The times., 1899-07-09
TO Be ASKINDEEP BEAUTY
Go to Paris and Get Enameled-It
Will Only Cost $3.50.
The French Complexion Specialists
Women Who Are No Longer Hand
some and YOung-Thc Result Is In
toxicnting LONELINESS for Months.

What a French woman cannot tell about
face make up isn't worth knowing. 1t
is likely that English and American grand
as their Gallo sister, but some way it is
the latter who sits on the throne of know
ledge and distributes beauty recipes to the
world. Now. for instance, there's enam-
cling. Who but a Partisan knows how to
mix lot OF dubious ingredients together
and then veneer them on plain face and
transform it into a Venus?
A London woman, on information bent,
went to Paris and consulted complexion
specialist who is famous artist in her
line. Here is what the seeker has to say
about it:
The art of enameling, it appears, is one
of such exquisite delicacy and such close
and absolute detail that there are but few
people in the world who have acquired the
perfection necessary to give the desired
effect to the patient who wishes to be
rendered beautiful This fact makes the
process a remarkably expensive one, and
the specialist of whom l am speaking told
me that she absolutely refuses to enamel
anyone at less cost than 80 guineas, or
about $3.50.
First of all the skin has to be specially
prepared for the reception of the enamel,
and here let me say that it is not every
skin that can be enameled. Compilations
that are very coarse. for instance, will not
assimilate the enamel either readily or
successfully, and these the face painter
refuses to treat unless her patient will
screw up her courage to go through, first
of ALL very trying though not painful
operation, by which she is absolutely
skinned, and then to wait until such a time
as new skin grows, which may be of a
better texture than that which she had
shed.
But, allowing that the patient has a
sufficiently finely grained skin to allow
of the enameling process TO be begun al
| once, ii must be first prepared by a series
of washes and manipulations for period
| OF three days.
On the fourth day the enamel itself is
applied, and this really amounts when dry
| TO complete false skin. The application
OF 1t is most eXquisitely delicate matter
for 1t must be wiped on with such per-
feet regularity and attention to the grain
| of the skin that this in itself is a busines:
| of no small moment. One person only
can apply the enamel, for the difference
OF application is at once noticeable tC
tAS as IOl iiSldlCey the ulHSTencG oil
| an artists hand can always be detected In
picture that he allows some one else tc
touch up After this extra skin of most
delicate and beautiful whiteness and
smoothness has been successfully intro
duced upon its unsatisfactory surface, tbs
| enameling operation is practically conclud.
| ed, and the patient may be regarded az
| ready to compete with the world generally
in point of beauty
| This enamel lasts for exactly six month!
and during all that time madame has no
washed herself. She polIshes the surface
of her neck, arms, hands and face witt
| the lotion supplied to her by the beaut!
doctor, but otherwise she absolutely ha.
not allowed drop of water to touch her
At the end of six months little inequali
| ties and blotched appearance begin t.
show upon her skin, and this warns he
of the beginning of the end. The time ha
come when she must either once NOR,
appear in her true colors or else go through
! another operation"