Did you know ... or a few historical facts about beauty
 The history of female beauty is very revealing. And most interesting is that much of what we now consider it a unique and new, often previously existed. Well, maybe just in a slightly different form.

• The word "makeup" was born in Egypt. It comes from the character, which literally means "to engrave".

• Spirits are not always considered only attribute of beauty. In the same spirits Egypt used in medicine, they are made of flowers, honey, wine, berries, and treated them of kidney, lung, intestine and liver disorders.

• Traditional recipes from food. These women have come a long time. For example, in ancient Greece, women were treated with pimples using yogurt, cucumber juice taken out freckles and wrinkles using crocodile fat.

• Long hair is always considered to be an attractive attribute of beauty, but especially the length of the hair of women valued in Japan in the Heian period. There schitaldos that if a woman's hair with two long legs, then this woman really beautiful and desirable for men.

• Blondes were always a price. Sometimes women reached lighten hair by their own health. For example, in ancient Greece, women lightens hair arsenic.

 Did you know ... or a few historical facts about beauty


• In politics, beauty is also important. There are studies in 1991, that people are more likely to vote for a woman candidate, if it is to smile, she will be well-groomed eyebrows, it can also affect a certain color shirt.

 Did you know ... or a few historical facts about beauty


• Nurses US Army during the Second World War, her lips painted red, not only to show that they - the women, it was a requirement, since it was believed that in this way they can no longer calm the soldiers.

 Did you know ... or a few historical facts about beauty


• Blush and lipstick in the Renaissance was very popular. And the mixture, which was invented for this purpose (wax cochineal plus fat) had the consistency of a thick paste, and does not wash off for a whole week!

Author: Julia Gnedina