My secrets of beauty

For every woman--or, for that matter, every man--who wants to have and retain a good complexion, the one thorough toilet of the day should be made in the evening. This done, the...

It is a most decided advantage to be born with a beautiful neck, as it is to be born with beautiful features, a beautiful figure or beautiful hair. It is one of the compensation...

As with all other parts of the body, the beauty of the eyes depends upon their health, and their health depends upon care. The eyes have two arch enemies. They are fatigue and d...

If I were to summarize my experience and the advice I wish to give about the hands in one sentence I would say: “Never let the hands get cold.” The advice is very comprehensive,...

Massage is of two kinds--good and bad. It is good or bad, according to the knowledge and skill of the masseuse. I have a profound, unshakable belief in the efficacy of massage....

Just in so far as the foot has departed from its original shape and habit is it less than perfect. It is hard, indeed, to find a beautiful foot. The story is told of a New York...

To be beautiful one must have an ideal of beauty and strive always to reach it. Wishing to make and keep the mouth beautiful, we must have ever in our minds an image of a beauti...

It is Monday, and I note that my hair does not respond readily to the brush; that it lies lifeless under my fingers; that instead of being a live, bushy, glowing mass, it has di...

Men take beauty treatments. Had that been a secret heretofore, one of their own sex revealed it. David Graham Phillips, whom some critics have called the Zola, others the Flaube...

Dainty finger nails are Nature’s finishing touch for a beautiful woman. They have always seemed to me to be the natural jewels of the hands, and if they are in good order, that...

How shall I impress upon you, my beautiful reader, who would remain beautiful, my plain reader--if ever a woman was plain--who wants to be beautiful, how necessary is the freque...

None of these makes for beauty. All are signs of ill-health. Besides these outward and visible signs of ill health, it is a heavy weight upon the spirits. The girl thinks she is...

Every woman would have a beautiful voice, for it is indeed one of the most excellent things in woman. To my mind it is the most desirable possession in the world. But then I am...

Frankly determine how far your figure falls short of perfection. Perfection, that is, according to the canons of classic statuary. The standards of the Greek sculptors have neve...

In this chapter I shall try to answer that which I call “The Great American Question.” In other countries where I have lived and visited, women ask, “What shall I do to remain y...

Every woman, while not desiring to be fat, wants to possess a figure that is pleasantly rounded. Curves, for women at least, are the lines of beauty. A man who is all straight l...

There are exercises that reconstruct, build over, and there are exercises that destroy, chiefly by excess. I am going to tell you of the first sort. The second may be dismissed...

Every woman is haunted by a specter, the dread ghost of old age. At sixteen girls begin to dread it. At thirty-six women set traps for it. At sixty they ward it off as best they...

It is possible to train a child to beauty and this training consists of two means. One is to teach the little one habits of personal daintiness. The other is to impress upon him...

Six subjects are of special consideration to the blonde. She must remember that her type has the most delicate of complexions. To accentuate her blondness she should keep her ha...

To give all the beauty recipes I have tested and can personally recommend would require three or four volumes as large as this. There are many helpful ones which I have been una...

Have you ever seen a jeweler at work making a gem as fine and handsome as he can or as the nature of the jewel will permit? That is what you must do for yourself. Polish your pe...

Three months recently in Russia and six months in Paris taught me some new fads in the cultivation of beauty. While you Americans are so clever, as well as beautiful, you may no...