{"id":1722,"date":"2019-09-04T21:31:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2019-09-04T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:32:08","slug":"history-of-makeup-ancient-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/history-of-makeup-ancient-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY OF MAKEUP: ANCIENT GREECE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To the Greeks and\nthe Romans, physical beauty was sought by both men and women.  And they both subscribed to the ideal of\nbeauty, the fair skin, bright lips and dark eyes.  To achieve this look, the Greeks used\nvermilion for rouge, as well as the juice from berries to stain their cheeks\nand lips. They used black incense to darken their lashes and painted their\nfaces with white lead, false eyebrows, made of oxen hair, were also\nfashionable. In Greece, precious oils, perfumes, cosmetic powders, eye shadows,\nskin glosses, paints and hair dyes were in universal use. The exportation and\nsale of these items formed an important part of their trade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Romans used\nwine to stain their cheeks and painted their faces and arms with chalk to get\nthat pallid look. Their lips they stained with red ochre and enhanced their\neyes using a mixture of bear fat and lamp soot for eyeliner and mascara.  They used ground saffron on their eye lids\nfor eye shadow. They used crocodile excrement for mud baths (yuck), barley flour\nand butter for pimples, and sheep fat and blood for nail polish (I think I much\nprefer today\u2019s cosmetics, don\u2019t you?). The Greeks used vermilion for rouge, as\nwell as the juice from berries to stain their cheeks and lips. Black incense\nwas used to darken the lashes.  Both\ncultures felt that eyebrows that met above the nose were the most ideal brows a\nwoman or man could have.  Big difference\nfrom today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In both cultures\nMen and women frequently dyed their hair blonde, but the dyes contained lye and\nwere so caustic that many people lost their hair and had to wear wigs. In Rome,\npeople put barley flour and butter on their pimples and sheep fat and blood on\ntheir fingernails for polish.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Goddess\u2019 like\nVenus and Aphrodite, it is small wonder the Greek and Roman woman had such a\nhigh ideal of beauty and such a love for the artistry of cosmetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the ingredients used during ancient times for cosmetics would be considered dangerous today.\u00a0 White lead was used in eye shadow, eyeliner, and face foundation. It caused the skin to corrode, would poison the body and eventually lead to death. Many styles and forms of cosmetics were developed throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance Period, the Elizabethan Era, the Age of Extravagance (Baroque Period), and the Victorian Age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Method Makeup Academy, Seattle\u2019s Makeup School<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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