Physical Beauty how to Develop and Preserve It by Florence Courtenay

Pilates

2009-02-13T21:12:00.000-08:00

One of the "latest" ways to keep fit and healthy is Pilates.
I have latest in comma's as Joseph Pilates invented his method over 90 years ago and was very popular in New York back in the 1940's. But it has only just become popular in the main stream.

If you are looking for Pilates Classes in Bunbury, go see Ann at Perfect Form by Ann

In Singapore I recommend Sky Pilates or Focus Pilates

Joseph Pilates called this method Contrology as it's about moving with control of you body and an excellent way to improve your posture and help back pain among many other benifits.

1001 Beauty Tips News 43 Top 10 Tips To Healthy Glowing Skin

2006-08-04T19:24:00.000-07:00

1001 Beauty Tips News 43 Top 10 Tips To Healthy Glowing Skin: "Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

~ Vernon Howard ~

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I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.

~ Shania Twain ~"

Cucumber for Health and Beauty

2006-07-22T18:44:00.000-07:00

Cucumber for Health and Beauty: "Beauty
Cucumber when juiced is a rich source for silicon. Silicon in it natural form can help improves the complexion and the state of health of a person�s skin. Cucumber also has a hydrating effect on skin and this make the skin glow.
.
With its high concentration of Vitamin C (5 times higher than that of a Watermelon), cucumber is great for skin whitening. Cucumber also can help to tighten pores and reduce eye puffiness as well.

Below are some common skin problems and the remedies using cucumbers:

Reduction of fine lines - cucumber slices, add lemon juice, add flour and mix, apply onto face for 20 minutes.

Reduce dark circles under eyes � Apply grated cucumber with an equal measure of carrot juice to area beneath eyes for 20 minutes, then rinse with cool water.

Radiant Face Treatment for dull and oily skin � Add 1 teaspoon of cucumber into 20 ml of rosewater, apply to face for 20 minutes, then rinse with warm water.

Sunburn, Swelling skin � grind the cucumber down to a paste and apply onto the skin.

About The Author: Corrine Tan is the founder of Artcademy – a website where you can get information on Natural Therapy, Alternative Health, Aromatherapy, Beauty Tips and Healthy Recipes. Please send you comments to Corrine@artcademy.bacarra.biz

Natural Therapy

2006-07-18T07:58:00.000-07:00

Natural Therapy is the right path to Total-Well Being, Corrine started giving free advice to friends and family members - from blending their own skin care to eating right to using aromatherapy for illness. Many have benefited from the advice she gave from chronic illness sufferers to people who just want to look and feel good.
This is her new website, go and visit and get some great tips for health and well-being.
http://www.artcademy.bacarra.biz

1001 Beauty Tips News 41 .

2006-06-20T17:45:00.000-07:00

1001 Beauty Tips News 41 .: "The Easiest Way To Lose Up To 48 Lbs Without Dieting
By: Melanie Mendelson

If you think there is no easy way to lose weight - think again. The easiest weight loss method could have been staring you right in the face all this time. Here it goes:stop drinking soft drinks. Drink water instead. Dumping the soft drinks from your diet will result in dropping some serious pounds. Think about it:

* A can of coke packs in 150 calories.
* Just 3 cans of coke add up to 450 calories.

Now, you are in for a shock: a cheeseburger sets you back by only 360 calories, which is less than those 3 cans of coke. Now, what would you rather have: a warm juicy cheeseburger or the sugary water from the can?

If you currently drink 3 soda cans a day, you can save 450 daily calories by switching to plain water. Water has zero calories. Let's do the math: since one pound of fat equals to 3500 calories, you will lose roughly one pound per week just by leaving the coke behind.

Yes, you've heard it right - you can lose a pound of fat every week while you eat as much as you normally do. No dieting, no starving - don't change a thing about what you eat. The only thing you change is what you drink.

Now, let's do some more math, which gets better and better. 1 lb per week equals 4 pounds per month. Multiply 4 pounds by 12 months, and we get 48 lbs of ugly fat per year!

Unbelievable, huh?

Calorie savings on drinks provide you with yet another advantage: you can now eat more and still lose weight. For example, if you substituted 3 cans of soda every day with water, you have 450 calories to play with. If you eat an extra piece of chocolate that's worth 200 calories, you still save 250 calories and lose 24 lbs per year.

I can now almost hear you"

1001 Beauty Tips News 41 .

2006-06-20T17:44:00.000-07:00

1001 Beauty Tips News 41 .: "It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

~ Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004 ~"

Truth bout Fashion

2006-06-15T03:46:00.000-07:00

One of the most fashionable gals on the net
her new blog Fashion Statement is one to be checked out.
And she is true beauty.

1001 Beauty Tips News 40 - Acne makeup how to guide, how to choose a spa

2006-05-16T19:50:00.000-07:00

1001 Beauty Tips News 40 - Acne makeup how to guide, how to choose a spa: "Finding the Perfect Spa
Finding the perfect spa requires much research. There is not just one type of spa. In fact, spas are about as diverse as their customers. In order to find a spa that will fulfill your expectations, decide ahead of time what your goal is. Is it relaxation, rejuvenation, or some form of therapy for a condition or a trouble area you are dealing with? Once you know your expectations, you should familiarize yourself with the different types of spas available to you, what each spa provides, and the amount of time each program takes.
Normally, spas can be classified into four basic categories. The following is a list which also states and defines each category:
1. Fitness: these spas incorporate fitness into the spa routine. Everything from aerobics to sports can be found for people who want to relax and lose weight at the same time. These spas are very therapeutic for active people who enjoy being outdoors, or for those who wish to learn a new activity.
2. Wellness: For people who have certain health issues, licensed health care specialists supervise their clients while first class and clinically effective treatments are administered on the patient's request. The patients vary from those overcoming an operation to those who are trying to quit smoking or drinking.
3. Day Spa: This popular form of spa is used primarily for pampering. These centers are not as expensive as other spas and have a more generalized menu. Most clients come to day spas looking for a few hours of relaxation and beautification. Day spas are great as a preparation for weddings or a formal event where you will need to look your best. They are also great gift ideas for anyone looking for a rejuvenating experience.
4. Holistic: The philosophy of these centers is to treat the body a"

Miss Kentucky Crowned Miss USA - Yahoo! News

2006-04-22T06:50:00.000-07:00

Miss Kentucky Crowned Miss USA - Yahoo! News: "BALTIMORE - Miss Kentucky, a business student who says pop stars may be getting too edgy for young people who see them as role models, now has a chance to be a role model herself � as the new Miss USA.
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Tara Elizabeth Conner, 20, of Russell Springs, was crowned Miss USA on Friday night by Chelsea Cooley of North Carolina, Miss USA 2005. It was the 55th annual pageant.
The new titleholder will compete July 23 in the Miss Universe competition in Los Angeles."

1001 Beauty Tips News 39 - head to toe spring makeover.

2006-04-10T19:30:00.000-07:00

1001 Beauty Tips News 39 - head to toe spring makeover.: "Luxurious Bath Oil Treatment
This recipe makes about 1 3/4 cups of bath oil.
10 vitamin E caps (prick with a pin and squeeze out the oil)
1/2 cup Sweet Almond Oil
1/4 cup Castor Oil
1 cup of Sunflower Oil
30-50 drops of fragrance oil depending upon particular oils used, you may use more or less.
Blend the oils and fragrance together. Place the oils into a glass container with tight fitting lid and tip back and forth everyday for a week to blend.
Open the jar after each blending and make any necessary fragrance adjustments. Pour into a fancy or decorated bottle and use as needed.
Once you are finised with your bath be sure to slather your favorite lotion on clean damp skin to really get super soft skin.
In part 3 we will work on your hands, feet, body firming, and sunless tanning tips to get you a beautiful spring glow.
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1001 Beauty Tips News 38 perfect eyes, acne guide and oily skin facial.

2006-03-14T16:46:00.000-08:00

1001 Beauty Tips News 38 perfect eyes, acne guide and oily skin facial.:

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~ Virginia Woolf ~
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Beauty is not real. Beauty only exists in perception.
~ Unknown ~"

1001 Beauty Tips Newsletter

2006-01-29T01:40:00.000-08:00

The New issue of 1001 Beauty Tips News in online for you to view.This weeks issue Includes some really great skin softening treatments.Super Foot Softening Treatment, Dry Skin Back Treatment, Looking After Your Skin, Oatmeal paste, mask to treat wrinkles.Go here to get your F`R`E`E beauty recipes now!http://www.1001beautytips.com/1001beautytipsnews37.htmlHere is what you will find in this issue...1. Welcome2. Quotes for the Week 3. Super Foot Softening Treatment 4. Dry Skin Back Treatment 5. Looking After Your Skin 6. Subscription Management 7. Contact Information

Physical attractiveness Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2005-12-17T02:30:00.000-08:00

Physical attractiveness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Perception of physical attractiveness
Cultural, social, or time period environments can have a strong effect on the degree to which people determine certain traits to be attractive. As part of the socialization process, children typically learn what their culture or time period considers attractive. Media, including written as well as visual forms, such as films and cartoons, for example, frequently portray 'villains' or 'bad' individual as less attractive, while protagonists are frequently depicted as attractive. This often leads to the perception that beauty can be equated with goodness or virtue in certain ways and certain time periods or cultures. Indeed, the term for 'beautiful' or 'attractive' in many languages, is literally that the person 'looks good'. Children are shown examples of what is considered beautiful in the form of dolls and pictures on magazine covers. Perception of what is considered as attractive and appealing is also very heavily influenced by other dominant cultures and the impact of their value systems."
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Power of Beauty

2005-12-15T03:12:00.000-08:00

The Power of Beauty
by Sher Matsen
Have you ever wondered why women are so concerned about how they look? Why they aim to look like the beautiful women they see on the television and in magazines? Thats because beauty is power!

Even way back into ancient times women were concerned about their looks. Think of Cleopatra or Nefertiti who were beautiful women of their times.

The cosmetic industy is well aware of this and that women will go to great lengths to look beautiful. Thats why the cosmetic industry is a multi billion dollar industry.

When you think of beauty you think of what you see on the outside. But beauty is more than skin deep. And beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder! What one may find beautiful another may not. Even though there is no such thing as a definition for universal beauty all women know how to use their beauty to their advantage.

Men fall for this manipulation constantly. In fact they seldom know theyve been snared into the web with a womans beauty. Of course the know when exterior beauty is mesmerizing them but its the internal beauty that they have not idea is working. That pouty mouth, those sparkling eyes, that gentle laugh. The power play of the boardroom and the bedroom share many similarities.

Its a proven fact men are unable to release themselves from the beauty of women. A quick look, a wink, a big inviting smile, a relaxed posture are all indications that a man has succumbed to beauty. Studies have shown even the smartest men go stupid when entranced by the beauty of a woman.

Remember Sophia Loren, Jane Collins, or Jaqueline Bisset. Think about Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Madona, Marilyn Monroe. There beauty had an instant effect on the male population. Not only their exterior beauty but the deeper inner beauty of confidence and mystique that surrounded them.

These women were all show stoppers without even trying. In fact when asked they felt their features were flawed, but men didnt see it that way. And yet each of these women were totally different in looks and personality. But each brought a certain group of men to their feet. Each had the ability to take the smartest man and turn him into a walking talking zombie stuttering, and staring.

Remember a beautiful woman is more than the exterior shell. Beauty is the whole woman. Personality, charm charisma, seductive sexuality, a smile, or a stance. There are many elements to a womens beauty than capture a mans attention and lock him into a world of bliss.

There is no cure for the poor male population, no pill to pop, no treatment to make them free of the power of a beautiful women. There are no magic bullets to stop the bite of beauty from turning the male population into a drooling idiot or a walking talking zombie. And until there is women will continue to use their beauty as a weapon on the opposite sex. Sorry guys!

Sher from Estate Jewelry International has been serving customers for over 20 years, providing fashion, jewelry, and wedding help. Please visit us at http://www.estatejewelryinternational.com/

TAKE CARE OF YOUR INNER BEAUTY

2005-12-15T03:05:00.000-08:00

TAKE CARE OF YOUR INNER BEAUTY
by Hifzur Rehman
Let us talk about beauty from a different angle!

We have our own criteria for judging the beauty of a woman. We look the beauty of a lady from a certain angle and then pass the remarks whether she is beautiful or not. It’s not fair. Let me tell every woman that she is unique and beautiful.

The business of beauty is thriving everywhere. Women are spending much of their time and money on buying beauty products. Even in the third world countries, women living below the poverty line, buy cheap and substandard beauty products, which give more harm to their skin than good.

It’s the fundamental right of every woman to look beautiful. Every woman wants to listen the sweet words “you are beautiful”. But the beauty of a woman is far from her looks or figure. Physical beauty is only one aspect while a beautiful charming personality is a complete blend of many fine characteristics such as good manners, etiquette, behavior, smile, intelligence, sense of humor, social and family values etc., all make a woman look beautiful and attractive.

Didn’t you know that there is a marked difference between a carefully hand woven expensive Persian carpet and a cheap machine made carpet. Both of these cannot be equated. A beautiful woman is like an elegant hand-knotted Persian carpet. Each and every silky, colorful thread of her character, nicely woven into her personality, gives a woman an everlasting beauty and attraction.

Looks are very important indeed but the characteristics of a person are much more important. Besides taking care of your physical beauty, why not think of improving your inner beauty. The beauty which everyone admires is becoming a rare commodity these days. While on your way to a beauty parlor keep on thinking ways of improving your inner beauty.

