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NOW make those frocks LOOK NEW

It's easy if you're

clever with Trimmings

You may be petting a bit tired of those

You

frocks you bought in. the autumn, although you have not worn them a great deal. You feel you want to change them around give them a new idea. The best way with dark frocks in to add one of the new colours in the trimmings-belis, bows, necklines.

Here are some suggestions which you can adapt to suit the lines of your frocks..... twists of velvet, knots of silver, stig bows of taffetus. Put them on a plain dark dress and choose one of the latest colours-deep emerald green, plum, fuchsia red, rich purple-and you will find it's next best to having a new dress.

1. A twist of velvet is crossed round the neck, laced shoe- fashion down the front through slots cat in: the frock, tles in a small bow just above the "waist. Sash-in the same velvet is separate, goer under the waistcoat points of the bodice of the dress,

2. ANOTHER twist-of silk this time, so the piece of stuff can be wider comes from inside a gathered neck- line, crosses over in front, and disappears into the bodice of the frack, over thic It reappears at the gathers of the neck, waist, crosses over again in front, and it tled on the left hip in a large fat bow.

3. TO sult a blouse with a gathered haltered neck.... Two stli bawa

of watered silk catch the gathers on the shoulder. Another bow at the V of the -neck, and lacings down the front as far as the waist.

4. STIFF motre tafetus forms the neckline of a high-cut dress, ties

ki a severe bow in the front. Two smaller

bows of the same stuff are sewn on the

front of the deep rucked cuffe of the sleeves.

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READ THIS IF YOU WANT

TO

MAKE-UP LIKE THE FILM STARS

F you really want-the best information in the world about make-up. you must go to Holly- wood and consult a gentle- man there, who for the last twenty-six years has been absolute dictator of the film stars' make-up, both on and off the stage.

By Jane Gordon

4-The Eyebrow Pencil is

IF

Applied

be

the

9.-The Lips Are Now

Made Up

THE Jipstick is applied to the upper lips, and the upper lips are pressed firmly against the lower lips.

A tissue is used to wipe all the edges and any greasiness that is This keeps left from the lipstick. the lips tidy and well groomed.

10.-The "Blender"

IT is like a liquid powder, but

oil -it is made with an bast, so that it does not dry the skin, nor does it come off on the clothes.

should be applied at this juncture to the neck, during the day time; and for evening wear, to the shoulders, arms and hands.

As most of us are unable to

the eyebrows are to go to Hollywood this gentleman

It accentuated, this should has been civil enough to come over here to us. He has opened be done with short strokes, as if you were 'sketching in the eyebrows, noi showrooms in London, where I with a long stroke that runs spent an afternoon getting the whole length of the eyebrow.

The eyebrow should start parallel "lowdown" on Hollywood cos- to the Inside corner of the eye.and metics. For your information follow the bone formation out to- let me give you the make-up words the temple. routine used by every film star worthy of the name.

plexion:

THIS is the routine for the

dry or

normal

1.-Foundation Cream

*

com-

THIS

ordinary way. It is not

5.-The Powder is Now

Put On

great art in

11.-"Brillox"

Sa Bolshing touch, a lille Abrillox is smoothed on to

↑ hair-bruch and your hair is smoothed into place. This is trans- parent and will not darken the blondest hair.

THERE ls a

applying powder. 'The technique used by the screen star is to pat in the powder with a velour. puff, starting at the chin and jaw- routine is altered by using "Honey- line and working upwards to the suckle" foundation. This is a liquid forehead, patting very frenly,

Drawn by ROBB

Beauty Plan for People People

Getting Better

So you've had the flu and you

SPAGHETTI

IN spite of the jokes about

food.

Spaghetti, and the other Italian pastes, it is an admirable It can, of course, be pre- pared in many other ways than with cheese and tomato, but the

best way to begin with, in my

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are feeling better? Roady opinion, is this one: Spaghetti a to get up. Not allowed to. And l'Italienne. bored.

Put a quarter of a pound of But why be bored when here spaghetti into a saucepan with just enough warm water to cover it and is the opportunity you have a little salt. Bring it to the boil and been waiting for for months? add two ounces of butter. Then Time on your hands and com- simmer gently until tender, adding plete privacy in which to settle more boiling water if necessary.

When the spaghetti is done (In up those beauty arrears you about twenty minutes) boll the rest owe to yourself.............

of the water away, and add a gill of lomato puree, which you can *First rule is: no make-up (ex- make by rubbing fresh or tinned cept lipatick); no nail varnish, tomatoes through a fine sieve. Cook together a little longer, then add salt, Equipment necessary: A bed-pepper and nutmeg and about threa of grated cheese. Stir #11 side tray to hold cleansing ounces cream, skin food, skin tonic, face together over the fire and serve very

hot. pack, two face towels (one for With Anchovies the hands, one for the face),

NOTHER Itallon dish. cubes of ice or a small jug of cold. water and cau-de-Cologne, packet

Par-boll three-quarters of pound of spaghetti in illghtly of tissues, some strips of butter

salted water. Then wash and bone muslin or cheese cloth, orange Ave anchovies, chop them up finely, sticks, cuticle cream or vaseline. and put them into a saucepan with olive oil and a tile pepper. Heat well through without boiling, and then add two ounces of butter and the puree from two tomatoes, or a teaspoonful of tinned tomato puree,

Use this sauce to pour over the spaghetti on serving.

