YOU AND BEAUTY

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 122, 24 October 1941, Page 44

YOU AND BEAUTY

FAIR AT FORTY (Contd.) 7 OUR HAIR: Find a hair-style that ‘suits you but is reasonably up to date. So many women go around wearing their hair the way it was when they met their first beau. Present day styles are perfect for you-waves flat or not existent, curls big and soft and brushed out. Brush your hair a great deal to keep it glossy. If you have a permanent wave, don’t have it too vigorous. Treat yourself to one more a year, and have a softer, looser wave. Remember to keep it brushed softly back, and if you have grey hair do not allow it to relax flatly against the face. ue ue xe youR SKIN may worry you quite a lot. If you can afford it, have a special massage now and again to lift sagging muscles, If you can’t, at least keep your skin smooth with an extratich skin food, and toned up with a good astringent. And don’t forget your neck in your daily beauty routine. Crepe-like skin there can make you look seventy at fifty. Lots of women start getting those tiny little red thread veins round about forty. It is difficult and expensive to cure them completely, but you can cover them up with a coloured foundation lotion or cream, and prevent them from getting worse by avoiding very hot or very cold water on the face. 3 * ae * yoOuR MAKE-UP needs a thorough overhaul now. Too little makes you look flat and lifeless, too much is ageing. You may need to change the shades you use. Generally speaking, you should avoid very vivid tonings in 3, ae and rouge, and particularly those tending to orange, or on the other hand to cyclamen. After forty nearly every woman looks better in one of the raspberry tonings or the warmer reds. If you have been plucking your eyebrows to a thin line let them grow back into their natural shape. Keep them neat by all means, and darken them if necessary, but you will find that the natural shape will give character to the face, Instead of using eye-shadow try a little oil on your lids instead, \ Take extravagant care of your hands, for they, like your neck tend to age before your face. And look out for things like "dowager’s hump" at the back of your neck, double chins, and a bulging diaphragm. These are usually the ‘result of incorrect posture, and they can be cured by correct exercises and correct posture. So do /your ten minutes of specialised exercise night and morning,’ and, when you sit or walk, learn to tuck your tummy in, stretch the back of your neck, and hold your head up. And you -won’t find it difficult to be "fair at forty."