Take care of yourself and take care of your inner beauty. No doubt you are a beautiful person!
Hifzur Reman is the author of popular articles on self improvement. He is also the editor of his website: www.selfimprovement.ch which is a great source of self-improvement related information on various aspects of life. A visit to his site will open the doors of success for you! Hifzur Rehman (c) - All Rights Reserved

Beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2005-12-10T19:11:00.000-08:00

Beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Beauty is the phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of balance and proportion of stimulus. It involves the cognition of a balanced form and structure that elicits attraction and appeal towards a person, animal, inanimate object, scene, music, idea, etc. The opposite of beauty is ugliness, the experience of displeasure at some stimulus."

"Beauty is in the phi of the beholder."

2005-12-06T19:42:00.000-08:00

"Beauty is in the phi of the beholder."
It has long been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and thought that beauty varies by race, culture or era. The evidence, however, shows that our perception of physical beauty is hard wired into our being and based entirely on how closely one's features reflect phi in their proportions.

http://goldennumber.net/beauty.htm

This site gives an interesting Scientific view of Beauty.
Thou this really covers only classic beauty,
Beauty still is in the eye of the beholder

1001 Beauty Tips News

2005-11-28T03:40:00.000-08:00

The New issue of 1001 Beauty Tips News in online for you to view.

Go here to get your F`R`E`E recipes, beauty tips, and articles now!
http://www.1001beautytips.com/1001beautytipsnews32.html

Here is what you will find in this issue...

1. What Are You Thankful For?
2. Quotes for the Week
3. 10 Tips To Avoid The Holiday Bulge -And Inner Thoughts About Them
4. Brown Sugar and Almond Scrub
5. 5 Tips: How To Look Younger Without Botox Or Surgery
6. Subscription Management
7. Contact Information

Do all the good you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

~ John Wesley ~

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

~ by Terry Rossio ~

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Physical Beauty involves morethan good looks

2005-10-29T04:02:00.000-07:00

There is more than good looks to beauty than meets the strangers eye, according to results from three studies examining the influence of non-physical traits on pewoples perception of physical attractiveness.

Rest of the article can be viewed at

Physical beauty involves more than good looks

1001 Beauty Tips News 28 - gorgeous hair, wedding guide, firm-up.

2005-10-10T15:20:00.000-07:00

1001 Beauty Tips News 28 - gorgeous hair, wedding guide, firm-up.: "1001 Beauty Tips News

Issue 28, Editor: Tracie Johansen
Publisher: http://www.1001beautytips.com

IN THIS ISSUE

1. Welcome Subscribers
2. Quotes for the Week
3. Tips For Best Haircare
4. Fat To Fitness - Free Diet and Weight Loss Articles
5. Dry Brittle Hair Treatment
6. A Super Wedding - Your Free Guide to A Fantastic Wedding
7. 7 Quick Hair Car Fixes
8. Almond Coconut Thick Gel Shampoo
9. Dandruff Shampoo Recipe
11. Subscription Management
12. Contact Information

Welcome from Tracie Johansen

Hi Subscribers,
Are you having a fantastic week. I have been busy this week putting together some fun
new websites that I am sure you will love. You will find more info about them in this
issue.
This issue is jam packed with information. Plus, my new websites are filled with a collection
of over 350 wonderful articles on beauty, wedding guides, fitness, diet, weight loss and more.
Grab yourself a cup of coffee or water and sit back to enjoy your evening of reading.
Have a Great Week!
Tracie Johansen

Quotes

Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.

~ Khalil Gibran ~

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

~ Ivan Panin ~

Tips for Best Hair Care
by Lyndle Chilman IAT

Caring For You"

HOW TO DO BETTER HAIR COLORING

2005-08-27T07:17:00.000-07:00

HOW TO DO BETTER HAIR COLORING is a reference book for professional beauticians. It has been developed in the Clairol Institute of Hair coloring by the foremost hair color authorities in the country. The book explains through pictures and text the latest hair coloring techniques and products available to the professional colorist.

A careful study of this book will reward you by increasing your knowledge and facility in your profession. Many of the secrets of the top hair-colorists are here for you to make your own.

Full Book can be read at How to do Better Hair Coloring

Obagi Skin Care Products - OBAGI SALE

2005-05-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

Obagi Skin Care Products - OBAGI SALE: "The Obagi Nu-Derm Advanced Skin Care System is designed to restore health to sun and smoke damaged skin, as well as even out pigmentary problems involving the face and other areas of the body. The Nu-Derm system corrects surface discoloration and blemishes. It also penetrates into the skin to stimulate skin cell renewal, improve circulation and help rebuild collagen. The normal barrier function of the skin is restored, making the skin less sensitive and better able to hydrate properly"

Skin & Beauty Center

2005-05-16T01:22:00.000-07:00

Skin Care
is a list of some steps you should incorporate into your daily skin care routine that will help to keep your skin looking and feeling healthy, clear, and youthful.

Skin & Beauty Center

Olive Oil In Your Beauty Routine?

2005-05-16T01:05:00.000-07:00

Olive Oil In Your Beauty Routine?
We all know that olive oil is wonderful and healthy for us to cook ...

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 4:07:13 PM
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10 Fun and Frugal Beauty Tips

2005-05-15T11:03:00.000-07:00

10 Fun and Frugal Beauty Tips
I'm ready to unload some the best secrets and tips that even your salon ...

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 2:05:19 AM
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Beautiful Eyes

2005-05-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

Beautiful Eyes
Beautiful Eyes
Beautiful skin care starts with what people notice first. Eyes are what others notice immediately; so start your ...

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 2:03:53 AM
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5 Tips For Treatment of Dry Skin

2005-05-15T11:01:00.000-07:00

5 Tips For Treatment of Dry Skin
5 Tips For Treatment of Dry Skin
Skin as the largest organ of the body is also one of the ...

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 2:02:41 AM
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Beauty Basics - Eight Tips For Naturally Beautiful Hair

2005-05-15T10:59:00.000-07:00

Beauty Basics - Eight Tips For Naturally Beautiful Hair
Beauty Basics - Eight Tips For Naturally Beautiful Hair
Looking for a more natural approach to hair care? Here are ...

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 2:01:31 AM
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Clear Glow Acne Treatment

2005-05-15T10:58:00.000-07:00

Clear Glow Acne Treatment
Clear Glow Acne Treatment
Indications/Description: This blend contains antibacterial, antimicrobial and antiseptic properties which, when used regularly, will help clear ...

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay>
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 2:00:21 AM
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Natural Deep Treatments For Beautiful Hair

2005-05-15T10:57:00.000-07:00

Natural Deep Treatments For Beautiful Hair
Natural Deep Treatments For Beautiful Hair
Hot Oil Treatment

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup Almond Oil
* 1/4 cup jojoba Oil ...

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 1:59:11 AM
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How To Shave The Bikini Line

2005-05-15T10:55:00.000-07:00

How To Shave The Bikini Line
How To Shave The Bikini Line
Spring is almost here and soon you will wear a bikini and you want ...

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 1:57:01 AM
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News Resurrected ideals of youthful beauty (The Edmond Sun)

2005-05-15T10:50:00.000-07:00

News Resurrected ideals of youthful beauty (The Edmond Sun)
News Resurrected ideals of youthful beauty (The Edmond Sun)
Think About It!

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 1:52:20 AM
Content source: http://spaces.msn.com/members/skin-care-healthy/Blog/cns!1ph8-tWI7RmMoQ9gUPiFZ7iw!220.entry

Proper skin care can help you fend off cold sores, liver spots and skin cancer (News Target)

2005-05-15T10:49:00.000-07:00

Proper skin care can help you fend off cold sores, liver spots and skin cancer (News Target)

Proper skin care can help you fend off cold sores, liver spots and skin cancer (News Target)
Though many

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 1:51:10 AM
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Water Treatment (The Denver Channel)

2005-05-15T10:47:00.000-07:00

Water Treatment (The Denver Channel)
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The Pure Truth About 'All Natural' Products

2005-05-15T10:45:00.000-07:00

The Pure Truth About 'All Natural' Products
The Pure Truth About ?'All Natural' Products and Other Beauty Myths By Deanna Ferber Myth: "All Natural" Beauty Products Are Best Pure Truth: First of all, there are not really any ?'all natural' products available for commercial sale. Unless you make them yourself, and are prepared to refrigerate them & use them within a few days, you really can't find any. This is because, just as in food products, the ingredients are perishable. Just think what would happen to a jar of 'natural' ingredients sitting on your vanity... The smell alone would keep me from opening the lid, let alone touching it! So beauty products, like foods, use preservatives to give them added shelf time. When you buy products, they have to last through storage with the company, shipping and still have some time left for you to use them. As for the term ?'natural' it is not even regulated. This means any company can call their product natural, no matter what it contains. Myth: Chemicals Are Bad For Your Skin Pure Truth: Not all chemicals are bad for your skin. Just as medicines are chemical or synthetic versions of medicinal plants, so the science of chemistry brings us beauty products. Many natural ingredients have been re-created in synthetic form for ease of use & distribution, which can also make them cheaper to supply. Myth: Product Packaging Does Nothing But Add To The Price Pure Truth: Many people believe there is no importance to the packaging of beauty products, that the bottles and jars are just made 'neat looking' in order to make us buy the products. This can be true, but with some of the 'new' beauty ingredients, packaging has a much larger, more important role. Some ingredients are considered unstable, meaning they are affected by sunlight and air exposure. For those ingredients, like retinol and some antioxidants, the packaging is a big deal. If you want to get some use of what you paid for, look for packaging that limits the products exposure. This may mean a dark colored container, or those similar to pharmaceutical products. Myth: Buying Beauty Products Is a Gamble Pure Truth: If you want to avoid buying products that simply don't work, being an educated consumer is your best bet. For the best information on cosmetics ingredients in the US, go to the FDA site. This site also has information on labeling & label claims. There are also several websites with product reviews, done by independent consumers, just like you. The best sites will post the reviewers' information, so you can get an idea if the reviewer's skin type, age etc. is similar to your own. Two review sites are www.cosmeticconnection.com and emakeup.com reviews. You may also try the various message boards devoted to beauty. These boards are a great place to get information on new products or companies before you buy. And reputable companies will allow exchanges and refunds. If the company you are considering doesn't, look for another... In the competitive beauty game, you can always find a company that is more likely to cover your bet. Deanna Ferber is President of GlamKitty, a cosmetics and skin care company dedicated to helping Busy Women with 9 Lives find their own Tabby Chic (tm). Take a 'paws' in your day at http://glamkitty-beauty.com

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 1:46:49 AM
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PROTECT YOUR FACE AND SAVE YOUR MONEY!

