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Routine For Make-Up
OWEVER much We
H
think
we know there is always somebody who knows more.
That is why fully quali fied doctors continue their hospital work, or specialise in some particular branch of medicine.
And that's why actresses who have "arrived" still take singing and dancing lessons.
The reason, too, that I decided to spend a few hours in the London salon of a famous Hollywood make-up expert the other day. I wanted to refresh my knowledge.
How do you apply cream,
powder and lipstick?
Well! never mind. Just read
the result of my visit.
The expert's first principles are:
1 Powder should inatch the skin.
2 Lipstick should be of the same long as the natural colour of the lips. 3 Rouge should harmonise with the colour in the checks. He calls it "colour harmony."
No
TOW for the method. Cleansing cream is wiped off again with a cleans- ing tissue. A lotion is applied next. If the skin is dry or normal (and there are more dry skins than oily ones, be- lieve me), a skin freshener is used. If it is greasy, an tringent is dabbed surface.
over
ay- the
Then comes the foundation. Again, the condition of the skin
bone first, then one on the fore-
is studied. For a dry or normal head and the lost on the chin. skin a blender is chosen; if greasy,
special cream. You don't put it This is called the "five point hapinzardly all over the skin. A touch." tiny dab is placed on ench cheel
When Meat
Is Tough
"ROUGH
It is softened gently over
the entire face and then removed to make sure the skin is smooth. So many women leave too much on the skin, and that
a thick and gives uneven appearance when the powder
goes on.
If you have dark lines under the eyes suspicion of the blender is ROUGH and tasteless," declares pinced there. It takes away the a housewife, indignantly, of hard line and the face looks rounder meat that has proved an unpalutable and more youthful, dinh. And, though the butcher may perplexed "Can't reply understand it. Ma'am," he often knows perfectly well that nothing now. but careless cooking can have spollt the very excellent joint for which he is held accountable.
with
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be
TE are ready for the touches
Wnishing
Eyeshadow with a creamy base is used as it is easier to mingle with the foundation,
These are the rules: Blue shadows for the blonde. Brown for brown, hazel, or green eyes with little specks of brown in them. At night a green eyeshadow gives an exotic effect.
ELSIE SCOTT
tells
you
here
a famous Hollywood expert's method
Then be sparing with rouge. Blend it sparsely on the highlight of the check-bone, smooth it downward" and away from the In- dentations..
If you are unfortunate enough to have hollow checks keep it away from the hollows where it acts as a shadow and it will counteract this natural shadow. The checks treated so appear fuller and the contour of the face is rounded..
FUNALLY the powder.
Use a velour puff and the powder lavishly, Start at the lower jaw and work up the checks; pat it up towards the middle of the face and on to the brow. Powder the nose last. Press the powder lightly into the lines around nose, eyes, mouth and chin.
The face is thickly. coated with powder. It should not be rubbed off, but brushed away lightly with the soft-bristled, curved brush this expert Invented for the purpose, and which you can see sketched on this page.
Eyebrows are marked with a penell, not in one hard line, but sketched In with Night, short strokes,
Lashes are darkened with a soft eye brown or black applied with a little brush.
Lipstick is painted on with a brush, and the colour placed well Inside the lips to avoid hardness.
Remember that lipstick will not adhere to wet lips. They should be dried first. Paint the upper lip round the natural shape, press it on to the lower lip and then fii in the outlines with the brush. Place a cleansing After the eye shadow comes the tissue between them and press the lips together to remove surplus colour. rouge.
Now moisten the lips and your mouth should look perfectly symmetrical.
I wish you could have seen the finished face, fresh from the expert's ministrations, you would certainly make up your own face in future accord- Ing to these rules.
It is patted on with a puff, no rubbed in. A tiny triangular dab is put on the high point of coch cheek and then brought down to follow the natural curve of the bone. Coax it into the full parts of the checks and soften the edges.
be Rouge should
taken very faintly to the outer corner of the
To muke
Should you have a thin face keep the colour away from the nose and middle of the face and persuade it outward to the full part of the check.
