{"id":1704,"date":"2019-07-31T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2019-07-31T23:55:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:55:01","slug":"10-ancient-beauty-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/10-ancient-beauty-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ancient Beauty Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. In ancient Babylon,\nunwanted facial hair was sanded off with a rough pumice stone.<\/li>
  2. Women in Edwardian England\nswallowed tapeworms to keep themselves slim and trim. The parasite would digest\nmost of the food the women ate, helping them maintain a slender appearance, but\nit also destroyed their health.<\/li>
  3. Beautiful blonde\nhighlights in the hair were achieved by Venetian ladies by pouring lion urine\non their tresses before sitting out in the sun. (Now I\u2019ve used lemon juice\nunder sunlight, but lion urine?  I think\nthat\u2019s a tad extreme.<\/li>
  4. Early Japanese geishas and\nKabuki actors used nightingale droppings to remove the thick make-up from their\nfaces.<\/li>
  5. Roman ladies rubbed brown\nseaweed on their faces as rouge, which did them no harm. But the white powder\nmade from lead they rubbed on their faces gave them a slow death by lead\npoisoning as surely as it delighted their admirers.<\/li>
  6. Italian ladies of the past\nused to apply deadly nightshade to enhance their eyes. The poison dilates the\npupils and makes people\u2019s peepers look enormous and glowing.<\/li>
  7. Arabian ladies loved sleek\nand shiny hair, so they used camel urine to dip their raven-black hair in.<\/li>
  8. In the England of Queen\nElizabeth I, great beauties of the time owed the rich red color of their lips\nto bugs. The squashed remains of insects were rubbed on the mouth for a\nruby-red luster. (We still use the red from bugs in food and cosmetics.  Don\u2019t believe me?  Look for cochineal, carmine, or carminic acid\nin your food, it\u2019s made from the ground up bodies of the female Dactylopius\ncoccus bug.)<\/li>
  9. Face painting with white\nlead powder was also popular in Elizabeth\u2019s time. The beauty secret caused the\npremature demise of a number of 16th century lovelies.<\/li>
  10. Crocodile dung made into a\npaste with donkey\u2019s milk kept Cleopatra\u2019s skin looking lovely in the Egyptian\nheat. She used it as a face mask \u2013 when Caesar wasn\u2019t around.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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