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By George MacManus

MAWS:

A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Lovely

It is not too much to expect your cyclashes to look thicker. longer and more lush than they actually are, and it is all done with one tiny mirror and a good eye aids.

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The natural desire is to have long lashes which curl upward. Such eye beauty requires that you keep your lashes adequately lubricated night and day. You know that dry hair does not hold a curl, well, neither will dry Jashes. A bit of special lash oil or cream, or white vaseline will help to keep the hair glossy and versatile. Lash cream may F applied over your colouring to help counteract the drying effet of most mascaras. Any lubricant should be brushed on with it clean brush from the roots to the very tips.

For Greater Length

Either liquid. cake or cream mascara may be used to make Your lushes look longer (or to dramatise their actual length). The colour is applied with an- other clean brush (your mascara brush must be washed after each application). Most women Jike to colour only the very tips and the outer end lashes, but it 'S permissible to colour the entire

ength of the lash if you wish. However, your brush must have unly a spec of the colouring un it as you work or you will dis- cover that the lashes stick to- gether unattractively. A narrow fine brush which usually comes with a tube or cake of colouring is better for this purpose than a larger one.

A second clean, dry brush is used to whisk off any surplus make-up from the lashes before a bit a lash cream (for gloss) is applied.

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Eyelashes

Now your lashes are ready for the curler which is shaped to fit the upper eyelid. This little in- Of course you can improvise on strument with its scissor-like this curling direction. For kinky eyes! handle is easy to manipulate. stance if you wish only your outer simply place it over the lashes to curl outward and up- lashes, press it tight and hold it ward you may curl them that in place a minute or two. When way. The only trick to curling you release it your lashes are lashes is in keeping them nicely

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Rutherford Instructs how to line the eyes at the outer edge of the lashes, extending the line a fraction of an Inch to the outer edge of the eye, makes eyes look sizes larger.

curling upward just as

If you lubricated.

your lashes are dry, and you colour them with dreamed they would!

mascara and then curl them you are quite likely to have a pair of

For extra-s1 'cial eyelash glam- our (when you want to be a a siren) you may (if you have steady hand) draw a new brown or black line close to the roots of your upper lashes before you curl them. This makes them appear to be twice as thick as they are, and if you do resort to this artifice remember to act up to your eye glamour!

Now Your Frock Is

Finished

Don't botch your garment in a last minute rush to get it finished.

a criss-cross catch stitch, sume- thing like feather stitching.

Bind the edges of very loose- ly-woven material before you turn tho hem up.

Other hem finishes-good for

Toddlers Can

Be Stubborn

I'm sure I need not tell you lingerie, or sheer fabrics-are Heartcry from a mother: "My that all seams must be neatened bound or rolled edges. inside. Easiest and laziest way to neaten is to cut the edges with pinking shears.

If these are an extravagance you can't afford, you will have to whip the edges by hand, or machine- stitch them with a single turn under:

boy is almost four. 'He is very Unless they are a definite part contrary, When I ask him to take of the decoration of the skirt, hem the milk bottles out he refuses. If stitches should never show, through"I tell him not to put them out he on the right side..

does it immediately. I become so A circular hem will have to be exhausted from trying to teach him, pleated in little darts all the way that I don't know what to do. round to make the hem le flat. And here is the peply of our ex-

If you use a binding, remem-pert. Whipping or over-sewing, aber that it must be cut on the From three to five stubborn-· best for all thin materials, blas. This applies to any binding, ness is very prevalent. It need, Machine-stitch the turning edges whether for hems, neclts, sleeves not be. It would not be so pro- -when you are working with or decoration.

nounced with your son if you al-

wool or heavy fabricapite The true bias is a diagonal fold ways kept calm, and clearly drew The ends of all your machine of the fabric: Stitch binding on the line between a request and a stitching should be pulled through to the right side of the material.command. with a pin to the wrong side of fold it over and slip-stitch invis- If always when you make n your fabric and tied firmly, bly along the wrong side,

quest of him, you treat it entire If you are making a skirt cul Nemtest way to anish a placket as a request," he on the bins stretch the fabric as is with a zip fastener. They need will enjoy doing what you want - much as possible while you are careful fixing. Practise on a small particularly if you show apprcola machining the seams. The stitch plece of zip before you get to work (fon of this action. tension should be loose and the on the dress. stitch fairly larger

Keep the placket edges alone On the other hand, w

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Beginners often fall down ontogether when you baste the sip tell him you don't want the bot- 'making darts. Always sow to

wards the paint and taper pra: dually,

In position so that the zip itself jtles taken out, make it clear you

- will show hardly at ali on the are commanding, him not to take (right side."""" Keep the fastener them put,

then

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There are lots of ways you can finish hems. Easiest is to turn back the raw edge once and machine-stitch close to the edge, as conse a thread as you can get to ly twenty minutes.” then turn the hem under and slip-match your material, and rememe Andufihe should leave that chuir alitch by hand,

ber to get spare buttons made If one minute before the time is up. You can pink the hem of thick you are having self-fabric buttons you should give him a spanking "fabric and stitch it by hand with on your dress, CAN

shomwould remember-

cipced while you tack, and when If he proceeds - to take

you are machining it in place. cut in deflence of your command, Buttons should be sewn on with make him sit in a chair for exact-

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