Every country's civilization has a long history, and there are many deformed aesthetics.
For example, our ancient Chinese small feet and ancient European waist binding are just a bad habit in pursuit of deformed beauty. Today, I will take an inventory of how desperate noble ladies in ancient Europe could be for beauty.
White tooth aesthetic
The nobles of ancient medieval Europe are very fond of big white teeth, a white tooth gives people a particularly clear and comfortable feeling, and they choose to rinse their mouths with urine in order to turn their teeth white, and think that the higher the concentration of urine, the better the effect, the most popular at that time is the Portuguese urine, they think that this race's urine taste the strongest, the most effective!
cosmetics
The aesthetics of noble ladies are not limited to white teeth, they also work on cosmetics. For example, Cleopatra used eggs, mud, and crocodile to cover her face, and donkey milk as facial cleanser. Cleopatra also built herself a cosmetics factory, with nine workshops, so that people worked tirelessly to rub mud and milk donkeys for her every day.
In order to pursue the pale skin and apply flour on their faces, lead powder and even pigeon droppings, Queen Elizabeth also uses mercury sulfide as a blush, in order to pursue the rosy lips, they apply animal blood on their lips, and lead powder and mercury sulfide are poisonous, over time these noblewomen will lose their hair, lose their teeth, and have purple ringworm spots on their skin. At that time, medieval Europe still circulated that if the husband and wife had a better relationship, the faster the husband would die, because every day of intimacy, the husband ate a lot of toxic substances, and soon he died.
bun
The noblewomen of the medieval aristocracy also particularly liked high buns, which they considered to be a symbol of their status and power, but at that time there was no hairspray, so they replaced it with lard and flour, and put a layer of shiny lard on their hair, and the noblewomen received guests during the day and lice and rats at night. And their hair is not often washed, so the greasy is not so elegant.
perfume
Ancient medieval Europe is mostly not bathing, the reason they do not bathe is to avoid a plague, this plague called the Black Death, is spread by rats, cockroaches, medical treatment at that time was not very developed, doctors generally believe that this plague from the skin pores into the body, so they think that by not bathing to let the body produce dirt to form a barrier, the plague can not enter.
At that time, Louis XVI rarely bathed in his life in order to avoid the plague, so he had a strong body odor. He asked his ministers to develop perfumes for him to cover up his stench. And the women of the ancient nobility because the skirt is too large, the movement is more cumbersome and slow, they go to the toilet is generally solved in the skirt, so they use perfume to cover their body odor.
girdle
At that time, European women could be described as "waist essence". They pursue slender small waistbands. In order to give people a feeling of light grip and into their arms, they frantically wore a corset, connected the metal iron bar with a thin thread, and wore it around the waist and tightened the waist with a thread to achieve the beauty of a thin waist. Some women even strangle the waist circumference less than 20 cm,
Most of these noble women died from excessive pressure on their ribs.
Makeup
In medieval Europe, aristocratic women generally wanted to create an image of a sick beauty, the paler the face, the more rosy the lips, the more superior the beauty. They frantically apply arsenic on their faces, allowing the arsenic to penetrate into their faces and cause their faces to turn white, and they also go crazy to infect themselves with tuberculosis, because people with this disease will have white faces and red lips. If you are not sick, you will use arsenic to soak in the bath, and the capillaries of the whole body will expand, allowing the arsenic to enter the body and cause the whole body to be cold and white.
During the Victorian period, aristocratic women fell in love with "dead man makeup", they thought that the pupils diverged after death were beautiful, and the whole person was very innocent. They dripped belladonna juice into their eyes, a poisonous plant whose sap is even more poisonous. After dripping into the eyes, the eyes will tear wildly, and then dilate, and after a long time, you will lose both eyes.
In fact, the aesthetic of deformity has never left us, the aesthetic of small feet in ancient China, the thin waist aesthetic of ancient European aristocrats, and our modern white and thin, awl face aesthetic. I hope everyone can stay away from deformed aesthetics and be the most beautiful self!