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Cosmetics as a whole have been around for thousands of years. In the past some really strange items were used to enhance beauty, even a few of been down right lethal. What do you know about the history of makeup?
Origins of makeup
The use of natural materials, such as minerals and vegetable dyes pre-dates civilization as we know it. Such items where used in rituals and as adornments.
It was in Ancient Egypt that manufacturing cosmetics and scents on a large scale was first perfected. They say the greatest Egyptian Queen Cleopatra is credited to compiling what has to be the earliest books of beauty hints.
Many of their preparations were used for religious and symbolic reasons. The Egyptians love for their paints can be seen today in the exquisite work of the jars found in the tombs, many with their contents still intact. Beauty was important to both men and women. A high-born lady of the time most important feature were her eyes. With the use of Kohl to emphasize the eyebrows and it was used to give their eyes their distinctive winged look. Not unlike the cat’s eye look of today which is now created with the use of liquid eyeliner.
Moving on in our makeup history lesson.
Next we have the aristocratic women of ancient Greece who apart from enhancing the color of their lips with vegetable dyes, used very few cosmetics. The real users of cosmetics such as white face powder and Kohl was restricted to the courtesans, as a sign of their profession.
Roman women on the other hand couldn’t use enough makeup. Some were known to be so enthusiastic about hair dyes and bleaches that partial or even total baldness often happened. The wearing of exotic wigs and using smelly conditioners to save the hair was often used to try to hide the facts of going bald.
After the fall of the Roman Empire makeup fell out of favor until around the 11th century when the Knights returned from the Crusades. The Knights reintroduced makeup, fashion and other toilet preparations that the women they left behind in the Palestine were using.
You know there had to be resistance but it didn’t come from the women of that time period, no it came from the all mightily Church itself.
Then around the 15th century and the time of the Renaissance that our natural love for all things of beauty were allowed a free reign.
Renaissance Makeup or lack of.
In the Renaissance time, makeup was an almost ghostly white complexion that was ideal for both men and women. It was thought of as a way to distinguish the upper class from the peasants and laborers in the fields. One of the biggest examples from the time period was Queen Elizabeth I of England. It was her use of cosmetics that popularize facial cosmetics among the women. The queen had a naturally fair complexion that was reinforced the fashion of whiter than white skin. With the use of egg whites, ground alabaster and clay, masks and that now infamous white lead, all these were used to aid in the illusion of super white skin.
In the 17th century makeup really had a major influence from the fact that theater became popular. That parts once played by young boys could now be played by young ladies. Young ladies playing the part of young ladies, who would of thought?
Moving on down in makeup’s history time.
It was the 18th century that beauty and pain started walking hand in hand. All types of beauty aids of exceptional discomfort and as well as absurdity came about. Rouge was still popular as ever for men and women. This was the time that lipstick in pencil form was introduced and hair? Well hair took off in all types of strangeness. Hair styles were so complex and it took days sometimes even weeks to create. It was set and left as long as they could before redoing it. There was also time of bugs in hair, even mice were reported.
It was towards the end of the century public opinion turn against excesses of the earlier decades.
The Regency period of England saw a return to the more natural look were herbal preparations, many home-made came into favor. Face powder and rouge was still popular but the women of this time had to be more discreet about using it. Powdered wigs and complex hair styles also fell out of favor. The desirability for cleanliness as a health and beauty need was now widely recognized. Respectable Victorian ladies were even more demure with their uses of cosmetics. Barest a trace of rouge of the lips and cheeks was considered ok but they usually had to apply it in secret. Maybe this was the time it because fashionable for ladies to visit restrooms in groups like we do today.
Home-made skincare preparations and beauty hints with recipes were found in the women’s magazines and journals of the day. Rich society women would visit Salons under disguises in fear of being found out that they were enhancing their looks.
Thank goodness for the popular actresses of the day because towards the end of the century, they helped pave the way towards a more liberal attitude using of cosmetics as beauty aids.
This takes us up to modern times before World War One. Now you may have a better understanding of were our love for beauty, cosmetics, hair care, skincare comes from. Thanks to earliest man for trying to please their gods, to the ancient Egyptians, Romans, and good old Queen Elizabeth the First. All who have taught us what not to use and what to use for beauty. Kohl was made popular by ancient Egyptians and is still as big today. Some of your home-made recipes may of come from the turn of the century. Beauty and the use of cosmetics will always be a sign of our times.
