Makeup has been around virtually as long as civilization—ancient Egyptian women and men wore cosmetics in their daily lives; red henna on their fingernails, green eyeshadow, and brows and lashes blackened by coal or metallic oxides.  Throughout history, beauty and makeup trends have come and gone. 

From the middle ages until the 20th century, a pale, translucent appearance was considered the ideal and to achieve the look, women applied white-lead paint to their faces, consumed small amounts of arsenic or iodine, or visited specialists who would "bleed" them.  One would think that such dangerous practices have long since been abolished.  After all, they didn’t realize what they were putting on their faces, right?  And surely today's government agencies control the ingredients that are currently being used in our modern-day, safe society . . .

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