The most refined beauty rituals were carried out at the toilettes of wealthy Egyptian women. A typical regimen for such a woman living during the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1650 B.C.) would have ...

In other words, there were simple, practical reasons why both men and women in ancient Egypt wished to wear eye makeup. It’s the same with other ancient Egyptian ‘beauty products’.

Yet women enjoyed extensive legal rights. Egyptian culture recognized a wife ... and they had access to makeup. This involved grinding minerals to make a paste. Ground serpentine made a green ...

Activist Maissan Hassan talks about trying to secure the place of Egyptian women in the history ... witty are attached to male characters, while beauty and physical appearance are attached to ...

Applying Dove’s campaign, Egypt Independent was keen to know Egyptian women’s perception to their own beauty by asking them if they pass through the same experience which door they will choose; ...

Coming of age as a Muslim with Lebanese and Egyptian ... the use of makeup among Mexicans has roots in Central America’s Indigenous cultures, including the Maya and Aztecs. Aztec women ...

Her shaved head and plaited side lock are also typically Egyptian, while the amulet of ... jar she supports once held some type of prized makeup material, most likely kohl, a kind of mascara ...

A recent discovery has lead researchers to believe that ancient Egyptian women were adorned with lower ... who ruled over love, beauty, revelry, fertility and pleasure. “The hypothesis is ...