The History of Makeup

Have you ever thought about who created makeup? Or how it was created? When, where and how? Why was it created? How has it changed over time? Has it affected anyone? Well I’m going to tell you some of it. Make up wasn’t just created by powder or anything small and simple like that, no. Makeup actually has a lot of its own differences. In 180 BCE was when makeup had first had started but it wasn’t commonly used as much as then. People would limit the use of makeup because it was so expensive and hard to get and or find. The women who actually had it or used it were the prostitutes and the wealthier women. The “Cheap Knockoff’s” were the ones who were sold to the poorer women. The people didn’t really care if the slaves used makeup but most didn’t anyway. The slaves had no time for the use of makeup.

In Ancient Rome makeup was a big thing. Makeup and how someone smelled meant a lot. Women who had a decent smell were presumed to be wealthy. The Romans disliked wrinkles, freckles, sunspots, skin flakes, and blemishes. Everyone had to be attractive in Rome. Most of the things could have been treated though. Freckles were treated by ashes of snails and to get rid of wrinkles they used bean meal and milk. You would think hair would be attractive to women right? Well not in Rome. Hair was considered unattractive to beautiful women. Not only women in all cases, men as well. Men had to cut their hair to become handsome but men removing too much hair were viewed as effeminate. So you need to make sure it was perfect because the people will judge and you will do things for the nothing.

In the early 1000‘s makeup was used for disguises. For example the Indians would use it to cover their faces for hunting and they would show more color i...

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... makeup has changed since the past 6,000 years. It’s a good thing because things are newer and you get to learn the history to it. It’s always good to learn new things, not always because it’s all important and its great information but because it’s interesting and you learn facts you will never know in other places. That’s why it’s good to learn the story behind many things. I enjoyed learning about this topic and I hope you did too. Learning things like this make me want to learn about more and that’s a good thing.

Works Cited

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cosmetics http://www.webmd.com/beauty/history-makeup http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventions/a/beauty.htm http://blogcritics.org/a-brief-history-of-makeup/ http://visual.ly/history-makeup http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/History-of-Cosmetics-1 http://www.openbible.info/topics/wearing_makeup