Girls’ Make-up in Pharaoh’s Day
Women who “make-up" will be interested to know how the mannequins and show girls of Tutankhamen’s day made themselves beautiful. The Pharaohs of Egypt were surrounded by beautiful women 3000 years ago, and from the. volume, “The Private Life of Tutankhamen," written by G. B. Tabouls, there seems no doubt that they encouraged tha present-day fashion of meticulous make-up. The lips were carmined, the eyes lined with kohl, and the finger-nails and toe-nails were carefully manicured and tinted with carmine. Another feature of beauty vogues in those far-off days appears to have been the fashion of “slimming," as the female attendants on the King wore always shown as extremely slim-waisted. Egyptian women wore wigs and sandals, and at one time were famous for wearing a robe of fine linen almost diaphanous in texture. Tho slave women who served wine and food wore long smocks.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7169, 17 March 1930, Page 11
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