MACHINE-MADE BLUSHES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8752, 28 February 1907, Page 1

MACHINE-MADE BLUSHES.

The society woman who has pined for a complexion of milk of roses will have her ambition gratified this winter.

An export has solved the mystery of tattooing a blush on the cheek without injury to the skin or fear of blood-poisoning. A London Express representative a few weeks ago visited the Du Barri Studio, where in an atmosphere of roses, Oriental treasures, and old oak furniture, various shades of blushes, from the faintest shell-pink for a blonde to a warm ruddy glow for a brunette are pricked on sallow skins. “ The process is quite painless,” the expert explained. “ The needle only enters the skin one-sixteenth of an inch, and the operation is so rapid that no inconvenience is felt. “ The vegetable colouring which is injected under the skin is quite harmless, and really possesses antiseptic properties which render the patient immune from ordinary skin diseases.

“ Two sittings are necessary as a rule, but in some cases three or four visits are required. “ The effect for a few days is not pretty. The complexion passes from pink to red, and finally to a peculiar brick-dust colour. In three days the colour fades, and the delicate pink makes its appearance. “It is absolutely impossible to recognise that colour has been injected under the skin, and the nature of the colour is such that a sudden blush will deepen it, while fear or illness will decrease it.”