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10 facts about cosmetics
1. The words "space" and "cosmetics" - the same root. The ancient Greeks believed that the cosmos is order, harmony and beauty ("kosmeo»).
2. What are the only canons of beauty were created! Perhaps one of the most acceptable in our time can be considered a rule of the Renaissance beauty: a woman should be white - the skin, hands, teeth, black - eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, should be pink lips, cheeks and nails. Nero's wife Poppaea chalk rubbed the skin, a red dye used for the face and nails, black - for age, eyelashes and eyebrows, and blue - to highlight blood vessels.
3. The manufacture of cosmetics usually takes doctors. In medieval medical books chapter «Ornatus» and «Decoratio» were it is dedicated to cosmetics. In Europe, the most expensive cosmetics often sold in pharmacies.
4. The expression "to breed sentimentalizing" appeared also due to the make-up, or rather, the use of antimony in cosmetics has been a protracted affair.
5. The adjective "pretty" was originally literal. This word meant pomaded, rouged, use cosmetics dandy.
6. High Heels, Corset, blush, stockings - all items that were originally invented specifically for men! Lipstick was also created for the Cavaliers. It was made of butter, beeswax, plant roots and grape skin.
7. The first lipstick packaged in small bottles, and only at the end of the XIX century there was lipstick on sale in its present form. Then, the product called "Magic Wand Eros».
8. plucking eyebrows in ancient Egypt was the whole family. The act that was part of the funeral ceremony on the occasion of the death of the cat, which after the death wrapped in colorful dress and buried in a special cemetery.
9. In the XVIII century ladies often use cork balls and mouse skins. Balls placed cheeks for "rounding" of the face and of the skins of mice made false eyebrows.
10. In Russia of grass with the name "red bruise" created cosmetics buttocks. That's what we called her cheeks (!). In the old Russian beauty he sang a song about "white face like white snow, buttocks like a poppy, black eyebrows as the sables." Incidentally, cosmetics, so if Russian ladies enjoyed it imposes very densely. In order to create a contrasting picture for the groom to the bride at the dark mansion.
Source: www.kabanik.ru
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