The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-08

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
pROBABLY when you were
a child, you were taught
blue for a blond and pink for
a brunei"
You thought redheads were
Just out Of luck. But gradu-
ally it dawned on you there
was more to it than that.
What If you're nothing but the
average American brown Then
we say tint your hair. Don't dye
IL. Don't try to be a blond or a
redhead or a raven-haired beauty
unless you're goine on the stage.
Try Rinses
But have rinses with your sham
poo TO give your hair chestnut or
mahogany glints This will make
II easier to find becoming colors.
But stick to subtle effects.
And remember this: vivid colors
are for vivid types. Less definite
types should wear softer shades or
they will look washed out.
If this disappoints you, stop and
think-you can wear many more
colors than more striking type,
so YOU will wear better as II were.
You need never become monoton-
Gus.
We told you about the effect
of various colors on the
figure.
Whenever these rules conflict
with those we set forth for flat
tering your complexion, have your
costume in a color that is good for
your figure and wear touches of
the color chosen for your coloring
near the face, at the neck OF a
dress or coat, at the face-line Of
a hat, and in necklaces and ear
rings and clips.
Now to draw up definite
rules for suiting your colors
to your clothing. No wonder
women are bewildered.
One cosmetic house shrieks,
Match your skin" another Make
up to your eyes" another types
you by your hair.
And fourth promises you can
wear any color with proper make
up.
Becoming Colors
Who is right? Everybody, even
the last. for the beauty people can
do wonders to broaden your roper
toire of becoming colors.
The following charts,
however. will deal only
with cOlOrs that are nat
urally becoming.
Then where to begin? The
whole matter is simplified, of
course. by the fact that your skin,
eyes. and hair do bear some rela-
ton to each other.
When woman's hair turns
gray, her skin turns with 1t. Even
her eyes usually change somewhat.
So suiting everything is not quite
as hard as 1t may seem.
A sensible suggestion Is to
play up to your most striking
feature. If your hair Is
wonderful shade of red or gold
or black. play up to that.
If your eyes arc the most no
ticeable thing about you, play up
to them. And If you are so per-
fectly balanced that no one feature
dominates the others, take your
cue from your skin.
SO LET'S WITH WITH
THE SKIN AND SEE
WHAT WE HAVE.
There are three main types:
white, yellowish and rose-tinted.
Don't mistake that last for a
skin with high color. Because an
olive skin may have color, yet its
basic skin tone is yellow.
Incidentally. the shade of
natural color In the cheeks In
influenced by the skin tones.
Rose skins will have cool color
/ that is rose shades.
Yellow skins will have warmer
color, such as peach or scarlet.
Match Rouge
That's why you have to match
your rouge so carefully to your
skin tones.
We shall speak of natural coloi
and rouge later. Right now. were
talking about basic skin tones.
And we would differentiate
the three groups still further.
There are the milk-white skin.
that go with some shades of rec
hair
And there are also pearly skins
that complement hlue-black hail
and black eyes-what we think o.
as the Castilian type.
There are creamy or. COLDER
blond skins. the kinds that 60 Will
ash blond hair and golden hair
respectively.
And there are warm olive
skins that go with brown hair
and eyes.
Ihere are delicate shen-plnk ~
wild-rose skins that you see Will
red hair and brown eyes, or will
fair hair and blue eyes.
And there are swarthy bruno
skins.
Now the trick is TO wear color'
that include the dominant SIKH
tone or else present 3 striking con
trast.
COLORS THAT FLATTER
YOUR SKIN TONES:
WHITE SKINS: White, an
clear color or black
CREAMY SKINS: Canary vel
low, chartreuse, green, COLDER
brown or for the exact opposite
violet shades
PEARLY SKINS: Dusty pink
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