Wednesday 15 February 2012

Geisha

Did you know that one of the ingredients they used tu put in Geisha's make up was lead?
Lead, according to Answers.com is a dense metallic element used in containers and pipes for corrosives, solder and type metal, bullets, radiation shielding, paints, and antiknock compounds.
Poor ladies! No doubt that they had short life expectancy.


Luckily, after the discovery that it poisoned the skin and caused terrible skin and back problems for the older geisha towards the end of the Meiji Era, it was replaced with rice powder (Wiki).

Here are some beautiful pics of Geishas or Geisha-likes :)






Another fact:
The application of makeup is hard to perfect and is a time-consuming process. Makeup is applied before dressing to avoid dirtying the kimono. First, a wax or oil substance called bintsuke-abura is applied to the skin. Next, white powder is mixed with water into a paste and applied with a bamboo brush starting from the neck and working upwards. The white makeup covers the face, neck, and chest, with two or three unwhitened areas left on the nape, to accentuate this traditionally erotic area, and a line of bare skin around the hairline, which creates the illusion of a mask.
(Wiki)
Sources:
http://photo.missbimbo.com/thumbs/ul/7/2/759/607009.png
http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq315/ethel_castillo/geisha.jpg
http://morfis.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/geisha.jpg
http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq315/ethel_castillo/geisha.jpg

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