Timmins High and Vocational School - Porcupine Quill Yearbook (Timmins, Ontario Canada)

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89 The PORCUPINE QUILL l Roman Beauty Culture Beauty culture is one of the oldest of the arts, traceable to the world's childhood. Through the centuries, Women have used preparations to beautify their skins and the Roman women were no exception. We have learned of their countless beauty prepara- tions through the writings of the many beau- ty doctors, of whom the most important were Ovid and Crito. The Romans preferred the tall. stately type of woman and one who had a full row of white teeth, long dark eyelashes, brows that just met between the eyes, and, above all, an unblemished complexion. There were many preparatiiiins to aid in attaining and keeping these beauty requirements. For the pre- servation of the teeth, many dentifrices were in use, chief of which was pumice, but such alternatives as the ashes of stag's horns, wolf's head and dog's teeth steeped in wine with honey were used. When teeth were lost, they were replaced by new ones of bone or ivory, held in place by gold wires. Paint was used a great deal in the mak- ing-up of the eyes. This paint was made either of parched antimony cr saffron, brought especially from Cilicia, and was used to make the eyes appear larger. If the brows failed to meet, paint was again used to remedy the defect. The ladies of Rome were indeed careful of their complexions, as is frequently shown in the books written during those times. Beau- ty preparations for the care of the skin were countless, among them being even freckle and wrinkle removers. A favourite base was honey, which softened the skin and into which was mixed many and varied ingredi- ents, each with their own duty in the process of beautification. For instance, beans were used to tighten the skin and remove wrinkles, frankincense to remove excresences, and nar- cissus bulbs to add fragrance. Oils and salves were constant accessories of the bath and toilet generally, and a great many ani- mal fats were used. 'Among these were but- ter 'to cure pains, the fat of the goose, hen or swan which was used to remove blemishes, and' the famous oesypum a. sort of lanolin salve. Even the very best of .these had a strong nauseating odour. Rouge was extensively used, as the ladies of Rome did not get much fresh air and ex- ercise. It was kept in rouge-pots of w:od, alabaster or metal, a good many of which are now in museums. Martial satirized the wide use of rouge when he wrote: The face you show the world is laid at night Not in your bed, but in your hundred rouge- pots. R-ed rouge was supplied mostly by vege- to rouge made The cosmetics ta-ble dyes, and Ovid refers from crushed poppy leaves. were applied with the finger or with a small brush. introduced the making beauty paste of asses' milk, which soften-ed and whitened the skin. A sort of white paint was also used to whiten the skin, which, strange to say. was also in use as a whitewash to re- novate walls. One of these paints was made of fine shavings of lead distilled over strong acid. Poppaea, Nero's empress, practice of bathing in and In Rome, as elsewher-e, hair was considered women's crowning glory, and no Roman lady so considered herself unless the dressing of her time as that toilet. Hair- hair had consumed as much spent on the rest of her dyeing was a frequent practice, but usually a harmful one. Most of the dyes used were carefully kept from the face, one even turned the teeth black. Even during 'the time of Cato the Elder there was a preference for blcnde hair, which the ladies went to great lengths to acquire. At the cost of much pain, Roman matrons dyed their hair red with applications of ashes. Gray hair was re- touched and dark hair bleached to the envied reddish-gold of the Germans and Britons. Instead of having the hair dyed, many wore wigs which were bought quite openly in the market near the temple of Hercules. Most of the false hair came from the Germans or Britons. And so it may be seen that the modern beauty methods and preparations are not so very different from those of the ancient Romans, 'although they certainly are a vast improvement. MURIEL FINNEY