Making Up the Face.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 6

Making Up the Face.

Making ,ap the face, as it is called/ is an art in itself ;> by it the bid can ho made to lo6k young,' or 1 at least 1 younger, and the young old. By, these arts the famous Bejazet, when eighty years old, 'could play successfully a young page. Formerly a burntcork, apiece of chalk, and, a pot of rouge was all,,, that was necessary ■ non your well-graced has his •• make-up " box, or dressing case, containing stores of violet powder, fullers' earth, chrome yellow, blue crayon?, umber, cosmetic, black enamel! thC IDg A?, a f c '"^ W . ith other unpleasant things. Al have their purpose. Are you the hunted viUam skulking from justice in the woods ? must rub your cheeks and chin thoroughly with thick blue powder, to leave the idea that you have not been able to shave for a week. Or should you be an aged crone or hag, a few blue streaks on the arms or, hands suggest the -well-marked veins of old age. To be particularly youthful and loyer-like you rouse whiten your face thoroughly, rouge well up to the eve* hds, and then draw a little brown streak under the eyes, which lends brilliancy. An old man has a very disagreeable task before him. He must rub his cheeks and chin well with fullers' earth j then with camel's hair brush proceed to make three dark streaks between the eyes, with long lines from the nostrils to the corners of the mouth, then get on what is oddly called his " white bald wig," the bald portion of which is fixed to the forehead by "joining-paste " A striking additional effect is produced by giving the effect of teeth being wanting, which at first sight seems an almost impossible thingto do. But in our •• make up box " you find your black enamel, with which you paint over a couple of teeth ; in a few minutes it sets and hardens, and a most satisfactory and disagreeable evidence of old age is the result. A mode of attaching whiskers was the oldfashioned one of hooking them on to the ears. But there is an article called ' crape hair,'* which is gummed on to the cheeks, and when dry can bo trimmed and combed like real whiskers. As regards the nose, there is an elegant way of treatment, namely, by fitting on a well- modelled papiermache* one ; but there is the more rough-and-ready mode of dealing with it. We read in one of the text-books on the Pub. jecfc the following errave directions :— u In some low-comedy characters, such as Bardolph, <fee, it is necessary to alter the shape of the nose in order to give it that bloated, blotchy appearance ao noticeable in drunkarde. You first gum on to the end of the nose a piece of wool, press it down to the shape and size required, then powder it well with rouge to match the rest of the nose and obeeka. The cheeks may also be enlarged in the same way. The other, and perhaps the better, way is to take a little powder, mix it with water and work it up into dough ; fix it to the nose with spirit gum, and mould it to the shape and size required, and then powder it with rouge to match the cheeks, &c. Blotches, warts, and pimples may be made by sticking on small pieces of wool and colouring them either brewn or x^d. We may thus fancy our unhappy actor complete, his woollen nose stuck on. with gum, his eye-bro»8 and whiskers well glued to him, hi* black enamelled teeth» his cheeks plastered with rouge, white, and umber, his "bald wig" fastened to his forehead with "joining-paste, "and we may i wonder indeed how he can find spirit or even ease to utter his words !— "Cornhill Magazine."