Correcting Deficiencies

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

Correcting Deficiencies

TN using cosmetics, it is important that one should know how to apply them successfully to enhahce good features and distract attention from poor ones. . The correct application of make-up will make dull features alertand interesting. There are two basic colours in rouge— yellow red and hlue red. These two shades are found in the natural colouring of youth. If uncertain of one's colouring when choosing rouge and lipstick, consult a make-up expert instead of huying in a haphazard fasliion. To-day, fashion demands that'make-up complement colour in clothes. For instance, when wearing brown, though the natural colouring be blue red, the, lipstick and rouge should have yellow red tones; and to cover up the. bluish tendency of the complexion, a deep cream or pale sun-tan . foundation cream • or lotion must be used, accompanied .by a matching shaide of powder. The result will be effective and harmonious. ' A most inartistic effect results from • using one colour on the lipso and a different one on thfe cheeks. In applying rouge, the ohject, of course,* is to achieve a natural effect,The shape and size of the face must be taken into .consideration, the colour being blended over the correct area, with the edges merging , softly into the rest of the skin. Paste or> cream rouge , is best for the skin; it gives a more natural effect if correctly applied, and is "more economical than dry rouge, because so little is needed for make-up. Cream rouge is not as popular as it should be. The reason may be attributed to the fact that many people do not know how to apply it with the best results. Unless the skin has been softened with cream or a suitable foundatipn, cream rouge will go on patchily. If difli(Continued in column 8.)