This is 'Theda Bara,' the favorite face of the silent cinema,
and the creator of 'eye make-up' in that far-off age
This young lady was a brilliant star in the early twentieth century:
two fine eyebrows drawn down toward the lower side, and a mouth in the shape of a 'Cupid's' bow
Beautification has walked side by side with woman throughout the ages gone by. The beautiful queen of Egypt, 'Nefertiti,' lived thirteen hundred years before Christ, and used aids to beauty which, primitive though they were at that time, were without doubt the first seed at the foundation of modern beautification.
One cannot but remember 'Cleopatra' at the mention of the word 'henna,' for it was she who used it, and abundantly, for her hair and her palms.
It is civilization, not vanity, that has called for the invention of fashions and the devising of the means of beautification. Do not expect every woman to be a striking beauty; but a strange impulse drives her to search out ways of improving her endowments and increasing her charm. The history of beautification is truly astonishing. In the reign of
Queen 'Elizabeth' luxury reached its peak: the women of the palace enjoyed distilling perfumed waters, and took private lessons in compounding preparations and washes. Even in those days woman worked to improve her face and soften her
skin, washing it with wine to make it red and smooth! By the end of Queen 'Elizabeth's' reign painting the face went to such lengths that those in authority were obliged to draw up a schedule limiting such expenditures. Then the verse was
The famous actress 'Lillie Langtry' owned these beautiful pieces
as articles of toilette, with a wooden case containing one hundred and seventy-seven pieces,
every one of them a work of art