THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 30, 1939,
When It's Time To Go To Bed
We have all heard of the legen- dary Englishman with so much self-respect that he dresses for dinner every night alone in the jungle.
What is self-respect, really? -
It has been defined as minding more about wearing clean under Rothes than about wearing a clean dress.
It is something for one's own satisfaction uninfluenced by others; a personal fastidiousness-perhaps the most personal thing we possess. I think it is very unfastidious to look ugly even in the dark!
The other day I read an article. about creaming the face thorough- ly and putting the hair in curlers at night ready for next day's beauty, and suddenly I thought:
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"Oh, lord, if this article illustrated!" For it appals me to think of the women of England in their thousands going hideous, to bed.
Nor is it a question only of the dark. "Night must fall," as the play title said, but also "The sun always rises."
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It appals' me to think of the wo- men of England waking in their thousands with shining, greasy faces and horridly screwed-up hair.
Yes, but what are you to do about it? I am always urging you not to neglect yourselves, urging you to preserve smooth, well-nourished skins and to have soigne hair.
Men are lucky. They don't have to
worrk over their appearance, They always look-the same and pre- sent nothing worse to the morning light than a slight growth of beard. Really, it's too unfair!
ing our faces, and how to avoid looking greasy when we go to bed. The thing to do is to tackle your face first of all immediately after washing and doing your teeth.'
Allow me to suggest a system, however, by which we can look re- You see I can never bear to go to asonably attractive in bed, do bed with a greasy face myself, so I full duty as far as grooming our- have had to work it all out. selves is concerned, and (in the Quickly get into a dressing-gown absence of that slight growth of and sit down in front of your beard) face the early sunshine even mirror. better than can men!
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chief concern we have, I think, is over the question of cream- -
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Cleanse your face thoroughly with cleansing cream and skin tonic, and then work in your skin food...
Smooth it on liberally all over
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your face and neck, and work it in Just turn the raw edges into the with your fingers for two or three centre when you fold it (unless you minutes, particularly round the have them picot edged) and tie it eyes
and the tell-tale lines about round your head, the wide part to the mouth. Leave the cream on the back, and the bow in the cen- your face now while you attend to tre front. other things.
The effect is like a negro mammy's "Kerchief," and if you are clever,
If it happens that you like a bath you can tie it so that one or two at night, your skin will. absorb the curls just peep out in the front, cream very readily, as the steam and at the same time are safely an- will open the pores and make it more chored by a kirbigrip. The effect receptive,
is really attractive, very neat and Or you can do your hair and secure, and yet very pert. nails, or any of the hundreds of
Now you are almost ready for bed,
little jobs that always have to be and you'll find that it hasn't taken done..
you many minutes, ofter all.
Tree your shoes, fold your clothes, get your clean stockings ready for. the morning.
The point is to leave the cream on your face for a few minutes in this way, and then you can remove it all before you get into bed. Your skin will have absorbed all the skin food it needs.
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Here are the final touches, and rather subtle ones, I think,
Smear a little vaseline on your lashes with your finger, and over the top of your eyelid.
It
This serves two, purposes. helps your eyelashes to grow, and at the same time makes them look Wipe your face clean with tissues, dark and shiny. It prevents your and remove all traces of it, and lids from getting wrinkled and dry you will find your skin is clean and′ (you know how you will forget soft. At the same time you won't the skin of your eyelids!), and it look ugly and greasy in bed. And is also most attractive and makes you won't shine in the morning. your eyes look larger.
Now the hair question.
Plenty of people use grease like This is the next thing, and don't this in the daytime, preferring it to forget it is to be dealt with while eye-shadow.
the cream is still on your face.
Many girls used to, look hideous
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Your lips they must not be
and suffer agonies in days gone by. allowed to get cracked and dry.
Now luckly for us, hair styles
You can buy a lipsalve in an at- are different, and we go in. for lar- tractive, rosy shade; definitely not ger, flatter
curls. These can be a lipstick, but a tinted salve. coped with more easily.
This had all the healing, and them with hairpins as your hair faintly pink looks charming. So The best way is either to pin soothing properties, and yeh being dresser does when you have a set, there's that necessary touch of or. else set them flat to your head colour for your face. with kirbigrips.
As to hands, use a good hand Turn the curl round your finger, lotion-one that isn't sticky. tucking the end into the centre, and Pour a little into the palm of push the grip through. In this both of them until it has quite dis- then press it flat to your head, and your hand and work it well into way your head is a mass of very appeared. Then you have nice. fectly comfortable to sleep on. neat flat circles, which are per- smooth, white hands to go to bed. with, and know at the same time that they have been cared for..
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chiffon, or strip of ordinary cotton Buy yourself either a piece of
net in some attractive colour, the same sort that you would use for a crisp, fussy evening dress.
Finally, the very nicest and most- refreshing touch of all. A suspic- iou of your favourite perfume be- hind your ears and on neck For shoulders.
The warmth of your body just
You can get most attractive shades, and have them to match all your nighties, and they cost next brings it out faintly, and you will to nothing as you only want a quar- ter of a yard for each band.
feel sweet and fresh and enchant- ing in the white sheets of your bed..
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