HOW TO BEAUTIFY A LADY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2506, 1 April 1881, Page 4

HOW TO BEAUTIFY A LADY.

After throwing off my polonaise and having a peignoir thrown around my shoulders, says a confidential New Yorker for the benefit of the less known of her sex, my hair was taken out of the little knot into which I had twisted it and was shampooed. It was then dried and combed up from my face and neck, and smoothed at the edges with bandoline, applied with a small, fine sponge. My eyes were then bathed in clair du lune. This is an eye tonic, and makes the eye exceedingly brilliant. Next, with a magnifying glass in her hand, ray coiffeuse went over my face, neck, arms and shoulders, carefully inspecting every part, and with a pair of fine tweezers she removed every superfluous hair. From a little box she dipped with a small, fine, soft sponge a creamy, rosetinted cosmetic and carefully applied it to my face, arms, hands, neck and shoulders, rubbing and blending it carefully and evenly over the entire surface. She told me that she nsed rose-tinted creme because I was pale ; for ruddy blondes white creme is used; for brunettes, buff-tinted. There are finishing powders, too, in all these shades. After the creme was rubbed in I was ready for a - .bit of color in my cheeks and lips.. This was applied from what is called, and I suppose is a rabbit’s foot. The color was rubbed deftly into my cheeks, a little around my eye, on my nostrils, chin and ears, and then my lips were tinged with liquid vegetable rouge. Then with a powder puff of swan’s down she went over the whole with a rosy-white blending powder, brushing it off carefully with another puff. Now my eyebrows were brushed out and shaded with fard indien. This was done with a leather stamp. As the creme and velontine powder had hidden all my veins, with a blue pencil they were now traced on my hands, arms, neck, and temples. With the same pencil a line was traced under each of my eyes, and shaded off with a fresh stamp. All this requires the eye and hand of an artist. Then a front coiffure, with waves rolling on ray fcrehead, and curly hair, 30in. long, falling back, was pinned with invisible hairpins to my own scanty chevelure, and, twining it around a coil in the back, it was formed with a switch of moderate size into a low coiffure, a la Grecque. A few little waving curls were added, falling on my neck, and behind my ears a few stray locks were drawn out and frizzed ; for as my coiffeuse said, the ears should ever be set, as it were in a spray of hair. Then my eyelashes were trimmed, and last of all my nails were soaked, cut, tinted and polished, and I was supplied with a set of toilettes des bongles, and all the cosmetics I had used and a cosmetic mask.