How did ancient beauties make up?

Since ancient times, women's pursuit of beauty has never stopped. The love of beauty has existed since ancient times. In ancient times, ladies and beautiful women also needed makeup, but the types were much less than those in our modern times.

The steps of ancient women's makeup were relatively simple, and rouge and powder were the most important. The three major steps of ancient beauty makeup are as follows:

First: powder application

A hundred covers three ugliness? Fair skin is the pursuit of all women, and so is ancient beauty. Nowadays, women generally use foundation and powder cake to whiten their skin, and ancient beauties also use powder cake to whiten their skin.

Powder? Next to the word "rice", the earliest powder was actually made of rice flour. Of course, this kind of powder has poor durability, and it is inevitable that you will be embarrassed when you often take off your makeup, and there are often scum on your face.

So the ancients invented an improved model, that is? Lead powder? Although lead powder is toxic and contains heavy metals, ancient beauties are quite willing to put several layers on their faces in order to be white. It seems that for the sake of beauty, ancient beauties also worked hard.

Second: rouge

Even rouge in ancient times was generally a red pigment after grinding natural cinnabar. In ancient times, dancers who lived by their faces or women who loved beauty used cinnabar as rouge, lipstick on their mouths and blush on their faces.

Cinnabar is not sticky, and it is easily dissolved by saliva when applied to the mouth, so the ancients mixed a proper amount of animal oil in cinnabar, which is very close to the lipstick we use now.

Third: thrush

Eyebrows are the most important, as the saying goes. A flower on your face, all by your eyebrows? Ancient beauties also pursued the beauty of distant mountains and eyebrows. There was no eyebrow pencil in ancient times, but Shi Dai was generally used.

Shidai is a black mineral. Put Shi Dai on the inkstone, grind it into powder, add water to blend, and dip it in thrush. Of course, some ancient Americans couldn't afford Shi Dai, so they wiped their eyebrows with burnt matchsticks dipped in water.

To sum up, due to the underdeveloped makeup technology and the lack of cosmetics in ancient times, the makeup of ancient beauty did not have the heavy makeup of modern women, nor did it have black technologies such as eyeliner and beauty contact lens mascara.