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THE RIGHT COSMETICS
Do You Use Them?
The art of make-up is supposed to be well practised these days. but one still sees faces that are disastrously made up. Either the owner of the face has neglected to match the rouge and the lip- stick, the cream and the powder. or she has a too heavy hand with her cosmetics. The present' ten. dency make-up is to look as natur- al as possible, only accentuating certain gestures, and here is a routine that has been found to be about the best you can follow.
Suppose you are at your dress- ing-table ready to begin your make. up, your skin" perfectly clean and cared for. Begin by covering your face with a cream to serve as B basis and hold the powder. So many women do"not. realise how Important the foundation cream is regardless of the colour of their skin they just put on a white cream and then dab on a very much darker powder. Foundation treams are made in several shades, you can either match the cream to 'he powder, or, in the case of a dark make-up. the cream, serves as a dark foundation, and a lighter" powder gives an agreeable trans- parency. Usually, the cream is Fale pink or lightly tinted. Spread it well over the face, including the forehead, nose. chin and temples. Gently wipe away the Surplus ream with a very soft cloth or cleansing tissue, Then take either the or powder rouge; 3 cream former usually stays on longer. Cream" rouges are very soft and therefore easy to use. Poppy Red. a lovely warm red, with a trace of yellow. particularly suited blondes. is one of the newest Shades. Put on the cream rouge in little dabs, starting from the most prominent part of the cheek Done and work gently towards the temples. Be careful with this, for nothing gives a worse impression of bad make-up than too heavily coloured checks, or rouge too near the eyes.
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SHAPE OF THE FACE One can modify the apparent shape of the face by the use of rouge. If you have a very round fate, then work the rouge a little
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match your rouge and lip-stick. Even the varnish on your nails should tone, if you like coloured nails.
more towards the nose than the point to remember 1s always to temples. If, on the contrary, you" have a long face, then accentuate the outer lines by emphasising the temples. Never go more than the tiniest bit above the cheek "hones. These are the fundamental rules.
Above all, avoid a hard edge; the rouge should gradually fade into the skin. If you prefer powder röuge, powder both before and af- ter putting the rouge on Another
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As to the choice of rouge and creams, experiment will teach you a lot. There are blondes with brunette colouring, and brunettes with blonde colouring! So do not tely too much on the colour of your hair. It is really worth while to have a complete face treatment and expert advice on make-up. The charge is not prohibitive and the expert will experiment with all sorts of rouge, cream and powders to and which suits your skin the best these experiments would be very costly to carry out for oneself Colour schemes arc also very care- fully worked out and charts for these will be sent on request from any of the large firms of beauty specialists.
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After the rouge comes the pow- der. An excellent way to put it on is to begin by patting it all over the face, using even more than necessary, for the face should be wiped all over afterwards. For the same reason, it is advisable to keep a little brush to be used only on the eyelashes and eyebrows. you keep the natural outline of your brows you need only brush them to mark, clearly where they end. If you want to thin them. you should do it before putting on the cream, but it is no longer fa-.
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shionable to have only a thin pen. cilled line. Just bring them, Into an even line. You can outline the curve of your eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil. The newest eye shadow is gayer as it is slightly phosphorescent; you can have it in brown, black, or green but slate blue is really the most attractive: It is rather surprising at first, but when an almost imperceptible layer is used the eyelid seems to shine as if grease, had been used.
SHADOWING THE EYES How should eye shadow be put on?
The most usual way is to spread the shadow at the edge of the lid starting at the middle of the eye, fading away lá a slight lifted line towards the temple. It It not necessary to cover the entire eyelid. A slightly indicated shadow is enough, and if you want to make the bridge of your nose look narrower put a little shadow in the inside of the eye. To make your eyes look larger, shade the eyes on the outside, edge and not in the contre. Then look after your lashes; their role is very import- ant
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SPRING FASHIONS
Notes From Everywhere
Silhouettes are almost more im- portant than spring fashions themselves. since it is upon their foundation that these fashions are modelled. While rumour has been busy with Empire or Gibson figures, actuality seems to prove that attention is still concentrat- ed on the hips fhis, while it in- volves exercises and dieting for the majority, is the one defence against the really small waist. With the return everywhere of the corset, there's no showing what might be again produced in the nature of wasp-waists and other barbarous meiñods of deal- ing with the figure. The slim hip unanswerable argument As an
against the small waist, since the two are incompatible. Slim hlps. therefore, are to be encouraged. even while both dresses and short jackets endeavour to make the best of both worlds by... playing with the idea of a small waist- line.
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At this time of year the most immediate problem for the aver- age woman is the sult. The dress and. the coat follow it nearly Most of the collections are show- ing great attention to suits, which range from wool to linen, and which involve
great. many blouses and, incidentally, a great much many colours. There is grey-schoolboy and other greys. Natural tones are many, especial- ly in suits and coats, and there' are yellows, without a hint of green in them and unlike canary or sulphur, and many light reds. in the yellowish side, Blues are everywhere, and besides the shril- ler shades there are deep... pale: blues, some verging into tur- quoise. Pale blue contrasted with dark blue, and indeed shades of the same colour may be seen, together with a number of colours all worn together, writes a cor respondent.
