BEAUTIFY YOUR ARMS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17223, 5 October 1927, Page 5

BEAUTIFY YOUR ARMS.

USEFUL HINTS. Summer time, which is short-sleeve time, is coming, and short sleeves require pretty arms, soft, white, and rounded. If you are sweet seventeen with rounded arms and dimpled elbows, all you need trouble about Is keeping them white and avoiding disfiguring little freckles. But those who are older must pay very special attention to the care of the skin and shape.

Unless they are creamed, massaged, and exercised, that ugly little hollow line from elbow to wrist will appear after 30 years of age. Massage will help in preventing these hollows from appearing, but it must be accompanied by exercises. First bathe the arms in warm water, smear a little cream over the skin and rub it in, stroking from the wrist to the elbow; then, bending the arm at the elbow, pinch and knead the skin over the hollow. This stimulates the muscles.

For an exercise to keep the forearm rounded and prevent a hollow from forming, bend the hand backwards at the wrist, and work the fingers exactly as if practising the piano. If this exercise is practised before a mirror the movements of the muscles can be watched, and it will easily be" noticed how effective the exercise will be in developing the prettiest part of the arm. Those Red, Bony Elbows. Should the elbows be red and too sharp for beauty, and you would have a quick and sure method of making them round and white, lake a lemon, cut it in two, remove the pips and core. Into the hole left after removing the core, put a lump of cold cream, fit the half lemon io the elbow, and rub it round and round for several minutes; keeping up the massage until all the cream has been absorbed. Do this every night, and after removing the lemons bind a piece of butter muslin or cheese cloth lightly round the elbow to keep the cream on the skin and prevent it from soiling the bed linen. Allow the bandage to remain on till next morning, when the treatment should he repeated. Bathe the elbows, and after drying rub over with fine oatmeal to remove any traces of greasiness. Bathing with milk will help to make the skin white, but should the arms require to be "made up" for daylight, do the following:—After washing with warm water, half dry, and rub over with rosewater and glycerine. Finish drying, and coat thickly with powder. Leave for five minutes, and with a piece of chamois leather rub over the skin.