The Secrets of Egyptian women with ornamental tools in the ancient era

From the women of Egypt beauty and to their return, and there is no evidence of the touches of “fashion” more than that which adorns the walls of the tombs and temples of the ancient Egyptians so that history proves that from the land of Egypt, the shouts of “New Look” and everything related to cosmetics began.
Four thousand years ago, some Egyptian women made their way to the world of powders and cosmetics, starting with the “comb”, which represented the most important cosmetic tools and was made of bone or ivory, and consisted of two edges with narrow teeth to clean hair from insects and a wide one for cosmetic.

Egyptian fashion

The “Egyptian fashion” was influenced by women’s adornment with the shapes of birds and plants; Even women used a mirror made of bronze, with a hand in the form of a bird or an animal.
From the comb and the mirror, the women of Egypt made a huge leap by using the “wig” or wigs and hair extensions and dyeing the hair with henna to hide grey hair; But the surprise remains that they knew hairspray from greasy substances.

pomegranate peel secret

The powder was also not absent from the beauty scene of women in ancient Egypt. As they resorted to grinding talcum stone to lighten the skin of the face, they knew how to paint the lips in red, and it was made of grease with the colour of some plants, such as pomegranate peel and applied with a brush on the lips.
The beauty stations in ancient Egypt did not stop there; Rather, they extended to “stickers”, and here the woman took care of her skin to preserve the freshness of her face and made masks, all of nature, from Nile silt, bee honey, fenugreek and chamomile oil.
A new surprise, represented by the “hairdresser”, over the years, there has been a hairdresser to clean and style it and invent the latest haircuts and hairstyles.

lotus perfumes

In addition to “make-up”, perfume made its way to the ancient Egyptian people. In addition to the priests’ use of it in temples and rituals, housewives used it daily to perfume homes, and due to the frequent use of the ancient lotus flower perfumes, the Egyptians were famous for being “a clean, beauty-loving people.” Alexandria was the capital of ancient times. Light, art, beauty, perfumes and their trade before Paris became the capital of perfumes.
The second surprise was that some of the oils used for perfumes were so strong that even 3,300 years after Tutankhamun’s death, it was possible to detect traces of perfume emanating from ointments in hermetically sealed flasks when the tomb was opened, and perfumes were used during the mummification process.

eye decoration

And about the kohl invented by the ancient Egyptians, the period from 3500-4000 BC. The eyes of the god (Ra) appeared in Egyptian antiquities astonishingly specific. It was also used to decorate the eyes of kings. It is considered to decorate the Egyptian eye individually and is known in all arts. A mineral called galena produces a black paste.
The eyes of some ancient Egyptians were decorated with green eyeliner, which is the result of mixing alabaster. Women believed in the past that alabaster was presented to them by the goddess Hathor, “the goddess of love,” which is used with galena and contains a copper oxide, silicon, talc, almond peel powder, and the fat of some animals such as cows.