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No one will be able to complain this season of lack of variety in combining dress coat, or coat and skirt. Also suits vary remarkably in cut and offer plenty of choice for all figures. The tweed takes: precedence of every other mater- lal for sults, and is now of auch nature that it is right for either!
town or country. The warm tones are perhaps in the majority, and browns, reddish tones, and natu- rai tints are rife, sometimes sepa- rately and sometimes together. These are Ivened up with gay colourings, used both for scarves and blouses. Plaids and checks
are seen in this connection, and there are some red, white, and blue mixtures," which also lend. liveliness to the whole. Skirts for walking remain
the about same convenient length.
Coats depend on the blouses for finish at the neck, and the scart which adorns them usually belongs to the blouse. Now and. again a loose short cost will have a small stand-up collar which has a tie of the material. The coat Buttons down to about the yoke-line and is then Loose. Sleeves vary a good deal from the.. straight mannish to the bloused variety, which is sometimes turn- ed up with a cuff. Sleeves tend towards the Raglan shoulder, and even when this is not used they are sometimes set in more deeply than formerly, Revers are em- phasised, soinetimes." doubled,.. sometimes left to hang in loose folds to give what is called the wind-blown effect. The Chanel shows a three-piece in black and white jersey, of which so great varlety is being used, as well as the white hát White as sole de- to the coration is in contrast. bright colours seen.
Bath printed crepes and satins are seen in afternoon frocks, and the fashion that never dies down
long has come back namely, "that of using satin on both sides. Tunic dresses are many, and these: are particularly becoming to older women and to women who are overtail Lines are kept sim- ple in appearance, though slim- neas and cut are usually due to complicated movements round the waist and hips. There are long. diagonal lines down the fronts of the skirts, and in order to have something of a waist shoulders are broadened out so that there may be a diminising line below. In this way the idea of the small waist is achieved without inter- fering with the hips, well fortified with their blas lines.
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Fashion Ordains
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Prints are to queen it among fabriès thila summer. Vogue tell us that there will be every kind of print which you can think of-- in large blobs or tiny patterns plaids, spots, geometric designs," Rowers. They'll be used for near- ly everything-day and evening. dresses blouses, tunics, scarves, and even gloves and hats. So bear this enlivening news in mind when you're planning your sum-
mer wardrobe.
New Hats to Head the 'Mode You'll see smart women to-day wearing hats of startling variety, but the best belong to one of three types. These are the man- dart hat, (very chic for the young and dashing) the 'Directoire hat with a brim larger in front.. and the flat, wide brimmed cir- cular, hat with a shallow flat Crown. The clever milliner will adapt these styles to complete the effect of your ensemble. Always think of your pat in termS
of your costume, for the relation be- tween them is closer than ever.
Beautiful Colours
The season's colours are really beautiful but, require discretion. The older woman is apt to for- get that the leading artists are catering specially for the debut- ante and the "young married” at least in the case of the more dar- ing revivals. Take turquoise and pink, two popular Victorian fav- ourites. All shades of blue and pink, are the rage. "Used as a contrast with black, white and navy, they abound in every direc- tion Older women should adhere to one colour in blended form. Blues can merge softly into a flat- tering misty-grey, and pink works delightfully into belge and sand. shades. The ethereal woman is advised to keep to whites, grey, and misty-blues. In fact, this season she will feel she is admir- ably suited by the great pastel range. Blues, are not easy to wear.Fair people think that they should wear blue, but to do so they should have blue eyes and a certain depth of richness of complexion: The becoming colours are all of the softer and more blended variety.
"Floral Effects
Floral effects will be fashionable this season. The silhouette itself. recalls the stem of a flower, wraps are made of petals or blooms, and the wearing of posies and sprays is encouraged by the designers. Ostrich feathers are very popular for the summer evening scene. Then there is a new type of cor- sage forming its own capelet. An apparently simple but intricate line with the cape in one instance being in plain hyacinth blue and two tones of the colour in a floral printed silk crepe skirt. I cannot tell you how this caped corsage is made, but it can be manipulat- ed in the manner of an old fas- hloned Paisley shawl about the elbows when not flowing out at the back.
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Net evening gowns are conspi- cuous in black, worn with a pale blue stiff satin coat, and in the brightest 'green with a coat of black stiff satin, the new rever alble variety showing green to tone.
WHITHER THE TAILORMADE?
There isn't such a thing as the tailored type just now.. That presupposes you to be ä rebel agalust ordinary dressing." So says Vogue in its current issue in an article dealing with spring wardrobes; To-day. though every woman wears a suit, it is not the straight, classic, jacket with long V revers, that has been ..fashionable for so long. That fami- Har stiff, pla-striped material is smart no more. Suits are now made of wool, preferably tweed. often in quite a bright colour.. The jackets are-fitted, with bas- ques sloping up in front. This line is repeated in the flapless pockets, which alope up like the jacket hem.
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