A LESSON IN MAKE-UP.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19659, 20 August 1935, Page 5

A LESSON IN MAKE-UP.

Most women know nowadays that the correct placing of their rouge—wide apart on the cheekbones for the too narrow face, closer to the nose for the broad one, and a generous dab on the chin if this feature be disposed to recede—can make all the difference to the apparent shape of their faces. What they often fall to realise is that clever make-up can go a long way towards concealing all sorts of temporary blemishes. Suppose, for instance, that there are dark lines under the eyes, the haggard look that this gives can be relieved by a tiny touch of eye-shadow on the lids. It must not, of course, merely be the kind normally used to intensify the colour of the eyes, but should match the lines that 'fatigue has painted below them. On the same principle, any reddening of the skin, whether this be the result of cold winds, hard water, or incipient acne, can be made less conspicuous. Over this is placed a second bag, made trouble lasts, a shade of rouge that precisely matches it, although in the ordinary way rouge for the day would bo selected according to the background provided for it by the col- j our of the clothes worn. Even a scri- ' ous disfigurement such as a bad sty on the eyelid can be improved to sucli, an extent by this method that people I will say your eye Is “much better to- { day," when you know perfectly' well. that it is really worse. Sometimes it will be found that J only by using two shades of rouge simultaneously the exact effect required can bo achieved. Certain conditions, such as the broken veins in the cheeks caused 'by too much exposure, for instance, need a touch of their own colour first, followed by the use of the particular shade that the . clothes you arc wearing demand. In order to profit by this notion of compensatory make-up you will want three shades of rouge—pale scarlet, pure crimson, and framboise, which has a little blue in its composition.