1940-12-07 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1940

Bringing Up Father

"ONE OF THE SAILORS WILL ROW YOU ASHORE-

I WANT YOU TO GO HOME AND HAVE AMBROSE BRING MY BACKGAMMON SET DOWN. TO YOU -

ALL RIGHT, CAPTAIN-

.ARE WE NEAR TH DOCK?

YES-ARE YOU GOIN' OVER M OR UNDER IT?

DON'T LOOK NOW-BUT 19N'T THAT MR. JIGGS?

JSTING

BY GOLLY IVE STILL GOT ME SEA LEGS

Fage 11

By George MacManus

CH-I FEEL SO SORRY. FOR HIS WIFE-

WOULDNÉT you' THINK HED BE ASHAMED TO BE SEEN IN THAT

CONDITION

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Cepr. 1916, King Features Syndicate, Inc. World rigħar roterved.

A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Keep Dry Skin Lubricated

Only the dry or normal skin needs a foundation lotion be- neath make-up. The girl with an oily skin can get by with a good washing and astringent treat-

ment.

A foundation lotion has really four purposes: It serves as a Protection against the elements, it makes the user look instantly more lovely and youthful as it lubricates the skin, it helps con- ceal the finer face lines and superficial blemishes which come... from dryness, and it tends to hold make-up. intact langer if applied correctly.

No foundation lotion should be applied to skin unless the skin has been thoroughly cleansed first. Then it should be allowed: to set before make-up covers it. Too many women hastily apply a foundation lotion and right on top of it, powder and rouge. This tends to clog the pores and in- stoad of helping your skin by using a protective cream you are actually inviting blemishes,

Any foundation lotion should be applied sparingly with cool fingers. Take time to smooth it thinly over all the face and neck, Much of your finished beauty depends upon how you use such, a cream and how near It matches your current skin tone.

Usually you have from three to five shades from which to choose when you buy a founda-... tion lotion. Select that which is very close to your skin shade for it lightens as you use it. Your face powder should match in shade too, so you will be in per- fect colour harmony once tho artificial administrations are in- ished!

Older Women' Benefit

The aging skin definitely bene- fits by the use of a well chosen make-up foundation. I say "well chosen" for certain skins require certain mixtures, A very wrinkled skin definitely requires.

dry

Foundation lotion should be applied by "dotting" the face first on forehead, cheeks, and chi. Then thinneď over the face area with deft fingers. This attractive model ls using

a new lotion for dry and nor mat skin. Her lipstick is also the latesti

used

a richer mixture than the youthful make-up which "hits you. In the; be corrected if the proper make- dry skin. The normal skin re-eye" so to speak. The rouge is up foundation had been quires a quickly setting lotion. blatant and powder caked. Such correctly.

seen: women with i an unbecoming appearance could As the foundation itself is

You've

Eyebrow Grooming

1.

Eya grooming is one of the tweezers in alcohol too. You can most important and effettive of keep a small bottle in your me- all beauty efforts.

dicine chest.

tinted, less powder is required than if you. used none, With a fresh, fluffy piece of absorbent cotton powder the skin lightly after the cream has set. Liquid rouge should be used instead of a powdered rouge and this should be blended on the cheeks before the powder is dusted on.

Women with wrinkled skin should stretch the skin. Between

two fingers as they rouge and powder so that the slight crevices will not be a different colour than the rest of the face, the neck should not be forgotten wait should get the same rice treatment as the gheel

And

Dr. Mayo of Rochester claims we receive eighty-seven per cent

How To Pull of our impressions through our Grasp the hair tightly at the eyes. That means that other root and pull quickly in the same persons get instant impressions | direction in which the hair of you, and catalogue you as a grows. Remember too, that good meticulous or indifferent beauty, eye-grooming is made easier to Neat, trim eyebrows give a tidy day by the fashion of natural appearance and pay good beauty shaped brows. No longer is it dividends.

smart to pluck them out so only hair line remains, or to distort

This is done by using them in peculiar arches..

| meditan-hard penci) in one of the The upper line of the brow brown shades. Black seems too gives your face much of its black even for very dark browE. uniqueness, so don't change t much, Simply strive to have it brows, short elongate them.

If your face is wide, and your stuck by removing stray hairs If your brows which have grown above it.

are thin or light, make them appear thicker and darker by applying stort southerlike strokes with the pen- cíl.

One must have a precise eye.. brow tweezer. There is a new professional one on the market with scissor .. handles and so shaped to allow a completely unobstructed view of what, you pre doing. These tweezers can uherringly grasp a single hair and with a quiele pull, remove the untidy straggler.

Hamove any hair which grows above the bridge of the nose and any stragglers below, the arch of the brown

Before you begin to tweeze, though, apply to your brows: a cloth dipped in hot water and If your brows are very thick hold it there for a minute or it is best to narrow them by two. This softens the hairs, and plucking along the lower orch, opens the skin pores. Cream Instead of attempting to thin the ruubad around the roots also beotlers. Thick brown take a good Helps. But remove, this cream | deaf of lubricafirig and brushing (and all brow or lash colouring) to keep them in sleek, ruly before tweezing with a bit of arches

cotton saturated in medical al- Once your arches are shapely, cohol, It's safer to sterillas your "you may nocent them if you do

atre.

in

Always use your porcfl:with: a light touch as though you were sketching individual hairs slanting lines as the real hair grows. Keep your pencil. Amoly pointed for the best results, su

· Once · darkened, - brush your eyebrows with a small brush designed for that purpose, and 'it they lacle sheen you may apply. a bit of lanft creamp

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