USE OF COSMETICS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 28, 27 October 1937, Page 11

USE OF COSMETICS

(Continued from column S.) culty is experienced in this direction, it is a good idea to dip the finger lightly in cream and then in the rouge. Dry rouge is.useful as a "touch-up" on the completed make-up. during the day or evening. It is said that the ideally proportioned fape - may be divided in^o three equal parts. The distance from the hair-line to the bridge of the nose, and that from the bottom of the nose to the end of the * chin, should equal the length of . the nose. Hard and fast rules for applying rouge cannot he given, as no two faces are alike; but it is important to remember that colour draws attention to itself and detracts from other parts of the face. For instance, the older woman should keep her rouge high on the face to draw attention from the saggling lines about the mouth and chin. With the hollow-cheeked - type, care must he taken not to carry rouge into the hollows, hut concentrate on the cheekbone. The long, narrow face can be given an illusion of breadth by placing rouge high -under the eye and blending out over the. temple, with the heaviest aecent kept high and towards the outside of the face. Rouge placed in the indentation of the upper lip tends to shorten the appearance of a long, thin nose. Rouge on the eartips has the effect of hroadening the appearanee of a. thinfaced woman who likes to hrushpftt#%air back -hshind-iiiA fmxf'