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marriage is a dreadful of running commentary bridge. Dur- lower eyelid. The white space be- "I tween eye and cheekbone is thus hidden and more natural look day. "if only there were some she keeps up a constant stream of achieved.
infalible method of finding out if a remarks. comments, ejaculations, man will make a good husband!" protests, arguments, and expostul- round face appear)
"Play bridge with him!" retorted utions. If she has nothing to grumble oval, bring the colour downward to her cynical companion. "If he about, she descends into the horrors the full part of the cheek and so survives that ordeal, he will come of unbridled facellousness. She dir- diminish the high light in the middle safely through anything"
fers from the conference expért in of the face.
It is a atrange fact that bridge never waiting for a reply, but just reveals all the little "kinks" in our bubbles on in an infuriating spate of
meaningless words. natures that at other times we keep jealously hidden. We pride our Then there are the players of slow- selves on our evenness of temper, but motion and lightning bridge. The a foolish lead by our partner will former plays each card with painful nake us snap at him or her. We deliberation, stacks the tricks with boast of our patience, but let a Infinite care into a neat design, and player hesitate for a few seconds over has even been known to stop a call or a lead and we frown and consult the book of rules in the mid-
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"Oh, I just pop it in the oven" you may, perhaps, hear an experienced cook say arily. And the noviec, tast-. ing the admirable result of this ap- parently simple treatment, imagines
to that there is nothing more
I have watched, I find myself, and opposite. She drops cards all over F134-All Alone in Vienna. Tango......... Billy Thorburn & His Music learnt about the preparation of meat
I have come to the conclusion that the place, leads the wrong card al- for the table. Never was there
it a film producer could secretly take most before the previous trick has blager mistake. The expert cook
disorder. I should certainly seek an exact record of some of the things been gathered in, and can only dis- does not dent 40 summarily even
advice from a doctor, who may be that actually happen at presumably cover how many tricks she has made with the prime cuts of meat, and Whenever I have a sea and sun able to prescribe some treatment.
well conducted bridge parties he by counting those of her opponent! would certainly never dream of holiday CUL troubled with little
would make a fortune by showing it
A Paying Gaine omitting the preparatory processes by bilsters on the lips. Afterwards
as a comedy!" which the inferior joints
be they turn to horrid little scabs. They,
For instance, four people arranged served in a tender and tasty condi- are not in the least serious but they
Of course, everyone has met the to begin playing bridge at nine o'clock tion,
Invariably disfigure me for about Can you help me, please? I want
one evening. At 10 p.m. they were players of bandit bridge. They are my bust but, like the
still
arguing about the conventions out, frankly to make an Income from "For to-day's cooking" is a remin- ten days, just when I want to look to develop der to the reliable butcher that meat my best. Is there any remedy or correspondent who wrote to you a they should use and exactly what cards. Before play commences they jew weeks ago, I haven't much should not be sent straight from the means of preventing this rash?
was meant if someone called "Three are almply charming, and the ice, nor without being properly hung, THESE small
time for exercises. Is there anything hearts" without a single card of that precating waves of the hand assure water blisters
are I could rub into the skin to increase suit in his hand. By 10.30 they had you that they are not really much In warm weather, however, the meat
caused by the action of the salt my size? chilled condition, is often sold in
eted one rubber, and then the good but do so enjoy an occasional completed
With the same unerring and to put it in the pot or the oven water and sun or certain skins.
ergument broke out ofresh. One of rubber, the losers maintained that if The only thing you can do is to IE bust
his instinct that leads a vulture to its without first "thawing" it is to make
partner had had the elementary prey, they contrive to get drawn into sense to show his hearts when call games with players who are slightly ing the last hand, they would have less skilful than themselves, and In saved the game, and would have the most disarming way manage to probably won the rubber in the end, win. Consequently, they regard un At 11.15 the party broke up, with evening ill spent that does not bring them in at least a couple of pounds. I shall be thankful if you out another hand having been played. The comic side of their performance from the direct rays of the sun. The advise me about the condition of my mica! That was an extreme rase, but may not be very apparent to their lotion you mention is largely NC- commended for sunburn and its at- air. I am 25 years of age and it lt just happened that four experts at opponents, but it is, nevertheless,
is beginning to turn grey. I should "conference bridge"
amusing to watch. came together. "Vinegar," said an expert cook, tendant irritations.
like to know if there is any cure for Usually there is never more than one Finally, there is the win-at-all- when asked to suggest a remedy for
this complaint?
