Women and makeup have a complicated relationship.
Some revel in it, running from CVS to Sephora to try on every last
trend, delighting in transforming their look with the flick of a brush.
Others keep it simple, sticking with the bare basics and often
forgetting to put it on at all. And many abhor the stuff, either because
they don’t like its feel on their skin, or don’t like what it stands for.
Love it or hate it, women have been using makeup, in different forms, for a very long time.
Fashionable sixth century women made their faces paler...