Powdering Her Nose.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1922, Page 4

Powdering Her Nose.

(By a Physician). j Many of the girls of to-day are ruining their fresh young complexions by tlic- constant tied promiscuous application of barmful face powders. In order to realise this one has only to look at the parchment-like skins of confirmed users of “complexion-iin-provors'' when they attain mature age. The habit of applying powder to the face on any and every occasion ha ■

grown enonnouSly during recent year:. Originating on the stage where/ it w:i used to accentuate and enhance tlm dinrm of tho actress who had to face tho fierce glare of .the footlights, i. has now spread until it may bo assarted with safety that there are few girt- who do not carry with them a. powder puff. When one enquires of tin. young gild why sho uses face powder, the in- j variable answer is that it is in order . to prevent her nose from being shiny. ! A shiny nose, indeed, appears to b - universally rcgitrded by tbe prosont- , day girl as a blemish to her beauty, j

AVhv this should be so is not easy'to understand. Now there is no doubt that tho ((instant use of face power causes the pores of the skin to be dogged, ami that if persisted in to excess,it results in the cuticle becoming coarse ami shrunken. I

There is all the difference between scientific and un.scieutifie pondorim*, and although experts unanimously dc dare that deleterious effects are produced by the careless application of cheap powders, they are no less emphatic in admitting that no permnnoiii harm is done hv the use of a small quantity of good quality powder at not too frequent intervals. Girls who use powder regularly should take the precaution of using one or other of the excellent face (ri’.i iiis with antiseptic properties now procurable. Tho best time to apply cream is on retiring at night. Ibis will cnsuii the pores being kept open and aseptic, ami if it- be carefully removed first thing in the morning .befora the lace washed, the application of powder ranu i produce tbe harmful results. For all that, one cannot quite comprehend why it is that thu modern gwi looks upon the slightest suspicion ol a

shiny nose ns .so disfiguring. Surely it j will not he ecu tended that the ap-1 p nrnneo of a- pencil is any more at-J tractive to lire eye oi the beholder) than that of a ripe healthy apple, in itc of the latter's shiny exterior!