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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-12-13, Page 27Charming tricks Makeover with` makeup BY JOANNE BUCHANAN Did you know that there is a certain way for ,a woman to stand to make her legs look slimmer? Carol Harrington knows this. She teaches charm and personale improvement courses and helps women with the many little aspects of their appearance to give them an overall look that is both pleasing and natural. "If a woman looks good, she feels good and that gives her more self- confidence," concludes Mrs. Harrington who has just finished teaching a,, 10 -week personal im- provement course for Fanshawe Collegp in London and a five-week course called "Make -Up and You" at the River Mill for Goderich and area women. Through Fanshawe's extension services, Mrs. Harrington taught a five week make-up course in Glencoe awhile ago. She discovered that the course was well received and realized that small towns were probably seldom ever offered such courses. So she decided to try holding another make-up course on her own for Goderich and area. She felt it, was a good central location and through ' her daughter, Michele Morenz who works at the Benmiller Inn, she was able to secure the conference room at the River Mill in which to hold the course one night a week for five weeks. There were openings for 20 women with nine turning out and six faith- fuls. Mrs. Harrington was not disappointed in the small number and plans to hold another such course in January. "I knew the first course would have a low. enrollment;" she says. "But it meant more in- dividual attention for each woman." The first night of the course, the women worked on poise, posture, walking and even putting their coats on and taking them off again gracefully. These things were designed to build up self-confidence, explains Mrs, Harrington. For the remaining two hour sessions each week, the women worked on skin care, nail care, hair care and make-up. Mrs. Harrington supplied the cosmetics. The end result was to be good habits to create a natural look, accentuating good features and automatically minimizing problem areas. The women -from Goderich taking Mrs. Harrington's .course ranged in age from 18 to 30 but she has had other courses with an age range of 16 to 60. The age doesn't matter, she ex- plains. The women are basically learning the same habits. Many people have the wrong ideas about charm courses, •feels Mrs. Harrington who prefers to think of them as per- sonal improvement. "A lot of people feel they'll be walking like model's and wearing heavy make-up." But to be charming, one of the main things is to be natural, she says. "What we're trying to do is bring out all the attributes that are already there. Every woman is beautiful but perhaps she doesn't know how to accentuate her better points." Mrs. Harrington herself didn't start modelling lessons until after three L_h'r four children were born. She took the plunge following an IODE fashion show in St. Thomas for which she had,, done the publicity. She enjoyed the in- volvement so much that soon after, she took modelling lessons in -London, one of nine centres in which lived in her first six years of marriage. Since then she has modelled and taught part-time. She now has a full-time job selling furs for Meyer Epstein Furs in London. She considers teaching her self- improvement courses to be a paying hobby. "Teaching two evenings a week --that's my enjoyment just like others might go curling or bowling," she says. Over the years, Mrs. Harrington has taken many courses which she feels help qualify her to teach self-improvement. Among these courses are radio and television broadcasting, advanced modelling, and teaching and agency management with Walter Thornton in Toronto and Patricia Stevens in Ottawa, two well-known modelling agencies. Mrs. Harrington took a teachers' training course this year at Fanshawe with the attitude that "you can always keep learning". Living in so many different cities has forced Mrs. Harrington to go out and meet people. She has tried to become involved in every community in which she has lived. Seven years ago she remarried and moved to Florida with her husband, Joseph, for- merly of the U.S. Navy and now a writer of naval history. They lived on a sailboatin,,Miami harbor for eight months and also in Fort Lauderdale for a year before returning to Canada. In Miami, Mrs. Harrington had all sorts of free time. Her visa hadn't' come through so she couldn't work. She taught herself macrame and then taught the art to her children who augmented their. pocket money by selling their crafts to gift shops in Florida. Meantime., she developed her skill as a designer of macrame jewelry, wall and planter hangings and soon had lots of custom work. She also taught sewing and tailoring for Singer Company ire Florida. She makes all her own clothes, including her coats. In addition to her modelling and teaching work and her homemaker role, Mrs. Harrington has also found time ib be a W. J. Denomme FLOWER SHOP Phone 524. 8132 e".4; DAY O Ou R NIGHT Agent for 24 -hr. FILM DEVELOPING ALVIN'ST V Your Headquarters for •TV TOWE'it INSTALLATIONS, REPA IR & SERVICE •DELHI & CHANNEL MASTER *TOWERS, ANTENNAS & BOOSTERS •SHARP COLOUR Tv •MIDLAND C.B. ALVIN'S T.V. 162 MARY ST. GODERICH 524.90$9 foster mother to four babies, whose stay with her ranged from six weeks to 15 months. She volunteered her time at two- ehi-ldr-en-'-s dentent-ion homes in Florida too. She didn't do any fashion work during her two years in Flordia because she said many of the agencies were mere fronts for escort services. But she missed the fashion world and wasn't long getting back into it when she returned to Canada. Mrs. Harrington feels that a big part of personal improvement is visual poise and that includes everything anyone •else sees you doing. Visual poise has to become a habit so it will look natural. It ~ is not like modelling. Modelling is acting which takes a lot of practise and is much harder than it looks, she explains. Besides one or maybe even two more five-week courses for Goderich and area in January, Mrs. Harrington will be on an open line CKNX radio show January 8 with Bill Thomas to discuss such= -- things as charm and skin care with listeners. She will also conduct a day long workshop on personal improvement in London in January and hopes to develop such workshops for smaller towns. She is starting to put together a personal improvement program for men too. -• Mrs. Harrington is interested in seeing that people get the maximum for the least amount of investment. She made some ob-" servations' about the women from Goderich who took her course. "Once the girls got into the course, they were very enthusiastic. They became more aware of the total picture. They even started dressing up for the classes," she says. GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1979—„PAGE 3A Carol Harrington of London and her daughter Michele Morenz of Goderich test some make-up for skin tone during the last two hour session of a five- week make-up course held at the River Mill in Benmiller last week. Mrs. Harrington and Mrs. Morena hope to hold another make-up course for Goderlch and area in the new year. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Carol Harrington watches as Carolyn Cooke shapes her lips with a Hp pencil during the last two hour session of a five-week make-up course held at the River Mill last week. Mrs: Harrington hopes to hold another such course for Goderlch and area in January: She just finished teaching a 10 -week personal improvement course for Fanshawe College. 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