11-01-2009, 06:58 AM
Ovid should be of help. His Face Cosmetics has instructions on how to make and use cosmetics. It isn’t very long, but it is packed with information.
Besides the above, also in his The Art of Love, (III, lines 200+) he mentions:
powder
powdery ash
saffron
oil of wool (prepared from the sweat and dirt in the wool of a sheep in Attica, according to the editors of Loeb :? )
marrow of hind (deer)
Pliny lists:
bear fat
lamp-black (28.46)
ants’ eggs
squashed flies
hock: (30.46)
Tertullian (De Cultu Feminarum1.2, 2.5) and Petronius (126) say soot.
Juvenal (2.93) also mentions soot.
Ovid seems to be a bit disgusted sometimes with the whole thing. In The Remedies for Love (355) he says that cosmetics could smell so bad that “not only once has my stomach grown queasy at them.” In The Art of Love (3, 212) he talks about the layer of makeup being so heavy that “by its weight it glides and falls into your warm bosom.” Somewhere else (I forgot to write down where :oops: ) he talks about body heat making juices drip from a woman's face and onto her chest.
Besides the above, also in his The Art of Love, (III, lines 200+) he mentions:
powder
powdery ash
saffron
oil of wool (prepared from the sweat and dirt in the wool of a sheep in Attica, according to the editors of Loeb :? )
marrow of hind (deer)
Pliny lists:
bear fat
lamp-black (28.46)
ants’ eggs
squashed flies
hock: (30.46)Tertullian (De Cultu Feminarum1.2, 2.5) and Petronius (126) say soot.
Juvenal (2.93) also mentions soot.
Ovid seems to be a bit disgusted sometimes with the whole thing. In The Remedies for Love (355) he says that cosmetics could smell so bad that “not only once has my stomach grown queasy at them.” In The Art of Love (3, 212) he talks about the layer of makeup being so heavy that “by its weight it glides and falls into your warm bosom.” Somewhere else (I forgot to write down where :oops: ) he talks about body heat making juices drip from a woman's face and onto her chest.
David J. Cord
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