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New York Times Bestseller

Makeup, as we realize it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be some of the oldest global social practices. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals all the history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classical times up through the Victorian age and golden era of Hollywood, and also surveys the state of the art makeup science of today and the next day to come. Face Paint explores the practical and idiosyncratic reasons in the back of makeup’s use, the actual materials employed over generations, and the glamorous icons that people emulate, it’s also a social history of women and the ways in which we will be able to be mindful their lives through the prism and affect of makeup.
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