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brushing the hair off the forehead without crimp or roll will
improve the appearance of this type of face and give it a better artistic
balance.
[Illustration: NO. 9]
[Illustration: NO. 10]
For Eyes Set Too Low.
Women whose eyes are set too far down in their faces should adopt a
mode of arranging their hair exactly the opposite of those whose eyes
are set too near the top of their heads.
It is apparent that No. 10 exaggerates the distance of her eyes from the
crown of her head, and makes them appear to be set lower than they
really are by building her hair high, and by brushing her bang back so
severely from her brow. A bald forehead is rarely becoming to any
woman. A few stray curls or soft waves lend grace to even the most
perfect of brows.
[Illustration: NO. 11]
By bringing the hair down over the forehead, as suggested in No. 11, a
woman with this type of face can easily improve her appearance. By
this graceful arrangement her face loses the childish and sometimes
stupid expression that is peculiar to the type, as may be discerned in No.
10. When the hair is properly arranged this element of childlikeness
lends a certain appealing sweetness not unattractive even in the faces of
matured matrons. By dressing the hair low so the coil does not appear
above the crown, as in No. 11, the eyes are apparently properly placed.
For Long Faces with Long Noses.

The woman who wears her silken tresses arranged on either side of her
head, draped like curtains from a central parting, is to be envied if she
can do it and yet look young and pretty. She is the Madonna type and
seems to possess all the attributes of gentleness, modesty, and
meekness, and angelic sweetness that are supposed to characterize the
distinctively feminine woman. This is the ideal style of coiffure much
bepraised by man, because, according to a bright modern Amazon, "it
makes a woman look so meek."
[Illustration: NO. 12]
The only type to which it is really becoming is the Italian. The type
with matte complexion, soft eyes, finely chiselled nose, and delicately
oval chin, look ideally sweet and feminine with the hair arranged _à la_
Madonna.
[Illustration: NO. 13]
Long faces of the form pictured by No. 12 exaggerate the longness and
leanness of their faces by wearing their locks like looped curtains. A
long nose with two long lines on either side of the cheek seems longer
than it is, as the observer may discern three lines instead of only the
nasal one, and the impression of longness is emphasized. Not only is
the length of the countenance made more noticeable, but years and
years are apparently added to the actual age.
That No. 13, which shows a parting and soft waves that do not come
below the ears, is to be preferred by a woman whose features are of this
character need hardly be explained. The improvement in looks is quite
obvious.
[Illustration: NOS. 14 AND 15]
No. 14 is an example of a misguided woman of the pudgy type who, for
some inexplicable reason, arranges her hair in the Madonna style. It is
utterly unsuited to her face. Unless her ears are deformed this style of
hirsute lambrequins should not be worn by a full, round-faced woman.
The arrangement sketched in No 15 adds effectively to her appearance,

not only making her look younger, but less inane.
[Illustration: NO. 16]
For Faces with Protruding Noses.
Women with decidedly protruding, or irregular, tip-tilted noses should
be especially careful in arranging their coiffures.
Any woman who arranges her hair as in sketch No. 16 caricatures her
facial defects by increasing the too protuberant lines of her nose. The
distance from the end of her nose and the tip of the topmost knot of hair
is too long for either beauty or intelligence. The shape of her head
acquires idiotic proportions, and her nose is placed entirely "out of
drawing" and is obtrusively conspicuous when seen in profile. This
type of woman is generally classified among the inquisitive, bright, and
energetic. She should aim to modify the unhappy angularity of her
profile as well as to repress her gossipy tendencies. The graduated coil
of hair and waved coiffure, shown by No. 17, are most felicitous in
their effect on this type of face.
[Illustration: NO. 17]
[Illustration: NO. 18]
No. 18 reveals an error in an opposite direction. The snubbed-nose girl,
by fixing her hair in a bun-like coil, gives the impression that her
coiffure is held by invisible strings by her nose, which gets a more
elevated look than it otherwise would have, because of the bad angle at
which the coil is placed.
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