2005-05-15T10:33:00.000-07:00

PROTECT YOUR FACE AND SAVE YOUR MONEY!
Your face is part of your body's largest organ--your skin and the skin is a living, breathing organ that is constantly renewing itself. You wouldn't expose an organ like your heart to harsh chemicals, right? Why expose your face? You probably didn't even know that many of the skin care products you use on your face every day have harsh chemicals that erode your skin. The average turn around for skin cells is about 28 days. A skin cell starts its life deep in the inner layers of our skin It is round and plump and full of moisture. As it ages it migrates to the outer layer, flattens out a bit and eventually sloughs off naturally. While it is a part of the outer layer it helps form a protective moisture barrier for its younger brothers still in their infancy and adolescence. Baby boomers are reaching middle age and are starting to notice the signs of aging in their faces. What to do? Reach for that miracle cream you purchased that promises you'll look years younger. Unfortunately, as with many cosmetics, these miracles in a jar have slipped past the rigorous testing procedures afforded to drugs and food additives when, in fact, if they actually did what they claimed they should have by definition been regulated as drugs. For example, Tretinoin (Retin-A) is a vitamin derivative. It was used as a prescription drug for the treatment of acne. Later it was found to plump up the skin and eliminate small wrinkles. Several manufactures began promoting the inclusion of vitamin A in their formulations claiming it was producing similar effects as Retin-A. Studies in the 1980's showed there were some subtle changes to skin with Tretinoin. (Allure magazine, Nov. 1991, Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, August, 1991) Others disagreed with findings saying that the reason it seemed to work was because it literally irritates the outer layer of the skin to such a degree that it swells or puff's up, reducing wrinkles. When fruit acids or Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHA) hit the market, in 1990 there were 5 AHA products on the market, one was by prescription. By 1993, there were 50 and by 1994 over 200 new products were on the market. In January and February of 1995 alone there were 32 new products containing AHA introduced into the marketplace. AHA's claims that by gently removing the dead skin cells our skin will look healthier and feel smoother. When Dr. John Bailey, acting director of FDA's office of Cosmetics and Colors, spoke at the Sixth Annual Spring Seminary of Society of Cosmetic Chemists in New York, in April, 1994, he warned that AHA had clearly stepped over the boundary line between what is considered a drug as opposed to a cosmetic. His concerns were with the application of the higher percentage solutions being used today, as much as 50% by non-professionals and people with less than adequate training. As of 1993, the FDA didn't require companies to list percentages of concentrations of fruit acids in their products. What the AHA proponents are saying is remove the outer layer of the skin to decrease signs of aging and to give skin a general appearance of smoothness, right? But what about the people that say that very same outer layer of skin is what protects us from moisture loss and signs of aging. If you are confused about this you're certainly not alone. In an article in Self magazine on moisturizers and your skin, the first part of the article states that new moisturizers with lipids that mimic your own skin's lipids are beneficial because they build up and bind skin together forming a protective barrier against moisture loss. Lipids are actually described as the "glue that holds the skin together." Next comes a section on AHA's that say they're beneficial because they act as an exfoliant and dissolve the "intercellular glue" between dead cells, peeling them away to real softer, smoother skin. (Self, August, 1995, page 107-108) Wait a minute! Isn't that the same protective barrier we just glued together to prevent moisture loss? It seems everywhere we look a different group is telling us to do something different to our skin. Some of the worst things in your moisturizer may include petrolatum, mineral oil, isopropyl myristate, trietholamine, glycerin and propylene glycol. All of these ingredients may clog your pores and smother your skin's respiration: and in no way do these ingredients benefit your skin. PROPYLENE GLYCOL - This is the most common moisture carrying vehicle in use in cosmetics. It's cheap and available. It has also been suspected of causing sensitivity reactions. It in fact absorbs moisture from your skin. Propylene glycol is also used extensively in industry as a component of brake fluids and anti-freeze preparations. It's also used in the production of varnishes. EXFOLIANTS disrupt the natural order of things when they remove adult skin cells and leave those below open to premature exposure to the environment. Without the adult cells the immature cells can dry out and age more rapidly than is natural. The BENTONITE MINERAL AND KAOLIN CLAY in facial masks dries out your skin and forms an impenetrable barrier. This barrier traps toxins, including carbon dioxide, in your skin and keeps oxygen out. If your skin can't breathe, it can't stay healthy. ALCOHL, the main ingredient in astringents and several other facial cleansers, makes your face feel cool and refreshed, but it is really damaging your skin. As it cleans, it strips away the natural oils protecting your face. After the skin's surface has been stripped, it takes almost twenty- four hours for it to repair itself. Your face needs moisture to stay healthy and young-looking, not harsh chemicals. Liquid foundations often contain MINERAL OIL, a substance that suffocates and dries out your face. They usually also have PETROLATUM AND ISOPROPYL MYRISTATE in them. Petrolatum can't be absorbed by the skin and it clogs pores. Isopropyl myristate is a fatty compound that has been shown to clog pores and cause blackheads and pimples also has a more sinister hidden danger. When it comes in contact with either a Di-or Triethanolamine the result is a nitrate compound such as n-nitrosodiethanolamine, a suspected carcinogen. Moisturizers for the face and body are applied over a large portion of the skin and remain there for several hours. This exposure is significant. Many powder foundations have talc and zinc stearate, both of which are carcinogenic (cause cancer). Most blushes contain mineral oil, talc, and zinc stearate. GLYCERIN, although this ingredient is used in moisturizers to help the cream glide, it is detrimental in that it draws moisture from the skin and holds it on the surface, effectively drying the skin from the inside out. Have you ever wondered why men seem to age more gracefully than women. Their skin is less likely to suffer from over cleansing and drying because they do not as a rule buy into these skin care fads. Perhaps it is not just the so-called thicker skin. Perhaps it is what we have been doing to our skin that is making the biggest difference in both its structure and ability to stay healthy and young looking. When it comes right down to it, the giant skin care and cosmetic companies are charging you big bucks to ruin your face. Don't let them keep selling you treatments for problems their own products cause. Become aware of the ingredients in their products and their side effects. Don't let big business take advantage of you. *~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~* (c) Judith Tovey, 2002 Protect your skin by educating yourself and reading the labels on your cosmetic and personal care products or demanding to know the ingredients -- For more information on a natural skin care line of products that are safe, effective and FREE of carcinogens, toxins, contaminates and other potentially harmful ingredients, go to: http://antiagingchoices.com/skin_care/index.htm

Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 1:35:39 AM
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SAVE YOUR HAIR AND YOUR LIFE

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SAVE YOUR HAIR AND YOUR LIFE
Complaints about shampoos are among the most frequent
made to the FDA. Reports include eye irritation, scalp irritation,
tangled hair, swelling of hands, face and arms, and split and
fuzzy hair. (A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients,
Ruth Winters, MS, Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1994)

Sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), an ingredient in 90% of
commercial shampoos and conditioners, corrodes the hair
follicle and impedes hair growth.

A study cited by the Wall Street Journal (November 1, 1988)
linked SLS to cataracts and nitrate absorption. The nitrate
absorption occurs when the SLS becomes contaminated with
NDELA (N-nitrosodiethanolamine) during processing. This
contamination comes about as a result of SLS coming into
contact with any number of chemicals including
triethanolamine (TEA), which is commonly used in shampoos
as a detergent. Put simply: SLS + TEA= NDELA (a nitrosamine
and a recognized carcinogen.

"It can actually damage the outer layer of the skin, the stratum
corneum, causing dryness, roughness, scaliness, fissuring, loss
of flexibility and reduction of the barrier functions of normal
healthy skin. The lipid dissolving action of some detergents,
including SLS cause damage to the moisture retaining ability
of the cellular level resulting in water loss and loss of water-
binding ability" (Cosmetic Science, C. Prottey, 1978)

Sodium lauryl sulfate, a surface-active agent and a common
surfactant used in shampoos, was found to increase the
absorption of certain chemicals. Simply put, SLS in your
shampoo could be increasing the rate of skin absorption of
other chemicals in your shampoo and conditioner which may
include preservatives, fragrances and color additives.
(Cosmetic and the Skin, F.V. Wells, Reinhold Publishing
Corporation, New York, 1964)

SLS has been blamed for many cases of premature hair loss in
both men and women. It takes hair longer to grow when it
has been affected by SLS. Studies are ongoing in this area.
SLS is cheap and available and cost is definitely a factor
when manufacturers are deciding on their formulations. The
irony is that we as consumers rarely see any of this saving and
pay high prices for products that contain the same cheap
ingredients as a lower priced product that doesn't have the
benefit of a well-known name and a huge advertising budget.
There are safer products on the market. There are safer
alternatives to SLS but they can cost up to ten times more than
SLS. One manufacturer said "I know it's not a good ingredient,
but everyone uses it."

Did you know that many companies put formaldehyde in their
shampoos? Do you really want to be embalming your hair?
Formaldehyde is not only an inexpensive preservative and
disinfectant; it's also a suspected cancer-causing toxin. In
1983, researchers from the Division of Cancer Cause and
Prevention of the National Cancer Institute recommended that
it be further investigated since there is a suspected link to
some cancers. It was found to cause DNA damage and inhibit
repair. It cause lung cancer in rats and increases the effect of
the toxicity of x-rays in human lung cells.

Many kinds of shampoos designed to treat dandruff and flaky
scalp contain coal tar, although you won't find it on any
product's list of ingredients. It's disguised with the names
FD&C or D&C color. Coal tar has been found to cause
potentially severe allergic tractions, asthma attacks, headaches,
nausea, fatigue, nervousness, lack of concentration, and
cancer.

Alkyl-phenol ethioxylades are chemicals in shampoos that have
been proven to reduce sperm count. "Boys exposed to such
chemicals before puberty could suffer disruption of their
hormonal processes," says Jorma Toppari of the University of
Turku in Finland." (Vancouver Province September 29, 1995).
In this same article, Jorman Toppari states that "We know that
these compounds are hormonally active, and we know that
you can influence sperm counts by exposing a child or a fetus
to hormones that act like these compounds."

A study done at The University of California found that
cosmetologists and manicurists had four times the usual rate
of multiple myeloma. The article published in the American
Journal of Industrial Medicine, stated that "The number of cases
of multiple myeloma was found to be excessive for females in
the occupation cosmetologist, hairdressers and manicurists."
and further goes on to say, "People in this occupation have
potential exposure to a number of chemicals that produce
mutation in bacteria." (Multiple Myeloma in Cosmetologists,
Sylvana Guidotti, William E. Wright, John Peters, American
Journal of Industrial Medicine, 3:169-171, September, 1982)

What were these mutagenic chemicals? A list of the worst
offenders that cosmetologists are exposed to on an everyday
basis include:

Shampoos: Sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium laureth sulfate,
DEA, propylene glycol, formaldehyde.

Hair dye: 2,4 diaminoanisole, 2, 4-diaminotoluene, n-nitro-o-
phenylenediamine, 4-ethoxy-m-phenylenediamine, H?O?

Permanent Wave Solutions: ammonium thioglycolate,
alkaline sulfite

Nail Products: acetone, ethylacetate, toluene, butyl acetate,
ethyl methacrylate, benzoyl peroxide

Make Up: Talc, mica, various dyes

Hair Sprays: isobutane, methylene chloride, alcohols

To Dye or not to Dye....

A few years ago the headlines screamed across the nation.
Hair Dyes Linked to Cancer. It pretty unnerving to think that
the use of hair coloring could effect our chances of getting
cancer. Then, almost as fast as it erupted, it was over with
the publication of a study that seemed to contradict earlier
findings. Those who colored their hair breathed a collective
sigh of relief and returned to the use of hair dyes. If you read
the articles dispelling all previous findings, you may
remember coming across very low-keyed cautions, usually
near the very end of these articles. This barely whispered
caution concerned the use of black hair dyes and very deep
red dyes as they were a suspected link to non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma. The main reason for concern is well founded in
years of previous studies linking coal tar colors, a major
ingredient in hair dyes and other cosmetics, with many forms
of cancer in animal studies.

In 1978, a New York University Medical Center research
reported that comparing 129 women with breast cancer with
193 women without breast cancer showed the likelihood of
developing breast cancer was higher among those who used
hair dyes. (A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients,
Ruth Winters, MS, Crown, Trade Paperback, 1994)

A 1988 study published in the American Journal of Public
Health summarized its findings stating that the "use of hair
dyes in this case-control study was associated with elevated
risk of leukemia and lymphoma, and risk increased with
extent of exposure." (Hair Dye Use and the Risk of Leukemia
and Lymphoma, Kenneth P. Cantor, et al., American Journal
of Public Health, May, 1988. Vol. 78, No. 5)

Protect yourself from dangerous shampoo ingredients.
Spending a few minutes now to read the ingredients on the
back of that bottle may save your hair and your life.

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(c) Judith Tovey, 2002
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Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 1:27:28 AM
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"LOOKS TO DIE FOR"

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"LOOKS TO DIE FOR"
"LOOKS TO DIE FOR"

When the alarm rings she slowly gets out of bed,
turns on the shower and under the steady stream
of warm water, she gently scrubs her body with a
deodorant soap. Next, she shampoos her tinted hair.
Rinsing the shampoo, she applies a good amount of
hair conditioner and lets it penetrate while she pops
the top on the shaving cream and shaves her legs.

The shower finished, she towel dries and spreads on
an even coat of body lotion and a dusting of powder
over her skin. She sprays the scented deodorant on,
brushes her teeth, then rinses and gargles with
mouthwash. She combs setting gel through her hair
then blows it dry and spritzes with hairspray.

Sitting at her vanity, she carefully applies a thin film
of moisturizer over her face to reduce the fine lines.
Today, she will wear foundation and a little blush. And,
better add some eye shadow for today's special meeting
and a little eye liner and a stroke of mascara.

A dab of lipstick, a poof of perfume and a little
sunscreen on her arms and she is set for the day.
She looks radiant and healthy but her looks are killing
her.

What have these product brands exposed her to
in a matter of minutes?

The deodorant soap has a pH of 9, which removes the
protective acid mantle of the skin making it more
alkaline and therefore, more vulnerable to penetration. It contains
ammonia, formaldehyde and phenol, which are
known carcinogens and triclocarban, which is under
suspicion of being a cancer-causing agent with daily
use.

Her shampoo contains cocamide DEA, which is
associated with carcinogenic nitrosamines and sodium
lauryl sulfate, a known mutagen.

The hair tint contains quaternium-15, which releases
carcinogenic formaldehyde and the carcinogen,
phenylenediamine. The shaving cream contains a-
pinene, a chemical that damages the immune system.

Her body lotion contains mineral oil, which, as a
cosmetic grade petroleum product, includes the
contaminant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PHAs)
known as xenoestrogens that can mimic estrogen in
the body.

The dusting powder contains talc, a substance like
asbestos. When talc was combined with a common
air pollutant, benzo(a)pyrene, it induced tumors in 80% of the animals
tested. Many scientists believe talc should be placed
on the "known carcinogens" list.

The antiperspirant has aluminum, which is being tested
in connection to Alzheimer's.

The toothpaste contains saccharin and FD&C Blue#1,
which are carcinogens. It also contains
resorcinol, which can cause a blood disorder
(methemoglobinemia), convulsions and death.

The mouthwash contains 27% ethanol, which is
suspected of causing esophageal cancer. It also
contains phenol, which can cause fatal poisonings
through skin absorption.

The hairspray contains polyvinylpyrrolidine (PVP) and
reports show that it may cause harm if the particles
are inhaled. Modest intravenous doses fed to rats
caused tumors.

The moisturizer contains phenol carbolic acid, which
can cause circulatory collapse, paralysis, convulsions,
coma and death as a result of respiratory failure. It
also contains PEG-40, which contains dangerous levels
of dioxin and propylene glycol, which studies show c
an negatively alter brain waves and cause liver and
kidney disorders.

Her blush contains FD&C Red #3, which caused human
breast cells to grow, mimics the effect of natural
estrogen at the molecular level and damages the
genetic material of human breast cells.

