Makeup of the lips: what is accepted, while which is fashionable?

Still several millennial back of woman, attempting to preserve the slipping off beauty or to emphasize natural merits, used cosmetic - it is more precise, by means, to one degree or another successfully substituting contemporary decorative cosmetic. Traditions of makeup of lips go back to ancient reigns of Babylon and Egypt, where women colored lips by special mixture of crushed semiprecious stones or by means on basis of bromine and iodine later because of their harmful properties of those been called name “kiss of death”. In ancient India alternative to contemporary lipstick was the paint from the crust of special tree.

Makeup of the lips: tradition and the revolution

During entire history of existence of decorative cosmetic, which counts several millennial, tradition of makeup changed hundreds of times. There are the times, when makeup was considered something indecent and forbidden, but women, who were not rejecting themselves the cosmetic and thrown call social standards, considered first vendible, then by witches. In the different countries of the tradition of makeup of lips they were also different - depending on the special features of religious and even political system and ideas about the female beauty. Thus, for instance, if the today saturated, red nuances of lipstick are considered one of the undoubted signs of the sensory image, then in ancient Egypt the perception of this color was completely different: the pomade of bright nuances, which was being made from the natural oxides of iron and red ocher, was the method to emphasize the refinement of lips.

The clear red nuance of lipstick became one of the most fashionable trends in makeup in XVI century because of the English queen to Elizabeth I- the sovereign of England it introduced mode to the white skin in combination with the blood-red lips. Lipstick in those times was made from the beeswax and the extracts of plants, which impart to means bright colored A in the 19th Century red lipstick it became unique political manifesto - in the twentieth years of the 19th Century of suffragette, in spite of the perception of lipstick as the sign of the woman of light behavior, colored lips by red pomade, contradicting its motion social against the standards accepted.

Norma is the beauty

Of course the traditions of makeup of lips in the same ancient Egypt striking differ from contemporary concepts about beautiful makeup. For example, the top of refinement in ancient Egyptians were considered thin lips - whereas today the standard of beauty are considered lips chubby and sensual that is reached due to the special the technician of makeup and competently selected nuances of pomade and luster for the lips. But to the appearance of this standard contemporary women are obliged to the first Hollywood wonders: “of the factories of dreams” in the epoch of the bloom of the cinematography of the fiftieth tried to make lips of Hollywood legends - by Marilyn by Monroe and by Jane Mansfield - more sensual more tempting and chubbier due to the lipstick.