Posted on 04/21/2021 4:01:08 AM PDT by C19fan
Women living in the Georgian era used ostentatious hair and makeup to flaunt their wealth and social standing, a documentary explains.
White painted faces, faux beauty marks and hairdos that stood several feet high were all styles favoured by late 18th century royalty and aristocracy.
'You couldn't just be rich, you had to look rich,' explains makeup artist Lisa Eldridge Eldridge in the first episode of BBC2 documentary series Makeup: A Glamorous History. 'And the wealthier you were, the more extreme you could take your look.'
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Thank You for posting.
It’s so good that American women have progressed beyond such behaviors...
‘You couldn’t just be rich, you had to look rich,’
Today they wear designer T-shirts with pictures of communists on them. More dangerous than lead, IMHO.
Now it’s birth control pills.
Wait, I thought this was an article about 1980’s Hair bands
My late mother (b. 1912) told me that she knew young women in the 1930s who used belladona as a beauty enhancement because it dilated their pupils.
My late mother (b. 1912) told me that she knew young women in the 1930s who used belladona as a beauty enhancement because it dilated their pupils.
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Arsenic, just a bit!!, was also popular as it gave the skin a certain porcelain pallor which was quite the thing at the time.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-poisonous-beauty-advice-columns-of-victorian-england
lead, a popular ingredient used in creating the white face paste, was poisonous, but that did not stop women from using it.
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like Botox today.
Between the arsenic and the too-tight corsets, it’s no wonder they needed those fainting couches.
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