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Halloween Party Idea: Egyptian Marketplace
Instructions for Cleopatra Makeup
For the ancient
Egyptians, beauty, magic and medicine were
inseparable.
No where is this seen better than with eye-makeup.
Although cosmetics
were occasionally applied to lips and mouth, it is
difficult to envision an
image of an ancient Egyptian lacking the
characteristic eye-make up.
Kohl (kol), which means to
"brighten the eyes" in Arabic, is a mixture of
Galena, a black mineral, soot and other ingredients,
used by Egyptian and other Asian women and, to a
lesser extent, men to darken the eyelids. Kohl has
been worn traditionally as far back as the Bronze
Age. Kohl was originally used as protection against
eye ailments. Darkening around the eyelids also
provided relief from the glare of the sun.
These instructions are
also a perfect way to dress up Bollywood!
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Start with a freshly washed and moisturized
face. Apply foundation. |
Carefully
apply charcoal eye shadow to the lid. Let
set 5 min. |
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applied a smoky green over the black, and
blended
Candy Sweets Pink just above the crease. |
Line the
upper and lower eyelid with a an eyeliner
like Avon's
Glimmerstick in Blackest Black.
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several coats of mascara onto the lashes. We
used
Avon's Daring Definition for volume.
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Create
drama when you apply Candy Sweets Pink to
the outer-lower area of the eye |
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| Highlight
the area under the brow with a golden
shadow. Define the and lengthen the
eyebrows. |
Finally,
outline and fill in the lips with your
favorite red. Here we used Avon's
Country Rose |
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