Beauty will always be a part of what is going on in the world as a whole and what we see on the movie screen. Hope you enjoy your little lesson is the history of makeup.
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Are you taking as good of care for skin as you know you should be? Healthy-looking skin will raise your self-esteem, its just the fact that if your skin look clear and soft. A glowing complexion is more that anything else a reflection of just how beautiful you are feeling on the inside.
The sooner a woman begins a good skincare routine, the more she will reap the benefits as she grows older. Every woman at any age regardless of how well she has taken care of her skin in the past has the potential to achieve a glowing healthy natural beauty.
You may not know this but a good moisturizer arguable the most important item in a your wardrobe. You can replace the clothes in your closet but you can’t replace your skin. If you are not wearing a moisturizer now and feeling a bit dry? Now is the time to start looking for a moisturizer created for your skin type.
Its well worth it to invest in a efficient quality moisturizer that you like to use. We all know that there is a vast array of commercial products available, designed for every skin type imaginable from teenage, normal, dry, oily, mature, sensitive, and allergy- prone skin.
How can you take care of your type of skin that will keep it looking healthy?
Our skin is the biggest organ we have and it serves as a protective barrier against bacteria and other invaders. As we age our skin loses it elasticity it gets thinner and sorry to say it will start to show a few fine line wrinkles around our eyes and mouth.
How does our skin age?
Every person, man woman and child have a protein in our products called collagen. It is responsible for keeping our skin supple, elastic and youthful. As we grow older, our body produces less collagen its just a natural fact. Skin ages at a different rate all over our bodies but it starts to show up the earliest in our faces and our hands.
Did you know that the single most effective way to prevent premature skin from again is to stay out of the sun? The ultraviolet rays of the sun attack our skin every day of our lives and with out using sunscreen or staying covered up, exposure to the sun accelerates the process as well as does smoking. If you do enjoy the sun, wear your sunscreen and if you do get burned a little look for a organic body lotions to soothe away the red. Bonicca is the choice of this author.
Read the rest of this article here: Simple Tips For Your Skincare
Tags: beauty, body lotions, Bonicca
Beautiful and healthy hair truly comes from with. By eating well, drinking
plenty of water, getting enough sleep all help your hair. As well as
staying away from drinking too much and smoking because it all
shows up in our hair. Only women can blame having a really bad
day on our hair. Sorry guys it doesn’t sound quite right to hear from
you that you are having a “bad hair day”. Women say it all the
time.
Yet we really do want to have well cared for looking hair using natural
treatments at home on our time.
Are you finding your hair has become unmanageable and dry in spite of
taking precautions? Even normal hair can use special treatment
using natural products. Check out these simple natural treatments
with items you will find in your kitchen or local natural store.
Check out the rest of the article here: Natural Haircare Treaments
Tags: haircare, natural haircare
Over at Beauty Cast Babe they have a great collection of DVD’s you can buy or download. Makeup tips that anyone can use with any brand of makeup.
Other collections of makeup tips I have found that are done by others always using their brands line of makeup making it almost impossible if not even useful tips unless you buy the brand’s line of makeup as well.
Beauty Cast Babe has taken out the brands and gives you right now great tips and tricks on using makeup for all types of styles and dates. They even have one that makes you beautiful for Halloween no less!! Its a great buy for another who is looking for makeup tips that are useful and use able. If you are getting married soon they have one DVD just for you as well!
Check out Beauty Cast Babe today for makeup tips created in 15 to 20 lessons that you can play over and over again in the privately of your home.
Tags: makeup tips
Most women like to feel pampered once in awhile. A day at the spa, a manicure or pedicure,
or a massage can do wonders for a busy woman that is on the go. Pedicures give pregnant women
at time to rest their feet and be pampered. Taking care of children and
working at a hectic job takes a lot out of us. All this combined you
really do need a little bit of pampering to keep you going in your busy lifestyle. Unfortunately,
not all women can afford the luxuries of a spa day or a trip to the salon. If we could we would
probably spend more time there than at home. Sometimes we can only relax when we are alway from
home. If that is the case, why not bring the spa home by taking advantage of bath and beauty
products that you can use at home?
Read the rest of this article here You Can to Create Your Own Spa-Like Environment
Makeup is an art where you can create an illusion that can transform one face into many
different personalities.
By applying makeup strategically you can enhance or minimize the effect that one part or
another on the face might have on your overall appearance.
