Victorian Beauty Ideals

Introduction of Victorian Beauty Ideals

In the Victorian Era beauty was that they had a pale complextion and that was how upper class woman looked and wanted to as it showed they were upper class, to do this they used zinc oxide, and a white mineral powder, and they tried all kinds of other products that were sometimes lead based and some would even eat these poisons and was said only the most fanciest women would.

Spots were what they were interested in and blackheads were healed using steam every night and also sulphur was used for two to three months. Makeup and cosmetics was commonly used by performers and prositutes, so they were seen as wrong if you want to be seen as a upper class woman that you are, so they barely wore any on their face, with cold cream being applied first, which is what we know as priming, then rouge on the cheeks, with powder to make the face not look greasy,the parts of the face such as the eyebrows were done using lead and atimony sulfide and the lips were mercuric sulfide and was to look like you were not wearing any makeup.The big no no was wearing the wrong makeup if you was upper class, but the youth were encouraged to wear cosmetics and makeup other than the older generation.






Book 1:

Mulvey.K. Richards.M. Decades of Beauty.1998.The changing image of Women (1890s-1990s) 26/01/2016


Book 2:

Marsh.M. Compacts and Cosmetics.2009.Beauty from victorian times to the present day. 26/01/2016


Internet Source:
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