The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23
0LORIFYING
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By Alicia Hart
@IoN EY NsA sERv!cE INC

While the new fall evening dresses cover your shoulders more than they did last season, they are ruthless in displaying the back. So take a hand mirror and consider your back carefully from the standpoint of beauty. Your back must have the same satiny smoothness and the same soft texture as your cheeks and your arms.
 Back brushes will stir the cir culation and rub out all the dirt in the pores which will eventually cause blackheads. They are very long handled and with them you can reach every portion of your back and shoulders. Make a heavy father of a good bland soap and brush and massage your back vigorously. Rinse it with cool water later to close the pores. When you dry your back, pull the bath towel back and forth diagonally over both of your shoulder blades. This also stim- ulates circulation and naturally helps to make many imperfec- tions disappear. l get a good nourishing cream and i massage your skin. You can do this quite easily by attaching a cotton pad to the end of a long stick. The stick will enable you to reach every spot on your back. You can apply bleaching cream the same way. Lemon juice is an | excellent bleach for your back | fu,,{d nrSrdar ic hotfar fhop 1r1, powders, for it will not rub off, which is an item to be considered when you are going dancing. How ever. you can't use 1t unless there is someone to put it on for you. Nor can you by yourself" use a | foundation cream under dry pow der. However, you can thoroughly and evenly apply dry pow der. by using long handled puff. Be generous with 1t but not so l generous that it will rub off on the edges of your dress or, worse yet, on your partners coat sleeve. Complexions must be 'in the pink" to be really smart this winter.
 The olive and peach skins ot ! VIII SlNc way lo d hcullIS pink-or an interesting white to complement the elegant cos. tunes decreed by fashion for cold weather wear.
 Of course. if hours spent in the sunlight have left you very tan ned. continue to wear dark powder until your bleaching creams havH bleached your skin to its normal color. Then experiment with white and flesh colored powders and d lighter rouge until you attain that fashionable pink or white effect.
 You can add little lavender powder to your regular day time powder for evening wear Don't try to wear 1t on the street but it does give a white. soft. love ly tint to your skin under artificial lights.
 Use a lighter. h~ighter lipstick Blue eye shadow Is better with A blonde comnlcxion than brown or purple.7 which are the brunette sh"des.
 The juice of two lemons Gin stead of one. which is the regu- lar formula for complete removal of soap from the hair) can be strained into the last rinsing water after your shampoo. Or, you might put a quarter of cup oi peroxide in the rinsing water Neither of these will actually bleach your hair. but they vii tend to keep it as light as it l. and bring out the high-ights.
 Lemon juice is excellent fol blca ching the hands and arms an' huttcrm'lk md tomato juice art good for the face and neck. 0 course. you can buy dozen diff ferent vcrietics of bleachina crean's and most of them are very effective. If you don't use bleach irg crncm. then he sure and use | one of the various hom" hle'ch"S nnd make your comoiex'on as , blond @ns possible even if your hair is brunette.