COLOURING THE CHEEKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 49, 5 December 1891, Page 647

COLOURING THE CHEEKS.

So secretly and quietly has the new art of colouring the cheeks been practised by a few ladies that it has not yet become public property. A beautiful woman in society has one great defect to her loveliness, and that is her complexion. Not many months ago she was far away from home, and she noticed the lovely natural bloom in the cheeks of a friend, who formerly had no colour. She noticed also that the charming roses never appeared in her cheeks in the day. In a moment of unusual candour, when the heart was overflowing with charity and goodwill to her guest, the lady explained the nature of her art. A colouring matter, the composition of which is not known to the writer, is put into the cheeks by means of a small hypodermic syringe, such as is used in morphine injections. It became a fad with the French ladies to inject perfumes beneath the skin by the hypodermic needleto make a sweet and subtleodouremanate from their persons, and some person has originated this idea for rouging the cheeks.