"conference bridge" expert at cach costs player. She-this player is al- tough meat, and the housewife who once adopts the plan of applying a
table, and, though he does his best ways a woman-will make mistakes I am only 22 and am I getting THERE is a little vinegar and water, or vinegar desperate about a growth of strong,
great divergence of to turn the game into a debate, he that are always in her own favour; and salad all, to meat before cooking dark hair on my arms, legs, face maturely grey hair. Sometimes ill opponents worthy of his
opinion about the cause of pre-azzles out in ume through lack of she will unblushingly revoke when verbal in a tight corner, and, if challenged, it, will be highly satisfied with the and on my chest. Do you think health, shock or nervous disorders hatis.
make everyone else feel they are in the wrong.
must never be rubbed
it tough and tasteless. Chilled meat 5eur some protecting cream round or massaged. The best method should be covered with cold water, the lips before bathing or sitting in is by special exercises and a suit. never warm, for at least half an hour the sun. Wipe it off afterwards able diet. before cooking it, and even meat that with a pad of soft cotton-wool or a Use a foundation has not been chilled is made more cleansing tissue. tender by lying in cold water for jeream before applying powder and about twenty minutes.
Beat to Make Tender
result.
protect the face as much as possible
"N. H."
that this can be caused by
any
"D. J. M."
would
will make it lose its colour. There
and the four friends are now ene
It in best to wasis the meat as soon medical disorder and can a doctor is little that can be done once the The Unwritten Law as it comes into the house and then help?
baste it with a tablespoonful, each,
of vinegar and water, or preferably AN abnormally strong growth
Vinegar and solad oil, rubbing in the mention, may be due to some health the sent thoroughly healthy.
superfluous hair, such as you most important of which is to keep play oldfashioned whist with old like gentlemen at the card table al-
or
mixture with the back of a wooden spoon. Steak, topside of beef, mution that may, possibly, not be very tender, answers admirably to this softening treatment. Lamb chops are made delicious by a squeeze of lemon juice before they nre cooked.
The softening and breaking up of
Fortunately the win-at-all-costa hair has actually turned grey. It
player is a rare type, but bridge does is possible, however, to take very
It would be a filling punishment exaggerate weaknesses. I have of effective preventive
measures, the for such people to be condemned to known men who could not behave
The
fashioned partners who insisted on though on any other occasion they hair should be frequently and well keeping to the strictest letter of the were perfect. But then 1 have washed. Suitable lotions will also unwritten tow that the game must be known men who could not keep their help to prevent the greyness from played in silencel
sense of proportion about plctures, spreading, Dandruff affect the An even more irritating player- music, or food!
SHORT SKIRT or hair, and should be treated. generally a woman-is the exponent
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the meat fibre is, of course, the obHORTER and tighter skirts are
ject of the off and vinegar treatment. the lot of women this season, and The result is further achieved by beating out steak and other possibly many of the newest reach only to tough meat with a rollingpin mallet.
or about two inches below the knees, and although many break into Iooso pleats, some can scarcely be tighter without crippling the wearer.
The julces that make meat lender must never be allowed to escope when cooking, unless the intention is
Only recently there bounded Into the fashion scheme that little girl to make soup. A few minutes fast skirt which has been orgued on and cooking to horden the outside is off the boards for several years. It essential, no matter whether the reaches to Just below the knees and! moat is to be roasted, boiled, or the girls like it. It wrape com- stowed: A coating of flour also helps fortably and it opens at the lower to seal the pores, and should always left side, near the knee. There are be given to meat intended for pics, several versions of the short skirt puddings, or stews.
which are altogether in keeping with the lines of the abbreviated summer
If a fork is used to turn meat in¦ jacket. One is a tight affair to just cooking, it should be stuck into the below. the knees, and to make walk- fat, for, if the fibre is pierced, the ing possible, it is slashed to a depth Juices will now, and the meat will of three or five inches preclicly at lose its favour and tenderness. the centre back, which openings in
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