SECRET OF TANNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1940, Page 8

SECRET OF TANNING

TO SUIT EACH TYPE. Summer and bathing will soon be here, and whether you’re fair, medium, or dark, the sun will give you a new loveliness if you know the secret of tanning to suit your own particular type. How does you skin, take to the sun — painfully, slowly or easily? It all depends,’ of course, on the type and texture of your complexion, and there are three types. There’s the fair, fine, delicate skin that flushes scarlet at the first touch of the sun, the medium skin that goes through a stage of redness and discomfort before it turns a warm peach, and the dark skin that tans easily, growing darker and smoother and more chocolate with every hour in the sun. Each of these three types needs a different tan treatment and a different make-up. If You Are Fair. You have a choice of two alternatives. Either you stay milk-and-roses, or you take a lot of care and trouble and very gradually acquire a pale gold skin. Good advice is to stay fair and make capital out of it. Brown skin doesn’t suit you as much as pink and white, dnd tanning will coarsen its exquisite texture. So make a point of staying cool and serene and fair as a white rose amid all the warm brown skins around you. . It means, of course, that you’ll have to provide yourself with a good sunproof cream or liquid and use it frequently whenever you’re going to be in the sun, and always under your powder. Ration Your Sun. It means you'll have to be lavish with your cooling skin cream. or tannic acid jelly, at night after you've been sunning, and that you'll have to ration your sun to not more than a couple of hours a day. But, in spite of all your precautions, you'll freckle, of course; fair skins do that whether they see the sun or not. If you decide that freckles must go, bleach them away with a freckle cream. Choose your make-up to fit into the cool ivory picture, nourishing white milk foundation under clear pale cameo powder, pastel pinks, and rose tints like the new natural rose, pastel or rose pink for your lips and cheeks, with rosy tips for your nails. If You Are Medium. If you choose the second alternative, because you like to tan or because you’re in an open-air job and can’t be a lily, then do take the trouble to do it slowly. Get yourself a good protective cream that will let you tan and won’t let you burn and keep it coated over your face and arms. Choose a ipale peach gold for your powder and 1 put a gay orange ping on your lips. I Your skin is the type that can be nursed into a nice warm tan. If you’re careful you can cut out the ugly red in between stage by using a good suntan cream and get your tan all the quicker. The best preparation for you is a suntan cream that’s suntan colour —a cool bronze cream specially created for the tropics. Smooth it all over your face and limbs before you go into the sun, and it will cut’ out all the burning rays, at the same time giving your skin a warm suntanned look. Choose a peach tan powder to go over it to emphasise the brownness and touch your lips and cheeks with one of those new clear velvet reds like the heart of a red rose. Later, when you’re really brown, deepen your powder to a summer tan shade and lighten your lipstick to the gay vivid pink of a pink geranium. It’s one of the most becoming make-ups in the world. And film the faintest touch of greeny blue shadow on your lids. If You Are Dark. You're the lucky person who after a whole winter’s struggle against greasy skin comes into your own in the summer sun. With the help of a bronze suntan oil or liquid for your limbs and back, you can brown evenly and smoothly and look lovely while you're doing it. When you want a matt make-up use a bronze suntan foundation with a powdering of deep brown suntan powder, and for rouge and lipstick one of those warm red-browns, the colour of lovely old brick wall in the sun. And, for fun, for evenings, or for when you wear soft colours, get yourself one of those tremendously gay, bright orange lipsticks. They look heavenly against a glowing brown skin. Care of the Feet. All three types of beauty need to take as particular care of the feet as of the face during summer. There is no reason why feet should not appear as attractive as possible on the beach, and, while perfect feet are rare these days, pedicure can help keep feet free from disfigurements and the toenails carefully cut. Before any foot treatment is undertaken. first cleanse the feet with a, small piece of cottonwool dampened with methylated spirit. Special attention must be given to the skin between the toes, and this is best accomplished by wrapping a small piece of cottonwool around an orange stick, dipping it in the spirit, and then thoroughly working it in between the toes. This will harden the skin, prevent soreness, and thus help the feet towards greater attractivess. File and Emery Board. After the feet have been thoroughly treated in this manner, separate the toes with small pieces of cottonwool. This will make it easier to give correct pedicure, and you will find that il ( is better to treat one foot at a time'. Shape the nails, using a fairly largo file. Do not cut too close into the corners, and keep the shape as nearly straight across as is possible. In this manner you will avoid ingrowing toenails. As the nail is usually rather hard and horny, you should never attempt to cut the nails with scissors, as this will often make them break and crack. After the nails have been tiled into a good shape, smooth them down with an emery board and then cleanse them. Dip an orange stick in soapy water and then in peroxide. and thoroughly cleanse with this liquid, then with your cuticle remover, take away any rough-1 ness which is around the base or the] side of the nail, and then wash each, nail carefully with soapy water. Rinsej away all lather and dry thoroughly. When you have shaped the nails and

cuticles, and cleansed the skin, make the underneath part of the nail very white with nail white, then buffer the uper part of the nail so that you will have a good surface for applying nail varnish if you use varnish.