"But it is not only dogs; why not bring the embroidery you are working on? An embroidery frame helps to make a good picture. Or bring any hobby to give a personal note and help you to relax. Your gardening clothes, hat, flowers may make a portrait which' your friends instantly recognize as being true. When women have lovely gardens we like them to bring their own flowers: they are so much less impersonal than even the loveliest bought bloom: If you want more in your portrait than a passport head then you can help to put it i To the question of make-up Mme. Yevonde has given a great deal of thought for she photographs the film and stage stars as well as society women. But the treatment of the two categories she feels to be quite different. "The film star is photographed on the same morning as her hair is set, and the girl who approximates to a film of stage beauty do the same, because the same-day coiffure looks sophisticated. For t rest, the curls are then too hard: give them a day in which to soften in the air and under the comb."
There is, of course, the question of whether you are being photographed in colour or in black and white "For colour, not any kind of full make-up, please, or it will look overdone and the make-up, standing out fiercely, ill dominate you, For instance, ju will not use any blue mascara on of brine, which last to them suggests freshness. Spo: are, therefore, sometimes loaded with silver sand to give them an appearance of having body and solidity and the fresh ace; smell is easily provided by dipping 2 the sponge in salt water after already been properly cleaned. either case there is an added risk of the appearance of mould. Apart from softness, which, if it is desired buyer, can readily be told by handling, the qualities to look for are durability ud absorptiveness. What matters hen is texture.
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