*FIRST DAY.-Tie a broad strip of muslin round the hair, Pour a little tonic into the bowl. Soak a tissue in it and dip in cleansing creani, Thoroughly cleanse flace and neck. Wipe off

FOR using up scraps of game grease with towel. Spread a

or meat an excellent idea really thick layer of skin food all is to cook some spaghetti until over the face and on the throat. tender, then mix with it your warm- Fed meat cut in very snall pieces, Lic flat with the head thrown some sliced mushrooms and a finely back. Smooth the cream gently minced onion lightly fried in butter, into the skin with the flattened a couple of spoonfuls of cream, and heat the whole thing well through tips of the fingora, working up over the fre. Finally sprinkle it wards from the neck. Relax for over (when once in the hot dish) ten, twenty minutes, or for as with grated Parmesan cheese,

You can use fish instead of ment long as you like. Remove sur-

if you like. plus cream with skin tonic. Place atrips of muslin damped in tonic or cold water over the face and rub ice over them.

..

*SECOND DAY.-Cleanse the face as on the first day. Smooth jon the pack and let it remain on

vaseline or cuticle cream, gently lift each cuticle and insert a little of the cream underneath. Remove mask with tissues or a small towel soaked in warm water. Pat on skin freshener. WHEN your complexion is

for fifteen minutes. While it is inclined to be oily this

*THIRD DAY--Repeat treat- drying, give the cuticles a short health and beauty treatment.ment of the first day. After- Soak them first in warm soapy wards a light make-up is permis- water; dry them, thoroughly, sible. Tip your lashes with one then remove dead cuticle with an of the new oil-base mascaras: orange stick dipped in cuticle re-put a touch of perfume on your temples and on the palms of your Dip another orange stick in hands.

cream, and works as a corrective Powder the nose last of all. Being treatment for the complexion as well THIS is amoothed on in the

the most conspicuous part of the as a foundation to make up. dace, it powdered first of all it will just an ordinary foundation cream, but is designed to give faint colour stand out, whereas if it is powdered long" or background to the make. Inst it will blend properly with the

up.

It is to be had in two shades, rest of the complexion.

blush and ivory,

2-The Eyeshadow is Applied

Next

*

TUE night couline goes like

this:

1. The make-up is taken off with a molting cleansing cream.

6-The Powder Brush is

2. This cream is then wiped off Brought into Play

thoroughly and, if the skin is dry or POWDER brush is a very normal, a skin-treshener is applied. one which is. 3-Skin and tissue cream which soft baby YOU can have this in brown,

off all the surplus has an ally base is then patted into wiped off complexion, and blue or grey. The brown used to brush Is used for brown or hazel eyes and powder and give the face a nice the

transparent look that will last for thoroughly afterwards.

4-in the morning skin freshener Is applied again, and then rinsed off thoroughly with cool water before

the grey for blue eyes.

In Hollywood they say that the blue eyeshadow worn in the day imo steals the colour from blus eyes, whereas grey shows up the colour of the eyes. The blue should only be used by electric light.

T

The Ronge is Then Placed

THIS

THIS is a dry rouge, but I

has a cream base which helps it to cling. The rouge is putted on the cheeks at the point where t should be doopeat and then blended aight up to the lower eyelashes. In this way the face is made to look

hours.

The Eyelashes

THESE must now be brushed the make-up is applied.

with eyelash

cosmetic.

Soap and water washing should You can get, this in

black for be used after the skin freshener in brunettes, brown for blondes or blue applied at night and before the skin

and tasue cream is patt d on.

for evening wear.

It is made with an oll bruge, and

you cun cry, and it will not run; nelther does it hurt if by any chance it gets in your eye.

Fie skin is oily, this is the

routine. 8.The Eve Pencil

1-Cleansing cream is used to take off the make-up. AREFULLY used, "this will 2-The face is washed with soap

make the eyes appear and water, and rinsed........

3-Astringent is patted dn around the edge of the eye-In the morning the astringent thoroughly, und the foundation Needless to say, the binding must lashes Needless to say, this is patied on the face, incent

liquid applied. must be done very delicately,

mitch younger and any auspicion of larger. A very faint line is pencilled lines or crows' feet, disappear.

The extremely faini Under the eyes:

"

mover,

The Snapshots You'll want TOMORROW

You must take TODAY.. but

gets the p

ordinas

Koda

NÉRICHROME FIE

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