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4000 BCE | Egyptian women apply galena mesdemet 3000 BCE | Grecian women paint their faces with

and malachite green to their faces for definition. white lead, crushed mulberries as rouge.

1500 BCE | Chinese and Japanese using rice powder 100 AD | Roman men dye their hair blonde.
for a white face.
300-400 AD | Henna in India 1200 AD | Imported perfumes from Middle East as a
result of the Crusades

1300 AD | Dyed red hair in Elizabethan England 1500-1600 AD| Queen Elizabeth I using white lead
paint on her face
1800 AD| Queen Victoria declares makeup as 1900 AD| Edwardian society popularizing young look
improper and salons

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