Why was ancient Japanese female makeup so scary?

I I I think the guy who asked this question may have some misunderstanding about ancient Japanese women makeup being so scary. Not all female makeup is very scary, those women with scary makeup are Japanese geisha. So why would they make their makeup look so scary and open their mouths with black teeth.

Japanese geisha makeup so scary, and have the habit of shaving eyebrows, is to follow the practice of China's Tang Dynasty women. Just now many partners have heard that the Japanese people are the descendants of our country's ancient people although it is said that they have not been recognized now, but the Japanese geisha makeup is indeed imitated the Tang Dynasty women, because in the Tang Dynasty women in order to look more beautiful, especially like to repair eyebrows, but also like to shave off their eyebrows, with some cosmetics, figure drawing eyebrows. Drawing into willow leaf eyebrows, thin eyebrows or thick eyebrows.

The reason why the Japanese geisha stained their teeth black, the Yamaha Sutra can be traced back to the source. Japan was called the country of Japan a long time ago, and it was also called the country of black teeth. Japanese women used tea and wine, and vinegar to color their teeth black, and only then did Japanese men find the women especially beautiful. If they don't, marrying a man is a problem. Such traditions can be found in The Tale of Genji, as well as in the Yamahaikei and Liangshu.

The status symbols of the Japanese aristocracy are also frighteningly costumed, such as the black teeth and the ? cited eyebrow? . It was an ancient custom in Japan, meaning that before the Meiji era married women of the Japanese nobility would dye their teeth black, and men would also dye their teeth black at their bar mitzvah. In addition, they would shave off their eyebrows and use black ink to draw the shape of the eyebrows they wanted. So for a long time this kind of makeup was a symbol of noble status.