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THE ART OF MAKE-UP
The Demands Of The
Tropics
You have learnt a truly great art if you can spend hours by the sea, or on a tennis cour; and finish up looking as lovely you started, writes dent.
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The tropics demands this art of all women, and so if you have trouble with your make-up, you must know how to prepare your skin before applying it.
Perhaps it is the colours of the powders and rouges which puzzle you, when you notice that your favourite make-up has an annoy- ing way of looking wrong under the tropical sun. Perhaps you are looking for cosmetics which can bathe with you and which salt water does nothing to harm.
These are some of the problems of make-up which beset the wo- man in the East. The following. hints should be very helpful.
A Regular Routine
First, how to keep make-up on, ar I should say, how to prepare your skin to keep its make-up on. No last minutes application of a wonderful lotion will do it-you must give your skin a regular routine. If you want to look as cool as a cucumber.
Dry skins want oil, lots of it,
to counteract the drying sun and air and salt.
Greasy skins want the closed, so that the heat will not open them wider and wider, and let in more grease than ever. normal skin strikes the happy
medium.
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Here are the general rules. For the dry skin. skin food applied faithfully every night, will pre- vent that horrid flaky look. you and this a little heavy for a hot night, use liquid skin food. this dries into your skin almost immediatly.
Then in the morning, after your usual cleansing, use a lotion: for the powder base. If you are going on a journey by car and
want to protect your skin as well as keep it powdered, there is a
combined cream which does both these jobs well
Complexion Milk
My advice to those
suffering
from a greasy skin is-get rid of the excess oilness. for no pow- der on earth can presuade make- up to stay on an oily skin in the heat..
Always use an astringent and a complexion milk as a power base. A slightly astringent one is â boon, or if you prefer it, a special liquid with powder in it is lovely. Noses only can be covered with a liquid that makes powder stick like a linpet.
I your skin in spite of its greasiness, becomes rough or # little burnt, the liquid skin food is best.
Normal skins. as well as dry ones, need nourishings in the tropies, but the astringent com- plexion milk is splendid as a pow- der base, for most skins become a tiny tit olly after hours of ex-. posure in the heat. A lotion such as the following is excellent as a slight astringent and helps to keep the skin cool:"
Orange flower water 2 ounces. Zine sulphocarbolate 30 grains. Eau de Cologne 4 drachms. Glycerine 2 drachms. Tincture of Cochineal 1 drachm.' If this should prove too strong more rose water should be added.
The Bight Blends
Waterproof Cosmetics
What about make-up when you bathe? Do remember that "land" make-up is hopelëss for the sea. so invest in waterproof cosmetics If you are going to bathe.
There is a waterproof cream that will prevent a shiny nose. and which will stick to you through thick and think
Or, you prefer, there is a cream powder which is equally. faithful, which is made in a brown shade to tone with your tan.
Waterproof liquid rouge, in- delible ligstick, and a waterproof eyelash cosmetic-and you will look just as entrancing when you conie out of the water as when you entered it, and with no fear that your make-up has disgraced you.
Beautifying The Arms
Another beauty bugbear women In the East have to contend with is hair on the armi. The sleeve "less dresses reveal this distressing fact. It can made unnoticeable, or removed temporarily..
It the hairs on your arms are fair. I advise you to leave them alone. It is natural to have a slight growth of hair-lt softeris the outline of the armand with- out it there is a naked look. "So leave it alone, if it is fair.
well as being bleached and almost unnoticeable, will weaken and break off.
But perhaps the growth is dark, in which case bleaching is the method to use. Use peroxide of hydrogen to which has been add- ed a few drops of cloudy ammonia, and paint this on the hairs with Now for the colour changes that a brush: See that the hairs are your make-up must go through. "wet, and let the liquid dry natur-
a sun-tanned skin,-your With
ally. This has to be persevered cosmetics cannot be pink and - with, and in time the hairs, as white. It you wish to retain the pink and white look and still look sunburned the following cosmeties will help you to achieve the effect. Of course, blandes and brunet- tes will have different shades. I will deal with the blondes first. For powder, there is a delicious shades styled "Aprella" which blends beautifully with: an orange lip-stick and rouge to match. This is a lovely combina- tion. Brown mascara completes the blonde make-up....
Remember, when your neck and. arms are sunburnt to use an apricot liquid powder, when you put on evening dress.
Now for the brunettes. Powder for them should be slightly darker and warmer in tone-Rose Rachel le delicious, and blends perfectly with Sunburn Rouge with a lip stick in the same shade.
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Black mascara and brunette 18 ready to face the world.
If the growth is coarse, as well as dark, a treatment combining
bleaching and weakening is best. For this add together six parts of baking soda, four parts.of strain- ed lemon juice and one part of peroxide. Add enough water to dissolve the baking soda.
