Deborah Harrell wrote:
> --- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> > I think that a lot of cosmetics started out as ways
> > to look healthy, and then got sidetracked. Red
> >lips, smooth
> > pink nails, shiny hair all are signs of health.
...
> This 'cosmetics through the ages' (with poor editing
> and no references given, but I have read some of this
> info before, and didn't find glaring faults) reports
> that *yellow* was a popular skin coloring for both men
> and women in Egypt:
>
> http://www.bec-natura.com/storiauk.html
> "...The fashionable colour was yellow: a piece of
> linen dipped in a suspension of yellow ochre was
> applied to the face, neck and arms. Both men and women
> shaved their eyebrows and then long black ones were
> drawn in just above the natural line..."
...
O.K., that I can't explain. YELLOW? Maybe
there was some great visitor from China who they wanted
to emulate??? : )
> It is funny how "what is Beauty" has changed through
> the ages. I remembered from somewhere that arsenic
> (or an arsenical compound) was ingested to make the
> skin pale and the veins show through, but the only
> site I could find about that was a Goth webpage... ;)
I found several mentions of arsenic (and other toxic)
salts used as powders to whiten the skin. That's bad enough.
---David
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