Start a story about lipstick standing with the Bronze Age. It was in Mesopotamia, women began to tint the lips crushed gems. Ancient Egyptians gave his lips purple hue with a mixture of iodine, bromine, and dried red algae. Toxic bromine was the cause of many diseases, for which he later this lipstick was nicknamed "the kiss of death." At the same time was invented and pearly lipstick, which was produced by adding a paste of fish scales.
And the ancient Greeks and Romans used different pasta to make lips red hue. Roman women did lipstick clay-based or using vermilion. With vermilion lips were definitely much brighter mainly due, as we now say, an allergic reaction. After cinnabar also extremely toxic.
Around 900 AD the great Abu al-Qasim al-Zaravi, court physician Andalusian caliph, the father of surgery, the first who began to use catgut for surgical sutures, inventor, at least 26 surgical instruments used until now, a man whose contribution to obstetrics saved millions of lives, invented the first solid lipstick. Apparently, the court physician could not allow his patients poisoned himself by various toxic additives, and the great inventor could not resist and refined pasta lip sticks to the known mixture of colors, various waxes and aromatic resins.
We lipstick had its ups and downs. Since the Middle Ages, it becomes an attribute of women from the lower strata of society or expensive courtesans, but in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I introduces the fashion for very pale faces and bright red lips. Unnatural pallor of skin attached to white lead, and a bright shade of lipstick lips of beeswax and powder of rose petals and geranium. Lipstick from the pockets of the poor again transferred to the gilded tables of the nobility. Then the church began its persecution of makeup in general, and in particular lipstick and 1770 in England, wins a full and unconditional victory. Parliament adopts law on which women using makeup before marriage could be condemned as a witch when her husband was pleased to announce that she seduced him with this "instrument of the devil". Poor Englishwoman who wanted to give the lips a little more brightness than they were released by nature, had to bite them or rubbing with a hard cloth. By the end of the 19th century lipstick slowly begins to win back its position, appears in the commercial catalogs and on the shelves of the first specialized perfumeries. Silent film actress enjoyed lipstick in order to highlight the lips on the film, the other women seek to emulate them. During the First World War, when the men went to war, women are beginning to enjoy greater freedom. They cut their hair, shortened skirts or wear pants, smoking and use lipstick. The war ends, the men returned, but the women do not abandon their conquests. Now lipstick they will not take neither the state nor the church, nor public opinion.
The colors in which women paint the lips, varied depending on the era and country. So bright pink, the invention of which ascribes to himself the American beauty industry, was popular with rich venetsianok Renaissance. It was believed that this is not entirely natural lip shade indicates that the woman is so refined that uses cosmetics, and hence is rich enough to afford it. Gold paint painted lips resident of Ancient India. Ancient Japanese traditional makeup made to use the most classic red, about which they write all the fashion magazines. Style "Nude" invented Egyptian. Among the aristocrats in ancient Egypt at one time it was fashionable to paint the lips so that they are completely merged with the skin. Black lipstick that Goths regard as their invention, many centuries widely used in ceremonial celebrations of various African nations. Incidentally, the actress black and white film also enjoyed a very dark, almost black lipstick to their lips stood out on film, giving even more expressive facial expressions.
Over the millennia of existence of lipstick, different peoples and at different times, people painted their lips in various shades and a variety of substances. Cosmetologists have to come up with something very special to offer women something that no one did not use a story.