To be beautiful - the natural tendency of women of all ages
There is a legend about a wise man, who lay on his deathbed, called his daughters and said to them: I am poor and can not do anything to leave you a legacy, but good advice: Be smart, if you can, please, if you wish, but Always be beautiful ».
Beauty is one of the greatest mysteries of nature, and striving for it - one of the best qualities of human nature, persistently, constantly dreaming about the beauty of people, strive for it. And for centuries, beginning with ancient times until today, the aesthetic demands of the people above all beauty met the man himself, and at all ages mankind has sought to increase this beauty.
No wonder the ancients gave to the gods of eternal youth: it was attributed negibnuschey idea of eternal physical beauty. But, as both the youth is not always guaranteed external beauty, the people and the desire to be encountered, or at least seem more beautiful to adorn themselves, to fill the gap, allowed nature to enhance and brighter display that released it is not very generous. Out of this desire for beauty and youth, from this natural struggle with a merciless time and was born a special art - cosmetics. We should not think that beauty products - a sign of our times. It is no exaggeration to say that cosmetics was born simultaneously with the appearance of a person.
One of the first cosmetics prehistoric times was probably the crest of sharpened reeds and wooden sticks firmly fastened at one end. Bony ridges of later origin thousands were buried in tombs and burial mounds have been found there during excavations.
Even lipstick and crayons for coloring eyebrows, eyelashes are not the inventions of modern man. In the burial caves and the Ice Age have been found objects, reminiscent of modern cosmetic pencils, which, apparently, not only painted lips, and face, and even the body, at first, perhaps, the painting took the form of worship. At the same time they expressed a desire to somehow decorate the exterior.
Since time immemorial of all peoples, at whatever stage of development of the culture they are, face and body painting with vegetable dyes and colored clay - grimirovki - used very widely . The bright coloring of the soldiers before the battle was to enter the enemy in confusion about the real capability to fight with the enemy, coloring stressed and belonging to a particular tribe. Differently painted body for the various ceremonies: in honor of the victory in the days of wedding celebrations, mourning and grief.
oils and ointments that are rubbed into the body, often protected from wind and insects.
< p> On Easter Island, for example, and on other nearby islands are still the custom painted during the holidays hair in red color. The natives say that they want to be like their ancestors.ancient Chinese to intimidate the enemy's face painted different colors, mostly ink.