Nowadays makeup is a usual thing lots of people use in their daily life. Especially women love to put makeup on their faces when they go out, when they feel the need to get ready for something etc. They have a chance not to put on makeup too, it depends on their mood. But have you ever thought about putting makeup on your face because you want to prove that you are rich? After all of this, you know the fact that it will lead you to feel unwell?
Welcome to the 18th century where makeup isn’t beauty it’s pain! People in the 18th century used to paint themselves white. It’s not about race (being black or white), it is about money. You prove yourself rich by putting white paint on your face! The main aim is: If you are wealthy you do not have to work outside so you don’t tan, so if you are rich you are very light! The symbol of richness in the 18th century, the white paint, contains ingredients such as white lead and vinegar which are not good for our face and body health, which leads to infertility issues. In the 18th, century women’s only aim was to give birth to children, so by putting this paint on your face, you risk losing your value as a woman. This special paint, as I have already mentioned, causes skin irritations, but they are also used to cover the marks after the irritation with more and more paint!
To mention how their faces were whiter than usual, they used to draw veins on their faces too! Their eyebrows were crescent-shaped and often drawn with lead. If they didn’t have eyebrows, they used to glue some moose fur. Their blush was either red or pink and a circle on the cheeks. Their lips were pink and coral pouts.
In those years there used to be smallpox disease. Their white lead and vinegar paint couldn’t cover those scars, so they found a solution: beauty patches! There were types and meanings of those patches. Under the eye meant passion, the forehead meant majestic, and between the nose and mouth meant playful and so much more.
If you look like a porcelain doll then you have done all of those steps correctly!
All of those years passed but do you really know what is in your makeup now?