The eye shadow contains iron oxide, which although
deemed safe by the FDA for use in the eye area, is a
suspected carcinogen, teratogen or toxin.

The eyeliner, contains ascorbyl palmitate, and studies
suggest that the palmitates are to be considered
carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic.

The mascara may be contaminated with bacteria. It
also contains polyvinylpyrrolide (PVP), a carcinogen.

The lipstick contains paraffin, which is a mixture of
hydrocarbons and is derived from petroleum. It is
known to be contaminated with the carcinogens,
benzo-a-pyrene and benzo-b-fluroanthene.

The perfume contains toluene, a suspected potent
carcinogen that was found in every fragrance tested,
and benzaldehyde, which is a central nervous system
depressant that may cause kidney damage.

The sunscreen contains padimate O and the
preservative, BNPD, which together create the
carcinogenic nitrosamine, NMPABAO.

According to recent conservative estimates, three personal care products
are applied daily to infants and children, men use ten personal care
products daily, and women use six cosmetics and thirteen personal
care products each day. Come products, particularly hand soaps,
are used on several occasions each day. Assuming that the
mainstream products used by most women each contain only two
carcinogens, this would amount to over 40 different avoidable
carcinogenic exposures daily. It is unthinkable that women would
knowingly inflict such exposure on themselves if they routinely used
products were labeled with explicit warnings of cancer risks. It is
unthinkable that the Food and Drug Administration remains silent
and recklessly abdicates regulatory responsibility and that the
cancer establishment remains disinterested and fails to advise
Congress and consumers of these avoidable risks.
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Physical Beauty - How to Develop and Preserve it by Florence Courtenay?
Originally Posted on 5/16/2005 1:08:08 AM
Content source: Manual Entry

Physical Beauty

2005-05-09T03:22:00.000-07:00

PHYSICAL BEAUTY
HOW TO DEVELOP AND PRESERVE IT
By
FLORENCE COURTENAY

CONTENTS
I.What Is Physical Beauty?
II. How to Make and Keep the Figure Beautiful
-Diet
- Exercise
III. Beauty of Skin
IV. The Features
-The Eyes
- The Nose
- Mouth & Teeth
- The Ears
- The Lips
- The Breath
- The Chin
V. The Hair
VI.The Hands
VII.The Feet
VIII.Beauty and Clothes
IX.The Plastic Surgeon as a Beautifier
X.Beauty During Maternity
XI.Special Hints for Throat and Bust Development

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What is Physical Beauty?

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CHAPTER I

WHAT IS PHYSICAL BEAUTY?

FEMININE physical beauty is recognized by all humankind.
Yet it has no absolutely fixed standard.
The savage sees as beauties contours and shapes which to us are hideous and distorted.
Semi-civilized man is apt to regard fat and weight as the chief beauty factors. Even civilized man varies in his individual estimates. Those accepted charms of form, face and figure, however, which appeal most to the majority of individuals, may be said to be the nearest approach to an exact standard of beauty we have.
Proportion, color, delicacy, type, symmetry, the flash of the eye, the sweetness of the smile, and a thousand other factors contribute to make a woman beautiful. Every woman has her special individual beauties; some women possess a number in combination. A lovely natural complexion, delicately-shaped hands, shapely feet and ankles, glorious hair, a noble and alluring figure, all lay a duty upon their possessorsthe duty of care and preservation. For beauty, physical as well as mental and moral, is a virtue. It is as essential to humanity as loyalty and truth. It is, or should be, the truth of the physical feminine being, expressed in its most
perfect terms.

PHYSICAL BEAUTY

IDEALS OF FORM AND FACE

Whether you have the beauty of the blonde or the beauty of the brunette, the beauty of light or the beauty of darkness, a duty is laid upon you within the scope of your own type. In form we accept, as a general thing, the ancient Greek ideal of feminine beauty, subject to modern modifications. That is, we accept the proportions of the
Venus de Medici as being nearest the modern idea of physical perfection. We reject those of the Venus de Milo as too large, too heavy for modern comparison.

THE IDEAL FORM

There is more or less variation between the proportions of the Venus de Medici and those of the average young woman of to-day.

WHAT IS PHYSICAL BEAUTY?

Do not be disturbed if these measurements do not correspond to your own ideal. They are only approximate; suggestive. Your figure taken as a whole may be admirable, yet vary in detail proportion. And such variations may harmonize and make for charm. These tables, however, offer a practical standard for comparison. They will help
show where you need development. Woman's face and form are the most exquisite
of all that has been created. They combine all the charms of color, harmony, grace, refinement and magnetism. And they reflect the higher attributes of mind and soul. Even the deformed and disfigured may cultivate physical beauty to some degree. Make the most of each and every charm you, individually, may possess. Such is the gospel
of this book. If its teachings be followed, powerbeauty's choicest secretwill be your reward.

DEFINITE BEAUTIES OF SHAPE AND FEATURE

Black hair and a snowy complexion, with a proportionate head and forehead, the hair crisp and plentiful, with evenly penciled eyebrows, give a fine type. Jealousy and a quick temper are indicated where the eyebrows meet. They should be well divided, taper evenly and broaden more in the middle. Too small an ear denotes avarice. The
ear should not be too prominent, though, and delicate in outline. Cheek bones should be neither too far apart nor so prominent as to attract attention,
A straight nose of moderate size is the most desirable. A large but shapely nose, however, is to be preferred to a small shapeless one. Too small a nose means a vacillating disposition. The mouth should be of medium largeness, rosy and flexible, and with nether and upper lips of equal size, neither too thin, nor yet too full. Sound, white, medium-sized teeth and a firm, agreeably
rounded chin, its lower outline showing determination, are the best. A long neck, curving gracefully at the nape, enlarging as it descends toward the shoulders, and seeming whiter and clearer in outline as it approaches the bosom, is a standard.
White, firm shoulders, moderate in breadth, with a collar bone well-covered with flesh, a bosom transparently white, and round, firm, well-modeled
breasts of medium size cannot be improved upon. To be preferred are firm, gracefully curved and rounded arms, elbows well covered with adipose tissue, and dimpled, hands which do not join the arms too abruptly; as well as well-fleshed, yet slender wrists, which do not display the wrist bones prominently. The best fingers are those proportionate to the length of the palm, soft and tapering toward the nails, the latter faintly pink and almond-shaped, their length conforming to the length of the finger. The ideal waist is one not contracted by too tight a corset. The proper measure for the ideal waist is twice the size of the neck. The hips should be broader than the shoulders. They should grow rounder and narrower as they descend. The legs should be long and straight. Length and straightness are especially desirable from hips to knees, for grace and ease of appearance when
walking. A dimple on the knee is an added charm. Both knees should be plump, with a soft and white skin. The feet should be proportionate to the remainder of the body, firm, white and elastic.

The Golden Blonde, or the Flaxen-Haired Blonde, with a clear, white complexion and blue or hazel eyes, is a choice type of feminine beauty.
The Ruddy or Auburn Blonde, with dark or gray eyes is another.
The Florid Brunette is still another especially lovely type. Clear gray eyes which
emotion turns almost black are probably the most magnetic. They are at their best when accompanied by a clear complexion and dark, wavy hair. Alithe, well-rounded form, graceful, yet not so plump as to be called voluptuous, deserves all admiration
and usually obtains it.

BEAUTY AND HEALTH

Beauty and health go hand in hand. Your skin, your hair, your figure, if not healthy, rob your loveliest features of their charm. Make health the cornerstone of an intelligent study and cultivation of every iota of beauty which you have. Physical-beauty, in the best sense, means well-rounded physical development on a health basis. On this basis cultivate your especial physical advantages. If you
have a perfectly shaped foot and ankle, then "put your best foot forward" in this respect. If beauty be truly "skin-deep," then all the more are skin and complexion worth caring for. If you have naturally heavy or beautifully tinted hair, then make your hair your "crowning glory."

PHYSICAL BEAUTY

There is a certain charm due to disease. But it should be remembered that it is not a normal one. It is more apt to call forth pity than love. Charm should mean natural attraction. Though there is a beauty in the sudden, hectic flush of the consumptive, it is the morbid beauty of death. It can wake only sorrow, and does not attract as does the soft, rosy blush of health.

BEAUTY BEFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE

Before marriage all girls usually make the most of their physical charms. Beauty is woman's age-old and legitimate lure to attract a life companion of the other sex. Nature helps the young girl with the gift of youth, and as a rule she is willing to
aid Nature in making the most of it. But many a young woman, once married, grows careless about the care of the hair, hands, skin and figure. She neglects her person and her clothes, and tends to become a slovenly household drudge. Now physical beauty is a definite part of the feminine sex appeal.* And a happy marriage depends largely on a normal and happy sex appeal on the part of the woman, and corresponding sex interest on the part of the man. In neglecting your own physical charm, you are encouraging lack of interest in your husband. A husband may for some time not notice
the change. Sooner or later, however, meeting other women, he will make comparisons. He will suddenly realize that his wife no longer appears

* See: "Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English,"
in this series.

WHAT IS PHYSICAL BEAUTY?

young and beautiful as when first he married her. And he may turn to some other woman for the charm his wife no longer supplies. The intelligent woman gives some time each day to the "keeping up" of her quota of personal charms. Youth and beauty are largely a matter of good mental and physical condition. Every woman should study how to keep her youth and beauty. Try to improve upon what Nature has given you!
Fill in and round out the omissions of which she may have been guilty! This is not alone your right, it is your duty. It is commendable, not a matter for apology. Be beautiful in middle life. You may even be beautiful in old age. Hold your husband's affection and admiration. "Beauty Culture" is a good and legitimate thing if not over-done, and natural charm may with perfect propriety be enhanced or placed in relief. Every woman should have a knowledge of the practical facts which make for her physical beauty. It is to supply these facts that this little volume has
been written

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Exercise

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EXERCISE

Diet is unquestionably the first essential in restoring a physical beauty of form which has de-generated, running either to obesity or overthinness. Exercise is the great maintainer of physical beauty in woman. Proper diet and proper exercise mean health, and health is a fundamental thing in beauty. Troubles of the stomach and in-
testines, poor circulation and other ills, which reflect on your physique, are helped or prevented by exercise. First of all comes right breathing—which means no tight corsets—breathing from the abdomen. Deep breathing underlines all exercise.
It keeps the chest muscles up to the mark and increases expansion, which in the normal woman should be 3 inches. Every woman should take her setting-up exercises in the morning on rising.

General Exercises for Energy and Carriage.

For the simple energy exercises which should start the day: Deep breathing, with alternate extension of right and left foot, and relaxation. Ditto, with stretching of right and left thigh, and relaxation. Ditto, with stretching of right and left hand, arm and shoulder. Then, deep breathing with chest expansion, abdomen expansion and body stretching. The exercises should be carried out in one, two, three rhythm and count. Then, after a cold bath, should come the regular exercise drill of the day. These general exercises should never be neglected. Specific exercises for fat reduction, if time is lacking, may be carried out later. The "Daily Dozen" exercises of Walter Camp, (Pub. by the Reynolds Publishing Co.) invented for use in the army, are excellent for general use. They lay a muscle corset about the waist, and do wonders for shoulder, back and chest muscles. Use the "Daily Dozen" and you will be able to cut your low-neck dresses as low as you like. They take ten minutes to carry out.

Chinning Exercises—"Chinning" exercises pull up the weight of the body by the arms; by means of a simple, fixed bar within the reach of the arms, and improve the muscles of upper arm, front and back of shoulders and chest. Exercises in bending
the back relieve back fatigue. Abdominal exercises (lying flat on back and rising to a sitting position, keeping legs down, with forward flex, bending body at hips) should not be forgotten. They are very important, as the muscles exercised support
the vital organs. Thigh exercises (rising from squatting position, hands on hips, knees bent to make thigh form right angle with trunk, again squatting, and repeating) are mainly for energy.
But calf and leg muscles benefit materially by any rising-on-the-toes exercise. Further toe-circling, "windmill," bending exercises for suppleness and grace should also be practiced.

What These Exercises Do—These simple exercises and their variations will prevent you from becoming round-shouldered. They will give your backbone a normal curve, and prevent what used to be known as the "debutante slouch." They lend carriage, graceful action and position to the body. They correct a hanging head, relaxed chest, sagging abdomen. Carriage is next in beauty to form, in a way, because it presents form to the best advantage. Special exercises for the development of special muscles you may easily evolve yourself, by varying the general basic forms. Remember that exercise and diet must work together for physical improvement.

KEEP THE FIGURE BEAUTIFUL

Fat-Reducing Exercises—Always take medical advice before entering on a course of special fat reducing exercise. It must not be too severe. To reduce the bust stand straight, hands on hips. Move the elbows back till they meet. Then, stretching
out your arms in front of you, the palms of the hands meeting, raise the arms above the head, again stretch them out, and return, slowly. There are excellent weight reduction exercises among the "Daily Dozen" (Wave, Weave, Crouch, Curl, Crawl, Grasp, etc.). Thigh, toe-circling and back-bending exercises cover hip reduction. Lying full length on the floor, legs close, arms raised above the head, and rolling over completely, ten times in succession, reversing to prevent dizziness, is one of
the most "resultful" hip-reducing exercises you can take.

