Hazeline Snow melts on the skin…
In the early 60s, my aunt who lived with us would have the same regime every afternoon. At 3 pm sharp, after pounding the chillies and the bawangs and cooking a sumptuous Peranakan lunch for everyone, she would take a cold bath. The cold bath was to dip an old empty Lam Soon tin into a barrel of cold water. There was no water heater at that time. If one was sick, a kettle of boiled water would be poured into the barrel for a warm bath. For her make up regime, she would whip out her favourite foundation which was of course Hazeline Snow . The promise was that just a little ‘Hazeline’ would brighten one’s complexion. She would smother a blob of snowy white textured cream on her face and presto! The ‘snow’ would soften her skin making her skin fair and ‘brightened’. She would spend a little time wrapping her sarong, put on her kebaya and kerosang carefully and as a finale, dab a pinch of Evening in Paris onto her earlobes. It would be off to meet up with her cronies. Her frie...