When Mulan came back, the colorful clouds on the window and the temples were yellow in the mirror.
In my spare time, I draw my eyebrows in the mirror and put a mask on the window.
In ancient times, today, women please themselves as well as themselves.
Open the dressing table (also known as dressing table) written in Tang Dynasty. Record some hair accessories at the beginning: phoenix bun, cloud bun, lily bun, concentric bun and so on.
There are nine real steamed stuffed buns in Sui Wen Palace. The red makeup is called peach blossom face, and the peach blossom is inserted to scratch the head, with five-colored flowers attached.
In Zhenyuan, combs are obedient, five-color flowers are attached, and makeup is swept.
"Notes on Ancient and Modern Times" said: "Chang 'an made a bun around, shook it, and made a bun again. Liang Ji's wife's ponytail is still there. "
Looking through ancient books, I want to know what this hairstyle should look like. But in the end, there was no way to study it.
Even if it can be extracted, it is difficult to imitate, because my hands are clumsy.
In my present state of mind, I'm afraid I won't be patient to let antique people comb the clouds, and it's hard for old fashion to integrate with today's trends.
I don't care much about my hairstyle. I occasionally dye my hair and perm it. In the legendary swordsman, people usually think that a shawl with long hair or a short ponytail is enough to rise to the top.
But my pursuit of eyebrow pencil is slightly higher. I often describe and draw, but I often don't know how to draw. It is difficult to draw an eyebrow shape that satisfies me when it is high and low, thick and thin, thick and light.
No wonder eyebrows have been difficult to draw since ancient times. Ancient Ceng Yun: Women thrush, like men who write poems, pay attention to priorities, even feet. Deeper, shallower, longer and shorter are all different looks and feelings. "Miscellanies of Xijing" said: "Sima Xiangru's wife, Zhuo Wenjun, looks as elegant as a distant mountain. At that time, people followed suit and painted far eyebrows. " I also deeply felt its mystery, but I couldn't help it. I can only draw curved eyebrows or straight eyebrows.
It is said that in ancient times, if you met a lover, the pleasure of stroking your eyebrows was more than others. In Zhang Chang of the Han Dynasty, my poor wife was injured in the eyebrow corner and stroked her eyebrows every day, even though she missed the court. It is rumored that someone once invited the emperor, but Zhang Chang explained, "I heard that there are people who are too thrush in the boudoir." It can be seen that although the thrush is small, the love between husband and wife is deeper.
On closer examination, there are quite a few kinds of eyebrows in ancient times. During the Five Dynasties, there were various forms of thrush in the palace: one was called Kaiyuan Imperial Love Eyebrow; The second name is Xiao; The third name is May Beauty; Four is called three fengmei; Five is called Zhumei; Six is called Yuemei, also known as Yuemei; Seven is called eyebrow splitting; Eight are called Yan Hanmei; Nine is called cloud eyebrow, also known as horizontal smoke eyebrow; Ten is faint eyebrows.
Su Dongpo said in his poem: "Chengdu painters open their eyebrows, but the smoke is novel."
People can't help feeling that ancient women, even thrush, can draw a poetic feeling. It's not comparable to women's foggy eyebrows, fluttering eyebrows and semi-permanent eyebrows.
How many husbands today are willing to make eyes at their wives?
According to the description in the book, when ancient beauties put on makeup, they all powdered first, then put rouge on the palm of their hands, and then put it on their faces. The cheek rouge is thicker, which is the makeup of dizziness; Light, for peach blossom makeup; Apply a thin layer of rouge, and then cover it with a layer of Fei Xia cosmetic powder. Emperor Wen of Liang has a poem: "The makeup is light, and the beauty is around the face." "Oblique red around the face" is to describe the makeup of ancient women.
Come to think of it carefully, in ancient times, women's makeup had at least the following seven steps:
Step 1: Paint with lead powder.
The first step of ancient people's makeup was to apply lead powder. Lead powder is actually a kind of heavy metal, and its function is similar to that of foundation now, in order to highlight your fair and beautiful skin. After all, "one white covers a hundred ugliness."
They will also add accessories to the lead powder for blending: Tang people like to add western spices to the powder, which is called butterfly powder; Peach blossom powder, Jade Girl, was made of motherwort and mussel powder in Song Dynasty. Hosta powder was made from Hosta flowers in Ming Dynasty.
Step 2: Apply rouge.
Rouge, also called Yan Zhi, is a foreign word. Because rouge originated at the foot of Yan Zhishan in the western regions, it was extracted from a flower called "red and blue". In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian sent a mission to the Western Regions and brought rouge back to the Central Plains, where women decorated it with powder. After Zhang Qian brought back rouge, the Central Plains woman made a slight improvement, adding bovine bone marrow to make a sticky red ointment, and put it in a vessel made of jade ceramics and other materials.
By the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the production technology of rouge was more mature, including the light paper-like "Golden Flower Rouge", that is, rouge was processed into tiny flower pieces; There is also a kind of "cotton rouge" made of silk floss dipped in red and blue flower juice, which is similar to the present blush and has a modern technology.
Step 3: Draw black eyebrows.
There was no specific material for painting eyebrows in ancient times, so women burned willow branches and painted them on their eyebrows. There are also some diluted thrush lit with blue willow branches.
Step 4: Point the forehead yellow.
This is an ornament made of silk, colored paper, gold foil, mica and other materials, which is attached to the eyebrows or foreheads. Shapes are round, diamond, moon, peach, flower, bird, fish, butterfly, mandarin duck and so on. The main colors are red, green and yellow.
Step 5: The picture is not good.
Facebook began in the court, not for decoration at first, but as a special symbol. When a concubine comes to have her period, she can't be thankful for the emperor and is ashamed to say it. They point two little red dot on their faces, and the female history will not arrange attendance by name. Later, noodles became a kind of decoration and spread to the people.
Step 6: Draw oblique red.
Oblique red began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and rouge was painted on both sides of the corner of the eye to form a red moon shape with different shades, which was very popular among court women in the Tang Dynasty.
Step 7: Point mouth fat.
In the Tang Dynasty, beeswax was used to replace the previous animal fat cream, cinnabar and Lithospermum were mixed, and finally oral fat with different colors such as red, pink and reddish brown was debugged. The ancients advocated "small cherry mouth". In order to achieve this effect, girls first use white as a base to cover the lip color, and then use oral fat to draw a lip shape in the middle of the lips.
Even modern makeup steps range from five or six steps to seven or eight.
However, there are only three steps in makeup: foundation, eyebrows and lipstick. Sometimes, I also think these three steps are troublesome, so I often appear without makeup. Or just put on lipstick to brighten your complexion.
Although my appearance seems quiet and elegant, I am not a delicate woman, but a woman.
I thought it was natural to carve hibiscus with clear water, so I didn't like to use ordinary powder.
If I can go back to ancient times, I would like to learn from Xiangyun, wear men's clothes or night clothes, and smile like a flower, charming and moving. My natural personality is also as straightforward, cheerful and generous as Xiangyun. Often informal and careless. But not as sharp as Xiang Yun's poetic thinking and superior talent. So I want to study hard and practice hard, hoping to make up for it with diligence and sing good poems as soon as possible.
The fun of "dressing and combing the table" is only known to women, but not to men. Although I am a woman, I have always enjoyed it and yearned for it. If I can go back to ancient times, I would like to be a real woman who is demure, virtuous and virtuous.
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