THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1988.
A Savings Account Of Beauty
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The pleasant part about conduct-¡ hand softener, body rub, powder ing your personal beauty campaign base, and a protection against the on a limited income is that you ac- elements. Some dusting powders complish far more than merely bal- are made with deodorant proper- ancing a budget. You learn what ties. The creams for refining pores preparations you really need, be do a wonderful job on elbows and cause you can't afford trial-and-er- knees. You can get cleansing ror methods....... You make it your creams with bleaching properties. business to know the best ways of There are any number of good applying your things, because you creams made now that are specifi- have to get the most out of them cally intended to serve as night And you don't find yourself possess-creams, as well as cleansers. An ed of a useless assortment of unre-eye-cream can be used around the hard-water district, get a thick, will need a shampoo only every lated beauty items, wondering how eyes at night; on the lids beneath creamy lotion, and rub it well into two or three weeks. Give yourself they ever came into your life, let a coloured shadow or, without sha- your hands, but, before you wipe
an oil treatment at home always be- into your
it off, put your hands under cold dressing-table tow, to give a sheen; on your brows]
to make them shiny; on your lashes water. The water acts as a fixa-fore a shampoo, simple and incre-
tive, and the hands are velvet. before mascara, or without it.
dibly effective. Keep a fight way- Remember that a good brush ising lotion for home-work between Almost every one uses too mush one of the best and most economi- waves. Put cream on your face Probably the most fundamental cream at one time. In salon treat-cal pieces of beauty equipment every time you sit under a dryer approach to wise spending is
to ments, the operators use list the specific beauty preparations enough (with the exception of the your hair with a tonic and a brush cream; it actually helps
only there is, and use it steadily. Clean that not only helps to save your that you need and figure how long masque preparations) given quantities of them last. Then, on the cushions of their fingers. If
to dissolve every two or three days, and you your face. you know the amount you must you apply cleansing cream in a spend, and can allow for buying light film and let it stay large sizes of basic preparations-enough to dissolve
alone drawers.
Beauty Budget
LA.
make-up,
long
to save
a concrete form of saving. use up less cream, and get your MEAT SAUCES TO BRING OUT FLAVOUR
If you can't figure such a pre-face cleaner than by slathering it
cise plan for yourself, you might on and off. When lipstick disap- Often times all the
TARTARE SAUCE.
Combine
may be served meats.
with various
try one that an important, beauty pears as though you ate it, remem-needs is a sauce to bring out the Pepper. Simmer five minutes: This
meat dish; Salt and specialist has worked out: a series ber some of the best varieties are flavour and add that de luxe touch of yearly expenditures, for which made with refills. If you keep your which it seems really good cooks] her less affluent clients pay her lipstick smoothed off occasionally have. eternal allegiance and the follow-with tissue, it won't develop smudgy sauces served with their favourite Men particularly like meat ing yearly sums. She figures that sides that make you throw it away meats. a girl from fifteen to twenty can before it is finished. get by on fifteen dollars a year for skin preparations and make-up; the woman from twenty to thirty should spend a minimum. of twenty-five dollars; and the woman over thirty should allow thirty- seven dollars. If there are special conditions to cope with, you have to add a little more, and any one who takes care of her own nails! adds five dollars per year. specialist warns, however, corrective preparations are expensive than preventive.
Double Duty
This that
more
Poor Economy Incidentally, economy on the1 cup mayonnaise with price of lipstick is poor especially if you have
1 tablespoon chopped pickles economy, found one 1 tablespoon stuffed olives that suits you. A lipstick that] 1 teaspoon chopped parsley. Serve doesn't look true on your month or
at once. with a case that seems cheap will
With fish dishes. APRICOT SAUCE be in the discard soon, no matter how carefully you spend your
money.
on
Combine
1 cup cooked,
mashed, slightly sweetened dried apricots with
2 tablespoons horseradish. Mix thoroughly. This is especially good to serve with baked or broiled meats.
PINEAPPLE SAUCE
Combine
cun well drained crushed
apple with
taste with
pine
When you go to a salon (and you should go when you can manage it, not only for the ministrations your face, but for the lift to your morale), pay some attention to the Another down-to-earth sugges- tricks the operators have for make tion is to look for a double mean up. Learn some simple manipula- ing in every specialised prepara- tions for treatment creams from tion you buy. Many of the milky the directions in the excellent book-1 tablespoon lemon juice. Season to 2 teaspoons grated horseradish, and liquids have a toning effect and lets the manufacturers put out. If will serve as a powder base for dry you find that a certain treatment Paprika and skin. A softening lotion can be a really helps your skin, buy the Salt:
works in the way of preparations Fold in for it when you can, and repeat the 2 tablespoons whipped cream. Serve whole procedure at home, allowing full time for relaxation, make-up, and so on (maybe you have heard that one before!). Include in your musts one of those miraculous mas-1 que preparations that pick you up in a short space of time even when 1 your face looks as though all were 1 lost.
APPLE NECTAR
Wash and quarter 4 small sum mer apples, Place in kettle with a quart of cold water. Boil till tender. and let boil up. Remove apples for sauce, pour the juice into a cần, cool and set in the re- frigerator. At needed, pour into glasses with ginger ale to taste. It is a refreshing drink.
PEASANT KERCHIEFS
Peasant kerchiefs, usually silk aquares, shrouding the top and back of the head and tying under the chin, will soon be available in fa- brics made water-repellent.
Hands And Hair
If you do your own manicure, try putting a final coat of colourless. varnish over the tint. It acts as a fixative and holds the polish long- er. Or keep at home a bottle of the exact põlish
your lanicurist uses, so that, if a chip occurs, you can put a new coat over the nail, instead of rushing back the manicurist. If you live
at once. It is delicious with lamb chops.
RAISIN CURRANT SAUCE
cup seedless raisins. Wash and "drain
with
Combine
cup currant jelly and tablespoon minced orange peel using the yellow outside rind. --'Add Mustard to taste. Mix thoroughly. Let stand two hours. Served with roast beef or pork.
TOMATO SAUCE
Heat
Children Who. Outgrow Their Strength
Need The Tonic Help Of
are.
Dr. Williams' Pink-Pills:- Many young girls and boys childhood days because of their anaemic deprived of the full enjoyment of-their-
condition. They are pale, weak, list- less, easily tired, and unable to compete with other children of their age, either at work or play. Sometimes they are subject to fainting bouts, and extreme During the critical years when child- nervousness makes their lives a misery. hood is being left behind wise mothers will especially watch their daughters for signs of anaemia, which, if neglect- ed, may lead to serious. ill-health.
Generally, blood and strengthen the nerves is all a tonic to build up the that is needed to put the child, on the road to health and happiness, and time and time again, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills the young. have proved just such a health did for
These tonic pills contain all the elements necessary for imparting to the blood an abundant supply of oxygen and iron wherewith to build up the nerves and tissues. They put new life, new vitality into the body, weight is increased, appetite is restored, herves
cups canned tomato soup to boil-Bre strengthened, the whole system is
ing Add
teaspoon chopped green pepper,
Tvigorated.
and
As well as for anaemic girls boys, Dr. Williams* - Pink Pitts equally beneficial to men and women Season to taste slipping from them. They are sold by of all ages who feel their health
teaspoon chopped onion
butter.
chemists everywhere.