While makeup once denoted wealth, attitudes changed by the late 1800s. Indeed, honorable women used face masks containing natural ingredients such as egg, honey and oatmeal, and beauty treatments containing rose water and castor oil. Healthy rosy cheeks were achieved using beet juice, but anything more than natural skin was viewed with derision, or even as sinful. In fact, we’d come to a time where women with makeup would be written off as prostitutes.
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