Makeup is a very common thing for women, but the history of women's makeup can be said to be very long. Women's cosmetics in ancient times are not as complete as they are now. Do you know what women's makeup used in ancient times? What are the steps? Let's have a look
[makeup powder]
Ancient Chinese women painted powder very early, which has always been the most common way of make-up. According to the records of the Tang Dynasty, the fat and powder fee awarded by the Tang emperor to Yang Guifei's sisters every year is as high as one million Liang! Li Yu, a dramatist in the early Qing Dynasty, had a unique view on Fu Fen's method. He believed that women's powder painting at that time "had a great tendency to follow the trend, and those who were beautiful used it to increase their beauty", "those who were white can make it white again", "adding white to black is to show its black", which clearly demonstrated the relationship between makeup and aesthetics.
The oldest makeup powder has two components. One is made of rice flour; Another makeup powder is to turn white lead into pasty facial fat, commonly known as' Hu powder '. Because it is made of lead, it is also called 'lead Hua', also known as' lead powder '. Both powders are used to apply to the face to keep the skin smooth. There is also a kind of fragrant powder, which is made of corn, but finally added with various spices to form fragrant powder. Because the corn itself contains a certain viscosity, it is not easy to fall off when applied to the surface.
Technique: now we only use the liquid foundation can easily play the effect of covering defects and even skin color. But after using the foundation liquid, we use the powder or loose powder to play the effect of fixing makeup. We should pay attention to the fine powder, and do not contain pearlescent particles in the powder, and emphasize the elegant makeup and delicate skin.
[tracing eyebrows]
Thrush is the most popular and common makeup method in China, which was produced in the Warring States period. Qu Yuan wrote in Chu Ci & middot; big move: 'white and black, Shi Fangze only.' 'dai Hei 'means to use a black thrush. In the Han Dynasty, thrushes became more common, and the more they were painted, the better they looked. In the story of MI Zhuang Tai, it is said that 'Emperor Wu of Wei ordered palace people to draw blue and white eyebrows, even the head eyebrows, and a picture connects the heart very long. People call it fairy e makeup.' The popularity of this kind of green eyebrow has become a novelty by using black eyebrow.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was popular to draw eyebrows as wide and short as cinnamon leaves or moth wings. In order not to make the broad eyebrow look dull, women also evenly halo the color at the edge of the eyebrow when they thrush, which is called 'halo eyebrow'. The other is to draw the eyebrows very thin, which is called 'thin eyebrow'. When Xuanzong came to the Tang Dynasty, the forms of eyebrows were more colorful. There were ten kinds of eyebrows: Mandarin Duck eyebrows, Hill eyebrows, five eyebrows, three peak eyebrows, hanging bead eyebrows, moon eyebrows, branch eyebrows, Han smoke eyebrows, brush smoke eyebrows and dizzy eyebrows. There are so many painting methods for eyebrows alone, which shows that the ancients loved beauty.
Technique: the earliest thrush material in ancient China was Dai, a black mineral, also known as' Shi Dai '. Now we have eyebrow pencil and eyebrow powder, but if we want to draw the essence of ancient women's eyebrows, we should learn to pick eyebrows and cover them. Cover the original eyebrows and extra eyebrows with the foundation and draw them with eyebrow pencil.
[Rouge]
The so-called 'Rouge' is actually a kind of flower called 'red and blue'. Its petals contain red and yellow pigments. After the flowers bloom, they are picked off by the whole flower, and then put them in a stone bowl to pestle and hammer repeatedly. After washing off the yellow juice, they become bright red pigments. There are two kinds of makeup for ancient women. One is made of silk wool dipped in red and blue flower juice, which is called 'mianyanzhi'; The other is processed into small and thin flower pieces, called 'Golden Flower swallow branch'. These two kinds of rouge are dried in the shade and can be applied only by dipping in a small amount of water. In addition to red and blue, the raw materials for making Rouge include heavy crimson, pomegranate, mountain flower and sapphire.
Technique: first apply white ~ powder, and then apply rouge. The position of rouge is often concentrated on both cheeks, so the cheeks are mostly red, while the forehead, nose and lower jaw show the true color of white ~ powder. There is the saying of "three whites" in the traditional painting techniques of ancient China, which comes from this makeup method. The word "peach blossom makeup" in history books refers to this makeup type; You can also apply a layer of rouge on your face first, and then cover it gently with white ~ powder. Due to different degrees of color and different names, those with strong color are called 'wine halo makeup', and those with lighter color are called 'Feixia makeup'.
[vermilion, mother of Pearl]
Lipstick was called lipstick in ancient times. Lipstick is red and painted on the lips. There are many ways of lipstick makeup. China is used to small mouth for beauty, that is, 'cherry small mouth a little bit'. Sandalwood was also popular in the Tang and Song dynasties. Sandalwood is a light crimson color. Qin Guan, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, said in nangezi: 'knead the orchid shirt and apricot yellow skirt, lean alone on the jade fence, and point the sandalwood lips without words.' This color of lipstick is still popular until modern times. Of course, whether it is vermilion or sandalwood, it should be appropriately selected and used according to different personal characteristics and conditions. It was also in the Tang Dynasty that it became popular to stick mother of flowers. What is Huadian made of? In ancient times, the materials used to make mother of flowers were very rich. They were cut with gold foil and made of paper, fish scales and camellia oil cake. The most interesting thing is that even dragonfly wings can be used to make mother of flowers! In ancient times, women's make-up methods were not only rich, but also original and unconventional.
Technique: use the foundation to cover the original lip color of the lips, then use the dummy light lipstick to color from the lip bead, then use the lip brush or the ring finger gently to push the color outwards, forming the state of halo dyeing.