Apply, this mixture to the arms after washing them at night, and let it dry on the skin. Draw on a pair of old white stockings to pro- tect the bed-clothes. Wash off next morning with warm water and a mud soap.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1934.
COAT FROCKS.
ARE WORN
Fitted" Trends
Tweeds
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London, Sept. 22. There is a decided movement in favour of the "fitted" mode.. hence the return of the coat- frock. No style is more flattering to a tall, slim figure than the trock garments cut on clear coat lines. Autumn is establishing the popularity of the 'mare "Atted " dresses made in cloth, wool and tweed. The first selection is in tweed
Variety in tweeds is great. We have smooth and soft weaves. those with a pebbly finish, raised stripes, and long hairy surfaces. Some corded effects, heavy or light, are there too. Colours are cleverly blended, and often the impression of light and shade Is. arrived at by the newer method in weaving, even without colour contrast. In the case of black, dark
brown, greys or blue, a raised surface can almost convey the Idea of two colours. Woven checks and spots are wonderfully. attractive treated in these ways. Despite a variety of charming colours, the darker tones for the ⚫ tailored tweeds are undoubtedly the smartest. This was demon- strated recently at York races, where it was cold enough to give an airing to the latest tailored suits and coat-frocks.
Repeat the treatment every night for a week, when the hairs. can be rubbed off with a plece of pumice stone.
Apply cold" cream If the skin Teéia at all sore. If you want to remove the hairs in an
a depilatory is a boon, but effect only tempo
Doncaster may possibly give us in a warmer spell an opportunity of showing the newest coat-frocks (without being concealed by up. coats and mackintoshes) diagonal striped weaves or shaded checks,
A MEPHISTO RED
THE FUTURE DUCHESS
To Meet Clan Chiefs
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Edinburgh, Sept. 22. Before Princess Marina leaves Balmoral in a few days a banquet is to be given at the castle in her honour.
It will be in reality a * coming out" banquet in Scotland for the Princess. It will mark her formal introduction to the clan chiefs and lairds and their wives,
Among the guests will be' per- schal friends of the King and Queen at present in the High- lands. The banquet will be fol- lowed by a ball.
One of the most interesting figures at tonight's gültes' ball at the Castle will be Mrs. Annis
the -Shand.
Queen's Highland planist
New colours made their ap pearance at a smart fashion show. recently. One was a steel, indi- go blue, seen in cloth ensembles with moleskin or for dyed to match, Another colour used in. original ways was a flame red, u real Mephisto tone; Aces in ite most striking aspect as a satin ̈ensemble worn with a shoulder cape of flame satin and guiden
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"Under the Greenwood Free," a frock in a vivid yet most attrac- tive shade of green velvet, had amusing sleeves with esoPMOUS frilled cuffs in flame colour. At a touch or two, sleeres could be turned down to wrist length finished with little pleated puffs in the same green velvet ni the dress.
There is a very new dark purple frieze which is faintly checked with
a grey wine-coloured tint. Another in a rugged 'stripe in dark and light grey is good worn with silver fox furs and a black velvet. beret. A.cost-frock of heavy black oatmeal cloth has a flat, narrow collar of white peau d'Arge, tied with a bow of soft green suède. This showed a half-belt of the green, and a green felt hat.
Dressmakers are trying hard to interest us in fantastic sleeves, For smart town and evening wear fanciful sleeve fashions may have a say, but,, the tailored way is op- posed to trimmings that distort the arm and spoil the slimness of the silhouette. Noticeable in the best dressing are the long, beauti- fully fitted sleeves in the Angora" wool frocks or tweed coat frocks. The very large cuts can still be of linen or piqué to match a neck finish, or of fur. Gloves can wrinkle on to the wrist, but the cuff of the frock itself is now more important.....
In many models the sleeves" are left plain, reaching right down ever the wrist. The coat-frock, if not too strictly tailored, may show mutton sleeve movement. These the slightest hint of the leg-of-
sleeves can be worn with the more important wear and in the ear-- Hest exclusive tailor-mades the plain sleeve predominates.
A few topcoats in tweed show some extra strappings of the cloth on the sleeve itself, put on above the elbow. Bome trimmings are nearer the wrist but mostly the smartdressers reject them-at least, for tweed and wool Later on, no doubt, furs will be more decorative
Ike those huge turn-over collars. of beaver for otter-two favourite Edwardian furs-tied with a large bow of fur, fabric, or ribbon. These, with similarly large turn-back cuffs to match strike a smart wintry note, and with a higher tilted hat sil 'add
Mrs. Shand is nearly to. She has led the orchestra at Balmoral during the greater part of the present reign and is considered to be the best country dance must-
A cian in the Highlands,
She lives at Aberdeen, and she! arrived at the Castle to-day. It was especially wished that she 'should be at the Castle early to allow Princess Marina to see a de- monstration and to take part in a special rehearsal of to-night's pro- gramme.
