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THE ART OF FEMALE IMPERSONATION (Con't) by Virginia

COSMETICS:

SECTION II ARTIFICES AND HELPS continued

Blemish Covers--This may seen like a specialty item and an odd place to begin the consideration of cosmetics, but bo- cause the covering of blemishes must take place before other make up is applied, it is a logical beginning. There are a number of such products on the market such as Lydia O'Leary's "Cover Mark". These products are in cream form, in tubes, or in cases and sticks like lipstick. In any case, they contain a high percent of pig- ment and should be used to cover brown patches, bruises, abras- ions, tattoos or any other disfiguration of the skin. Use on the face, arms and legs. Apply sparingly and spread out over area and blend into surrounding skin. The same material can be used to lighten up dark eireles under the eyes and in the corner of the eye next to the nose. Also place some in the fold of the nose and down any deep furrows between nose and lips. Lightening the depths of a deep feld er erease tends to reduce the contrast with the rest of the skin and so to minimize the appearance of such feat-

ures.

Foundations--These are available in four types; an oil-base cake in a compact like sontainer, a water base cake, and an oil and a water base liquid in a bottle. Sinee a man has a beard to cover, he must use more makeup, generally, and heavier powder, so that the use of oil based products is not usually such a good idea be- cause after a while, the powder and excess oil from the base co bine and form a kind of mud. If it is hot, perspiration makes this worse and makeup tenda te "erack" at the normal skin wrinkles. Water base products dry by evaporation and do not leave so much liquid behind to eake up with the powder. Most companies make a compressed cake which is applied with a damp sponge, such as Max Faeter's Pancake. Get sufficient material on the sponge and pat it over the face to transfer the product and then rub it around gently to blend it out. For those with light colored beards where the amount of severing pigment required is not so great, the use. ●f the liquid makeups is practical. "Touch and Glow", "Angel Face", "Contempora" are some of thể liquid products on the market.