The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-07
Keeping Pretty at $1OO a Month

of powder and paint and a mirror in
these dainty boxes, but compartments
are made for small coins, bills and
memorandum paper. 1t is true that
a woman with a vanity box immedi.
ately gives the impression that she
paints, but she doesn't mind that. The
vanity boxes themselves make quite
little dent in the income, for they
can be had here from $40 to $25, and
jewelers. are kept busy making them
in gold and silver.
Toning Down CoIors.
The bright red rouges aren't used
any more, except by professionals.
Women no longer cover their faces
with warpaint, not even at evening
or social affairs. A lighter shade is
used, 1t is more natural, and one
couldn't detect it in the brightest sun
light. That is the reason many of our
women are becoming more beautiful
they are acquiring more taste in
face finery.
do we ever get any protests?
Well"
But the girl didn't get chance to
answer the question. Just then an
attractive young woman, with a dollar
a-box complexion of light, delicate
pink, interrupted the conversation. She
could hardly get her breath.
I've been in a terrible way. The
wrong shade of powder was sent to
me. l didn't dare use it. 1t was
darker than my kind. and l knew it
would put my face in a terrible condi-
ton. ! would look like a freak, any
way. I am going to send them right
back. Now I want two more boxes.
They had better be right, too, or there
will be war. l don't want any more
Experiences like that. No, don't open
| it-can't you tell by my face what
color l want?"
She had the two little boxes of pow
der at a dollar per box sent to her
country home. Though she didn't care
how much her complexion cost her,
provided it was the right kind, she
was particular that there wouldn't be
any expressage overcharges, and had
the shipping expenses put on her bill.
Every fashionable woman doesn't
admit so openly as Mrs. Trude that
she spends much for paint and pow
der. Not long ago Mrs. Rose Keeling
Hutchins, when filing an itemized &C
count of her expenses of $2O12 in a
month, stated that she spent only 500
for drugs and toilet articles.
Many women wonder how she kept
this bill so low. The only way would
be to leave out the "beautifiers." A
look at the paint-and-powder counter
would soon show that it would be an
easy matter for a woman with big
pocketbook to get rid of a good many
bills. The best face powders cost Il
dollar, and sometimes more, for \ very
small moX. The lip rouge, which IS
very popular and running a strong race
with the cheek colors, costs from ~
cents to a dollar. Some women who
have real compilations, and therefore
no use for paint, need the lip rouges
to emphasize the share they do own
of the real thing" in color.
Another beautifer that some women
like is a liquid powder that gives the
face an enameled appearance. OF
course beauty tools-powder and eye
brow pencils-are needed; and what
dainty little things they are! Then,
among other little things are pocket
book rouge papers for Is cents pack
and beauty patches for % and so cents
"a box.
Water softeners are sold in large
quantities these days because they are
fast becoming recognized as great
beauty helps. They can be had from
25 cents to s125 a box. Talcum pow,
der is comparatively cheap, only 50