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Women are the most beautiful creation by Lord of the Universe. History is the mute spectator, when for the sake of these beauties, many gallant heroes have left the war field and there were instances when for the sake of beautiful women there have been many bloodsheds and wars among many titanic warriors. So, what is the secret behind beauty? Here are some innovative methods carried out practically by beautiful women of yesteryears to make themselves glamorous and beautiful.
In the long and glorious history of our times, we witnessed the beautiful princess of Egypt Cleopatra, Geishas of Japan, Queen Elizabeth of England and many beautiful queens of ancient India. They were beautiful, still their inherent feminine attributes lead them to apply various makeup methods, starting from ancient Ayurveda to modern chemical compositions. With the help of these additional beauty components, they became more beautiful. In this article, we will learn about ancient makeup utilities and more about beautiful ladies, who spread their magic of beauty and making themselves remain alive in the minds of many persons.
Ancient Indian makeup:
It is believed that the ancient makeup science had been evolved in India and Egypt. From the ancient Indus civilization, it was evident that, in that time both men and women apply makeup and ornaments in their body. It has been found that they have used many ancient makeup components to look handsome and beautiful. It has been known that, there are specific makeups for some seasons and some certain makeups for day to day daily life routines. These entire makeups have been used to enhance the personality of persons. They believed that beautiful or handsome persons can live a longer life. In that time, the prominent part of makeup is Ayurveda and till this day, it is very popular and expensive. In the epic Mahabharata, the episode about Draupadi, the main character of this epic, at one point of time was living a disguised life and was working as the makeup artist under that queen and at that time she had a big makeup kit with her.
In ancient India, for the makeup ingredient, the prominent composition element was extracted from cow dung and the cow urine. Women were used to apply cow urine for their external wounds and many a times to be free from internal infections. There was a school of thought that daily drinking of cow urine should make you thin and beautiful. During the middle ages, ladies adapted the practice to chew the betel leaves, thus making their lips red and beautiful. To make their eyes beautiful, hand made eye liners were used created from mixture of coconut, almond and mustard oil. This handmade eye liner has many characteristics, as it can wash eyes, improve vision and improve the hair of eyelids. They use coconut oil and henna for the care of hairs. to improve the complexion, they use turmeric, sandal and milk. In modern times, women of India, has been using the similar methods to improve their beauty.
The beauty of Cleopatra:
The last queen of Egypt, Cleopatra was very beautiful. There are no words to describe her elegance. Cleopatra bathed with milk. She was one of the few beautiful women in the entire world history. Two gigantic warriors, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were madly in love with her. Cleopatra was very beautiful but her heart was like that of the same normal woman, where she wants to be more beautiful through various methods. In the bathtub of Cleopatra, warm water and milk were mixed, so that she could bath with milk to enhance her beauty. Some scented flowers and oils mixed with milk water was mixed with milk water solution inside the bathtub. The milk used for her bath was from donkey which is rich in vitamin A and E, good for skin.
The donkey has some rare enzymes which are good for face as it can revive the cells of face. For eye shadows, she was using the ash of almonds under the eyes and then she used the yellowness of saffron on the eye lid to enhance the beauty of eye. A foundation made from candle was used in her face. Then, it was mixed with combination the fat of animals and some kind of white lead. She applied this special foundation in her face and neck. With this application, her beauty augmented thousand times and was looking like that of enlightened beauty to the eyes of persons. to look whiter, she used white chalk powder and then with the help of a cotton pad she applied it on her face. to show her cheek reddish, a special kind of red powder was created with the help of local read soil and red insect extracted from cow dung.
For lip liner, she used one kind of red soil and then added a type of gum wine and then some red berries for the rare lipstick for her lips. to make her face lively and beautiful she used to apply the mixture of smashed grapes which had the quality of anti oxidants and honey in her face. During those days, there was a law that, the ladies from royal family and some rich families were allowed to keep long hair. Ladies from poor and downtrodden families had to cut their hair, and made it short, and those hair were refined and send to the rich and royal ladies for their use. Ladies from rich families used those hair as head piece to enhance and glorify their hair in artificial way. Cleopatra used various designer wigs and artificial hairs in her hair makes ups.
