How Did Makeup Advance After The Roman Empire
Roman makeup: A stone finger and palette for crushing cosmetics into powder before putting them on your face (St. Germain en Laye, France)
Men and women
Both men and women used beauty products in ancient Rome. People used these products to make themselves seem healthier and more beautiful, only also to testify that they were rich, or that they were from a sure province, or that they did a sure kind of work. Roman makeup, similar makeup today, used thousands of different ingredients. Some popular ingredients were beeswax, ground oyster shells, honey, kohl made with charcoal or ashes, almond oil, mucilage Arabic and frankincense (imported from Arabia or Sudan), red ochre, rose petals, vino dregs, and cinnabar (mercury).
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Whitening pare
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Rich women had whiter pare than poor women, considering they stayed inside instead of working in the fields as farmers. So women used whitening creams to make themselves await paler, and therefore richer. One Roman whitening foam from London in the 100s AD was made of moo-cow or sheep fatty, starch, and tin oxide. Other whitening creams used lead, fifty-fifty though lead was poisonous.
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Bibliography and further reading about Etruscan and Roman wear:
Greek and Roman Fashions, by Tom Tierney (2001). Coloring book for kids.
Clothes and Crafts in Roman Times, by Philip Steele (2000). Easy reading.
Costumes of the Greeks and Romans, by Thomas Hope (19th century, reprinted 1986). More advanced illustrations, for teachers and professional costumers.
Etruscan Dress, past Larissa Bonfante
The Globe of Roman Costume, edited past J.L. Sebesta and L. Bonfante (1994). A more culturally oriented study of not merely what the Romans wore, but why they wore information technology. By specialists, but accessible to adults.
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