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A brief history of European life makeup
Humans have begun to dress themselves up with colors.

During this period, women followed the coloring and powder dressing of big mistake predators and painted their faces with hematite iron.

Paint your body with various colors to show your identity and status and express your love for life.

Four or five hundred BC

Roman: I have the habit of shaving.

A white and unnecessary face is a symbol of self-cultivation and civilization.

Roman women: the custom of mixing noodles

Paste: daily food, milk, wine, bread.

Extracted from natural plants such as vegetables, various cosmetic materials are applied to cheeks, lips and eyelids.

Draw eyebrows carefully

Historical figure: Cleopatra VII.

She promoted the cultural and aesthetic progress on both sides of the Nile.

Wear a wig with a carbon pen and decorate your face with white powder with high lead content.

Draw eyeliner (invented eyeliner, eyeliner)

Eye shadow extracted from various minerals (extremely rich in color)

Lip gloss purified from flowers

Good at using gold and silver powder and spices, making and transporting cosmetics such as sesame oil and perfume.

Divided into two eras

In ancient Greece (about 5-16th century), bodybuilding was dominant.

In ancient times, people mainly paid attention to the worship of God and the imitation of characters in God's life stories. They believe that God lives in the Alps, is the embodiment of God, and advocates health and nature. Taking the figure as an example, whether it is strong or not is the focus of attention at that time, and it advocates the beauty of sports.

In the Arab era (about 7- 12 century), incense was dominant.

Mainly in the Arab region of the Middle East.

The main performance of the Arab era: clean skin is the first, and a large number of milk, flowers and spices are used.

As can be seen from the oil paintings at that time

Women will try to raise the hairline as high as possible, or simply shave off their eyebrows to reveal a wide and clean forehead, which represents purity, health and wisdom.

Make-up is colorless, and clean eyes, cheeks and lips have only a faint blush.

Comb more complicated and unique hairstyles.

Wear long skirts and tops with smooth lines and aristocratic colors, and wear exquisite accessories such as hair bands.

The overall shape strives for simplicity without losing exquisiteness.

Representative works: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Juliet's dress is a true portrayal of women in which era.

Origin: France, a popular holy place for beauty salons.

Representative: Marie Antoinette, Queen of French Louis XVI.

Gorgeous and noble makeup is popular in this era.

Queen Mary invented it, spread it to people and became popular.

Skin care: milk bath. Wash your face.

Use fresh fruits and petals as bath additives to moisturize and activate the skin.

Hairstyle: Most wigs are combed and shaped, and dyed into various colors as needed, generally 20 -30Cm.

The top and side of the wig are combed with famous coil patterns.

Cosmetics: new powder with starch as raw material.

Advocate fair and charming skin

Tall eyebrows are extremely popular, and ladies decorate them carefully.

Apply high-brightness paste to female eyelids.

Eye shadow is basically colorless.

Blush, rich lip color

From cool pink blue to warm orange.

In order to cover up some defects on their faces, the ladies cut the satin into heart-shaped or petal-shaped shapes and stuck it on their poor faces. This is similar to the "yellow decal for mirror" in ancient China.

Representative: Queen Victoria of England.

Abandon the wig made of ponytail and think that natural hair color can express yourself better.

Hair and hair accessories are also relatively simple and generous, too many accessories are discarded and braided.

The eyebrows are simple and natural, with less loneliness, and the trend of flat eyebrows is popular.

The colors of eyes and lips are mainly natural.

Do not use synthetic cosmetics such as rouge and lipstick.

Pay attention to health, and people should also pay attention to self-maintenance.

Nutrients such as milk, eggs, oats, etc. are often used as skin-rejuvenating creams to keep the skin in a good nutritional state.

For example, in the early 20th century, European women still dominated by traditional conservative hairstyles, with natural makeup and prominent lip color.

Emphasize the waist curve blindly. Just to look like a female line.

1930s: The products of industrial revolution, such as lipstick, rouge, eye cosmetics, skin care and hair care products, flooded the market with affordable prices and easy acceptance, which promoted the development of the cosmetics market.

The latest female images in the United States: for example, Greta? Gerber

With wavy blonde hair, delicate and smooth skin coated with honey powder, crescent eyebrows, curved shoulders and cherry lips.

1940s: In World War II, most men were drafted into the army, and the image of soldiers' fortitude became the mainstream of the world.

Shaved head, flat head, very short, neat, very manly.

Due to the requirements of the war, women wear pants like men in order to meet the needs of work.

Cut your hair short, wavy or medium short.

Make-up no longer emphasizes the curvaceous beauty of women.

Draw naturally soft and slightly curved eyebrows.

The outline of lips and the color of cheeks and eyes tend to be soft and natural.

It became fashionable to invent mascara and dye eyelashes.

1950s and 1960s: Maturity and Elegance

Representative: Marilyn? Monroe

Pale golden curls, blue eyes and sexy lips are imitated by women, which makes the beauty salon industry prosperous and the color bleaching and dyeing technology has made great progress.

70' s: an era full of rebellion and distinctive personality.

During the period of great economic development after World War II, newly-grown teenagers grew up carefree and could not find themselves. Their parents have experienced war, so they are mature. The younger generation has nothing to say with their parents. A large number of fashions appear, and they can wear whatever they want, such as rags, beggars' clothes and tight leather clothes with chains. "Punk" is a specialty of this era.

Shave your hair into a unique pattern, and then use styling gel to make it stand up. Boys make holes in their ears, wear earrings, and even make holes in their noses and lips to wear rings.

The girl's face, eyelids and lips are full of depressed colors.

The 1980s witnessed the rapid development of science and technology.

Westerners pursue the natural and translucent skin color like wheat.

The level of makeup has reached a higher level, and the adjustment of skin color has become a key factor for the success of makeup.

The 1990s were divided into two trends.

Retro fashion: dominant: some people with higher education.

Newcomers: leaders: teenagers who are still studying at school.

The leader of retro fashion has his own unique way of thinking, can learn from others, is a mature consumer, and has integrated the influence of excellent works from 1950s to 1980s and even centuries.

Makeup requirements:

1. Exquisite makeup with overall effect

2. Curved eyebrows with large radian

3. Layered eye shadow, such as Bo's deep eyes.

4. The high cheekbones hidden by rouge

5. Don't spill, plump dark lips

The leader of the new generation is still a teenager at school.

Most families have superior economic conditions.

Similar to the youth in the 1970s, they were seriously influenced by television.

In the late 1990s, a strange image appeared in Asia headed by Japan:

All the hair stood upright against gravity, and the clothes were slightly modified on the original normal image.

Facial makeup pays attention to bright eyes, face and lips.