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Face Powder

Although I believe that you can achieve a perfectly fine makeup without face powder, many women wish to include it in their routines. It does provide a wonderful matte finish to a makeup and is good for the "T" zone, where you want a nonshiny look. If you have a shiny nose, by all means powder it. But remember that powder does not belong all over the face. Powder has a tendency to settle into lines and wrinkles, emphasizing them. I never use powder around the eyes, because that area, as well as cheeks and lips, should always look dewy.

Powder, if it is used, must be used intelligently. By that I mean sparingly. Great clouds of powder can not only coat you and your clothes (both unbecoming) but it can also clog pores. Tinted face powder presents another problem---it has a tendency to turn color, be- coming yellow or orangey, de- pending on your skin tones.

Luckily, modern cosmetic laboratories have revolutionized face powder. Today's colorless powder seems spun out of air. Its formula has helped relieve both the clogging and the color- buildup problems. This translu- cent colorless powder is the only one I use on my clients and the only one I recommend with- out hesitation. Colorless powder really means less color, rather than no color. The powder goes on invisibly, but is avail- able in three tones: light, medium and dark. Therefore you only need one shade-a good economic factor. Once you find the right one, you'll never have to change or need any other.

The same fine consistency works for black, Caucasion, Or- iental, Indian---any skin tone. It desn't change the color of your foundation or your rouge. It simply helps set whatever you've used and keeps it non- shiny divine invention. This powder comes in two for- mats, loose and compact. If you are a heavy powder user, I sug- gest the loose kind, to everyone else, the compact.

For loose powder, a clean puff and cotton balls for re- moving excess provide for the best method of application. You can use a sponge, moistened and wrung almost dry, to help set the powder.

For compact powder, the best tool is not the puff but the brush. A nice broad brush, such as the one used to apply blusher, will deposit a much lighter dusting of powder than the puff. It can also get into those hard-to-reach corners--the sides of the nose, the corners

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of the nostrils, places powder should be applied carefully or lightly. When applying around the nose, draw your upper lip over your upper teeth, stretching the area for the moments you need to.

Unfortunately the brush will not work with loose pow- der; too much powder adheres to the bristles. The compact with its pressed powders is an all-around convenience. It slips into your purse or carrying case without causing you any worry that it might open and spill out. The brush usually comes with it, giving you the proper size you need for the purpose. Just stroke the brush across the pressed powder and you have the right amount ready to apply.

Your powder purchase, whether loose or compact, should last you many years- that's how sparingly it should be used. And although I restrict the areas to which it should be