How Do You Know Your Makeup is Right?

(Page 122) July 1945.  Good Housekeeping.

 How do you know your makeup is right?

Your eyebrow technique is right if the arch is clean-cut, starts just above the corner of the eye, ends a bit beyond the outer corner.  If there are no straying hairs.  If pencil strokes are fine, short, hairlike, and natural-looking.

Your eye shadow is right if it is deepest near the lashes and fades off to nothing; if it is effective without being noticeable.  Your lashes are right if, after applying mascara, you brush them to separate the hairs and make a soft fringe.

Your rouge is right if you place it high on the cheeks, never below the end of the nose.  If the area rouged is wide and shallow on a long face or deep and narrow on a broad face.  If the color is faint and blended off at the edges. 

Your lipstick is right if the color harmonizes with your skin and with any red in your costume.  It's right if it shapes your lips to gentle, symmetrical curves; if the outline is clean-cut - no frayed edges, smudged corners, or sharp angles.

Your powder is right if it does away with shine and adds depth and color to your complexion without being obvious.  It is right if it doesn't cake, doesn't linger where is shouldn't, because you carefully brush it out of hairline and eyebrows.

Your make-up foundation is right if the skin looks translucent, not pasty or masklike; if it gives your skin flattering color and an even, fine-grained texture.  It's right if you carry it out to hairline and ears, down on the neck.

The total effect is right if you have taken time to pick fresh, becoming shades and have applied each item expertly.  It's certainly right if your man approves, or more likely if he just takes it for granted that this finished work of art is the real, natural You.