BEAUTY

Waipukurau Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 66, 11 March 1933, Page 7

BEAUTY

THE SLEEK-HAIRED GlTtkj You see her type in perfection gliding up and down o. dress salon, displaying the latest Paris model on her perfect figure. At first sight, her beauty seems remote and cold. Her eyes, with exquisitely arched eyebrows and long, sweeping lashes, gaze at you steadily, her nose is straight, her lovely lip w ore firmly pressed together .her heavy hair is parted’ severely in the centre and waves symmetrically back to' a knot on the nape of her white ..?ck, but when she smiles you knffw she is ouito human. Those lips have soft, sweet curves and the eyes can dance with fun.

So many girls of this typo do their best to spoil themselves. They have their hair waved in imitation of their favourite film star, they use bright scarlet lipstick and rouge, the wrong shade of face-powder, and drew* in frilly styles which are more suitable for the lively, fluffy type. You needn’t part your hair in the middle if it doesn’t suit you, but it’s an advantage if you can adopt this style. Make quite sure that your parting is exactly in the centre and perfectly straight. Let your hair fall softly at each side of the parting, covering your ears and not dragged back. Hair can bo made to lie more /.-mor,?al.y with the help of a few* drops of brilliantine, but don’t go to the opposite extreme and plaster it down with oil. Whether your hair is blue-black, brown or fair, it will need frequent shampooing. The highlights soon fade out if dust and grease are allowed to accumulate on the hair. A transparent and death - white skin nearly always accompanies the sleek-haired type. The transparency allows the colour of the blood, flowing beneath the surface of the skin, to show through and gives life and warmth to the cheeks. Hard water and exposure to hot sun and cold winds destroy this transparency. Always wash your face in water which has hen softened with borax, a teaspoon to the washbasin is sufficient, and protect the skin from sun and wind with a complexion milk.

Make-up for the sleek-haired type must be carefully considered, as it is very easy to spoil the whole effect by using the wrong colours. Yellowish shades of face-powder, for instance, make a white skin look sallow. A very pale tea-rose pink is the right shade to use. The powder should look white when its surface is flattened, but the

colour can bo seen when a depression is made in the powder. A deeper tint gives better results under artificial light. A liquid rouge is best for transparent white skins. Apply it. before powdering with a tuft of cottonwool. Touch the skin very lightly witn tho rouge commencing at the centre of the cheek and working outwards in a circle. If the result is patchy, wash off the colour and start again with the face wet. You can also dilute the rouge with water. Try to got. a delicate, soft, pink flush on the cheeks, not a vivid red. Eyebrows are very important to your severe type. They must be like a perfectly drawn lino, thin, dark, and tapering at the outer ends. With a pair of tweezers, pluck out all the straggling hairs, and if your eyebrows are thick, remove sufficient to make them narrower, but don’t overdo the plucking. Before using the tweezers, rub a menthol cone over your eyebrows and you won’t feel any discomfort. Remember to pull out. tho hairs the way they lie naturally, otherwise they will refuse to lie flat when they grow again.