What? Come on, this too? Unbelievable, it shouldn’t be!

Both Egyptian men and women wore elaborate makeup. Ancient Egypt is considered the cradle of makeup, dating back to the third millennium BC. Eye makeup was generally green (made of copper) or black (made of lead).

The Egyptians believed that makeup had healing powers. Antimony, or Khol (the black pencil), as we call it today, with which the Egyptians shaped their eyes, was able to protect people’s eyes from the desert sand. In addition, it had a symbolic function, recalling Horus’s eye. Horus was the sacred hawk whose visual acuity symbolizes the struggle of light against shadows.