THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1939.
Take Sun Intelligently
By. PATRICIA LINDSAY
It would be interesting to know how many women have ruined really nicely textured skin with careless sun- burn. No longer do women who are wise sacrifice their skin beauty with careless abandon, but one still sees some whose arms and back look like old brown leather at the end of the
summer.
Fortunate are those who can tan to a soft honey colour and they are us- ually blondes with blue eyes. ''These striking darlings incite many women to take the sun in the hope they will tan as beautifully! But alas, alas, they usually come out of the sun feel- ing the worse for having been in it too long, and looking * like a boiled lobster or an old browned pocketbook of scuffed leather!
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If you are particularly anxious 'tan (to change the colour of your skin for a few months) you must go about the thing sensibly. You must provide your skin artificially with the oil that the sun-light and ́air take away from it through exposure, and you must for the first two weeks, burn by the clock!
- Each time you plan a sun bath, spend five to ten minutes rubbing an oil or cream into your skin-every bit that is to be exposed. Pay particular attention to your upperchest, the back of your neck and your shoulder joints. Sun gets at those tender parts first and does its burning best!
For the first two days (authorities agree) you should not be exposed to hot sun for more than three to six minutes; the third and fourth days ten to twenty minutes; the fifth and sixth days ten to twenty minutes; and
How's Your Hair?
PART hair on one side; put in two short waves, curis of those ends on top.
then make large pin Make pin curls of sectioned sides and curl the ends of hair in back, leaving the back of the head flat. This is school girl type of hair and appro- priate for younger-looking girls. you like it and want to adapt it and close to the head. yet are older, try rolling the back
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After leaving oil on overnight it is beneficial to sit under a steam- er with the oil on one's scalp. If it is impossible to use a steamer hot towels will substitute. Either towels or steamer should be used at least twenty minutes.
not more than a half hour at the end
Then we brush One of the first things to remember of the first week. The annointing of
it virtually dry about hair your skin must continue even after
is that it must be kept before setting, it so that the girls sit clean. you have acquired the desired shade.
We shampoo our girls' hair under the driers a very short time. If you expose yourself to the sun every day. Washing doesn't hurt any Be careful to brush away from the without being properly oiled first
Use head and up, and twist the brush with one's hair if it is done properly. of
the movement. It's hard work, I all, or take the sun too long at the pure castile soap on all hair that
We 'do not beginning, your skin is bound to be-dyed or touched up, and oil prepara-know, but it gets results.
use a wave solution on hair when we come coarsened. It is foolish to so tions on such hair as is not dyed.
set it, which is also a help to the hair.. destroy your skin texture for invar-
This, of course, is not possible al- ways for other girls, as the wave will not stay in very long. But it looks soft and natural at "once because
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For the School Girl
By HELEN HUNT Famous Hollywood Hair Stylist
solution is used, and for that reason is favoured by picture stars.
The average girl goes to a beauty shop for a wave
before a day or so
be her special date so that she can sure of the same effect of soft natur- alness. She must wait until the solu-, tion can be brushed out.
However, any girl can add to the at- tractiveness of her hair by keeping it brushed well and using a good stiff- bristled brush for the purpose.
Next The Use of Rollers
This lo another of a series of articles on hair styles, a most im- portant subject to all women. The serles is written by Helen Hunt, famous Hollywood hair stylist and head of the hair-dressing depart- ment of Columbia Studios.
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IVA STEWART enjoys the sun dally but she doesn't believe in changing her skin colour! Her exposed skin is well annointed
with a preventative cream:
iably it is impossible to restore it to its youthful loveliness.
(not iced) as you can. Spread a piece of sterilized gauze with a dressing of zinc and eucalyptus ointment and ap- ply it twice a day to the burned sec-
BLEACH FOR SUNBURN
IF YOU DO SUNBURN. In case you
do sunburn through carelessness (and this is good for a tions. blister sunburn) the best thing to do is to hop into bed between cool sheets, and drink as much cold water
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If you are one to scorch no matter what precautions you take, and suf- fer with a hot unattractive glow after in sunset, you might be interested knowing that Calomine lotion acts as a harmless and comforting bleach. Dab it on at night, shaking the bottle well, so you leave a good thick layer of its powder on your skin. Put it on the next day, too, if you plan on be- ing in the sun.
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