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Bookworm
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 Posted - January 09 2005 : 6:10:57 PM
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While vacationing in France in 1767, Benjamin Franklin learned how the ladies of Paris applied rouge, and he described the process in a letter to one of his numerous female acquaintances:
"Cut a hole of three inches in diameter in a piece of paper, place it on the side of your face in such a manner as that the top of the hole may be just under your eye; then with a brush dipped in the color paint face and paper together, so when the paper is taken off there will remain a round patch of red."
Sounds as though the natural look wasn't popular in 1767! This quotation is from "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson, a new (2003) biography. This is a readable and informative book, though it's not at the level of, say, David McCullough's biography of John Adams.
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - January 09 2005 : 7:37:30 PM
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I don't use the above smiley-face very often, but it seems appropriate here! 
That is a stitch! One could wonder if ol' Ben was being a bit facetious with that description, except that I think we all have seen enough period European artwork to verify that it is probably pretty accurate. The stark white face, with the bright red cheeks and the black face patches, not to mention the white powdered hair... no, Bookworm, definitely not "au natural!" Yuk! |
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Stephanie
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Posted - January 10 2005 : 3:00:57 PM
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 Huh?? You mean that's not how YOU apply makeup? Gosh, what am I missing here? That's how I do it every day. You can't go wrong following Poor Richard's advice!
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Wilderness Woman
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 Posted - January 10 2005 : 3:23:14 PM
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No Steph, I have not yet resorted to using stencils to get the job done... only the brushes!
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Gadget Girl
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Posted - January 10 2005 : 3:38:10 PM
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Those little plastic tools one uses to measure serving sizes of spaghetti work famously also!
GG - Oh, all this gadget talk really gets my blood "stirring"! |
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Gadget Girl
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Posted - January 10 2005 : 3:40:27 PM
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We could also take some tips from my little 2 year old neice who looks just BEE-u-ti-ful with the vertical strips of eye shadow on the cheeks!   |
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Dances with Beagles
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Posted - January 11 2005 : 11:37:40 AM
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I also seem to remember that the ingredients in makeup were nasty, if not downright dangerous. Not to mention, I guess bathing/washing wasn't as popular back then, so did they even wash it off?
Anyway, I found a reference about it, and a recipe for some homemade face powder....
Lead Face Powder
several thin plates of lead
a big pot of vinegar
a bed of horse manure
water
perfume & tinting agent
Steep the lead in the pot of vinegar, and rest it in a bed of manure for at least three weeks. When the lead finally softens to the point where it can pounded into a flaky white powder (chemical reaction between vinegar and lead causes lead to turn white), grind to a fine powder. Mix with water, and let dry in the sun. After the powder is dry, mix with the appropriate amount of perfume and tinting dye. (Gunn, 110.)
http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/leisure/sanitation.html
Check it out!
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Stephanie
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Posted - January 11 2005 : 11:54:07 AM
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This recipe is very similar to a meatloaf I had once.
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caitlin
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Posted - January 11 2005 : 11:12:21 PM
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That actually is very interesting, but I have to say that the recipe is just gross! Lead? and manure? 
Amazing.....
(and by the way Steph, you need to find another cook!) 
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Wilderness Woman
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Posted - January 12 2005 : 08:47:43 AM
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| I think we can now deduce another reason why there were so many upper-class people, particularly in court, who suffered from insanity. If the syphilis didn't get 'em, the lead-based makeup did! |
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Doc M
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Posted - January 12 2005 : 3:42:47 PM
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Actually, Stephanie, that's a very similar recipie to my ex-mother-in-
law's meatloaf!! I think she used more horse manure, though.
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ccorner
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Posted - January 12 2005 : 10:34:58 PM
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Doc M,
I sure wont look at meatloaf the same again!
Did you ever tell her that?
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