THE CHILD AND THE BISHOP
At the conference of the Asso- ciation of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux at Oxford, Sir Richard Gregory, illustrating the danger of expecting even librarians to know too much, told a story of a Bishop who was stay- ing at a rather gay country house. When he came down to breakfast one morning there was only a t- tle girl in the room. "Good. mor- ning," said the Bishop, "can you The By the Lord's Prayer? " child promptly, repiled, "Yes, sir." and said it. Very good." sald the Bishop. "Do you know the Commandments?" The little girl immediately
the repeated Icnt," boomed the Bishop." Now Commandments. "That is excel-
do you know the Catechism? ".... To which the child replied brightly, "Damn it, I am only seyen.”
to the alimness of the silhouette." which is again the keynote of the best dressing, tra
All ways lead to alimmess. This is where buttons or rows of metal Unes come in. Bows and ends. too, are all for furthering the long and narrow line. There is still hlenty of width expressed in the shoulder-line itself, however. In fact, I think the wide shoulder is emphasised for evening wear,
- nften, top-sleeve and corsage, sre cut in one. Collar; neck-line, and hat, however, all lead up to a nar- rowing height
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WHEN COLOUR Woollen Modes Show Many
APPEALS
Black Favoured
Although there is much black worn in Paris, and doubtless Lon- don will follow a similar fashion later on, English women tike col- our for the country. The favour- ite country colours at Doncaster were dark brown, grey, olive and bronze-green, navy, and to some extent a very dank purple,
The latter will probably make more appeal for town wear Inter on, though there were some..smart little suits at Doncaster in a deep purple shaded with grey in a tweed stripe.
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Another mixture was in brown and wine shades; a dark brown wool hopsack ́skirt looked attrac- tive with a coat of soft flannel and thre-quarter blouse of a faded wine-shade worn with a fur and wool beret in the brown shade.
The younger generation showed a fondness for a wine, and pale ilac mixture in a striped Autumn tweed, choosing neat double- breasted hip length cost and short silt or pleated skirts to wear with pale coloured shirts and the new three-cornered hats in velvet or duvetyn.“
Another favourite mixture for the younger ones was two shades of brown with shirts, or sweaters in hunting-pink, and a dark felt hat trimmed with the bright pink, "..
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'Sports hats are important ab the moment, and the heret has gained fresh laurels; even the smaller ones were back again yesterday. They are smarter with country suits than any other var- lety of hat, unless it be the tilted tricorns.
Cover Charge
Walter: "Would you mind set. tling your bill, sir? We're closing now."
Edwardian Trends
Never have antanın clothes been presented in more' becoming colours and styles. Black, brown, purple, grey and green wool frock are trimmed with contrasting col- ours in wool-braids or fringes. Flat furs border the more elabor- ate styles. For these wool frocks necklines are high or else left collarless, and finished with a fur or narrow woollen. tle.
Fringes of wool and many at- tractive contrasting shades in simocking are seen in these sim- pler wool fashions, which never- theless suggest a certainly. for- mality that savours of Edwardian 'days. Fashion, is full of Edwar- dian revivals, with leanings to wards the earlier Victorian ef- fects.
Hats and styles of hairdressing adopted by the mannequins »at the dress shows demonstratę Ed- wardian elegance. The Princess- fringe, a light version of the ori- "Well, in that case, there'll only ginal, and the backward trend of be the cover charge."
Patron: "But, hang it all, I haven't been served yet."
curls sult the larger berets, vel-
vet-turbans, toques and, tricornes. The pork-ple hat with its band of fur is an older style.
Lingerie decorations, shirring, and smocking are, in the new woollen modes, a pleasing relief to the dark autumnal shades.
There is a becoming dark-prune colour in a simple wool frock with collar and cuts of beige cambric, worn with a guy tunic of red cloth and a beret to match. The tunic has a very narrow edging of dark mole, fur.
A black velvet tunic, distinctly recalling Edwardian" times, looks well over a simply cut woollen skirt in pale beige. The satin blouse of the same shade fastens with small black velvet buttons. A black felt hat completes this combination. Contrasting tunics help to vary the autumn ward- robe, One skirt, especially in "black satin or moire, call be worn in with either a daytime, tunie wool or velvet, or a spangled af- fair for the evening.
For the autumn, the contrast- ing model in coloured wool is charming. and so are those in corduroy or plain velvet. Coarse laces are also cut in time form, and will make smart bridge and tea coats. The slit skirt beneath of satin, or slik must be slim and ' tight.
-Purple, a deep, semi-royal- shade. Is greatly favoured by the dress designers Certain French houses extol the claims of purple, but the average woman quickly thesof this shade. It is essen- tially a winter tone, and is at its - best in lamé and velvet and other rich fabrica. For the even- ing it can also be exquisite when „mixed with gold, or trimmed with
the new variety of sequins.
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