Women's ideals of beauty through the ages
WOMEN's IDEALS OF BEAUTY THROUGH THE AGES
Renaissance
15th century
High forehead
In the warmer climate hair in plaits, jeweled turbans or caps
Using bleach
A few extra pounds of weight.
Used white lead powder
Elizabethan
16th century
Queen Elizabeth
Naturally pale complexion
Red hair
Healthy glow to cheeks
18th Century
Women had trim
Crimped or curled heads
Powdered
Decorated with garlands(vanikud)
Wire cages
Three feet in the air
Feathers
Ribbons
Jewels
Even ships, gardens
Victorian
Natural beauty
Without makeup
Used cosmetics less
Hygiene and health
1840s heads were sleek, demure
Heavy knot of curls
Plaits in back
1920s
"Bobbed"
Waved or shingled hairstyles
Louise Brooks
Clara Bow
Powder
Circles to the cheeks
Plucked eyebrows
Penciled in thin arches
Lips very red
1940s
Feminine hairstyles
Bette Davis' curls
Rita Hayworth's gleaming waves
A lock of hair that covered one eye.
1950s
"Doe eye"
Pale complexion
Intensely ...