Cosmetics used as foundation in ancient times

The most brilliant makeup is drunk makeup.

Due to the backwardness of society and limited resources, the makeup of Qin Dynasty did not make a breakthrough after inheriting the makeup of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At that time, women used rice flour as cosmetics, that is, grinding rice grains and adding spices. The function is the same as the current powder cake, which has the effect of modifying and brightening the skin color, but it looks dead white.

With the passage of time, people at that time increased the pigment to red on the basis of the original, which was called "red powder", but the adhesion of rice flour was really limited. Later, lead powder made of white lead evolved. Lead powder has two forms: solid and paste. The former is often processed into tile or silver ingot. Because lead powder can add luster to people's appearance, it is also called "lead China".

Qing dynasty makeup

Most women in the Qing Dynasty were reserved, and Lin Daiyu in A Dream of Red Mansions was the representative of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the literati's aesthetics were strange, and they liked the morbid beauty of weakness and weakness, as pitiful as a weak willow.

Generally speaking, the makeup is simple and simple, the eyebrows are slender and tall, the eye makeup is fresh and soft, the lip makeup is light and thin, and the headdress is simple and simple, which sets off the delicate and feminine posture of women.

Women in the Qing Dynasty preferred to wear crimson lip makeup, that is, the upper lip was not painted, and the lower lip only used medium crimson lip makeup. This makeup is similar to modern lip biting makeup. At that time, women in the Qing court painted this kind of lip makeup, which was particularly feminine and closer to the image of oriental beauty.