FAT REDUCTION IN GENERAL

In general women between twenty and thirty may reduce fat more rapidly than those past thirty. Flesh, too, is often put on greatly after childbirth, Usually because of sedentary habits. Avoid them. After forty-five fat reduction by exercise is not without danger. "Honest sweat," not "Turkish bath sweat," cuts down fat. Not the sweat produced by rubber garments, hot bathing, or electric light cabinets, makes you less obese, but that of physical activity. Where heart trouble, kidney or other
strain precludes a woman's taking exercise, muscle manipulation by electricity, electrical massage, is valuable. The true, scientific means that will give the best results in most cases, is the combination of systematic exercises and regulated diet—avoiding fats and carbohydrates as far as possible.

SPORTS AS DEVELOPERS OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY

Sports, followed normally, make for womanly beauty. Swimming, perhaps, comes first. It trains and gives control of every muscle of the body, and control of all the muscles means beauty of carriage. It stimulates torpid livers and inactive kidneys, and prevents constipation. It washes out the rolls of fat from the waist, and develops neck and chest. The auto has unfortunately decreased woman's indulgence in horseback riding. A good horse-woman always carries herself well, and riding gives
special training to the muscles of back and thighs.

Dancing coordinates all the body movements. It helps preserve youth as well as grace, beauty and strength.

Tennis, when not too strenuous, is a splendid form of sport and exercise combined.

Indoor golf, is of course, only a shadow of outdoor golf. It is good, but the latter is far better. Its great advantage is giving exercise in the sun and air.

Hockey, baseball, running, hurdling, jumping, are all sport forms of exercise now open to women, especially the college girl, and all have their value.

Basketball strengthens every part of the body and stimulates the circulation. Bowling is a good anti-fat exercise, and develops the muscles of the trunk and arms.

All winter sports—skating, tobogganing, skiing—make for poise and muscular coordination.

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How to Make and Keep the Figure Beautiful - Diet

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CHAPTER II

HOW TO MAKE AND KEEP THE FIGURE BEAUTIFUL

DIET

DIET and exercise are the two main essentials in making and keeping the figure beautiful.
No woman can reduce weight, improve a clumsy and ungainly figure, through exercise alone. Diet comes first. Comparatively few women need fattening. What most need is reduction.

FIRST AID FOR THE THIN

Yet for those whose figure needs building up and filling out, the following facts should be borne in mind.
First, relax mentally. Worry and nervous tension use up calories—the calorie is the unit by which we measure heat and food—very rapidly, and tend to reduce weight below normal.
Secondly, sleep enough and breathe fresh air in plenty.
Third, exercise, to stimulate the appetite and aid all the organs of the body to do their work.
Fourth, eat more of the foods that are high in food value.
Butter, sugar, cream and cream sauce on vegetables, cod-liver oil and olive oil, are all fattening.

FIRST AID FOR THE FAT

Do not, if you are fat and wish to reduce your figure in accord with the normal and ideal body measurements already given, cultivate fallacies. Shun antifat patent medicines and quack "cures." Often they are based on mercury, arsenic or thyroid extract. Shun Epsom salts baths and too many Turkinsh baths. They do harm and no good. The reduction of calories is the real secret of successful fat reduction, and a key to that unit of measurement will enable you to bring your figure within the proper limits, to keep your figure beautiful. The whole point is to know how many calories of food you need per day. Now, normally, a woman who does not "work" in any actual sense of the word, can do with 1,600 to 1,800 calories per day. If she follows some sedentary occupation, 2,000 to 2,200 calories will suffice her. If her
business requires walking, standing or any lighter manual labor, she can run her calorie allowance up to 2,500. If she performs hard physical labor, she is entitled to 2,500 to 3,000 calories. All this is normally speaking. But if you are too fat, if you wish to bring back your figure to its rightful lines, you must know what
your ideal net weight should be in order to cut off the number of calories of food you do not need.

To find the adult net weight, multiply the number of inches you stand in height over 5 ft. without shoes, by 51/2, then add no.

If you are 5 ft. 7 in. tall:

7x5 1/2= 38 1/2 inches
add 110
Resulting net weight 148 1/2 lbs.

PHYSICAL BEAUTY

If you are under five feet, then multiply the number of inches below five feet by 51/2, and subtract from no.
The next thing to do is to multiply your normal weight by the number of calories you need daily per pound. If you weight 230 or 123 pounds, and the rule for your height shows your weight should be 150 pounds, then 150 ought to be the number you should use. This makes the problem simple. If your right weight ought to be 150 pounds, calling for 2,250 calories a day, cut off from 500 calories (about two ounces of fat, a reduction of 4 pounds a month, or 48 pounds a year) to 1,000 calories (about 8 pounds per month, or 96 pounds a year). To gain, reverse the procedure.
Among the kinds of food, note that Proteins, which build tissue and yield energy, may store fat. Proteins are contained in meat, fish, fowl, nuts, milk, cheese, vegetables. Fats (animal fats, oils, chocolate, nuts) are stored by the body as fat. So are Carbohydrates (sugars, starches, including bread, cereals, potatoes, corn, etc.). Vitamines, food substances needed for growth, occur in animal fats, but not in vegetable ones, as also in eggs, milk, butter and meat, vegetable outer skins, grain germs and fruits.

BALANCE IN DIET

These kinds of food must be balanced. If you balance them properly, you can reduce your figure to normal without injuring health or keeping to a monotonous food diet. Proteins you must eat, but neither to excess nor the reverse. And you must eat Vitamines, which abound in nonfattening vegetables and fruits. Do not be afraid of drinking plenty of water. But do not exceed your calorie allowance. Without further theory we advise the woman who wishes to eat and grow thin to avoid the following liquids and foods.

THE "KEEP OFF" SIGN FOR THE STOUT

Shun water during meals—it makes you eat more. Drink all you want between meals. Rich
sodas must be avoided. But coffee in moderation and skim milk are not harmful. Beer, in pre-Amendment days, was sometimes termed "liquid bread." But every fat woman should know that all alcoholic drinks make her fatter if she be fat and thinner if she be thin, thus serving no good purpose. Each bit of food you eat beyond what your
system and your normal weight, figure and calorie requirements demand, is fattening. Candy, pie, cakes, ice cream, whipped cream, candied sweet potatoes, cheese, rice, butter, fresh and white bread, rich meats, thick gravies and nuts are fattening.
"Keep off" fried foods, bacon, ham, pork, and all things made of flour, macaroni, dried beans, puddings, pastries and custards. But there are excellent beefsteak or lean meat, fruit and milk diets, the fruit diet especially being excellent for reduction. An occasional fast day, or certain days of low caloric eating a week are also good. A rapid method to reduce the overplus of calories is a diet
of baked potatoes and a glass of skim milk, three times daily, for a week at a time. Or, instead of fasting altogether for a day, drink a glass of butter-milk every three hours. Again, small helpings of favorite fattening foods, or the dropping of one thing for another, will help attain the end—which is the reduction of your calorie overplus. This is the whole secret of reducing fat and bringing the
figure to its normal physical best, its legitimate beauty of outline, where diet is concerned.

WHAT THE OBESE CAN EAT

A number of excellent books which deal in great detail with the different ways of controlling the calories, of reducing weight and fat, are easily available. We have gone into some details our-selves, although diet and fat reduction is here only
considered in its relation to physical beauty. In the books already mentioned, numerous "sample menus," etc., will be found. Foods you can eat, and still feel you are not betraying your figure, include:
(1) Any meat or game, save pig.
(2) All seafood, including lobster.
(3) Fruit, with the exception of grapes and bananas.
(4) Salads and meat jellies.
(5) Tomatoes, peppers, olives, celery, cucumber, chili sauce and Worcestershire.
(6) All fruit desserts.

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Beauty of the Skin

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CHAPTER III

BEAUTY OF SKIN

THE perfect skin goes far to make a woman look beautiful. The late Lillian Russell, who had a perfect complexion, declared that "soap and water" was its secret. But even when there are blackheads, blotches, pimples, a sallow, mothy or greasy skin, and this simple specific fails, there is a cure. There art different types of skin beauty. We have the baby pink and white, transparent skin; there is the "peaches and cream" complexion; or the creamy brunette skin, and many variants. Your business is to make your own particular type of skin and complexion look their best.

FIRST ESSENTIALS

Health again comes first as a good skin requisite, health born of exercise, wholesome food, plenty of soap and water. The hygiene of the skin reflects the general hygiene of the body. Take care of the skin locally. Avoid the direct rays of the sun; avoid exposure to wind, and dirt, lest your skin turn coarse and rough. Water does not injure the skin, nor dry out its natural oils. Use soft water for cleaning face and hands. (If the water you have available is hard, soften with salt, borax or baking soda.) Add bran or a quarter cup of almond meal to make water more soothing to a tender skin. If chapping results from too warm a bath, tepid water, a soft soap, plus olive oil massage or toilet powder will remedy it. Cold water in the morning (it stimulates) and warm water at night is a good washing rule. Never use a cheap, but always a good soap, Castile preferably. Green soap (potash soap) is meant for oily scalps and only irritates dry skins. Though medicated soaps are useful for some skin diseases, they should be used only on a doctor's orders. Thorough, careful drying lends color to the cheeks and increases circulation, and cream and powder are good skin protectors if rightly used and removed. If the skin has been exposed to sun or wind, rub cold cream well into it. Then remove with a damp cloth, and follow by washing in cold water. Vanishing cream, greaseless, is a good face powder foundation, and a skin protector. Always remove cream from the face before going to bed, and in general use it only every alternate day. No complexion stands cream day
in, day out, nor does cream take the place of soap and water. Cream, if not removed, clogs the skin pores. Clogged pores mean blackheads, and black-heads cause other skin affections. Clogged pores, too, are responsible for yellow, sallow complexions.

SKIN FOODS AND POWDER

In general avoid cosmetics. They block up the pores and tend to enlarge them. Of cold creams there are numerous good sorts — vaseline cold cream, olive oil, rose ointment, lemon cream—these all come under the same head. Do not try to make your own skin food; buy a standard preparation. Oily skins shine unless cold cream be used on them under powder. Cologne may be used after a cold-cream cleaning to do away with the greasy condition. Skin foods are applied in facial massage to cleanse and tone up the skin, do away with deposits of fat and wrinkles, and beautify skin quality. Powder protects the skin from the sun, is cooling and absorbs surplus oil. Cosmetic powders are not supposed to act in the guise of plaster-of-Paris masks, to completely hide the features. That many girls entertain this notion, however, is clear to any-one who has walked on the thoroughfares of New York or other large American cities. Powder should always be lightly applied and removed at night. Talcum (French chalk) and starch are the base of all good cosmetic powders. Never use
powders containing lead or bismuth. Scent or its absence is a matter of taste. Do not forget that ordinary toilet powder is meant for the skin of the body and is too coarse for facial use. When it comes to using face powder remember that moderation means charm.

TOILET WATERS AND PERFUMES

The employ of toilet waters and perfumes is an individual matter. A suspicion, a hint of a delicately elusive odor about the skin is very agreeable. But never, never use a cheap toilet water in your bath!
The newer scented bath salts are preferred by many women to toilet water. A tablespoon of some scented bath salt in a tub of warm water, and the faint, charmingly elusive odor which seems to be a specialty of so many attractive women is easily acquired. Perfume is often sinned against in use. A fresh, graceful, attractive girl or woman who reeks of perfume destroys the effect of her other
physical attractions. And the woman who is too highly perfumed always arouses suspicion. Has she applied the perfume so lavishly in order to conceal some less fragrant odor?

SKIN DISEASES AND THEIR CURE

Chapping we have already touched upon. Oily skin, often accompanied by enlarged pores, black-heads and pimples, should be treated before worse ensues. Use a soap made of a cup of oatmeal or boiled oats, a pinch of sulphur, a pinch of powdered
benzoin, and a teaspoonful of Castile soap, shaved fine, mixed, in a small cheesecloth bag. An application in warm water twice a day, should correct the oily tendency.

Sunburn and Freckles.—Four lotions:
1. Two teaspoonfuls of benzoin in pint of cold water. Bathe face night and morning. 2. Mix flour of sulphur with milk, and rub into skin when the mixture has settled a couple of hours. To be applied in small quantities daily.
3. One drachm muriatic acid, to which half-teaspoon of spirits of lavender has been
added.
4. Three drachms carbonate of potassium, two drachms common salt, eight ounces rosewater, a little orange or lavender flower water. Mix and make frequent applications.

Freckles — Two lotions:
1. One ounce lemon juice, one pint rosewater. Apply to skin four, five or six times a day.
2. One drachm muriatic acid, half teaspoonful spirits of lavender, one pint rainwater. Apply carefully to freckles, using camel's-hair brush.

Blackheads.—It is not well to steam out black-heads. It does cleanse the skin and the black-heads have to go. But it also relaxes the skin, and brings forth a crop of early wrinkles. Better is the use of one of the following lotions.
1. One and one-quarter ounces of Green soap, two and one-half drachms alcohol, two and one-half drachms glycerine, one and one-half drachms borax.
2. Two and a half drachms rosewater, two and a half drachms spirits of lavender, two and a half ounces alcohol. After they have been rubbed in, the blackheads may be removed with a watch key. Never risk infection by squeezing out black-heads with the fingers. Once they are removed, close the pores with alcohol.

