Introducing...
Views On Feminine Charm
recent Hollywood
Tcharm Giploma conferred
on seven women of the screen re-establishes the charm theme. as the popular one of the - moment. Of any moment, it may truly be said. In any day, any era, any century, it is charm that etches a woman's name in the hall of fame. Not just beauty, not a reputation as the best dressed, not just the things found in a beauty parlour, although, as you shall see, these physical items are not without bearing on charm.
What makes charming charming.” Hear the interpreta- tions of charm from well-known men. Dean Comwell, international- gly known painter and illustrator
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“A great artist once said that art is some great power filtered through the artist's imagination. Charm, I take it is like, That, some great power in a woman that inspires the imagination. Charm
is
not beautiful construction of form and face It is something the woman herself is able to pro- jeet so that her features become. of lesser importance. Homely women may, and often do, give our this quality. A beautiful but dumb individual wouldn't. She couldn't. A woman who works hard to be charming, who shows that she is working hard at the game, is not, in the famous artist's judgment, an appealing figure of charm. She's empty, void, super- ficial.
Leslie Howard, famous figure of age and screen. like other men, Baterprets the charming, wo- man as the ideal woman, about. whom he has to say: “An ideal woman, or the ideal woman is -gentle, unaffected, liberal minded, and non-predatory. No preferred colour of hair or eyes is exacted of the ideal one. But she must be soisme."
In beauty of expression is a good sense of humour. in giving the impression that she enjoys life. not Martinelli's concept of what makes the charming woman charming? “My own choice is the home woman; he says, “the wo- man whose dominant interest is her home. husband, and children, and who is intelligent, cultuŕed, and interested in everything in
on about
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BEAUTY DIARY
COME years ago it was the fashion to regard your complexion
delicate tender flower that needed huthouse care to keep it fresh as beautiful' Now, however, the modern girl says, “I want a skin I can trust. It must be clear and fresh, not because of what I put on top, but because of what it really looks. like underneath It must. fairly shout cleanliness to the world.
Before I do anything else I will make it healthy and glow- ingr
Thus a new mental image has printed itself in the mind of the younger generations and thus the fashion of scrubbing your skin became part of *2.77 up-to-the- minute beauty regime. By scrub bing. I don't mean, harsh panish- ment that catsES overdry skins to become Saky and rough mean a gradual invigorating ex- ercise of washcloth or complexion brush to preserve the skin's under- glow, to slough of dead cuticle.
Aside from our mental picture of skin radiance, there's another scand reason for brisker methods of cleansin That Hes in the knowledge-tha: modern toilet soaps are bland and pure, particularly the well-known, inexpensive and taken-for-granted ones you find in any store.
"The cultivation of a radiant skin anderglow begins with a once-a day lathering with a pure toilet: soap, a lathering that's more than a pat and dab. In the past few
Ether-
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of complexion. brashes has increased so fanidly that a large brush company now make one at a popular price to meet the demand. Good ozes used to be expensive. Now anyone can have a brush soft enough not to irritate, yet firm enough to stimu late the circalation. My favourite is egg-shaped; bristles at the small end fit the crevices of rour-face.
Instead of coddling your skin. the newer des is to make function zormally on a discipline of exquisite cleanliness. If a rotary lathering with a rash proves too drying, use more softening cream
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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1935
The Hong Kong Art Club
(Continued)
to make the best of the means which are at their disposal. The latest effort is to obtain a studio for more frequent meetings and where the members can work from the model
The Club subscribes to a num- be of art magazines which keep the member's information up-to- date. There is a group which is ex- pecially interested in applied art work Such work requires con- siderably skill in the various grafta, of which many can be tered only throurt study therefore it is that this
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MEALS. of
TOUP's feld of ce:- activity must be limited to tain less elaborate processes. - But even here the enterprising spirit is not lacking.
There are a number of ladies who although not active in any branch of art work lend their moral sup- Fort. Among those is lady South-
at night te lubricate; before rongora, who for years now has steadily
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Your
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If a daily serab. strenuous Space
treatments rigorous soap twice a week, or once a week for tenderfoot complexions. Special cleansing tricks can be sandwiched in between the scrubbing treat- meats. There's a new oatmeal. preparation that's used in better beauty shops, but can be applied quite easily at home. -For black- heads, those almond meal grains put out by various beauty nowes- will cleanse and stimulate at the
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Most of the experts now use a tozie in conjunction with cleansing A cream for cleaning the skin. pad of cotton wool is soaked in tonic, squeezed out and a dab of cream placed on the prepared wool. This is the method recommended when using a series of prepara- tins lately pit on the market.
Now that summer is here (some women find the system advantage- all the year round),
usual routine of reversing the busting skin food or cold cream on the face at night Apply, your cream in the morning, after a re- fresher with complexion milk or
.ous
tonic, and pat the skin. food on while the skin is still damp. The effec- tiveness of the cream is much increased by this system.
You might also try the experiment of lear ing off heavy creams. round the eyes during the summer months.
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