BEAUTY SPECIALIST.) While the masses appreciate beauty readily, they seldom stop to analyse its structure. There are three definite things to judge a woman’© beauty by. They are, personality, beauty of face, and physical perfection. Of course, as our senses work more quickly than our reasoning, and if we see a woman with a 100 per cent beautiful face, we are apt to slight personality or physical perfection, but not for long. We must have a combination of these three elements before we have real vital beauty. If we look around us we see many girls with pretty faces. Some have personality, a few have good figures. In very few do we find a combination of the three. There are the short-waisted girls, the long-waisted ones. There are those who are heavy at the hips, or too broad at the shoulders. Others have long, or fat arms or legs. Most of these girls could, if they tried, overcome these shortcomings by dieting, exercising and massage. A woman should take as much pains with her body as she does with her face and hands. Dress, of course, helps to overcome physical defects. This, too, requires study. Personality can be developed, too. It requires careful self-analysis, and a great deal of mental application. But it can be done. After all, personality i© more important than beauty of face and body. It i© worth weeks, months, even years of concentration and study. A merely beautiful face holds or interests for a ©hort time only, but personality endures, holds us until the end of time. Perfect Features and Beauty. It is a certain fact that perfect features don’t make a woman beautiful. In the first place, it is a problem whether “perfect” features exist. If they do, only one person in the world has them. No two people look exactly alike, so there is room for only one perfectly featured person. Beauty is a thing of time and moods. A girl may be exceedingly beautiful—at times —not because of perfect features, but because of perfect correlation of features. She will be beautiful because her nose is exactly the right sort of nose for her eyes, and her eyes are the right type and colour of eyes for her nose, and so on. Because every feature of her face “matches,” making the ensemble piquant, expressive and lovely. Let the girl© powder and rouge, and look their nicest. is surely superior to Nature. who object to facial improvement in their womankind make me tired. They themselves ©pend an hour or so at the barbers every morning, and an hour and a half on Saturdays, to mak© themselves handsome by “improving their faces.” They have face packs, massage, manicure, and so on. Nor do they consider the expense. But if a poor girl uses up a few shillings’ worth of powder in a year, and the same amount in lipstick—they talk of extravagance! I believe in make-up, when it’s well done, don’t you, girls? Fair, or olive, rose-pink or ivory, choose your own powders, and go ahead. With health and skill, perhaps with ordinary care, you can learn to be a woman rare. Complexion is not the only attraction, of course; there are other factors of beauty. Hands, feet, hair, poise and clothes. Perhaps some day I will tell you how to arouse manly interest through these features of beauty, but with the right complexion half the battle is won. Dry Shampoo. If one has been ill or confined to bed, and finds it impossible or undesirable to shampoo, an excellent substitute may be iised. If the physical condition is impaired, it goes without saying that the hair is under-nourished, and is in need of stimulation. The simple home remedy of corn meal will cleanse, stimulate and rejuvenate. Part the hair, and, with the finger tips, rub into every inch of the scalp a little corn meal. This should be done with a rotary motion, and preferably in the sunshine. Then carefully brush the meal from the scalp through the hair with long strokes. When the corn meal has been entirely removed, the hair will have become fluffy and lustrous, the scalp pink and pulsing with blood, and every trace of dandruff, dust and oil removed, leaving the hair fresh and fragrant. In spite of our most extreme vigilance, pimples, large and ©mall, often appear. Perhaps we may know the cause, and determine that these shall be the last—but what shall we do now? Here is a good remedy, which I think most girls will find of great value: Fill an Boz bottle with equal parts of fine sulphur and spirits of camphor. Massage the pimples each night with this. In the morning, after the face is made up, rub the pimple well again. With the corner of a wet cloth, remove the surplus white. Do it carefully, and the pimple will be almost concealed, and will remain so until the sulphur is washed or rubbed off. All the time the mixture is healing the offender. As the camphor_ evaporates in the bottle, add more. Keep it of a creamy consistency by adding only a little at a time.