COMPLEXION HINTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 25 July 1891, Page 206

COMPLEXION HINTS.

HOW TO HAYE A BEAUTIFUL NECK

So many ladies rashly expose a thin, scraggy neck just because it is the fashion to wear a very low or v-shaped bodice in an evening. To look really well, the neck should boast two qualities—whiteness and plumpness. The former can be acquired, the latter cannot. But stay, I have read somewhere of a lady whose thin neck, with its ugly visible bones, and its display of salt cellars, as the hollows by the throat are called, was to her a source of real tribulation and annoyance, as she frequently overheard the remark. ‘lf I’d a neck like that I’d'cover it un pretty quickly.’ So she rubbed olive oil, pure and good, every night for three months into her neck, left it on all night;

and washed it off in the morning. She says she has now a lovely neck, only all her underlinen is ruined. Constant rubbing, bathing the neck every night with very hot water, rubbing in some good soap—which must be absolutely pure—with a washing glove, and afterwards with a Hesh brush is beneficial. Then dab over eau-de-cologne, or a weak solution of alum, ordinary vinegar, or the strained juice of a lemon in which a small quantity of honey has been dissolved. Any of these will soften and improve the skin, removing all spots and rougnness in course of time. But until this treatment produces the desired result, let me entreat you to fill in your evening bodices with that very becoming soft chiffon spangled tulle, or exquisite lace which softens every face in such a lovely manner that I wonder it is not universally adopted by slim figures.