What was beautiful in the victorian era

With a penchant for bringing the outdoors in, emerald green became an increasingly popular col or. The secret ingredients to get a pure emerald green in color? I find it hovering in the dining room, skulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall and lying in wait for me on the stairs…Such a peculiar odor too!

I have spent hours in trying to analyze it, to find what it smelled like. The constant exposure to the arsenic laced wallpaper, coupled with isolation, led to the mental decline and assumed eventual death, of the main character. The lesson learned? Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but arsenic, mercury, radium and lead would guarantee that you were… drop dead gorgeous. Savannah R. The thin, delicate wilting flower of a woman was widely portrayed in the art and literature of the period.

Many of the beauty icons of the day were depicted as skeletal thin with pale skin, glinting eyes, and red cheeks and lips. Since tuberculosis provided a woman with these features throughout the natural course of the disease, it managed to become fashionable while stalking European people with deadly consequences.

When one thinks of the great beauties of the Victorian era, some of the famous portraits of the time, like that of Marie Duplessis , likely come to mind. Such pictures depict thin, soft-looking women with ghostly pale skin. They have wide, bright eyes with no color in the skin aside from possibly rosy cheeks and lips.

Their chests and shoulders are likely bare, exposing delicate bones. The Victorian era was a period of strict, unflinching morals. The use of cosmetics was strongly associated with actresses and prostitutes, both of whom were of meager status in the period. I tried to stay calm and focused but inside I was bursting to get my hands on all the amazing treasures that surrounded me! The second half of this video will feature the 's through to the 70's and some incredible items - Mary Quant crayons, the IT palette all the cool British girls aspired to own during the war and a powder compact in the shape of a grand piano Stay tuned X.

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