Pimples and Blotches.—An absolutely clean skin has no pimples. Hence the cleaner your skin, the less likely pimples are to appear. Women are more apt to have pimples than men, but are also more skilled in removing them. "Acne" is a spread of pimples due to improper blood conditions. It usually occurs during puberty, and calls for medical treatment. The use of salves is not recommended and though carbolated vaseline tends to dry pimples up, it increases oily skin conditions. A purely
surface pimple, after an alcohol wipe, may have its head (the little yellow point) pricked. After the pus has been squeezed out, clean with a bit of cotton soaked in alcohol. The use of warm water and Ivory soap with a flesh brush, rinsing with cold water (and after drying, steaming the face every fourth day), should cause pimples to disappear. A grateful and healing lotion, too, may be made by mixing an ounce of tincture of haxnamelis with an equal amount of warm water, and applying frequently.

Tan and Moth Spots.—Too many coats of tan Nature's skin protection against sunburn — coarsen the skin. The so-called "moth spots," brown spots or patches which appear after middle life, are due to this tan pigment. Any lotion which is efficacious for freckles is good for tan. A teaspoonful of milk, to which a little common salt has been added, may be applied at night and washed off in the morning. Another good lotion is made up of two ounces of lemon juice, a half drachm of borax, powdered, one drachm of powdered white sugar. It should stand for several days before using, then be applied as in the preceding case. A mixture of lemon juice and carbonate of magnesia is also valuable in correcting skin discolorations. It should be allowed to remain some time after it has been applied to the skin.

Warts and Moles.—Moth spots are only "bleached" by these lotions, and usually have to be removed by the specialist. A good dermatologist can easily remove the small, brown moles which are often encountered. An old-fashioned remedy, yet one which "works," is: when the mole protrudes enough, to wind a hair tightly around it. If the hair is allowed to remain, the mole gradually detaches itself and falls off. Small moles should be at once removed, lest they grow larger. The same applies to raised, colorless moles. Red moles should never be touched. Cancer often results if an attempt be made to remove them. Warts are usually harmless. They are apt to
disappear of their own accord. In general, your family physician or a skin specialist of standing should be consulted for any serious skin disorder.
Avoid the common run of beauty doctors, and the "home treatment" salves and ointments, for all troubles that go beyond tan, sunburn, freckles, pimples, blackheads and chapping.

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The Eyes

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CHAPTER IV

THE FEATURES

AMONG the features, the eyes, "the windows of the soul," might be given first place, though every feature of the face has its share in establishing facial beauty and charm.

THE EYES

The eyes reflect good or bad health conditions as quickly as the rest of the body. Dark circles around the eyes mean weakness or ill-health. Eye-strain visibly betrays weariness. And certain defects show at once. Drooping lids hide the "speaking" quality of the glance. Thin eyelashes and eyebrows make the eyes look strange. Color and "setting," the way the eyes are set in their sockets, cannot be altered, but clearness of health and wealth of expression reflect right diet, sleep, exercise and fresh air.
The eyes should always be washed in tepid water, and dried with a soft towel. Eyestrain is a matter for the oculist, and, in general, an eyewash should be used only on prescription, unless when a cinder is removed. Boracic acid is a popular wash, but oculists declare its constant use harmful.

Eye Exercise.—For puffiness and discoloration exercise the eyeball by rolling it. Also rhythmically tap the skin around the closed eye. The naturally tearful should refrain from weeping, as this dims the eye and robs it of its fire. For eye circulation, lower and raise the upper without moving the lower lid, a number of times, keeping the glance fixed straight ahead. Or look up, down, right and left, ten times in succession, every way. Massage of the circular muscle around the eye is also excellent for strengthening.

Lashes and Brows.—Rubbing with vaseline or olive oil encourages a scant growth of lashes and eyebrows. Pull out all scraggly hairs that are loose, fine-comb lashes and brows regularly, and do not leave powder in them. Remember that to make the eyes look wider and fuller a tiny touch of black in the corners is effective. Do not, however be too free with the eyelash pencil. And do not use a black pencil if your hair is brown, use a brown one. Blonde eyelashes and eyebrows are not beautiful, as a rule, and it is permissible to darken them.

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The Nose

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THE NOSE

Even a crooked nose may be straightened by persistent manipulation during childhood, but this will not avail much in later life. If your nose be oily or shiny, bathe occasionally with weak borax water, or dust with rice powder, prepared chalk or magnesium. Do not cultivate a scornful attitude toward life in general. It finds its unbeautiful physical reflex in a habitual elevation of the nostrils in a most disagreeable manner.

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The Ears

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THE EARS

Clean outer ears and clean inner ears must be your rule. If the outer ear is clean, the inner ear will not get dirty. And, incidentally, better a trip to the aurist at regular intervals, than a boil in the inner ear. If your ears jut out, wear an earcap at night. A marked improvement will soon result. Too red or too white ears (the extreme colorations usually being due to poor circulation) can be improved by massage. In general, hairdressing will cover most defects of ugly ears. "Cauliflower"
ears, however, call for a "plastic surgeon." He is the only one who can help you.

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Mouth and Teeth

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MOUTH AND TEETH

Teeth are an outstanding beauty of women—though, not so, of course, if they stand out too far or too prominently. A good prophylactic brush, not too stiff if your gums are tender, a good dental powder or paste, a daily once-over with dental floss, plus regular periodic visits to the dentist (twice a year at least) should keep your teeth in shape. Sores, save the harmless and passing "fever sore," on mouth and lips, should send you straight to the doctor—a mouth sore may be an indication of a very serious disease. The small "canker" sore, a little local ulcer, will soon dis-
appear if touched several times a day with a nitrate-of-silver pencil.

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The Lips

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THE LIPS

The lips should have a natural rose hue—but at times the lipstick has to help out forgetful Nature. Now the lipstick cannot be considered unless in its relation to rouge. Most people use rouge paste badly—and while using rouge is no crime, using it
badly is—because they do so without consideration for their own natural color. What is more ridiculous than to see a woman flush through her rouge, and present on one and the same cheek two distinct shades of color, real and artificial. The rouge used
for the face—it should be applied rather high on the cheeks, and shaded off gradually—should be matched by the shade used on the lips. Hence, let your lipstick match your rouge exactly. Most women need no lipstick—not that this prevents their using one. Harelip is entirely curable by operation.

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The Breath

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THE BREATH

A sweet breath from a clean mouth—that is the ideal. Indigestion is in the main responsible for an offensive breath or a coated tongue. Dietary care and regular visits to the dentist should prevent a "baited" breath from developing. No washes
can entirely hide an offensive breath. It betrays itself at the most inauspicious times. It slays the delight of a lover's kiss with its miasmic exhalation.
Powdered charcoal is a good antiseptic, so is a weak Listerine solution. Or, drink half a glass of water in which five drops of tincture of myrrh have been dissolved. If bad breath proceeds from a sour stomach, a spoonful of ordinary baking soda
in water, sipped at intervals, will help. In addition are all the little mint and peppermint tablets, "Life-Savers," etc., and the breath sweeteners. But these
are palliatives. Good health of the stomach and cleanliness of the mouth are the real cure.

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The Chin

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THE CHIN

One chin is enough! Double and triple chins certainly do not add to your facial charm. To avoid neck slack and double and triple chins, massage up and down, not crossways, rubbing not too vigorously. Sagging muscles are usually responsible for double chins. These may also be reduced by the use of the chin reducer, together with practicing neck-strengthening exercises. A gentle cold cream working up from the upper lip and mouth corners to the temporary muscles in rotary motion, in massage, followed by inflating the cheeks (with ten further upward strokes at a time, covering the entire cheek) will do away with the thinness which makes such an impression of age.

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The Hair

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CHAPTER V

THE HAIR

HEALTH, strength and beauty of hair depends primarily on its nerve vigor and the good circulation of the oily scalp secretion which gives it gloss and luster. Beauty is not so much a matter of color where hair is concerned. If your hair has a fine glow, a rich sheen, is thick and long, it will be beautiful irrespective of its pigmentation. Hair often makes an otherwise plain person beautiful. And practically every woman, if she cares to make the effort, may have beautiful hair.

SOME HAIR HINTS

If you have the least suspicion of a curl in your hair, brushing around rather than straight will bring it out. Do not worry if you shed your hair. It is natural for the hair to shed — and to keep right on growing in again. Only see to it that the ingrowth is equal to the loss by shedding.
No young girl should use a rat. Metal combs should be tabooed. Keep the hairbrush you use for dandruff stiff, the "polishing" brush may be softer.
Use a hair net that matches your own hair color, and do not get too small a one. Remove snarls and tangles in the hair gently, with fingers, before brushing. The three-weekly or monthly shampoo is a good rule. If you wash your hair too often, it will turn dry and brittle and change color.
The hair should never be worn "done up" constantly. This is injurious because every part of the hair should have frequent air and sun baths.
For normal shampoo employ Castile, tar or vegetable soaps, and Green soap for oily hair. A good egg shampoo may be made of an egg, thoroughly beaten, one tablespoon alcohol, four ounces bay rum, a pinch of borax, and four ounces of Castile soap mixed in a pint of hot water, to be used when cool.
Hair that is blonde or ruddy, as well as gray hair, may be washed with Castile soap jelly plus a quarter-teaspoonful of borax. Always comb and brush thoroughly, with finger-tip massage. After shampooing is the best time for scalp massage, hair pulling and skin loosening.

DRY SHAMPOO AND SCALP MASSAGE

The scalp and hair should be cleansed between shampoos. For this purpose the "dry shampoo" is necessary. It is actually a form of scalp massage.
Preparations of orris, corn meal and other dry shampoo powders are not recommended. They stick, and it is hard to get them out of the hair. A vigorous rubbing of the scalp after the hair has been parted, using a small piece of muslin over the tip
of the finger, is best. Hot and cold applications are good, with or without shampoo, especially if the hair is falling. Remember that the hair should not be "hot-air" dried. The hot-air cone used for the purpose in hairdressing establishments destroys
the hair. Human hair should always be dried by hand.
Scalp massage makes the hair grow and prevents many hair troubles. A five-minute finger-tip massage, night and morning, is the one ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure. The electrical massage by a professional (after a shampoo), the violet ray, and the rubber-disk vibrator are all excellent for the hair. They strengthen and stimulate.

HAIR TONICS

Massage is the first and best hair tonic. Though a good scalp lotion may stimulate circulation, massage always does so more directly. In general it will be wise to remember that tonics are meant for specific purposes of cure for hair disorders, rather than for common use. A little refined beef marrow rubbed gently into the hair roots is a good natural tonic (though an old-fashioned one) and together with plenty of fresh air and sunshine, does more for the hair than all the compounded tonics and
"restorers" marketed. Every woman can keep her hair in good condition if she chooses to. If she cannot give it attention in the morning she should do so at night.

HAIR OR HAT?

Which do you value most? If it be your hair then guard against the tight hat. The tight hat is extremely harmful. It cuts off the circulation and keeps away the fresh air the hair needs. Always see that your hat is big enough to be worn with comfort, and that it is sufficiently porous to allow you hair to obtain an airing.

HAIR TROUBLES

Most hair troubles could be prevented in the start by ordinary good care of the hair, and the maintenance of the state of general good health. Of course, various diseases affect the hair: fever dries it out and makes it fall; syphilis and other
sex diseases poison and destroy it. Some skin diseases have the same effect. In general, if you are healthy, broadly speaking, your hair will be healthy too.

Dandruff—What we have to deal with in dandruff is a horny layer cast off by the scalp. This layer thickens, closes the pores, diminishes the hair's oil supply, and prevents the perspiration glands from getting rid of waste. Soon the hair loses tone and color, and is covered with whitish powder. Then it starts to itch and fall. In an advanced state of the disease, the hair falls out, and blood crusts form on the scalp as a result of scratching. Digestive dis orders, toxic elements in the blood or local irritation may cause dandruff, and it is communicable.
Daily care of the scalp, massage and brushing if persisted in when the disorder first appears, are very beneficial. The crude oil massage of the scalp, not the hair, is excellent and often effects a cure. A massage every night, using vaseline or
olive oil, together with repeated shampoos, also helps to do away with dandruff. Although pomades

THE HAIR

in general should be avoided, a pomade with a precipitated sulphur base, mixed with glycerine, rose-water, lanoline, and soap, or a sulphur ointment or cream kills the dandruff germ.
There is an "oily dandruff," also, though the disease is most commonly a dry scalp one. Shampoo with tincture of Green soap should cure this type of the disease in about a week's time. If you have dandruff, observe a regular diet, and stick as much
as possible to milk and fresh fruit.

Falling Hair.—An acid condition of the blood encourages the hair to fall. Correct it and you will have removed the cause of your complaint. The use of the violet ray and the vibrator, which hold down the tendency to an oily scalp, is also valuable for hair treatment in this connection. So, too, are hot and cold applications.

HAIR DISEASES WHICH SHOULD NOT OCCUR

Favus, the development of yellow scalp crusts, accompanied by severe itching, bald spots and a musty odor, is a dirt disease, hence inexcusable in a woman, unless as a result of infection. To remove it the scalp must be soaked in olive oil for a few days, carbolic acid being mixed with it in a weak solution, the hair pulled out of the most infected areas, the crusts removed, and the whole scalp shampooed with an antiseptic soap. Ringworm is usually a gift of those evil things, the "common property" comb and brush, or the patent hair clipper. Rubbing with sulphur oint-
PHYSICAL BEAUTY

with iodine, to precede the application of a cleansing ointment, is the treatment. It is dangerous since it may result in baldness. Head lice (which may be cured by saturating the hair with kerosene or crude petroleum at night, wrapping in a towel to retain fumes, and following by antiseptic soap shampoo) is a most disgusting
trouble, and unless communicated cannot occur except as a result of neglect and uncleanliness. The possibility of contagion constitutes the menace of all three of these diseases.

