Cosmetics History

The use of cosmetics on the face has been around since approximately...

• • 1994 

• • 4000 BCE. 

• • 1 million years ago. 

• • 1930

________used scented oils, ointments, and creams to clean and soften skin, mask body odor, and protect against wind and sun. They also began using perfumes, particularly during religious ceremonies

• • Native Americans

• Egyptians

• • Chinese

• • Mesopotamians

Egyptians also create kohl to paint an almond shape around their eyes. Women also used makeup boxes to take makeup to parties.

• True

• False

3000 BCE, Grecian women painted their faces with white ______or lead, made rouge from crushed mulberries, used lipstick made out of clays mixed with red iron, and fashioned fake eyebrows out of ox hair.

• chalk

• • paint

• • flour

• • rice

What civilization does the image represent?

• Greeks

• Romans

• Chinese

• Indians

What civilization does the image represent?

• Japanese

• Romans

• Chinese

• Indians

The practice of painting teeth _____was known in Japan as Ohaguro.

• red

• white

• blue

• black

Roman men were known to apply red pigment to their cheeks, lighten their skin with powder, and paint their nails using a stomach-turning elixir of pig fat and blood.

• True

• False

What civilization does the image represent?

• • Japanese

• Chinese

• • Greeks

• • English

What civilization does the image represent?

• • Japanese

• Chinese

• • Greeks

• • Indian