TRAVEL PROBLEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1939, Page 8

TRAVEL PROBLEMS

CARE OF HANDS AND HAIR. Your coiffure is a problem no matter how you travel. It should be simply pressed so that you can arrange it with ease. A good, stiff utilitarian brush is essential. Put a fraction of brilliantine on to the brush before you start. Have your hair shampooed about two days before travelling and include a rinse suitable for your colouring. The better type of rinses not only improve the colour, but they give the hair more “body” and resistance. It will not easily become limp or lose its wave or curls. Every form of travel seems to react badly on the hands. It is next to impossible to keep them lily-white. An accessible manicure outfit containing bare necessities is important. Do not, however, bother with varnish and remover. Have your hands manicured and your nails discreetly varnished the day before you set out, and the attention will see you.through a journey of moderate length.. Do not go in for a vivid nail varnish. It looks deplorable on those inevitable occasions when your hands must become travel-stained.

When you near the end of your journey reach for your clothes-brush, although you will not use it until you have powdered your nose and applied fresh lipstick. Use rouge sparingly, and avoid dark colours, brilliant reds, or oranges. The rouge should be applied to suit the contours of the face. For instance, if the cheekbones are set high, the rouge must be placed low, otherwise it will diminish the size of the eyes. If the cheeks are hollow the rouge should be applied evenly, avoiding any concentration of colour op the hollows. You must be very careful to apply the rouge in the same place on each cheek. Sometimes it is put on so carelessly that a dark dab will appear under one eye—suggesting a black eye—while the other cheek will have what appears to be a bruise in sonic other place. By all means apply a little grease to the eyelids. This will give brilliance to the eyes, and will appear to increase their size; this is especially the case if the eyes are inclined to be prominent. Greta Garbo always outlines the shape of the eyeball in pencil, working on the lid from the corner by the nose to the extreme outer end of the eyes. But deep-set eyes or eyes with puffy lids cannot be treated in this way. If an attempt is made, the effect will be Oriental. The lids of deep-set eyes should be touched with moonlight-blue eye-shadow—ap-plied with discretion over a hint of 1 grease.