While most women won’t have lips like Angelina Jolie there are some steps that can be taken
to enhance the ‘pout’ and give your lips a sexier look.
One of the tricks that makeup artists will use is to apply less color to the center of the
bottom lip.
Some refrain from using any color at all and in doing this they can create an illusion that
the lip is fuller in that area.
An alternative to this is to apply a shimmer to the middle of the bottom lip, as this will
give the same illusion as a lack of color in that area.
To make the upper lip look fuller, a makeup pencil can usually do the trick if applied
correctly.
This is done by penciling a light or white line just above the top edge of the lip in
the center of the ‘cupid’s brow’
This creates the illusion of a fuller lip.
There are various products on the market that are advertised as ‘lip plumpers’ and while
it isn’t possible for them to actually plump up the lips they can help to create that
illusion that the lips are fuller and for this purpose some of them do a really good job.
These products are designed to reflect the light when applied to the lips and this gives
the effect that the lips are fuller.
There is always surgery as a last resort but the products that are on the market can do a
really good job of creating sexy lips for most people and the results will look a lot more
natural than those you might expect from surgery.
Check out Overallbeauty.com for all your makeup needs! Offering quality beauty products
and affordable prices!
I been working on a ebook for nail care that I will be putting up for sale really soon. I created a ecover for it but I am just not sure which one I like if any.. your thoughts would be of most help.
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Ebook cover Number one
ebook cover 2
ebook cover 3
ebook cover 4
Now if you don’t like any of them, leave a comment ok? Or if you do any of them..
Are you making this makeup mistake yourself? Sitting by the pool on a ship out in the middle of the ocean on my way to Mexico i saw this : A beautiful young lady with boyfriend in hand wearing the most next to nothing bath suit BUT she was wearing full blown makeup! Foundation (too dark, I could see it from where I was sitting with sunglasses on) eye shadow, eyeliner, blush lipstick with lip liner and gloss over that. When she got closer I saw she had a line along her chin where she did not blend the foundation. I had to look away, my husband sitting next to me asked me whats up, when I nod my head so he could see what I was looking at: started to giggle. He knows how much it kills me not to just ask her if she minded if I helped her blend the foundation at least. I saw women with babies with full makeup on, who has that kind of time?
OK when you are on vacation does that mean you need to wear all your makeup??? I was on my vacation wearing mascara only and if I remembered to, I added blush. Now I sell makeup, mineral eye shadows, blushes, mascara and magic lash. You would think that because I sell it and create mineral eye shadow colors, that I would go out of my way to wear it all. Nope I gave my face and eyes a rest. The only time I went all out was when we had formal night at dinner. I never went anywhere without sunscreen on!!
I will be sharing pictures soon of my trip..
I been people watching again, and I noticed something ever odd in a way. Older women wear too much makeup and teenagers are wearing less. Most teenagers are wearing less, there are still those that pile it on but most are going for that more natural look these days. Why hide behind layers of foundation? I will never understand that thought.
Do you use a eyelash curler? I noticed that with those that do and you can tell if its not used correctly, that their lashes curl from the base but its more of a square look. Like they go straight up from the base. It looks so fake! There is no real curl like you see on the models in ads. What happens when you use a eyelash curler that if you do not walk it up your lashes you get this more square look not a true curl. There are mascaras out there that say they curl but that still depends on how you are using it I guess. I use Magic Lash which curls the lashes while you are applying the second coat of mascara over it. Opps sorry..
Magic Lash works like this:
You apply a layer of mascara
You then apply very little Magic Lash
You apply your mascara over it.
Its something you have to work with but I been using it for three years so to me its simple but for others maybe not so simple. Anyway back to eyelash curlers, I have one that is for those who have bad hands. It works great and I use mine when I don’t feel like going the extra steps of using Magic Lash + Black Magic Mascara.. Great set btw if you tell me that you read about it here, I will give you a free eyelash curler with your order. How awesome is that?
A good friend put out a DVD called Holiday Makeup Collection Volume One that shows you how to do glamorous makeup is and they used Magic Lash in 2 of their 7 hot looks! If you need a little help on this idea doing makeup correctly I been buying that DVD. I got to see it before it came out for sale and was blown away with the ideas for makeup tips in short 20 minute videos.
Just a few thoughts running through my mind today on what does your makeup say about you and a few tips given just for fun!
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