What was the makeup of women in the real Tang Dynasty?

There are many methods of facial makeup, such as painting aluminum powder, rouge, black eyebrows, applique cymbals, face cymbals, oblique red, lip grease and so on. Make-up people pick two or three, and make full use of them. Lead powder is white in color and delicate in texture. It is "white and bright" when applied to face, neck and chest. Rouge is a paste pigment made from the extracted red and blue flower juice, pig fat and bovine bone marrow.

Due to the preference of emperors and literati, women's eyebrows are varied. Xuanzong once ordered painters to draw ten eyebrow paintings in Sichuan, including Yuanyang eyebrow, mountain eyebrow and inverted eyebrow. Eyebrows are mainly wide eyebrows, which were generally drawn longer in the early Tang Dynasty, and short eyebrows became popular after the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Flower bud is a kind of forehead decoration, which is cut into various flower shapes with gold foil, black paper, mica, fish cheekbones and other materials, especially plum blossom, which is the most common and attached to the brow.

Noodles are painted with rouge on the dimples of cheeks, or with gold foil like flowers. Oblique red is a fashion for women in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, with two red crescent patterns painted on cheeks and temples. Neat shapes are like strings and the moon, and complicated ones look like scars.

The design of costume patterns in Tang Dynasty also tends to express the artistic style of freedom, fullness and obesity. Since the Tang Dynasty, flower patterns have been widely used in craft decoration, with lively and free composition, dense symmetry and fullness.

Especially after the combination of wavy continuous patterns with flowers and plants (that is, the branches-bound patterns prevailing in the Tang Dynasty), the clothing patterns in the Tang Dynasty also changed the original creative thinking, and instead adopted real flowers, plants, fish and insects to sketch, but they did not exclude the traditional dragon and phoenix patterns, which was also determined by the influence of imperial power.

The most obvious feature of costumes in the Tang Dynasty is the dual-track system, in which traditional Han costumes are worn on large-scale sacrificial occasions. In normal times, the official costume of the Tang Dynasty was made of Hufu (Xianbei clothing).

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Tang dynasty clothing