HOW WOMEN MAY KEEP YOUNG.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 209, 15 September 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW WOMEN MAY KEEP YOUNG.

STUDY YOUR HAIRDRESBING. Observing the manner of another woman's hairdressng may or may not help you. You must, first of all, make a careful, conscientious, unprejudiced analysis of the shape of your head as related to vour face and features. To do this, let down your hair and brush it smoothly back. Then, with the aid of an extra mirror, study the shape of your head from every point of view. Hold the hair in about the neck, or tie a ribbon over the ha'.r around vour back, to hold the hair close, then study the side view, the top, the hack, the front. Note carefully the following points: — Is your head "wide or narrow above the ears? , Is it full, or inclined to be flat ana low just back of the hair line—that is on top near the front? Is it' full or flat at the crown—that is, the po : nt where ihe hair radiates from the top of the head ? Is your head very full at the hack? Is it straight ;up from V-ie neck, or nearly so? Or is it medium full ? Is it wide between the ears as yon look at the back, or narrow? Is your chin prominent, receding, or medium ? . Is your nose long or short, straight or crooked? Does it turn up or down? Is vour face wide or narrow, oval in outline, round or more square in shape ,J Is your face plump or thin? Is your forehead high or low? Does your hair grow low upon (your forehead? Or does the hair line recede, leaving your temples bare? Is the* hair line straight or ragged ? When you part your hair, is the parting a close delicate line? Or is it wide ana white, making the hair look th.n and tho face long? As you look at the side of your face, with vour hair combed back, does your forehead extend foreward from the hair line, and then down? Or does it slope directly down from the hair? Does it recede? , Is your head high from the top or the ear to the top of the head, or low or medium? . As vou stand in a strong light, is your skin smooth and fine? Or is it coarse, needing to be thrown into shadow? Remember that shadows soften. Nearly everyone is at a disadvantage with a strong lght upon the face- . . All these, and many more joints which will suggest themselves as you carefully study your head in your mir. ror, have something to do with the way you should dress your har. If your head is very full on top, for instance, it .is not likel'v that your appearance will be approved by making that fullness decidedly greater, as you wou'd do if you piled your hair high. ' One of the most common of unfortunate errors is made by the woman who is high at the crown of the head (strong seff-esteem) and also has a prominent chin (usually denoting strength), lhese two points are quite apt to go together, and the woman who has them is quite liable to think "Handsome :s that handsome does," and consequently pays very little attention to the way she doe's her hair. As she can most quickly comb it straight back and twist it into a snug knot right on the crown, she is likely to do just that—the very worst thing she can do. Such women are usually intellectual and have strong executive ability and this harsh method of doing the hair ac. centuates the oblique line from the chin to the crown of the head, makes very strong features seem stronger—makes cverv mortal man feel like running to the 'farthest corner when he sees tins austere individual coming in his directon, truly the hair speaks strongly, because of tts direct influence upon the facial expression. The stern, forceful woman needs to " tona down" the strong lines and soften tho features, and no better aid tor accomplishing this result could be employed than the hair. If your hair is the " bane of your existence," vou have not yet found the right way of caring for it, or your way of arranging it. When you do, its care aud arangement will afford you pleasure. . , . When vou come home from the hairdresser or when you have been experi. menting yourself, and someone, perhaps vour husband, says, "Oh, how nice vour 'hair looks; you should never do it in any other way!" Then it is that you understand the satisfaction, which is found in making yourself attractive to ethers. . , ~ Each woman can best apply these tests for herself. It is impossible to describe evorv variation which will present itself, for no two faces are alike; I can onlv give the types. You may, or may not! be classified under any one type. You will probably find that you have chaarcteristics, some of which are found in one type and some in another. Then, study each of these characteristics, under whichever type yon hud it note carefully the influence of hairdressing as related to each one, and from the observations you make you can construct the analysis of your own type and will evolve the style of hairdressing best for you.