HAIR THAT GROWETH WHERE IT LISTETH

A luxuriant growth of hair is a blessing and a mark of beauty. But a luxuriant growth of hair where hair should not grow is a curse. Woman's charm suffers from hair growing on the chin, the upper lip (the "bearded" or mustachioed lady is
rightly regarded as a freak), on the sides of the face, on the arms, in the armpits and on the legs. The trouble with using depilatories is that they contain such strong chemicals that while removing the superfluous hair, they injure the skin. Depilation, too, is a kind of shaving, and hence the hair returns more strongly and thickly. The X-ray is also too powerful a medium for removing super-
fluous hair. It not only kills the hair roots, and no hair grows again where it has passed, but it also destroys the subcutaneous glands. It is best, if possible, to avoid these methods of superfluous hair destruction, and use electrolysis. Though sometimes a number of treatments are needed, it will permanently destroy the hair roots, and though slow and expensive (for it must be done by a skilled dermatologist, to avoid scars) it is sure. A bleaching lotion composed of peroxide of hydrogen with an added drop of ammonia is good for diurnal application when retiring. The bleaching makes the unwelcome hairs less noticeable, and gradually prevents their growing. Forget that there are such things as tweezers in this connection! If you do not, you will be surprised how quickly you come into a heritage
of dark, coarse hair. Just because chorus girls have to shave their legs and underarms, is no reason why women in general should turn up their nose at the practice. No young girl or matron wishes to appear in bathing costume with a generous covering of dark hair on her bare legs. Shave your legs, for here the
razor gives the best results! Soaking the legs in warm water, and then rubbing them with pumice stone is a long process. It may "discourage" the hair, but then the hair may take years before it becomes properly discouraged. And the bathing seasons go by quickly.

SHOULD WOMEN DYE?

"No" is the proper and logical answer to this question. Dyeing is a hair crime. In most cases it destroys the light, shade and luster of the hair, and usually — unless so subtly done as to be past detection—it is a hallmark of vulgarity.
On the other hand, if dye you must, do not betray the fact. And there are some quite simple, obvious rules to be observed. If your hair is turning gray, do not try to dye it over into peroxide blonde. Turn it the kind of gray which is most becoming to you. The "pale and furrowed cheek of age," presented with a gay accompaniment of coal-black or golden-blonde hair is grotesque.
There is a disagreeable yellowish hair tinge which results from the fading out of pigment in originally dark hair. It seems legitimate to correct this turning of the hair, since the effect is distinctly unbeautiful. Rinsing with an infusion of sage tea, thoroughly saturating the hair, is in order here, for darkening. Rubbing hair which has a yellowish gray tint in the same way with a solution of bluing
will tend to give it a clear, silvery white tone. In general, dyeing at home is a flat failure. Dyeing at the beauty parlor, on the other hand, exposes the hair to danger of chemical poisoning of the hair roots. Remember, not color, but gloss; not
tint, but tone, is the chief beauty of hair!

BLEACHING

Bleaching is ordinarily open to objections similar to those made with regard to dyeing. Too often it makes the hair look like sun-scorched hay, dead and dry, lightless and shadowless. It also harms the scalp and even the eyes. Peroxide of hydrogen bleaches—none can d«ubt it—but if you use it long enough it makes your hair brittle and crisp. And there is a something about peroxide which usually betrays its use. If you like the "henna" shampoo, well and good; it will do your hair no harm. But if you want to stick to the shade it gives, you will have to shampoo frequently for it quickly wears off. In connection with bleaching and dyeing, it is worth while recalling that white hair, as a rule, looks distinguished after middle age. It lends the woman possessing it an aristocratic appearance.

FALSE HAIR AND TRUE

False hair heats the head, first of all. Bangs, wigs and switches, puffs and curls are at best makeshifts. Yet they are called for at times, and often look like the "real thing" if kept in good shape, and not worn too long. One serious objection against all false hair is the fact that it is a disease carrier. If you wear it, treat it as you would your own true hair. Brush it often, clean
it in gasoline (this, of course, you do not do to your own hair) and dry in the sun and open air. To make it glossy treat it to an occasional brilliantine brush.

THE TRANSFORMATION

The transformation may be called the sublimated "false front," false hair or the wig developed to its highest pinnacle of efficiency. On a foundation of fine net, it is a master wig which is made to suit every individual type and condition of face and
hair. The separate hairs are drawn through the foundation from the obverse side, and knotted under the net. It is light, can be brushed or combed out, its exact "angle of application" can be fixed by means of a few pins, and at the back it merges with the natural hair. It is valuable for the bobbed who are turning long-haired again, and who wish to conceal the clumsy appearance of the new ingrowth. Those who can obtain no permanent wave, whose hair has fallen out as a result of illness, can use it to advantage. Those whose gray hairs are coming in too slowly for a good general effect, yet so swiftly that they attract attention, find it a great help. Many well-dressed women use the present-day transformation the way they do the rouge pad and the lipstick for the complexion—as a legitimate beautifier of the hair.

DRESSING THE HAIR

In general, wear loose hair nets. Do not let your hairpins rust or your bone pins grow dirty. Prefer curlers to hot irons for dressing your hair. Only curl it every second day. Yes, if your hair is too straight, you may use bandoline, but if your hair is wavy by nature, the water wave will answer. Never touch naturally curly hair with tongs or curlers. If you want that "marcelled" look, there are comb set (mounted on springs) which will give it. In general, before you defer to some prevailing style, look at your own head, profile and face. Dress your hair according to your own individuality of feature. Dress it in accordance with its natural habit of growth. Better to look charming and attractive with your hair dressed in a style
nataurally becoming to you, than to conform to some fashionable hairdressing fad that is unbecoming. Also remember that your dress should influence your coiffure to some degree. Both must harmonize.

AS TO BOBBING

Everyone, or nearly everyone "bobs" their hair. Yet not everyone has the right face for bobbing. Hence we are often shocked by the results we see when the hair has been bobbed. Before bobbing see if your face is a bob face at all. Then be sure that
you get the right kind of a bob. Any style of bob-cut will do for the small-featured, round face. More hair on the sides should be the watchword of those with lengthy, oval faces. Though the front hair—if you wish to be quite fashionable— is usually cut long, the "baby face" type of girl or woman can brush hers straight back, a la Pompa-dour. But women whose face beauties are of the classically regular type need a part in the center or on the side. Sometimes the hair keeps growing low on the neck. In this case it is easy to keep it trimmed close to the bob with the scissors. Incidentally, do not have your hair bobbed too short, and do not let your bobbed hair get damp—its curls will at once disappear.

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The Hands

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CHAPTER VI

THE HANDS

NO hands, as one authority on female beauty has
declared, "reveal every hidden secret of the
soul .... in their shape, texture and color" ? We
doubt it. But they reveal themselves quickly
enough as beautiful or the reverse. What is
beauty of hand ? It is not so much the shape, just
as in hair it is not the color, which counts here.
Texture, skin quality and skin tint, the manner
in which the hands are used, the nails, these deter-
mine their beauty.

CARE OF THE HANDS

Care is what produces beautiful hands. If you
are not your own manicurist then visit a professional
one every week. Protect your hands against water
by using gloves, rubber or canvas.
Always have a cut of lemon handy to the sink.
Whether you have a "psychic" or a merely plebeian hand, lemon
juice removes stains, whitens the skin and cleans
the nails. Vaseline, which keeps the nails from
growing brittle, also makes up for the drying effect
of hot dishwater. Dishwashing should always be
followed by a vaseline or cold cream application.
Always wear gloves when gardening, and use
vanishing cream on them before you expose them to
the bright sunshine or cold. A cold cream
application before retiring and cotton gloves should
accompany chapped hands into bed.

Red Hands.
—When red hands are not caused by some trouble
which calls for a doctor's care, use a good rich,
cream massage, for it will help cir culation if
bad circulation is the reason. A mere surface redness
may be treated by rubbing in some standard skin food,
after washing with hot water and soap, and leaving
it overnight. For sunburn and freckles the remedies
mentioned in connection with the complexion should be applied.

The Ideal Hand.
—The ideal hand has smooth, tapering fingers.
If you have square or knotty fingers give them
treatment for pressing out the ends.
A soft, white skin, a firm palm, firm and
supple wrists and well-kept nails and fingers are
all possible of attainment by manicuring, massage
and constant cleanliness. Hands should be neither
too fat nor too thin. Regular diet in the first
place, then massage and special exercises are
correctives. This applies as well to fat wrists.
Remember that, like the ideal face and figure, the
ideal hand is only relatively so. There is a
different style of hand for nearly every style of
being, and there are as many different hands as
there are face beauties.

Gloves.—Tight gloves will make your palms perspire,
give your hands a pudgy look, and, if you
wear them right along, will turn the hands red
and mottled. Red hands often result from continual
wearing of tight-fitting gloves.
And—if you do not chemically clean your gloves after each
wearing—your hands will grow dirty as soon as
you put them on. Gloves which are not perfectly
clean chap and coarsen the skin texture of the hand,
and at times cause infections.

ARE THESE YOURS?

A narrow palm is supposed to be a sign of a
feeble temperament, one lacking imagination.
A fairly generous palm shows imagination and a
nature capable of greatly enjoying physical pleasures.
Too large, broad and pronounced a palm
denotes egoism and sensuality. Hard, thick palms,
out of proportion to the rest of the hand, show
an animal nature, void of intelligence. Knotty
fingers mean originality, imagination and a
scientific trend. Smooth, tapering fingers hint at aptitude
in art and sentiment predominating over reason.
Square fingers mean a sense of method and order.
Spatulate fingers are a sign of ability, activity, tact
and knowledge.

THE NAILS

A woman's nails should have home attention,
but this should be supplemented by occasional visits
to the manicurist. Else it is impossible to keep
them in perfect condition. You may use an orange
stick or an ivory pusher to push back the cuticle
from the nails (after it has been softened by cold
cream or vaseline), but do not cut the cuticle your-
self. This had far better be left to the professional.
If you use the professional cutting tools you may
easily cut and scar the surface of the nail, and weeks
may elapse before the scar disappears. If the cuticle
be cut constantly the edges grow hard and thick.
Manicuring.—Always see to it that your orange
stick is well covered with absorbent cotton or a
bit of silk. When you have shaped the external
edge of the nails with a fine pair of scissors, finish
with emery or a steel nail file. And always, before
beginning to manicure your nails, soak them in hot
soap water and cleanse with the nail brush. When
you polish the nails, use paste first, and do not
apply the powder till afterward. As a buffer you
can use the palm of the other hand. A thorough
"home" manicuring should be undertaken at least
once a week.
There are many very satisfactory nail pastes and
polishes on the market. A liquid polish is usually
best for the nails, all the more if there is no paste
foundation. Carmine, which gives a pleasing pink
tint, should be the paste used. Never use the
liquid varnishes which produce a sheen without the
aid of the buffer. They have a deteriorating action
on the nails themselves. You brush your teeth every
night. It is just as easy to devote a few minutes
to your nail cuticles as well.

The Nail Bleach.
—A good and simple nail bleach
for use beneath the free edges of the nails is made
by mixing an ounce of hydrogen peroxide with a
quarter-ounce, respectively, of ammonia and lemon
juice. Before polishing the nails wash out the
bleach with hot water.
Keep your manicuring tools in good condition,
and throw away your orange stick as soon roughens.
For a buffer, if you do not care to use
your palm, buy a buffer frame and renew the
chamois skin.

Bruised Nails.
—A hot water dip, with an overnight
application of antiphlogiston, is good for
bruised nails. The white nail spots which often
result from a bruise will fade out slowly of them-
selves as a rule. Their departure can be hastened,
however, by application of refined pitch and myrrh
in equal parts.

Nail-Bite.
—The only real cure for nail biting is
not to bite the nails. The application of tincture of
myrrh is merely a reminder not to do so.

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The Feet

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CHAPTER VII

THE FEET

TOO many women are inclined to forget that
they have feet until something happens to call
their attention to them. A beautifully formed foot
is as charming to the eye as a beautifully shaped
hand. Shoes, of course, have much to do with
preserving or distorting the natural foot outline,
and in this connection several practical facts should
be remembered.
First, that every woman's shoe should be broad
enough to let her toes rest flatly and naturally on
the sole. Second, that a low heel throws the weight
of the body on the instep. If you feel that broken
arches are a slight penalty to pay for tottering about
with the silly helplessness of a foot-bound Chinese
woman of the old type, by all means wear high-
heeled shoes. If you will have "French" heels—
and to the average man a woman looks ridiculous
in them, though politeness bid him disguise his
feelings—there is nothing more to be said.
Do not wear old shoes about the house. They
will make your feet shapeless. The dyes in cheap
stockings often run. If you have a slight skin
abrasion or a cut, you may get blood poisoning.
Hence pay more for your stockings (silk, lisle or
silk and wool) rather than risk infection.

FOOT MANICURING

Always cut your toenails straight across, using
a nail clip, or nail scissors. Ingrown nails always
result from cutting away the corners of the nail
which support its forward part. If you smooth the
nail edges with emery, a good deal of darning will
be saved.

