Elizabethan Beauty
Lips - Cochineal was used to redden lips and cheeks, madder and vermilion was also used.
Pale Face - White lead and vinegar was used it was also poisonous, was used to hide wrinkles.
Paste of alum, tinash and sulphur.
Variety of foundation made by using boild egg whites, talc and other white materials as a base.
Red - Beatles/carmine and ants.
Skin was often bad after years of applying beauty products so they would use lemon juice or rose water to dubious concoctions of mercury, alum,honey and egg shells.
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