St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-30
SECRETS OF MAKING UP.
II a Woman Must Paint, She Can
DoIt Without Rouge.

If a Woman Must Paint, She Can
Do 1t Without Rouge.
The idea of making up is extremely
distasteful and suggestive of the ballet
to the woman of refined tasle, and yet
such is the delicacy of coloring in most
American faces that in the blaze of
brilliant lights their beauty seems faded,
or is lost altogether. Particularly is
this noticeable in boxes at the theater
or opera, where the glare of the foot
lights increases the pallOr of the deli
cate woman. and dims the cOlOring even
of the freshest and faireSt youthful
faces.
The great beauties of bygone ages
owed much of their triumph to the Sc
cretS of the toilet, but, unfortunately,
so jealousy were these secrets guarded
that they were buried with their own
ers. But since it is every woman's
bounden duty and privilege to make the
best of the beauty which she possesses,
whether the Creator has endowed her
with a greater or lesser share of charms,
a little chapter on the "make-up" for
ladies may interest some fair reader.
Some one wise in the art suggests that
the appearance of the neck and arms is
always most pleasing in evening dress
when they have been sponged with per-
fumed tepid water, thoroughly dried,
and then bathed with lotion composed
of equal parts of glycerine and rose
water. While this is still damp, thick
coating of powder is applied with puff
and left on until the last moment. If it
is then rubbed in thoroughly, but gent
ly, the skin will seem beautifully white,
and all traces of powder will have dis
appeared.
The scarlet tint of the lips is intensi-
fed by wetting them with perfume, and
when that has dried, touching them
with cold cream to soften them. This
treatment should not be applied very
lips may become hard and dry.
Powder on the face shows less If APP
piled with bit of chamoiS rather than
puff, or, if a puff is used, the powder
should be rubbed gently into the skin
with a hare's foot or small soft brush,
such as is used on babies heads.
Eyebrows are wonderfully improved
by rubbing good brilliantine into them,
and then cOaXing or training them into
proper curves with fine tooth comb or
the fingers. The brilliantine does away
with the need of the actors pencil, as
it darkenS the hair.
There was once a famous lady who
tinted her cheeks with mashed straw
berries washed Off with milk, but the
inexpensive and easily obtained garden
beet will give the cheek as fair and
natural bloom, and can in no sense be
construed as rouge or paint. Just why
it is so much more shocking to use bit
Of color on the cheeks than any amount
of powder Oh the face and arms and
shoulders is bit difficult to compre-
bend, but such seems to be the prevail
ent opinion among conservative women.
The homely vegetable is simply cut
with knife and left to drain its juice
out for beauty's use. The liquid should
be applied with a cancels hair brush
and toned down after it dries with a
coating of powder. But the woman
who uses it must have such artistic in
SEPARATIONS and nicely of execution that
even her most intimate friends will
never imagine that ''she is made up"
or the whole process will result in dis
astrOuS failure.