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Show Powdering Your Eyebrows. To apply powder properly takes the right sort of powder to begin with. The powder should be just the tone of the skin. A dead white powder on a deep yellow skin is productive of nothing but sorrow. On the other hand, the powder should not be too dark. Do not put brunette powder on your face if your skin is a pure white.. Powder Pow-der comes in three or four shades and you should match your complexion. Don't take the first box that is handed hand-ed out to you. but insist upon trying the box before you buy. Look before you buy is excellent advice for the buyer buy-er of face powder. When you powder, remember that you have eyebrows, and that they arc pretttier when there is no powder in them. The woman with white powder in her black eyebrows is a familiar sight upon the thoroughfares. She is almost as noticeable as the woman who powders her nose and forgets that she has a forehead, cheeks and chin. In these days all women powder. They consider it an essential or ladylike lady-like cleanliness. The powder box is fitted out in a verv luxurious way. ana the dainty woman has from three to six different implements for applying powder to her face. The proper w;iy to put powder on the face is by means of ; powder puff, which should bo snwill and very fresh and dainty.. An old powder puff is an abomination. When not. doing duty the puff should be inclosed in a bag scented with sachet. This makes it always al-ways fragrant. The powder puff is used for applying apply-ing the first liberal dusting of powder to the face. Then comes the work with the chamois skin, which is used to rub the powder into the skin to make it look notural. Few women think to rub in the powder and the result is poor. The powder shakes right off or it clings in patches, and the last condition is much worse than though the powder had not been used at all. The wise woman will begin the powdering pow-dering of her face in a profesisonal manner, working as the actresses work. She will take a tiny bit of cold cream and will work it into the skin, using ' the tips of her fingers. She will remove it with a bit of silky cloth and will work another bit of cream into the skin. By this time the face is a dull cream. This makes a foundation for the powder. pow-der. The next step is the warming of the face, and this is done by laying the palms of the hands flat upon the cheeks to give them softness and life. It reddens red-dens the cheeks so that they keep their color for hours. It brings the blood to the surface and makes the skin vibrate, i |
