Known all over the world, adorable and eternally young "priestesses of love" - ??they were ready for any sacrifices to keep their beauty forever. Some of the means they used today are incompatible with the requirements of modern cosmetics, but who said that a modern woman is not ready for "madness" in the name of beauty?.
MADAM DE POMPADUR "DOES" YOUR PERSON Painfully pale Pompadour used a lot of blush. In the evening, she cleared her face with a mixture of sugar and egg protein, which gave the skin a whiteness and a special luster. Veal chops or balsam of beeswax, cucumber juice and sperm mushrooms were placed on the cheeks. In the morning, the face was "rejuvenated" in this manner with a make-up that provided the necessary effect for several hours. Madame Pompadour colored the veins around her neck to emphasize the whiteness and tenderness of the skin. No toilet could do without flies.
ASPASHIA - THE GREATEST GETHER OF AFIN In the morning, her face looked strange, reminiscent of an old cracked theatrical mask, because the famous hetaera before going to sleep put on her face a special mask prepared according to her own recipe. Aspasia perfectly mastered not only rhetoric and philosophy, but also the art of beauty. Her "Treatise on the Preservation of Beauty" reveals the rich experience of a woman who knows all about what is useful for rejuvenating.
Aspazia slept late. And then the slaves led her to a huge vessel in the shape of a bowl. They washed the heather, thoroughly wiped and applied sponge to the skin with fragrant oils. Aspasia, sitting on a marble chair, carefully examined her reflection in the mirror. She was looking at a 40-year-old woman, still beautiful, despite her double chin and slightly protruding veins on her neck. Stormy life and night vigils could not help leaving traces on the face. Then a specially trained slave wound up still wet hair, giving them the shape of curls with the help of gold needles. Beautician with the finest needle applied wrinkles on the fish paste, covered her face with a layer of lead whites, and put on her cheeks blush. The lips and chest were painted carmine.
Courtesans had to dye their hair yellow. But Aspasia did not like to use saffron juice. She preferred to wear a wig. The slaves carefully fixed on her head a wig of straw color. Aspasia rose majestically from her chair and dressed in a tunic adorned with Asian fashion. She did not forget about the fresh flowers. At such a time she was a woman without age or, more precisely, in the age of love. The hour was approaching when her lover Pericles came with congratulations.
AUTUMN MILK FOR THE BULK Nero was really in love with Poppey. To marry her, he killed her mother Agrippina and her husband Octavia. Poppeya, who was older than her husband, according to Tacitus, had "all but honesty". Light brown hair with a copper tint, smooth matte leather, white as cambric. Poppey had her own mask for the preservation of beauty, which included rye, cooked in olive oil. She gave her her name. but evil tongues preferred to call it "a mask for the spouse".
It was very important for Poppey bathing ceremony. She lay down in a marble bath filled with donkey's milk. A herd of 500 sheep accompanied Poppey on all her trips. In small alabaster vases there was everything necessary for nourishing and bleaching the skin. Especially effective was paste from the manure of oxen, sunflower oil and vegetable glue. Slave rubbed her make-up with saliva. Another slave with tweezers carefully applied black shadows to the mistress's eyelids. And on the eyebrows a complex mixture of. dead ants. According to the fashion of the time, eyebrows almost joined in one line. The hairdresser skillfully combed Poppey's hair, and in the end, small patches of crescent-shaped skin were applied to her face-the progenitors of the famous flies.
The last toilet of Cleopatra Cleopatra is a refined product of a decaying dynasty that existed thanks to Rome. The last representative of Ptolemyev spoke in a melodic voice, she spoke many languages ??and the art of being beautiful, having inherited it from her Greek ancestors.
The toilet was a ritual, and Egypt in abundance offered products for rejuvenating the body and face. Anti-wrinkle treatment was helped by alabaster powder or salt mixed with honey. Castor oil was used to strengthen the hair. Balsam "to turn an old man into a young man" was made difficult, but really destroyed the traces of past years.
Cleopatra owned all these secrets, the oldest secrets of the world, and discovered other. Unfortunately, the "Treatise on Beauty" written by her is lost.
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