The ugly-girl papers

Woman’s Business to be Beautiful.--How to Acquire a Clear Complexion.--Regimen for Purity of the Blood.--Carbonate of Ammonia and Powdered Charcoal.--Stippled Skins.--Face Masks...

Care of the Hair.--Children’s Hair.--When to Cut it.--Ammonia Washes.--Glycerine and Ammonia.--Pomades.--How to Brush the Hair.--Cutting the Ends.--German Method of Treating the...

Elegance of Manner.--Grace of the Latin Races.--The Secret of Grace.--Gliding Movement.--Calisthenics.--Erectness of Figure.--Shoulder Braces.--How to Acquire Sloping Shoulders....

N. P. Willis as a Critic of Beauty.--The Perfume of the Presence.--Charm of Good Circulation.--Chills are Incipient Congestion.--Paper Clothing.--Luxuries of the Bath.--A Substi...

Morals of Paint and Powder.--Antique Toilet Arts.--Washington Ladies.--Making Up the Face.--Whitening the Arms.--Tints of Rouge.--To Make French Rouge.--Milk of Roses.--Greuze T...

Récamier’s Training.--Diana of Poitiers’ Bath.--High Beauty of Maturity.--The Worth of Beauty.--George Eliot on Complexions.--Dr. Cazenave.--Barley Paste for the Face.--Prescrip...

Shining Pallor.--Lustrous Faces.--Golden Freckles.--Tiger-Lily Spots.--Sun Photographs.--Nitre Removes Freckles.--Old English Prescription.--For Yachting.--Almond-Oil.--Buttermi...

Service of Beauty.--Not for Vanity, but Perfection.--Eyebrows of Petrarch’s Laura.--Fashionable Baths.--Trimming the Eyelashes.--Luxury of the Toilet.--Its Magnetic Influence.--...

Hope for Homely People.--Two Vital Charms.--The Way to Live.--Sunrise and Open Air.--Bleached by the Dawn.--Live at Sunny Windows.--In Balconies and Parks.--Christiana’s Breakfa...

The Bonniest Kate in Christendom.--A Word to Mothers and Aunts.--Different Vanities.--The Sorrows of Ugly Women.--Recipes of an Ancient Beauty.--Sand Wash.--Color for the Nails....

A Dark Potion.--Olive-oil and Tar for the Face.--Olive-tar for Inhalation.--Carbolic Lotion for Pimples.--Cure for Musquito Bites.--Pale Blondes.--A French Marquise.--Deepening...

Removal of Superfluous Hair.--Effects of High Living.--Work of Typhoid Fever.--Roman Tweezers.--Lola Montez’s Recipes.--Paste of Wood-ashes.--Bleaching Arms with Chloride.--Caut...

Madame Celnart’s Works of the Toilet.--Literature of Beauty.--Cares of the Toilet.--Arts of Coiffure and Lacing.--How to Hold a Needle Gracefully.--Iris Powder for Tresses.--Art...

The Last of the Rose.--Weighing in the Balances.--To Love and to be Loved.--The Enigma of Love.--Its Power over the Lot of Men.--Inspiration in the Looks.--The Land of Spring.--...

The Fearful Malady of which no one Dies.--_Esprit Odontalgique._--Gray Pastilles.--Important to Smokers.--Mouth Perfumes.--Care of the Breath.--Directions for Bathing.--Perfumes...

“The Leaves are Full of Joy.”--Nobility of the Body.--Its Possibilities.--Brain and Heart Dependent on it.--Physical Culture Imperative in America.--Our Contempt of Health.--Eas...

The Banting System.--A Quaint Author.--Trials of Corpulency.--Result of Living on Sixpence a Day.--Indifference of Doctors.--A Wise Surgeon.--Relation of Glucose to Obesity.--Di...

A Letter.--Trials of a Plain Woman.--The Best Husband in the World.--Burdock Wash for the Hair.--For Children’s Hair.--Oil of Mace as a Stimulant.--To Restore Color to the Hair....

A Talk about Complexions.--Delicate Lotion.--Cause of Rough Faces.--Sun Painting and Bleaching.--Court Ladies Refusing to Wash their Faces.--Experiments with Olive-tar.--Consump...

Sulphur Baths.--Bleaching Old Faces.--Experiments in Bathing.--Cautions.--Need of Public Baths.--Their Proper Prices.--Method of Giving Sulphur Vapor-baths.--Hot Baths for Hot W...

Devices of Uneasy Age.--Bread Paste and Court-plaster to Conceal Wrinkles.--Accepting the Situation.--Plain Women and Agreeable Toilets.--Examples.--The Rector’s Daughter.--Dres...

Physical Education of Girls.--A Woman’s Value in the World.--High-bred Figures.--Antique Races.--Inspiration of Art not Vanity.--The Trying Age.--Dress, Food, and Bathing for Yo...

Hands and Complexions.--Preparing for Parties.--Refining Rough Faces.--Carbolic Baths.--Chalk and Cascarilla.--Glycerine Wash.--School-girls’ Flushed Hands and Faces.--To Soften...

Women’s Looks and Nerves.--A Low-toned Generation.--Children and their Ways.--Brief Madness.--Women in the Woods.--Singing.--Work well done the Easiest.--Sleep the Remedy for Te...

Woman’s Business to be Beautiful.--How to Acquire a Clear Complexion.--Regimen for Purity of the Blood.--Carbonate of Ammonia and Powdered Charcoal.--Stippled Skins.--Face Masks...

