BEAUTY SECRETS

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)

BEAUTY SECRETS

BE YOUR OWN HAIR STYLIST It is only logical to assume that you know your own face much better than anyone else, even your beauty operator. You see it more often. You are annoyed by its trivial defects more frequently. You rejoice more profoundly in your own beautiful features. In short, no woman who is normally intelligent could be accused of not having a fair estimate of her own personal beauty assets and liabilities. If you will add to this commonplace, but valuable knowledge, some imagination and about an hour of your time, you will undoubtedly emerge with a ioiffure that will surpass your old one in individuality and charm. The best time to begin experimenting with your hair is just before you are ready to get a new wave. Then you are Jrco to comb it and work with it as you please without ruining the wave. Not so long ago there was one style of hairdress predominant in each period of fashion, but since motion pictures have taken such a tremendous hold on public opinion and customs, the only regulation concerning the way you wear your hair is to wear it becoming* ly. Lack new picture brings out new coiffures, and actresses in Hollywood are not even immune to coyping the coiffures of each other for their own personal glorification. To begin with, brush all the part out of your hair. You may be able to wear it either straight back, without a part, or in the pompadour style that the picture “San Francisco” has made so popular. Look at your profile, your full face. Consider the back of your neck. And if you don't think the pompadour is becoming, try parting your hair on the side. If bangs are becoming to you, consider the new “page boy bob” that was revived by Norma Shearer in “Romeo and Juliet.” Her hair in this picture was fluffy, but there are other types wearing this sort of bob whose hair must be sleek, and the only suggestion of a wave is at the ends where it turns up. The girl with a slight natural wave can brush her hair and attain a beautiful effect with liquid brillox. The “page boy bob” is about shoulder length. If you attend the movies regularly, you will see any number of attractive coiffure* that you can try and select from. These are all designed by men in Hollywood who have made a professiou of originating and designing hair styles to suit screen stars. They are yours for the taking if you have the inclina-

By MAX FACTOR

tion. There are many things that the professional hair stylist takes into consideration when he dresses a star's hair for an elaborate production. You may apply the same method of reasoning to your own coiffure. Before adopting any one style of wearing your hair, ask yourself the following questions: Does it make my neck look too long? Or too short? Is it becoming to any face, in length, breadth, forehead? Should my ears be covered or are they sufficiently well-shaped to be to my advantage? Do I need to build my hair up to add height to my figure or should I do the opposite? What is my type? Is it modern, the old-fashioned tintype, or am I a character from medieval days? When you have solved all these major problems' add the little touches of feminine beauty such as curls around

the face, and waves just where they belong, to add the personal touches to your own personality. The neck line is a very important thing that is too often neglected. Some women have an extremely feminine and appealing line in the way their hair naturally grows at the nape of the n«?ck. If they can possibly comb it in such a manner that this will show, it will be to their best advantage. Curls at the top of the head, and straight hair that merges into perfect ringlets at the side, are new modes that have come in with the general atmosphere of the approaching coronation. They are extremely becoming to a great number of women. To add the perfect sheen, the final touch of grooming and beauty to any coiffure, be sure to spray it with liquid brillox. This is beneficial to the hair and gives it that perfect lustre that hair of any colour needs before it is truly beautiful.