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Tape this calendar to your mirror and follow it to ( Continued from page 32) with the right shade of foundation and face powder. This, no matter what your daytime shade, is pink-y, or rosetoned. for flattery under artificial lights. If your hair and eyes are light, choose makeup in a shade darker than your natural skin tone. With dark hair and eyes, lighter than skin tone makeup. For a pearly, luminous finish, choose powder that is a shade lighter than foundation. w No giggling or cackling, please. Make 1 P , sure your laugh is fun to hear. In ' fact, be sure you are fun to hear, y Lower your voice and have it come from as deep in your throat as you can manage. Avoid nasal qualities, pronounce your words distinctly, and think before you speak. Carroll Baker, or Jean Simmons in “The Big Country,” are excellent examples of lady-like, easy-on-the-ears speech. For getting out of that corner and meeting everyone at the party, Dolores Hart suggests: “Try passing the hors d’oeuvres (or the franks). With a ready smile and the tray offered, you’ll discover that everyone’s delighted to see you.” By now. you should be doing 20 bends to each side. Keep at it, and you’ll lose as much as one or two inches by Christmas. Keep at the wardrobe, too. Send soiled things to the cleaner and march any rundown heels off to the shoemaker. Try a rubdown of saddle soap followed by a “shoeshine” on your handbags. To get your hands in shape for holding, be gin using hand lotion morning and at night. Apply some, too, to your elbows and the backs of your heels to soften and smooth them. And if you’re a career or school girl, the fingers that grip the pen can become badly stained. Rub with cut lemon, watch the stains disappear. Hair beginning to shine? It should if you’ve been faithful. You should be looking lovelier than ever before, so stand up as tall as you can. Hold your head high, your chin up, your shoulders hack and your tummy in. Try this nightly exercise, a great relaxer for tense neck and back muscles. Loll your head around in a circle slowly, then turn it slowly side to side, breathing deeply. Do something unexpected, like surprising your guy with a letter made up of words clipped from papers, magazines, or hint for an utterly different Christmas gift — say a Japanese print or a single perfect rose or a recording of Marianne Moore’s poems. Test yourself: Try describing your likes in 30 words. Your foundation and powder are meant to provide a creamy background for the real excitement — eye makeup and lipstick. These can harmonize with your dress: For blue or green, choose eye shadow, liner and mascara to match, lipstick in a pale, luminous color. With any shade of pink, red or orange, match lipstick carefully to dress, mascara and eyeliner to your eyes, and, for a touch of dazzle, frosted silver or gold shadow. If you’re wearing black or white, choose really red lipstick, silvery eye shadow, mascara and liner to blend with your hair. Match nail polish to lipstick or frosted eye shadow for that fancy finish. Time to treat yourself to a lift. Check your wardrobe first on what’s really needed for the dates and parties ahead. Would a brightly colored Empire belt give that old dress the spark it needs? Would a fuzzy mohair scarf revamp another outfit? Are a pair of tinted-to-match stockings just the extra touch your party dress needs? When you’re shopping, plan on something that will startle him — perhaps a pair of madly striped leotards to peek out from your skirt on that casual houseparty or movie date — anything so long as it’s different, flattering proof for him you’re a gal of many parts. Even if he isn’t consciously aware of your perfume, the reaction is there! Choose the scent you like best — it’s almost always the one that best reflects your personality. But, because individual body chemistry subtly changes the fragrance, use the testers at cosmetic counters and always try perfume on your own skin. As a foundation for your perfume, spray or splash on matching toilet water generously and all over. Add perfume at your temples, throat, inside your wrists, in the bend of your elbows. If you’re going dancing, use perfume on your palms — and the inside hem of dress. You’ll move in a whirl of fragrance that’s sure to go straight to his head and keep you on his mind. p 62