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Bend to left, Fig. 2. pressing the pal m against the skin from waist to left knee.

ACQUIRING BEAUTY MAKE-UP

Accent Good Points

Try this special-occasion make- up for your next dance or social outing. To ensure a lasting make- up and a very flattering effect, use two foundations, a cream and also a lotion. If you would like to have that porcelain china effect you may have noticed in outstanding beau ties, use two powders, a light one and a dark one.

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 12, 1938.

Make A Fuss Of Yourself!

STROKE YOUR BODY TO SLIMNESS

This week I'm going to show you the light-handed way to lissomness. I'm going to ask you to take to stroking yourselves as if you were the nicest little dog or cat in the world!

COLD FEET BANISHED

I want you to try this slowly at. first-four times to the left and four times to the right, alternately. Afterwards increase the pace until four you have completed another

Stroking exercises, when you do movements, which will suffice for

them in the

your early morning "brace-up”. morning, should be

With practice you will be able to performed after the bath reach downwards below the knee- arm is or rub-down. cap on one side when the The body's fully extended, while the other arm glowing then. is stroking right up to the armpits. both and we want to Thus you will have covered keep that lovely sides of the body with this sooth- feeling through-ing, slenderising movement. out the day. We

also want to This stroking of the skin must pave the way not be confused with massage. They for that peach-are two completely different things. like bloom to

the skin which Massage is a rubbing or

knead- is the outward ing of the muscles and joints to The action. and visible sigu stimulate muscular of perfect word, in fact, was derived from the health.

ancient process of kneading dough in a bakery.

But if you

Another "double" for a special- occasion make-up is the use of two eye-shadows. Put one on your eye-

- Fig. 1. Stand

are a busy per- Stroking, on the other hand, is a with lids, and have a colour to match

your hips

son, it is not stimulant, and its purpose is to in- firm and

your your eyes, and another iridescent

stream and hands on into

your essential to do wigorate the blood shade higher up, blending

hips.

these exercises cause it to flow evenly through the your eye-brows. Last of the make- up doubles is the idea of using two in the morning. They are so gen- veins. If you take to this treat- rouges. Have a cream one to match tle and restful that they can be ment you should never suffer from your skin tone and put a dry rouge carried out at night before you go that curse of civilisation in a brighter shade on top of it. to bed, even if you are feeling tir-feet! The effect is very youthful and at-ed.

They do not require the same exercises that previous

energy

tractive.

Here are some hints for the wo-have, and therefore they do not-

cold

man or girl of no particular colour-cause sleeplessness. In fact, the oppo-Now That Spring Is Here

Do site should be the case because, by ing often known as "mousy." your hair in some eye-catching out-inducing regular and deep breath- of-the-ordinary style. Use a brighting, sleep is actually encouraged. rouge and dark powder. Make-up with an accent on eyes and lips.

FOR 'THE BRUNETTE

.

STROKE YOURSELF

Fig. 3. Repeat move- ment to right, letting the left palm stroke upwards towards ribs.

JUST A THOUGHT

THE MARCH

of

OF TIME

Withered on their stalks they hang, the flowers we loved so well, and every breeze that stirs the trees has some sad tale to tell dead and dying crumpled leaves, and poor frost-bitten pe- tals. Instead of glowing flower- bed a cold depression settles. In vain the willows weep again for scented brier-rose-her tears are mingled with the rain, thus: wast- ed are her. woes.

These are nature's sorrows, her days when hope seems gone, shoots the tended-drooping, end- ed-still she struggles on paint. ing gay anemones, a truly cheery sight, and opening chrysanthe- mums in every tone that's bright. With splendid zest she gives her best, and hides away her pain, for well she knows when winter goes, the Spring will come again.

BRIGHTEN UP YOUR HOME

The idea is to stroke the entire

Spring again! Time to forget the ford that new dining-room suite. surface of the body with the hands.

dull, dark days of winter, to open On the other hand, a set of Of course, this must entail a cer- wide the windows of your home and and colourful woven tweed tain amount of exercise, because

is

All these stroking exercises are done standing, and this is the first one:

new table

The brunette can try out a special make-up trick for evening. Brush

you cannot stroke the ankles or legs to welcome the sweet of the year by mats or some lovely modern glass. the hair-line with mascara and em-without bending, nor can you stroke carefree additions and alterations to will help your room to put all thought phasise in this way the oval of your the back of your neck without the bring your rooms into touch with the of the winter days behind it. face. If you have a widow's peak effort of a little stretching.

Little Touches But spirit of spring. you can accent this charm by wear there is no great effort required for

Unfortunately, it is not possible In the living-room a new vase to ing your hair drawn back from the

for all of us to have our homes re- hold bunches of bright spring flow- either, and the general result brow and plucking out a few hairs

decorated throughout just when we ers, a cushion covered with colourful very refreshing.

feel like it. But the little touches flowered chintz or if you can af- on each side of the peak, to make

and the accessories that mean 80 ford it

now, well-chosen piece the line of it more distinct.

much are within the reach of most of furniture will make you feel as of us

and it is these that count though your room itself is new--

For the bedroom there are always when it is a question of obliterating

good ideas which can be carried où winter drabness,

Why not just go through your without involving any vast sum of home room by room and see where money. For instance, one of the When choosing your face powder, Now bend the trunk well over to

you can add a little spring-like new linen bedspreads, embroidered match your darkest skin tone. If the left, keeping the palm of the touch? In the dining-room, for in-with spring flowers in contrasting you want to avoid an effect of age, hand against the side and pressing stance, it is little use thinking how colours, would add a lovely note. Or avoid lipstick or rouge with a purit firmly against the surface of the lovely it would be if you could af- you might invest in a new early plish tone.

skin, so that it travels from the Rule for rouge: The darker the waist, over the left hips and down shade of the powder you use, the to the left knee. Fig. 2 shows you brighter your rouge may be. If you how.

A large face looks smaller if a dark-toned powder is used. A touch of dark powder at the tip of a long nose will make it look shorter. Dark powder makes a large or wide nose

seem-less obvious.

have broken veins, avoid yellowish

Stand with the hips firm and in hands on the hips, as you see Fig. 1.

ribs.

YOUR SHOES

morning tea set, one with a pretty flower design to remind you when you wake that spring is here. Or why not a bedside lamp with a floral base and shade? Whatever you

rouges which will not tone in with The right hand, palm towards

Shoes left lying about a room ac- choose, the bedroom is quite one of them. Don't use ice on the skin, or the skin, has meanwhile travelled

so un-the easiest rooms on which to bestow pink powder. Ocre powder can be upwards against the right side and, cumulate the dust and look used over the rouge on your cheeks, at the finish of the movement, is tidy. And they don't last nearly as a present.

pressed firmly against the right long.

The kitchen must not be left out. and a lighter shade for the nose and chin.

You can buy shoe racks which fit Here you could combine the decor- If your muscle droop, use a dark Go back to your starting position into the bottom of a wardrobe, or a ative and useful by investing in a powder blended a around the line now. Repeat the movement to the cupboard, in which they can be kept coloured bin to match your scheme. of decoration.A vegetable rack of your contour. Try the luminous right side until the palm of the out of sight and out of the dust. ensemble if you want to look youth-right hand reaches the knee-cap of And it's good idea, too, to fix a painted in a pretty colour looks well. ful and dramatic. Choose a lustrous the right knee (see Fig. 3), and the piece of tape across the inside of the Perhaps new curtains of a washable lipstick, put oil on your eyelids, left palm has stroked upwards to door from which you can suspend material of some sort would be wel wear à film make-up foundation. wards the left ribs,

stockings or belts or gloves,

comed here?