Dialogues

1. Read the dialogues aloud. Dramatize them.

I want an evening make-up

Client: Good afternoon!

Beautician: Good afternoon, ma’am! What would you like to have?

Client: I’d like an evening make-up. I am invited to a party. The beginning is in two hours.

Beautician: I offer you some refreshing and relaxing procedures at first. You look a little tired.

Client I agree. With pleasure.

Beautician: Skin cleansing to begin with. After that moisturizing mask. Your skin is very dry. Would you like face massage?

Client: Yes, please.

Beautician: What kind of make-up do you usually use?

Client: I do my lips lightly and pencil my eyebrows. I don’t like it when women and especially girls are heavily made up. I think it bad taste.

Beautician: You are right. It’s bad taste indeed.

Can you give me a manicure?

Client: I would like to have my nails done. Can you give me a manicure?

Manicurist: You have rather neglected your nails.

Client: Yes, you are right. It happens every summer when I go to my village cottage for some days.

Manicurist: Now we have to perform some SPA procedures, cut the hangnails (заусеницы) and shape the nails. They are really ill-shaped.

Client: I want to have them polished too.

Manicurist: Of cause. What colour nail varnish would you like?

Client: Show me the colours that you have.

3. Complete the dialogue:

Beautician: May I suggest you change your make-up? You have a new hair colour, pinkish tones are no longer suitable.

Client: You're right. What do you suggest?

Beautician: …

Additional reading

Translate into Russian the fragments of the works of English and American writers.

1. Make-up

She took out her lipstick and did her mouth. (Angus Wilson)

Her full mouth was coarsened by a slapdash coating of lipstick. (Monica Dickens)

Her lips are tinted not red but white, and have been outlined with a pencil. (Truman Capote)

She had no make-up on except for her lips and she had a lovely mouth that he wanted to see with no lipstick on it. She wore pale lipstick.

His wide, thin-lipped mouth was rosy-pink, as if lip-sticked. (Ira Levin)

There was a fine crisscross of wrinkles now around the large eyes; the sun revealed that she was wearing a little too much make-up. (James Baldwin)

Don't sleep in your make-up. (Rona Jaffe)

He saw she had combed her hair, put on fresh make-up and would have put on perfume, too.

She used a compact * mirror and quickly, lightly blot­ted her brow with a leaf of Kleenex.*

She chose one of a number of rouges in little pots on the dresser and colored her already rosy cheeks. (Maude Hutchins)

Her face was liberally covered with rouge and mascara and enamel. (Angus Wilson)

Helen enjoys sitting at the big dressing-table with its silver-topped jars watching her mother making-up. Her mother has had lessons in make-up and likes to do her own.

She uses a mid-beige foundation to show off her pretty fair skin, a touch of blusher on her cheeks and translucent powder.

There was a white dab of face cream on a little place under her chin where a pimple had come out. (Carson McCullers)

Miriam dried her hands and tipped hand lotion into them. (Monica Dickens)

I use Oil of Ulay under my make-up to keep my skin moist.