History of makeup...

Ancient Egypt

Egyptian women stood out above all the eyes that their makeup with bright colors , painted eyelids with the lively colors obtained by mixing earth, ashes and ink.

Recently been discovered in the tombs of pharaohs used remnants of makeup for the face and surprisingly , scholars reveal that these cosmetic products are not so different from those used today.

They were also the Egyptian who started the fashion of lipstick , which they did with a dye made ​​from red ocher and natural iron oxide spread with a brush or a stick.

Greece and Rome

Passing through Greece and Rome, the makeup is perfect and starts to become important also skin , you try bleaching with a mixture made ​​from plaster, bean flour , chalk and white lead ( lead carbonate classic ) , which eventually got results completely contrary to that intended, since contact with the sun obscured his face.

Also, the flanges are blackened using a mixture of eggs and flies ants crushed .

Court of France

The real heyday of makeup is found in the court of France , where the faces whitened with dust and bright pearly cream with sulfur that had caused fatal poisonings .