There is no excuse for anyone t:
0 be a plain Jane these days. You can with impunity paint a pretty picture on the homeliest countenance. And not only can—you should.
It is a duty and a good deed in the world.
If you show your face at its best you are truly being unselfish, for it is dreary to look upon a plain, unadorned face and a pleasure io see a pretty one.
Your face should be your canvas to do with as you will, looking on the bone-won build your completed. structure. k as the foundation on which to Not only your face—your nails your hair, your eyelashes, all can be completely artificial if your own are not satisfactory. Of course, there is a risk attaching to artifice.
For instance, there is the sad story of a lady with whom I lunched not long ago. She wore the most perfect artificial nails, but—alas!—she dropped one in the lobster thermidor. and the waiter swept the dish away, thinking doubtless the crimson nail was a bit of shell!
There is the face lift when muscles sag. In the long-ego days, when this miracle was first devised, a friend of mine who was not quite sure how it would turn out insisted on her long-suffering and adoring husband having the process tried out on him. It was so successful that she eagerly followed suit—with the result that they both still appear to be in the first flush of youth. Except for her elderly woddie she might be twenty-five instead of more than sixty.
Changing the shape of your nose, slitting eyes at the corners to make them larger, face-lifts—these are all extreme measures and expensive hobbies. I want to tell you how to make the best of yourselves when you cannot afford such extravagances.
First of all have the sense to gaur your defects. Then glorify your good points. You must have beauty through brains. Think of Cleopatra—one of the world's most facipating—positively ugly, so they say. But how she used cosmetics to her advantage! have a good basic colour to work from all your accessories will "go" together and will be interchangeable as well as cheaper to buy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.