Doing a little research on Heian beauty...
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 15:35 -0700
There's a very specific type of makeup used by Heian women, which consists of two black eyebrows/spots painted high on the forehead. Here's a more detailed description:
"The typical Heian beauty was required to have a pouty mouth, narrow eyes, a thin nose, and round apple-cheeks.
Women used a heavy rice powder to paint their faces and necks white. They also drew bright red rose-bud lips on over their natural lip-lines.
In a fashion that looks very odd to modern sensibilities, Japanese aristocratic women of this era shaved off their eyebrows. Then, they painted on misty new eyebrows high on their foreheads, almost at the hair-line.
They achieved this effect by dipping their thumbs into black powder, and then smudging them onto their foreheads."
Is there a specific Japanese term or word for these painted eyebrows? [/img]
"The typical Heian beauty was required to have a pouty mouth, narrow eyes, a thin nose, and round apple-cheeks.
Women used a heavy rice powder to paint their faces and necks white. They also drew bright red rose-bud lips on over their natural lip-lines.
In a fashion that looks very odd to modern sensibilities, Japanese aristocratic women of this era shaved off their eyebrows. Then, they painted on misty new eyebrows high on their foreheads, almost at the hair-line.
They achieved this effect by dipping their thumbs into black powder, and then smudging them onto their foreheads."
Is there a specific Japanese term or word for these painted eyebrows? [/img]