FOOT AILMENTS

Calluses.—Calluses very often develop on the
sole of the foot. They also form on the toes,
where they turn into hard corns, or between
the toes, where they become soft ones, and are
capable of causing severe pain. Like bunions, flat
feet and fallen arches, calluses and corns are a
logical result of the wearing of tight or ill-fitting
shoes.
Good corn plasters give relief. There are also
good acid solutions for corns, but they must be
applied to the hard skin of the corn only. It is
best, however, to have a good chiropodist remove
corns, since he is able to take out their core. The
"vascular" corn (made up of small blood vessels),
which is less common, should always be taken out
by a chiropodist.

Bunions.—Bunions are beyond proper home
treatment. They are produced by pressure on the
big toe, causing inflammation of the second toe
joint. A preliminary callus turns into enlarge-
ment of the joint, and, in many cases, motives
much suffering, and inability to wear a shoe.
If the shoe pressure which causes the bunion be
removed, the callus will disappear, but not
necessarily the bunion. When bunions are long-standing
it is not always possible to cure them permanently.
A bunion should at once be referred to a chiropodist.

Ingrowing Nails.—Their origin has already been
mentioned. Treatment should consist in bathing
in hot water, then raising the injured portion of the
nail, and inserting pieces of lint or absorbent cotton
as an artificial support. Then scrape the nail
longitudinally. The lint or cotton support must
be renewed from time to time, until the nail has reverted
to normal. If a proud flesh condition has
developed it will be best to go at once to the
chiropodist, instead of attempting a cure yourself.

Flat and Fallen Arches.—Both these foot
troubles are beyond any home treatment. Fallen
arches, once they have definitely dropped, cannot
be completely cured. Both diseases, in most cases,
result from improper footwear, high heels, and
shoes wrongly balanced, and each and every case
usually needs individual treatment.

Chilblains.
—Chilblains, one of the most common
of foot disorders, can usually be cured at home. It
comes from cold or frost, and does not start in
feet which have a good blood circulation. Soaking
the feet in hot water, rubbing and massaging with
warm spirits of rosemary and turpentine, and exer-
cise are the remedies. Exercise, especially, restores
the circulation, and alleviates the redness, the burn-
ing feeling and the intolerable itching which are the
signs of the ailment

FOOT PERSPIRATION AND PERSPIRATION IN GENERAL

Foot Perspiration.
—Perspiration we associate
more directly and more perceptibly with the feet
than any other part of the body. There is a reason.
There are more perspiration glands in the feet than
anywhere else on the body, save in the palms of the
hands. Daily bathing, night and morning, is the
best preventive of excessive foot perspiration. It
is well, when you are thus troubled, to add a little
alum to the water (it should be warm), and after
drying to powder the feet with boracic powder. Or,
if you prefer, use a soothing lotion for "feet that
are weary" and perspiring, made up of equal parts
of alcohol and witch hazel. Hot water, however,
is a sovereign specific for all sweaty feet.

Perspiration in General.—We are perspiring all
the time. Our perspiration glands are constantly
throwing off the waste matter of the body, and
bathing serves the double purpose of keeping the
pores open so that this matter may be discharged,
and removing it in order that no disagreeable odors
result from its presence. The soles of the feet, the
armpits, at times the forehead, chest, and neck are
perspiration centers.
Perspiration is usually not excessive when a
woman is in good general health, or when it is not
a result of violent exercise or unusual temperature
conditions. But when it is habitual and unchecked
it robs a young woman or girl of all that charm
of daintiness and appeal which is her right and
privilege. There is no odor more immediately and
more resentfully noticed than that of dried per-
spiration. It clings not only to the body, but to
the clothes. Perfumes and scented powders do not
hide it, and it always awakens disgust.
Frequent bathing, frequent change of undergarments
and stockings, and a free use of talcum
powder or "odorono" are all indicated. Never
imagine that the use of talcum instead of soap and
water will do away with this unhappy scent. After
washing, always and invariably after washing, is
powder to be used. The poet has coined the phrase
"honest sweat." But there is no such thing as
"honest sweat" in feminine beauty's bright lexicon
of charm. Perspiration, especially at evening affairs,
dances, etc., steals away that natural freshness
and fragrance of aura which should surround woman.

OTHER ODORS

There are some natural feminine odors which
also need to be guarded against. When women
are troubled with certain disorders, there are apt
to be discharges. Those occasioned by leucorrhea,
for instance, often cause a slight yet perceptible
odor. Proper medical advice can easily recommend
a douche which will destroy any odor of this sort.
Menstruation, too, is often responsible for the giving
off of a somewhat strong odor. This can be
almost entirely obviated by frequent warm bathing,
repeated change of dressing (no girl can be too
particular in this respect!) and the use of good
deodorizing powders and disinfectants

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Beauty and Clothes

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CHAPTER VIII

BEAUTY AND CLOTHES

OUR ideal of beauty, of living, actual beauty, is
no longer the nude human figure of the
ancient Greeks. Our beauty and our beauties are
clothed, in deference both to climatic and moral
grounds. Clothes, therefore, are an element and
an important one, in the physical beauty of modern
womanhood.
Since beauty of costume and headgear, in respect
to color and design, with reference to the human
form has already been exhaustively treated in another
volume of this series (see my "Color Harmony and Design in Dress"),
this chapter will confine itself to certain important
details not therein contained.

THE CORSET

Good corseting means the right type and fit of
corset used on the body for which it is intended.
Corsets should follow, never constrain the natural
figure lines. Of course, if the average woman
could and did exercise her bust muscles properly,
the corset would be unnecessary. For no corset is,
after all, the ideal thing. Yet a corset which does
not in any degree compress or cramp natural movement,
freedom of motion, and breathing, does much to set off
the figure to advantage.

BEAUTY AND CLOTHES

Kinds of Corsets.—Comfort is the corset test. If
your corset is comfortable it is a good one. If it is
uncomfortable, it is not. And, speaking generally, the
low corset is the one to be preferred. It gives real support,
both up and back, where support is called for,
and thus tends to obviate many "female weaknesses."
As for the large-busted, high-breasted woman,
she should never use a corset. What she needs is
a brassiere, a brassiere which must be fitted to her
very carefully, which must be a perfect individual fit,
so that her special bust requirements will 'be served.
Nor does the woman who has a girlish, slender figure
need a regulation corset. For her, in most cases,
a rubber belt, hung low and only lightly boned,
will answer every purpose. In certain more
violent forms of exercise, too, such as basketball,
athletics, riding or rowing, the combination brassiere
and belt should take the place of the corset.
All that is wanted in these cases is a support which
will sustain without interfering. Never put on a
corset without readjusting the laces.

FOOTWEAR

Like the corset, the best shoe is the one built
along the natural line. Too large a shoe is as
dangerous as one that is too small. Aching feet
cause wrinkles, and thus directly affect feminine
charm, and aching feet are the result of improper shoes.
The toe of the foot is not pointed
normally, and the pointed toe is in reality less
beautiful than the natural toe line of the natural
foot. There may be occasions when you may wish
to appear (at a costume affair or fancy-dress ball)
in sandals. Then, if your feet have been cramped
and made misshapen by tight, narrow shoes, you
are lost indeed. But a well-formed foot in a sandal
is beautiful to look upon. The healthier the feet the
better they look.

COSTUME ACCESSORIES

Jewels, furs, glasses, are all details of costume,
broadly speaking, which should be studied in relation
to a woman's natural physical charms. Small
hands should not wear many rings. Short fingers
should not wear long rings lest their width be
emphasized. Long, narrow hands, however, are
able to wear rings of any type. No stout, short
women can wear bead necklaces without seeming
shorter and stouter. Sallow necks and fat ones
are rendered sallower or fatter in appearance when.
"pointed out" by a necklace of snowy-white pearls.
Use bracelets, by all means, if your arms are
beautiful, but if not, do not wear them. And as
to glasses: Narrow faces look best in rimless or
gold-rimmed glasses; broad faces best in glasses
with dark rims. If you have a thin face and light-
colored eyelashes or eyebrows, gold-rimmed glas-
ses with a horizontal bridge will make your face
look shorter and broader. Let your glasses match
your hair, dark rims for dark hair, and light rims
for fair hair. All these details are subject to the
same laws of the line for the figure which have
been explained in "Color Harmony and Design in
Dress."

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The Plastic Surgeon as a Beautifier

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CHAPTER IX

THE PLASTIC SURGEON AS A BEAUTIFIER

AS a rule the plastic surgeon is mainly called
- upon to operate on members of the theatrical
profession, women whose actual, visible beauty is
one of the greatest assets in their convincing
presentation of roles in which youth and loveliness
are a first requisite. Or, again, the plastic surgeon
comes to the aid of the grande dame, the ambitious
society woman who refuses to allow the passing
years to undermine her established reputation as a
beautiful woman of the world. Plastic surgery is
a very real, a very difficult development of
constructive surgery, and as such deserving of all
respect. But those among its exponents who have
a name charge large fees, and in general, any process
of constructive surgery is usually expensive in
money, time and suffering.

FACE-RAISING

One of the greatest actual triumphs of plastic
surgery is the "face-raising" or "face-lifting"
process, which does away with wrinkles, mouth and
eyelines and sagging cheeks by literally "lifting" off
part of the old face and replacing it. It is an infinitely
tiring and somewhat painful process as a rule.

A cut some three inches long is made from the
temple to the ear. A triangular strip of skin is
removed. Then the skin of the face is drawn
together, and stitched carefully, so as to show no
scars. After three days have passed, the stitches
are taken out, and when the wound has healed
(usually within ten or twelve days) no trace of
them is to be seen.
The majority of women prefer and wisely so, "to
grow old gracefully," to rely on bathing, fresh food
and air, exercise and self-control to retain a living
charm of attractiveness and appeal, without the
more radical "skinning" processes of the plastic
surgeon.

OTHER PLASTIC SURGICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The operation for harelip does not properly fall
within the province of the plastic surgeon. Any
good surgeon can perform this operation successfully.
But often, where a nose is shaped in such wise as
actually to disfigure the wearer, the plastic
surgeon can work wonders. Bone grafting has,
especially since the World War, reached a high
level of development. It is common for the plastic
surgeon to "rebuild" the nose—and he can make it
either Grecian or Roman to suit the wearer's fancy
—by removing part of the bone, and inserting a
piece better calculated to please. Malformation of
the mouth, ear disfigurements, scars of every kind
(these usually treated by skin graft) birthmarks,
crow's-feet and 6aggy eyes, all yield to the touch
of his scalpel.

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Beauty During Maternity

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CHAPTER X

BEAUTY DURING MATERNITY

THE outward and visible bodily condition
which precedes maternity is the last thing of
which a woman should feel ashamed. It is indeed
the sign of a glorious responsibility and should be
revered as such. At the same time, it cannot be
denied that an unavoidable distortion of the body
is one of the results of pregnancy, especially as it
approaches its term. But the mother who has been
thus blessed, need not, necessarily, "point with
pride" to her condition. True pride is modest and
does not try to make itself conspicuous.

TACT IN DRESS

That rotundity of the abdomen which cannot
well be avoided, may largely be tempered by training,
moderate exercise, bathing, riding, golf,
decreasing month by month. And what training will not do,
ready tactfulness in dress may go far to dissemble.
The Empire waist, hung on tapes, is never an
unsightly costume, and is one which, because of its
looser folds, is especially well calculated to moderate
undue distention of the body for the eye. Since
at this time no mother-to-be would be apt to wear
corsets, there would be no unnatural emphasis laid
on the upper bodily protuberances, and the normal
curves would only appear to be slightly accented.
As the hips increase, month by month, the
shoulders and bust may be artfully made to appear
wider and broader. All that is called for is a little
ingenuity on the part of the dressmaker. Then,
the poise of the body sustained by general good
health, even the most critical eye will see nothing
repulsive in the general appearance of the form.

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Special Hints for Throat and Bust Development

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CHAPTER XI

SPECIAL HINTS FOR THROAT AND
BUST DEVELOPMENT

THE throat and bust often call for development
because of a lack of natural fullness quite out
of keeping with what their natural lines should be.
There are two great bust and throat developers—
exercise and massage.

BUST DEVELOPMENT BY MASSAGE

If you are flat-busted, do not despair. A flat,
undeveloped condition of the bust—it is not a
natural one—may be remedied without great difficulty.
The best way to do so is by massage. To develop
atrophied bust or neck muscles in connection with massage,
pure olive oil or coconut butter is still the best food known.
Rubbed in with a rotary motion with an upward pressure and a firm
upward stroke, together with the application of hot and cold water
alternately before massaging, oil or butter will produce results.
Incidentally, remember to bathe the neck and bosom daily with clean,
cold water, and then produce friction by hard rubbing
with a moderately rough towel. (The towel should
not be too rough, lest it chap or irritate the skin.)
Then, even before the redness resulting from the friction
has vanished, rub olive oil into the skin
with the palm and fingers.

BUST DEVELOPMENT BY EXERCISE

In developing the bust by means of exercise take
care not to lame the muscles of the chest by overexerting.
A good bust-development exercise consists in raising and
lowering the arms, standing straight, then, pressing
in the waistline with spread fingers, tipping forward the elbows.
This exercise develops the muscles of the upper chest.
Rowing—a sport in which girls are rather unapt to indulge—
is also an excellent bust developing exercise.
Natural twisting and bending exercises will help develop flaccid neck muscles.

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