HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF MAKEUP

 COSMETOLOGY 

ART OF MAKEUP EXIST IN SINCE FROM  OUR HISTORY SUCH AS PAINTING, DANCE, DRAMA, MUSIC,SCULPTURE AND SUCH AS COSMETIC ART ALSO INCLUDED 64 ART FORMS. WERE IN PRACTICE FROM ANCIENT PERIOD. IT IS SAID THAT ART OF COSMETOLOGY DEVELOPED VERY FAR IN EGYPT  AND INDIA.

HISTORY OF MAKEUP FROM INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION

 WE GET EVIDENCES FROM INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION THAT MAN AND WOMEN BOTH WERE POSSESSIVE TOWARD THEIR LOOK THE PRODUCTS SUCH AS KAJAL, POWDER WERE FOUND .ASIDE FROM ITS AESTHETIC APPEAL KAJAL WAS ORIGINALLY WORN AS FORM OF PROTECTION FOR EYES. THE BELIEF WAS THAT DARKENING AROUND LIDS COULD SHIELD THEM FROM HARSH RAYS OF SUN. THE USE OF COSMETIC NOT FOR ONLY OUTER BUTTY LOOK BUT ALSO FOR  ACHIEVE PUNYA,,AATUSH ,AAROGAM,ANDANDAM.

MAURYA ERA TO GUPTA ERA( 322BCE-185BCE)(543CE-300CE)

KAUTILAYA ARTHASHASTRA , VATSAYAN KAMASUTA, AND KALIDAS  SHAKULTALA AND MEGDUTAM MANY HISTORICAL SOURCES DISCUSS  HOW PEOPLE ON THOSE ERA USE TO MAKEUP .IN HIS DRAMA 'MALAVIKAGNINIMITRAM' REFERS TO PAINTING CHEEKS, FOREHEAD AND THE LIPS OF WOMEN WITH BEAUTIFUL DESIGN,NECK,PRAMS AND TOES, ACCORDING TO KALIDAS PAINTING BODY MEANT TO VISHESHAK THE PRODUCT USED THOSE DAYS FOR PAINTING GOROCHAN,KASTURI, KUMKUM, CHANDAN WERE USED. IN MALVIKAGMITRA  DISCUSSED ABOUT ALTA WHICH IS RED IN COLOR  WHICH DECORATES YOUR LEGS EVEN IN CLASSICAL DANCE DANCERS DECORATE THEIR LEGS FROM ALTA TO KEEP THEM IN COOL CONDITION.EVEN IN MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OR FESTIVALS WOMEN USE TO DECORATE THEIR LEGS FROM ALTA. EVEN CLASSICAL DANCE KATHAKALI USE TO PAINT FACE. ONE MORE PRODUCT WHICH IS DISCUSSED IN VISHESHAK THAT IS PERFUME. DO YOU KNOW?THE ANCIENT TEXT RIGVEDA WRITTEN IN 4500BC DISCUSSED ABOUT AROMA THERAPY WERE EXSIST WITH AYURVEDA DENOTED AS GANDHYAUKTI, IN 600AD FAMOS ASTROLOGER VARAHAMIHIRA ON HIS TEXT VRIHAT SAMHITA ON SINGLE CHAPTER TALK ABOUT PERFUME IN HIS 17TH CHAPTER BY USING 16 INGREDIENT BY DIDENT METHOD USE TO PREPARE PERFUME VARIETY OF COMBINATIONS, PER PORTIONS, PERMUTATION USE TO MAKE 174720 DIFFERENT KIND OF PERFUME ONE MORE MAJOR THING IN MAKEUP THAT WAS ANGARAGA MEANS FACE MAKEUP IN ANCIENT PERIOD WOMEN USE TO USE LODHRA POWDER WITH THAT HALDI BESAN, CREAM, MAKHAN  HOME AND KITCHEN PRODUCT WERE USE AS IN TODAYS TIME BEAUTICIANS AND PARLOUR IS PRESENT BUT IN THOSE PERIOD THEY CALLED AS NAKHALEKHAR. EVEN ON THOSE PERIOD WOMEN USE TO PAINT NAIL POLISH.

SOLAH SHRINGAR (SIXTEEN EMBELLISHMENTS)

1. BINDI,2 SINDOOR 3 MAANG TIKKA 4 ANJANA OR KAJAL 5 NATH OR NOSE ORNAMENTS 6 HAR OR  NACLACE 7. EAR ORNAMENTS OR EARRINGS 8 MEHENDI 9 CHOODIYA OR BANGLES 10 BAJUBAND OR ARMLETS 11 KESHPASHARACHANA OR HAIR ACCESSORY 12 KAMARBAND OR WAIST ACCESSORY 13 PAYAL OR BICHIAS 14 AARSI OR HATH PHOOL 15 ITAR 16 BRIDAL DRESS.

KESHALANKARA WHICH MEANS DRESSING UP HAIR , AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF MAKEUP  THE INDIAN HAIRSTYLE WERE POPULAR  ALL OVER THE WORLD AS EVIDENCE FROM SCULPTURE  AND PAINTINGS IN TEMPLES OF BELUR, KHAJRAHO, AJANTA, SACHI ETC.

TRADITIONALLY THE AREA BETWEEN EYEBROW WHERE BINDI PLACED IS SAID TO BE SIXTH CHAKRA AJNA THE SEAT OF ' CONCEALED WISDOM' THE BINDI SAID TO BE REMAIN ENERGY AND STRENGTHEN CONCENTRATION THE BINDI ALSO REPRESENT THE THIRD EYE.

IF WE TALK ABOUT OUR TODAY'S SCENARIO, THE SLIGHT  DIFFERENCE FROM  ANCIENT TIME INSPIRE  OF NATURAL BEAUTY PRODUCT  TODAY WOMEN ARE USING SYNTHESIZED CHEMICAL AND ORGANIC BEAUTY  PRODUCT HAS TOOK PLACE..BUT ITS CONFORM COSMETIC AND MAKEUP PART FROM TIME OF ANCIENT  ERA . AND MAKEUP IS NOT A NEW CONCEPT FOR US ,EVEN  IMPORTANCE OF MAKEUP  WE CAN SEE IN ANCIENT TIMES NEITHER OR NOR DECREASED IN TODAY'S TIME.