Bai Juyi's poem "Contemporary Makeup" mainly tells about women's face makeup in the reign of Xian Zongyuan. However, it can be clearly seen from the poem that women's face makeup was really popular before Yuanhe. At that time, women's clothes were bright, and the face makeup was also as bright as the sunset, which was popular in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
With white powder as the base, the cheeks are painted very red, just like the present costume, as if two rosy clouds were attached to the face; Lips are also painted very red and delicate and charming; The eyebrow shape is drawn as a "split eyebrow" with a thick overall and a slightly forked end, and a "cocoon-emerging eyebrow" with a thick and short shape like a cocoon of a spring silkworm. The overall image is black eyebrows, dark face and red lips, which is a bold and open face makeup. This form of makeup was popular among Chang 'an women in the Tang Dynasty.