Features of makeup advocated by Queen Victoria

Victorian style refers to the style of Queen Victoria of England from 1837 to 190 1 year. Most women's makeup uses luxurious purple that matches their clothes.

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Victorian women's makeup, dressing, corsets, big skirts, embroidery, lace, etc. , are like a dream, especially the white to transparent skin color popular in the upper class at that time, with elegant color and temperament. Every woman is as beautiful as a work of art.

However, in Victorian England, women who made up were considered as "makeup artists" or "prostitutes" and were abandoned. Although snow-white face and bright red lips were very popular before the Queen came to power, Queen Victoria called makeup vulgar, so they began to try a makeup that looked natural and undetected.

In order to pursue delicate skin and fair complexion, they use lead powder as the base. After washing your face, the process of applying foundation is like glazing porcelain. After applying lead powder, the facial skin will become delicate, smooth and youthful, but at the same time, every pore is full of deadly toxins.

Victorian society was obsessed with death and thought that women who looked sick or dying were attractive. So girls want their skin to be pale, "translucent" and even see the texture on their faces.

Use lightly anesthetized lettuce leaves, diluted pure ammonia water, onion water and highly toxic arsenic silicon chips ... Everyone knows that these are toxic and some are addictive. But in order to achieve their ideal beauty, or choose to use.

This is the beauty of that era. Although women are full of pale, glittering and translucent femininity, there is a constant loss of vitality and vitality under makeup. Such beauty is fragile and fragile.