Ancient Greece makeup:
In ancient Greece, people appreciated white beauties. Women of those times prefer light makeup. To look whiter, they apply the mixture of lead and olive oil in their face. With this makeup, they looked more beautiful and whiter, but with due course of time, due to poisonous effect of lead, they die soon. In the ancient Greece, men preferred the blond haired women, the hair that has been screened till the shoulder. To achieve this, women immersed their hair inside vinegar; due to this some hairs will fell. Then, they could decorate their hair in bond style. During those times, the predominant use of makeup was that of olive oil and honey.
Japanese beauties:
Japanese beauties Geishas were famous for special kind of apparels glance. They used an unique foundation, created from dust rice and then they apply the foundation in thick layer on their face to look whiter. They removed the entire eye lid with tweezers. They painted wide eyelid to look beautiful. In the age of Hainan kingdom inn Japan, a Geisha used iron dusts dipped with acids, and then placed it in their teeth. Then, in the night they used bird dung for makeup removal. The bird’s dung helped them to clear the makeup. Bird dung revived the dead cells inside the face. In ancient Japan, men preferred long hairs of women. They used to appreciate the black hairs.
The beauties of Elizabethan age:
The Queen of England,Queen Elizabeth,was the most beautiful women of her time. Women of England were inspired by her personality and tried to emulate her. During her time, high forehead was considered as the sign of rich and affluent. Women of that time, used to cut hairs at the front section above forehead. They used white part of egg on their face to get a feeling of soft and shining face. To look white, English women of that time applied leads on their face and eat arsenic. With these short cut methods, they look whiter, but their overall age reduces drastically due to extreme use of lead and arsenic. Sometimes their madness to become whiter was so intense that, they allowed some small reptiles to tide over there in their body, so that with their touch they could look beautiful. One more surprising aspect of their beauty was that, they desperately wanted to be thin and light and they used to swallow some small creatures in pursuit of being thin. Those small creatures stayed inside intestine and ate most of the foods that they ate and due this remained thinl. During Queen Elizabethan age, women, caught big mosquitoes, and then, they ground them and extracted blood from their body which was applied to the lips as lipstick.
Queen Mary of Scotland:
Mary Queen was one of the most beautiful women of the world. She bathed with red wine. Red wine, made skin soft, young and fresh. During those times, women used red wine facial as makeup supplement.
Rome:
At ancient Rome, generally ladies applied makeup while they attended religious ceremonies. Subsequently, ladies used it in their day to day lifestyle activities. The practices of doing makeup were between rich and affluent women and between the prostitutes. to get a whiter face, they washed face and make a foundation from chalks, leads, limestone and the dung of crocodiles. They used milk of donkeys in their faces and necks to do away wrinkles from the skin. They used ash and antimony solution for eye shades. They prefer different color eye shades to justify the beauties of face.
The beauty secrets of Mary Antoinette:
She was the queen of France. She was between few most beautiful women of the world. She used the process of herbal bath for her makeup. She had the most beautiful skin with this herbal treatment. She had rose water and almond oil inside her bed. She washed her hair with saffron, turmeric, and sandal pastes. She cleaned her face thoroughly before makeup. She applied eve des charms astringent and after that she applied eve de ang whitener to for shining face followed by application of scented powder. She used blacks around eyes .She used red powder in her chicks. In lips, as lip color, she used rose flowers, or vanilla.
Conclusion:
Women always dreamed to be most beautiful of all time, and in search of excellence they had evolved various makeup utilities, from herbal to chemical. Women had been experimenting their looks in many ways and with due course of time, the concept and the ingredients of makeup and related foundations had gone ahead of times with a cyclical order.
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