lower ones, is a difficult job at best. You must really be convinced of their necessity before you take the time and effort it requires.

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.NIGHT EYES.

Many women want to gla- morize their eyes at NIGHT with the use of highlighter and frosted shades. If used sparingly, they may work, although to me the pastel or the neutrally shadowed eye is much more flattering and BELIEVABLE.

Instead of frosted colors, which can give you a rather hard look if seen up close, use MORE of the shadow that you have found to be most flattering to you and that you usually wear. This added amount might be all the touch of extra you need. Of course, lots and lots of

mascara.

For a lovely finishing touch, try this. After you apply the blue eyeliner to the rim of the lower lid, as described before, use a tiny amount of WHITE PENCIL just where the blue stops at the outer corner and the skin starts. This is an empty space that can be made even more emphatically an opening for the whole eye area.

I think that these im- peccable finishing touches do much more for the eyes than all the flashy iridescents and frosteds. One will never look cheap by putting on a greater amount of, say, brown eye shadow, but the garish colors can be instant destruction of

any chic or femininity you may have otherwise achieved. eyes

Bright, beautiful have very much the same appeal that precious gems do. If you mount them with a great deal of fussy detail around them, you are taking away from the importance of the gem. On the other hand, a simple setting emphasizes the gem and makes it even more outstanding. That is the frame of reference I would like you to develop

As a young child I could see That girls were treated differently. They were hugged and kissed so lovingly That I wanted to be a girl.

Then my sister came to me

Just in fun she asked if she Could hug me--she dressed me prettily She put my hair in curls.

I pretended I was a girl

So happy in my pretend world

So proud of my dress, proud of my curls So full of love and joy.

But my beautiful world was a pretend world- I was a boy not a girl.

Boys couldn't wear their hair in curls-- I didn't want to be a boy.

So I grew up in baseball hats With footballs, skis and baseball bats Chopping wood and running track But something inside was wrong. I saw girls in pretty hats

With pink lace dresses and shoes that match Being kissed and given loving pats The envy I felt was strong.

It was a woman who set me free---- She was tall and proud and in love with me. A beautiful lady, a joy to see; I gave to her my soul. You are strong, she said to me, You are a man most certainly. But deep inside is femininity--- Now let's make you whole.

She said "Womanhood's a way to be, A way to feel, a way to see- Womanhood and femininity's An expression of your soul." "Let me hug you, and kiss you, I'll give you me, I'll help you feel your femininity--- How it complements your masculinity--- Now you can be whole."

God bless that lady who set me free! Now I am proud that I am me.

Proud of my femininity-

Of my womanhood.

Now I'm a woman- a man---I am me-

I am who I prefer to be.

A complex person most certainly But I'm beautiful and good.

God bless that lady who set me free-→→→ Now I am proud that I am me--

Proud of my femininity----

Of my womanhood.

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