The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-08-16
GOOD APPEARANCE IN PHOTOGRAPHS
Tricks by Which Plain People, Can Be
Made to Appear Beautiful.

Some of our girls are learning how
to be photographed beautifully and
trickily, says the Boston Herald.
"Have you observed and wondered"
said a camera man, chow we'll actresses
manage to look when the eye of the
camera is focused upon them? Well,
I can tell you how to do as well as they
do First, choose an artistic photog-
rapher. No matter how much you
know about what you want and what
to wear, there are matters of view, and
light and shade, for which you must
depend absolutely upon him, but he
will not advise you how to make up
your face and will probably object
sweepingly to any such device. That
is where he is mistaken. If he were
wise he would know how to pose a
girl, and then, with bit of white and
bit of black chalk, make her lovely
for that view. Several photographers
do this now.
"The stock pose into which photog-
raphers on general principles put vic
bother is three-quarters, which is an
abomination to most faces. There is
small chance of expression. The eye
gets no show at all, and the contour OF
the cheek, which is seldom beautiful
except in children, is betrayed. You
will find they have a rooted objection
to full-face positions. l have never
been able to discover why. There is a
tendency to raise one eyebrow higher
than the other, or to look cross-eyed,
but it is his business to look out fol
chat and stop you if your features be-
gin to wander round your face.
"Now. in painting face for photog'
raphy the eyes can safely be made uT
a great deal. Put black under the
eye, only don't let it be just one heavy
black line. Shadow it out softly
Blacken the lashes as much as they
will stand, only don't let them bt
lumpy, increase the apparent length
and sweep of the upper lid, by which
the size of the eye is judged, with {
line continuing the line of the lashe'
and parallel one continuing the lint
of the crease that shows just abov'
when the eye is open. Draw thes'
only as long as can be done withou
their showing as lines. An actress OBJ
tanned a clever picture, in which th'
effect of very long lashes is given by
lines, presumably shadows thrown b.
said lashes, painted above the eye,Jus
under the eyebrows. Use red yer.
carefully. Your lips probably nee'
painting into an improvement on thei
own shape. Do it softly. and witt
very faint red. Red takes black. Loo
carefully and you will trace a har'
line above the lips of many actresses
photographs. Sometimes you dom
need to look carefully. If you want
dimple to show specially you cal
heighten it's light and shade little
but unless your photographer pose
you so that the device does not betra
itself the effect will be failure. Hav
ing accentuated your face, don't dis
turb it's arrangement by smile, o
smirk, or any other grimace of expires
sion when the lens is opened on you
Otherwise art and nature will make
, hopeless mass of your features, but
, you have planned an expression i
harmony with the makeup save it ii
the last moment. The operator
bound to grip the back of your nee
with his monkey wrench, and if yo
hang on to your joyful smile a
| through that ordeal you will get some
( thing demoniac and wild to send
your friends"