BEAUTY HINTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 8

BEAUTY HINTS

TAKE A NOTE OF THESE. The season of fun-making has only just commenced. There will be tennis and swimming and parties right through the summer, and the thought of a deliciously lazy, quiet week-end by the sea is just like a dose of effervescent tonic. Hours of relaxation and idle thoughts, bright, gay sports clothes, cool ocean beaches and happy companions—an ideal setting for the girl who knows she’s looking, her best. There’s no reason why you shouldn't look your best and know it. When you’re off to the beach for a few days don’t turn the week-ender into a beauty salon. Don’t fill your case with aids to loveliness and waste precious hours indoors on nails, hair and skin. All these things should be done at home so that you look 100 per cent when enjoying those leisure hours. No embarrassment of broken nails or

rough skin. Spend a few hours on your skin, for you’ll probably be in the strong sunlight a lot. Sunlight shows up any blemishes and it will play more than havoc with a delicate skin. You'll either come out in blisters, peel heartily or look like a Dalmatian puppy gone haywire when the freckles appear. On the other hand you may acquire a good suntan. No matter which change you undergo your skin must be nourished to take it. Apply tons of skinfood. Massage it well into the skin and leave it on overnight.

Before you go gaily off to the beach apply a protective cream under your powder if your skin is delicate. If you "brown” don’t put any powder on your face, rub it with sun-tan oil and apply rouge and lipstick. Dark olive skin and same fairish skins approve of the sun’s rays and tan, but usually fair skins freckle or just go red. Don’t get all enthusiastic and think your freckles will become one large patch of tan —they won’t. Freckles, when pale, may fade in years, but repetitions of scorching will only make for ugly marks which will stay with you until you’re too old or too disheartened to care.

Creamy skins are just, as attractive as tanned complexions, so protect them with cream, powder and a large hat when in the sun.

The home treatment of nightly skin food will give the skin sufficient oil to resist the dry rays of the sun. Pay special attention to your eyes. Crow's feet are the easiest things to acquire, especially in the glaring sunlight. Rub extra skin food very gently under the eyes, being careful not to stretch the skin. While you’re on the beach wear dark

glasses. Squinting will bring wrinkles to your forehead as well as under your eyes. Cream your -hands and elbows for a few days prior to the weekend.