Women in the Tang Dynasty were beautiful with their plump bodies, tall buns, and fluttering silks, which made them look gorgeous and generous, fully embodying the "prosperity of the Tang Dynasty" in female beauty. Their costumes are the most bold and sexy among Chinese women in the past dynasties. This can be confirmed in the famous painting of the Tang Dynasty, "Lady with Hairpin Flowers".
The woman painted in the picture has fluffy temples, a large folded flower on her hair, a hairpin and a hairpin, a light floral gauze coat, and a gauze painted shawl, with her underwear half exposed. , there are a large bunch of Valerian flowers on it, with bare chest and arms. This sexy costume was unprecedented in ancient China. Women in the Tang Dynasty were extremely free in dressing, with wide sleeves and narrow sleeves, Hufu, women's clothing and men's clothing, all following their own convenience. Therefore, at that time, it was still popular for women to dress up in Hufu, with narrow-sleeved robes with lapels, belts around their waists, various metal accessories, and striped narrow-leg trousers.
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Women’s makeup in the Tang Dynasty
Hou Zhenbing introduced that there were seven steps for women’s makeup in the Tang Dynasty: applying lead powder, applying rouge, and applying forehead Yellow, thrush, lip balm, picture dimple, appliqué. "The flower ornaments on the forehead and the red dots on the cheeks of Wu Meiniang played by Fan Bingbing are the flowers and dimples."
Dingma, also known as "makeup dimples", is a makeup applied to the dimples of the cheeks. A kind of makeup, usually with rouge. Hou Zhenbing told reporters that the initial dimples were shaped like two soybean dots, just like moles on the face. After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the styles of facial expressions became more abundant: some were shaped like coins, and some were shaped like apricots.
The colors of Huadian include red, green and yellow, with red being the most common. Hou Zhenbing said that the materials for flower-cut mother-of-pearl include gold foil, fish scales, fish gill bones, mica flakes, etc. The shapes include plum blossoms, diamonds, crescents, etc. The cut flowers are pasted with fish bladder glue.
Chongqing International Registered Makeup Artist Zuo Shuqiao said that Fan Bingbing’s version of Wu Zetian’s facial makeup drew on some historical data, but it was closer to modern people’s aesthetics. "For example, lip color, the lipstick of women in the Tang Dynasty was mainly red, and the orange color in the drama would not appear. And it was popular at that time to have small cherry lips, and lipstick was only applied in the middle of the lips."
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