How to Be Beautiful

How to Be Beautiful: Nature Unmasked by Teresa H. Dean, first published in 1889. What is beauty? Successful beauty is individuality. Will I be forgiven if I betray some of the secrets of studio life ? " The end will justify the means" if I give to the public impressions, opinions, suggestions and information, which, in my contact with all classes of my own sex, I have gathered from time to time. Ladies from the "upper ten " and models from the " lower five" have each contributed their share in my conclusions of what beauty really is. A beautiful hand, a beautiful foot, lovely hair, a fine pair of eyes, regular teeth—any one of these gives a woman a claim to beauty. And how many times they catch the wandering heart of some man, making the possessor, to him, a beautiful woman. Nature has not endowed the majority of women with regular features, nor is it necessary to gauge beauty by them. Sparkling eyes, a lovely complexion, a fine figure, agreeable manners, are within the reach of all women.