BEAUTY TREATMENTS FOR JAPANESE GIRLS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 10

BEAUTY TREATMENTS FOR JAPANESE GIRLS

Cold water js recognised in Japan aa the best skin lotion, and only poor girls use hot to wash o£F the dirt of the street and factory from their faces. The powder foundation applied afteT the wash is a liquid consisting of ricechaff and unrefined sugar, which keeps the skin soft and tender. Yet, in addition, the Japapese woman must ghave her neck and face at least once a month, even when the lotion is used, for powder does not stick properly ux>on a skin coyered with small hairs. The Japanese consider short faces and fiat, short noses ugly, so they • skilfully paint the powder over the face, moving the brush from ear to ear instead of from forehead to chin, and pile it high on the bridge of the nose. jBoth, methods are remarkably efficacious, ln spite of their golden skin, all Japanese use white powder. The mouth is painted white and only a small spot of rouge is applied to the lower lip, for a tiny mouth is the amhition of every Japanese woman who would be beautiful, The hair is smeared with the oil of eamellias to obtain the stiff and shiny appearance so well-known in 'the Jananese. It is very difhcult tp reniove the oil after some weeks when it has become dry and sticky, and the bairdresser is obliged to rub the hair with wet towels for seyeral hours. Lest .they destroy the elaborate work of the haircjresser, Japanese girls place a piece of wood under their njecks while tliey sleep, and so manage to preserye unruti'led the beautifnl structure.