Care of the Hair.--Children’s Hair.--When to Cut it.--Ammonia Washes.--Glycerine and Ammonia.--Pomades.--How to Brush the Hair.--Cutting the Ends.--German Method of Treating the...

Elegance of Manner.--Grace of the Latin Races.--The Secret of Grace.--Gliding Movement.--Calisthenics.--Erectness of Figure.--Shoulder Braces.--How to acquire Sloping Shoulders....

N. P. Willis as a Critic of Beauty.--The Perfume of the Presence.--Charm of Good Circulation.--Chills are Incipient Congestion.--Paper Clothing.--Luxuries of the Bath.--A Substi...

Morals of Paint and Powder.--Antique Toilet Arts.--Washington Ladies.--Making Up the Face.--Whitening the Arms.--Tints of Rouge.--To Make French Rouge.--Milk of Roses.--Greuze T...

Récamier’s Training.--Diana of Poitiers, Bath.--High Beauty of Maturity.--The Worth of Beauty.--George Eliot on Complexions.--Dr. Cazenave.--Barley Paste for the Face.--Prescrip...

Shining Pallor.--Lustrous Faces.--Golden Freckles.--Tiger-Lily Spots.--Sun Photographs.--Nitre Removes Freckles.--Old English Prescription.--For Yachting.--Almond-Oil.--Buttermi...

Service of Beauty.--Not for Vanity, but Perfection.--Eyebrows of Petrarch’s Laura.--Fashionable Baths.--Trimming the Eyelashes.--Luxury of the Toilet.--Its Magnetic Influence.--...

Hope for Homely People.--Two Vital Charms.--The Way to Live.--Sunrise and Open Air.--Bleached by the Dawn.--Live at Sunny Windows.--In Balconies and Parks.--Christiana’s Breakfa...

The Bonniest Kate in Christendom.--A Word to Mothers and Aunts.--Different Vanities.--The Sorrows of Ugly Women.--Recipes of an Ancient Beauty.--Sand Wash.--Color for the Nails....

A Dark Potion.--Olive-oil and Tar for the Face.--Olive-tar for Inhalation.--Carbolic Lotion for Pimples.--Cure for Musquito Bites.--Pale Blondes.--A French Marquise.--Deepening...

Removal of Superfluous Hair.--Effects of High Living.--Work of Typhoid Fever.--Roman Tweezers.--Lola Montez’s Recipes.--Paste of Wood-ashes.--Bleaching Arms with Chloride.--Caut...

Madame Celnart’s Works of the Toilet.--Literature of Beauty.--Cares of the Toilet.--Arts of Coiffure and Lacing.--How to Hold a Needle Gracefully.--Iris Powder for Tresses.--Art...

The Last of the Rose.--Weighing in the Balances.--To Love and to be Loved.--The Enigma of Love.--Its Power over the Lot of Men.--Inspiration in the Looks.--The Land of Spring.--...

The Fearful Malady of which no one Dies.--_Esprit Odontalgique._--Gray Pastilles.--Important to Smokers.--Mouth Perfumes.--Care of the Breath.--Directions for Bathing.--Perfumes...

“The Leaves are Full of Joy.”--Nobility of the Body.--Its Possibilities.--Brain and Heart Dependent on it.--Physical Culture Imperative in America.--Our Contempt of Health.--Eas...

The Banting System.--A Quaint Author.--Trials of Corpulency.--Result of Living on Sixpence a Day.--Indifference of Doctors.--A Wise Surgeon.--Relation of Glucose to Obesity.--Di...

A Letter.--Trials of a Plain Woman.--The Best Husband in the World.--Burdock Wash for the Hair.--For Children’s Hair.--Oil of Mace as a Stimulant.--To Restore Color to the Hair....

A Talk about Complexions.--Delicate Lotion.--Cause of Rough Faces.--Sun Painting and Bleaching.--Court Ladies Refusing to Wash their Faces.--Experiments with Olive-tar.--Consump...

Sulphur Baths.--Bleaching Old Faces.--Experiments in Bathing.--Cautions.--Need of Public Baths.--Their Proper Prices.--Method of Giving Sulphur Vapor-baths.--Hot Baths for Hot W...

Devices of Uneasy Age.--Bread Paste and Court-plaster to Conceal Wrinkles.--Accepting the Situation.--Plain Women and Agreeable Toilets.--Examples.--The Rector’s Daughter.--Dres...

Physical Education of Girls.--A Woman’s Value in the World.--High-bred Figures.--Antique Races.--Inspiration of Art not Vanity.--The Trying Age.--Dress, Food, and Bathing for Yo...

Hands and Complexions.--Preparing for Parties.--Refining Rough Faces.--Carbolic Baths.--Chalk and Cascarilla.--Glycerine Wash.--School-girls’ Flushed Hands and Faces.--To Soften...

Women’s Looks and Nerves.--A Low-toned Generation.--Children and their Ways.--Brief Madness.--Women in the Woods.--Singing.--Work well done the Easiest.--Sleep the Remedy for Te...

The secret of content for most women is not perfection, but change. They can not even be satisfied with their looks long at a time; but Mary, Queen of Hearts as well as Scots, m...

If it were easy to change the color of one’s hair, and possible to fix that change, which it is not, the result in most cases would be far from desirable. Nature tints hair and...