Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Colors of Epoch Glamour

It's true that we all have a bit of a comfort zone when it comes to colors, and to some extent it's because those colors do harmonize with our skin tone, or or hair color, or our wardrobe, or that festive new hat we happened to grab! But there its a place to think out side the ordinary and it's just that sort of thing that a colorist can help you with! In fact colorists have been doing that for, literally millennium! The 'original' color was reported to be red ocher, it was used to advertise fertility. In the far east, the ocher stayed the color of choice, but for the Mehndi pain of hands and feet it was more for luck, and protection in one's marriage and fertility while enhancing beauty. Although we think it was only for beauty that the Egyptian women 5000 years ago used the inert mineral kohl thickened into a paste with animal fat to paint eye liner on their eyes, the modern studies of the scientists behind mineral make up have discovered it prevented eye diseases as well, and is the basic concept behind the minerals still used in the main eye definers today. The crystal white of QE I's skin was achieved with actual white lead paint, we cherish sun protected skin, no matter what our natural color, in a nod to the classic look. So, some looks, are just classic, and likely here to stay!