Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Woman's Own April 4 1959 Page 24

· Diana Day's round-up of some of the exciting products for spring
NEWS about 
MAKE-UP to give your looks a lift 
FOR skins that need a basic beauty treat: Helena Rubinstein's wen. Beauty Overnight Cream, 12s. 6d. (about $1.76)? Brighten your outlook, visibly, with a face-pack: Dorothy Gray has a new formula Masque Frappe, 5s. 9d. (about 81 cents)? Firmer treatment for young acne-prone skins: Yardley's Clearskin, Jane Seymour's Care. 
LIPSTICKS have never been prettier: Right: Cyclax Nasturtium in its new Colour-Cling formula and interchange case. Only 1s.9d. (about 25 cents)? Pond's freshly-cased Scarlet Dawn colour. . Newest of lipstick ideas: Jane Seymour's White Wonder. Coming:Goya’s Pink Tangerine; Gala's pearly look for lips in Fantasy Pink, Fantasy Peach (with matching nail varnish).
SCENTS to make you feel lovelier
BACK in Britain: Houbigant perfumes of pre-war fame, including their classic Quelques Fleurs, seen left in elegant handbag flacon, 35s.9d. (about $5.02)? New Potter & Moore range: skin-perfumes in cream- form; handbag-size squeeze bottle, 4s. (about 56 cents)?, in a choice of six scents. One of the prettiest-packed of popular perfumes: Marquay's sultry 'Prince Douka,' handbag-size, 19s. 6d. (about $2.74)?  New note: Max Factor's Hypnotique. 
SOAPS to pamper you to perfection 
COMING: Bourjois new fragrance range called Springtime in Paris (including soap, talc, cologne). Already in the shops: Californian Poppy talc puff, 2s. 9d. (about 39 cents)?Jane Seymour's Embrace and Blue Gardenia bath cubes. Morny have re-packed their popular Gardenia soap. Not to be forgotten: the deodorants. Arden's Blue Grass cream is coming in a new formula, new case: Boots Elfin now in powder form, 3s. (about 42 cents)?. New perfumed Mum Rollette 5s (about 70 cents)?
HAIR aids to beauty 
TO prevent casual styles becoming chaotic curls, whatever the weather, two new hair spray-cum-setting-lotions: Toni's Caress, 13s. 6d. (about $1.90)?, Vinolia’s Model Set, 10s. 6d. (about $1.48)?  No excuse for dandruff now with the many control preparations on the market, including Seboderm Cetridnmi shampoo, 2s. 5d. (about 34 cents)? tube. 
Home hair colourings have never been more exciting, To wash highlights into dull hair Nestle have 10 Colortint rinses. Focus (six shades) is a shampoo-colour-conditioner. Shampoos in small sizes spilling over the chemists' counters include amusing baby tubs by Creighton, Nucta. 
At your hairdresser's, exciting new pastel rinses for blondes (including bleached ones). Top hairdressers are staying open later. Hitherto professional-only curlers are on sale in big departmental stores. Latest good home perm-cream-form Bliss. Home setting aids now include hairdressers' pincurl floss. 
Eye-catchers in the shops: Allcock's Scan eye-drops in 2s. (about 28 cents)  phial. Revlon's propelling eyebrow pencil. 
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The average price of a new home then was $12400 about 2.48 times the yearly average wage of $5010. Which was about 2.28 times the price of a new car $2200. Today?

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