Make-up is an essential procedure for women before going out, and women hope to better reflect their beauty through make-up. In fact, makeup has been very popular since ancient times, so how much do you know about the origin and development of makeup? I'll take you to decrypt it.
Ladies beauty explains the secret of the origin of makeup.
China's initial makeup can be traced back to "tattoos" in primitive times.
According to historical documents, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the surface was coated with white powder. During the Warring States Period, people already used "Yan Zhi (rouge)". By the Han dynasty, facial decoration had been very particular, and eyebrow trimming and painting were widely accepted by women.
According to legend, there was a prostitute named Pang Sanniang in the Tang Dynasty, and her acting skills were excellent. Old idle, no powder. One day, someone invited him and asked, "Ugly girl, is Pang Sanniang there?" Answer: "My niece is not here. Come back tomorrow." The next day, when she came, Sanniang was all dressed up, but from time to time someone came to say, "I saw you during my period yesterday."
It can be seen that the makeup technology at that time was quite superb.
In the Song Dynasty, nail dyeing was one of the more distinctive retouching techniques at that time. The woman mashed impatiens with alum and dyed her nails with it.
According to historical records, thrush began in the Warring States period, and by the Han Dynasty, thrush had become quite popular. At that time, women shaved off their original eyebrows and painted them. Dai is a black mineral produced in the western regions, which has dyeing effect.
According to historical records, thrush began in the Warring States period.
With the gradual popularization of thrush, in the Tang Dynasty, the eyebrow shape has been ever-changing, sometimes wide and thick, sometimes light and slender.
It is worth mentioning that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered painters to design dozens of eyebrow shapes to show encouragement, and gave each eyebrow a beautiful name, such as Yuanyang eyebrow, Xiaoshan eyebrow, Wuyue eyebrow, Sanfeng eyebrow, Moon eyebrow, inverted eyebrow, split eyebrow, smoked eyebrow and cloud eyebrow.
All these show that eyebrow beautification was an important part of makeup at that time, and the creativity of eyebrow shape has reached a high level, which is the bud of eyebrow design concept today.
During the Warring States Period, people decorated their faces with "Yan Zhi". Yan Zhi is a red and blue mosaic produced in Yan Zhi, which is made by mashing it and taking juice.
Tear makeup
There was a kind of makeup called "tear makeup" in the Han Dynasty. At that time, women painted their faces with rice flour and their cheeks with vermilion rouge. If you only paint white powder, it's called "tear makeup"
Cry makeup
In the late Tang Dynasty, a kind of "crying makeup" was popular in Chang 'an, that is, on the basis of white makeup, instead of red, the lips were changed to black paste, and the eyebrows were painted into eight eyebrows, giving people a sad impression.
Beiyuan makeup appeared in the Southern Dynasties, that is, on the basis of light makeup, camellia seeds with different sizes and shapes were attached to the forehead.
Huang Zhuang
In the Yuan Dynasty, every winter, women ground the rhizome of a medicinal plant into yellow powder and painted it on their faces. It won't be washed off until it is warm in spring, so the skin will look delicate and fair.
The so-called beauty, as its name implies, refers to people dressing up and beautifying themselves with cosmetics and artistic depictions in daily social activities, so as to achieve the purpose of enhancing self-confidence and respecting others.
Makeup can be divided into two categories according to the different display space, namely life makeup and artistic makeup. Make-up used in life is mainly to make up for shortcomings, beautify the face and show personality; Artistic makeup mainly aims at expression and display, including film and television makeup, stage makeup, dream makeup, photography makeup and so on.
Development history of cosmetics
First, the era of ancient cosmetics
In primitive society, some tribes smeared animal fat on their skin during sacrificial activities to make the skin look healthy and shiny, which was the earliest skin care behavior.
It can be seen that the history of cosmetics can almost be inferred from the existence of human beings. During the 5th century BC to 7th century AD, there were many legends and records about the production and use of cosmetics in various countries, such as the ancient Egyptians curled their hair with mud, the ancient Egyptian queen painted her eyes with verdigris, bathed her body with donkey milk, and the ancient Greek beauty Asbage covered wrinkles with fish glue. There are many cosmetic appliances.
In ancient China, people also liked to wipe their cheeks with rouge and moisten their hair with hair oil to set off the beauty and charm of their faces.
Second, the era of mineral oil
In 1970s, a number of well-known cosmetics companies in Japan were jointly sued by 18 women who suffered from severe melanosis due to using their cosmetics. This incident not only caused a sensation in the international beauty industry, but also promoted a great revolution in skin care products.
Early skin care cosmetics originated from the chemical industry. At that time, it was difficult to extract it naturally from plants, and the petrochemical synthesis industry was very developed. So many raw materials for skin care products and cosmetics come from the chemical industry. Today, there are still many international and domestic brands that reuse the raw materials of that era, with low prices, relatively simple raw materials and low costs. Therefore, the era of mineral oil is also the era of daily chemicals.
Third, the era of natural ingredients.
Since 1980s, dermatologists have found that adding various natural raw materials to skin care products has a certain moisturizing effect on the skin. At this time, the large-scale natural extraction and separation industry has matured. Since then, skin care products on the market can gradually find natural ingredients!
From land to sea, from plants to animals, all kinds of natural ingredients are available. Some people even go to inaccessible places, trying to find special raw materials and create miracles of skin care, including tropical rainforests.
Of course, there are many natural gimmicks at this time. Most of the bottom materials may still use the ingredients of the mineral oil era, but only occasionally add some natural ingredients, because there are still many problems in the mixing and anticorrosion of ingredients. Some companies have been able to completely abandon the original industrial assembly line, produce pure natural things, and gradually form some top-class and special brands.
Fourth, the era of zero burden.
20 10 years ago, zero-burden products became popular in Europe, America and Taiwan Province province. In the past, they liked plants too much. Because of the development of society, in order to meet the special requirements of more people for skin, there are more and more additives in skin care products, so many skin care products are natural but not necessarily natural. Many products using natural ingredients and mineral ingredients have caused unnecessary harm and even allergies to the skin, which has sounded the alarm for the skin care industry. Pursuing zero burden will soon become the most substantial change in the history of skin care development at this stage.
After 20 10 years, zero-burden products began to be born, mainly cosmetics in Taiwan Province province. One batch of products will mainly reduce unnecessary chemical components and increase pure skin care components, which will bring brand-new changes to female friends who often use cosmetics. The main characteristics of "zero burden" products are to reduce many useless ingredients and actively use skin care ingredients, such as hyaluronic acid and collagen.