Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1869 — Enamelling. [ARTICLE]

Enamelling.

The enamelling of female faces and busts is now a branch of masculine business, and is quite lucrative. 4 chiropodist on Broadway devotes a good deal or time and attention to this line of trade, while a man called Sausson imitates his example. The process of enamelling is somewhat curious. The belle who would enamelllDg go is first examined with a microscope, and any rough hair or fuzz which exists upon the cheeks or bust is at once removed with liniment, or plaster, medicated soap, or scissors or tweezers even. Being thus prepared, the cheeks or bust are coated with a tine enamel, which is composed of arsenic, or white lead, or other ingredients made into a semi-paste, and pleasantly scented. An ordinary coating of enamel will endure for a day or two; but to render the operation of any permanent effect, the coating process has to be repeated twice a week for varying periods, according to circumstances, and the circumstances of its owner. The penciling of the eyebrows, so as to render the contrast between them and the whitened face more striking, is sometimes included in the enamelling process; while the eyebrow is also trimmed or shaved, just as the moustache in a man. It costs a good deal of money to be well enamelled. The prices of enamelling vary, but the average price-list of the various stages is about as follows: For enamelling the face to last once or twice, flrom $lO to sls; for enamelling face and bust temporarily, from sls to S2O; for enamelling the face to endure one or two weeks, from sls to $25: for enamelling|the face and bust to last about the same period, from $25 to $35; for permanently (this is for gjx months), keeping the face in a well-eA amelled condition, from S2OO to $350-; and for keeping the face and bnst both in the. same pleasing state, from SIOO to $600.' Bo that from its very cost alone, enamelling should become fashionable. A married belle of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, two married belles of the Metropolitan Hotel, a well known actress, and three or four prominent youDg ladies of Madison avenue, are, at the present date, the most enamelled of the darlings of society; bnt the fashion is extending. In due time enamelling will be cheapened ; and at last, doubtless, there will be enamellists not only on Broadway, but on the Bowery. —New Fork Sunday Mercury.