Women's makeup has been around for as long as we can remember. Once upon a time, it was not called make-up, but the need and desire to decorate the face or body originates from time immemorial. Back then, people used it as a cover from attacking animals and to instill fear in their opponents. Makeup has come a long way since then and today the cosmetics industry is a huge business. Check out how beauty ideals have changed over time with him.
Women have been trying to achieve it for centuries, what centuries, millennia beauty ideal and squeeze the best out of your exterior. So it's no wonder that it goes the history of women's make-up back to ancient times. But since beauty ideals change from generation to generation, the search for this ideal is like a carrot on a stick, so never finished story. Although it seems that the whole thing is an invention of the last two or three centuries, it all existed before the emergence of the cosmetic industry.
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Check what kind makeup were still worn by women, for example in ancient Egypt, in ancient Greece, in the Elizabethan and Victorian eras, in the 1960s and what they wear today.
