MORNING WOMEN'S ROMAN The revival of the ancient times it was usually at dawn, when life in the City took over in the midst of his rhythms, causing a deafening noise. In the bedroom there stood little, this being a small and not very welcoming: the lack of furniture cubiculum usually include a bed ( cubilia ) a chest for clothing and personal belongings ( ark), the chamber pot ( lasanum ) and a rug ( toral ) who completed the furnishings.
use was to go to bed with clothes, so it was hardly what was required to put on a woman before going out, just the ball and tunic, which were carefully arranged, just before presenting to the world had to undergo the long and complex chain of morning toilet.
It began with the care of the teeth using a toothpaste soda and sodium bicarbonate, to defer to those who, while having a smile resorted to the use of powdered pumice, Chios mastic or even urine. Then they began
skin care with the face masks that as belief in those days were more effective if based on organic substances. And so here's recipes for: deer antlers, droppings of birds; placenta, genitals and gall, dung and urine of calves, cows and bulls, donkeys and sheep, mice. All these ingredients to buy some of their prerogatives were mixed carefully by expert hands with oil, goose fat, juice, basil, oregano seeds, hawthorn, sulfur, honey and vinegar. A recipe rather curious we heard from Galen, who praised the great qualities of a mask made of crocodile dung. Better then that plant-based, he has always recommended using honey, incense, acanthus, cypress wood and oak, melon and red algae.
But others were known, made from lentils, honey, barley, lupins, with the addition of fennel essence of rose and myrrh.
Very important then it seems he was the implementing rules required to get the real effect: it seems, for example, that the form of urine donkey did effect only if applied when there was the constellation of the dog.
While the mask did its effect, he proceeded to shave, because a charming woman had to have a body which were not present " bristly stinging hairs ," as Pliny the Elder warns.
To this end, nothing superfluous should be left on or under the arms or legs or other parts of the body, then resorted to the use of waxing and depilatory creams "the psilothrum " and " dropax " were made based on colophony, resin, wax and caustic substances, dissolved in oil. It also appealed to the tweezers, called " valsellae , usually metal, but also found in gold and silver, of various sizes and shapes, with which they pursued and eliminate even the most unruly hair.
After this part of the preparation could move to the trick itself. To this end
the Roman matrons could count on a rich arsenal of cosmetics, perfumes, balms and ointments, which is preparing a host of " ointment" was used, with their rich and sophisticated shopping places in the City , concentrated in Thotiarius and Vicus Vicus ointment in Velabro.
The various types of cosmetics were kept in special boxes comparable to our present-day beauty-case, but much more ornate and sophisticated, they were kept as small safes, because it contains the secrets of the beauty of their own.
Inside, bottles, blown glass, glass paste, terracotta and alabaster, shells and amber were the containers for magical substances which adorned women.
We started with a base of foundation, mainly composed of lead carbonate or white lead mixed with honey or other body 
and fats, and place it on the skin or colored with saltpeter, dregs of wine or red ocher, then spread evenly in a thick layer.
These drugs were quite toxic, and it was well known to the Romans but had no intention of giving up their research and expensive substances to make themselves beautiful, inspiring in their obsession with this sarcastic criticism Latin poets and playwrights who do not skimp venomous and sarcastic criticism of these expensive practices of women.
" curls, makeup, rouge, makeup and teeth you bought. By the same money you bought a new face ," said Lucilio since the second century BC, very little cavalierly, in the sixteenth book of his Satires.
Martial is no less scathing: " Wherever you walk, do you think that Cosmo (ed., Cosmo was the best known contemporary perfumer Martial) is moving and that brought out a profusion of fragrant essences from a shaken bottle. Do not I go Gellia, that you take pleasure in these foreign nonsense. You know that my dog could be so fragrant! "(epigrams, 3.559).
Ovid does not seem to be more accommodating, even if it is generous with advice.
" But the lover will not ever grasp with the jars of your cream . Art that makes you beautiful is the secret. Who does not see you sick in the dregs strewn all over the face, when you heavy drips and runs between the two warm breasts? And the stench ESIP (editor's note, type of lanolin) issues, pressing the rough there llo foul of a goat, even if it is stinking from Athens! And when you do not approve of public v'applicate in mixtures of deer marrow or there frigates before all the teeth. These treatments are fine, but they are ugly to look. Often what we like, like when it's done, while you are sorry. "(Ars amateur , 209-218).
As I said all these poisonous barbs in nothing discouraged the matrons, who continued their preparations for marking the eyebrows with antimony powder, said" stibium "or carbon black," soot, his eyes makeup eyeshadow with green products with malachite, and blue, the result of blue pulverized. For the lips instead of lipsticks were made from mulberry tree, from the kelp, extracts from animals and vegetables, or minerals, such as cinnabar, red lead and red chalk.
To give a touch of health, as I said once, her cheeks lay a clay colored knobs that gave in rather sharp contrast with the white of the rest of the skin.
The trick, preparation, preparation of these substances, was entrusted to the expert hands of the " Cosmetae " specially trained slaves who in turn chose the most appropriate dress of the lady tricks by dissolving the various ingredients saliva and mix together in small containers with the help of special spatulas, spoons and mixing in wood, bone, ivory, glass and metal.
The final touch of class were painting a small mole on the corner of the cheek and a sprinkling of glitter on the skin to make it shine.
a separate discussion deserve the scents used: you do not yet know the method of distillation, and the essences were obtained by soaking and squeezing through a bath of substances from which to extract the essence, in olive green olives or juice of unripe grapes, along with dyes to give a handsome oils. Some of the perfumes were special for our tastes, such as Rhodium , the essence derived from rose petals, the ' Illirium and Susinum obtained various species of lilies of Pompeii, the Mirtum-laurum from the laurel and the myrtle, Melinon from quinces, the Iasminum jasmine. From Egypt came the Metopium , whose ingredients included too expensive "Balm of Judea." To be noted that the species reached prohibitive prices since the first century AD, when a pound of perfume cost more than 400 dinars. A scandalous waste, according to Pliny, because such riches were squandered " smoke pro", with no effect other than to satisfy the pleasure of others, as " who is not aware of being fragrant .
But you would not believe that the work of slaves had ended at this point. Why indeed can be said that here was the hardest part, that the preparation of the matron of the hair to face the world. The treatment of this particular sector was entrusted to " Ornatrix ", forced to deal with painstaking care scaffolding of curls, braids, ribbons and pins, hoping to fully satisfy the 
their master, otherwise the craziest of the ire pretentious matrons. 
were various types of hair styles over the centuries that followed: the hair simply brushed back, close the neck or swollen divided into sections (melon hairstyle) start imperial age, to lavoratissima elevations covered with curls made with a hot iron, the Calamistrum .
From the second century AD and then add tiaras, ribbons, pins of gold and silver, the latter mostly hollow inside, sometimes containing poison, and also used as a defense and offense, and 
a wireless network gold was used to collect the hair behind, and that was missing when he could be replaced with ribbons and rosettes.
When they were very lucky, the ornatrix possessed a bald lady who then resorted to the use of wigs, more elaborate, but that could be prepared calmly and without a head in complaining to the length of the work and the pain of any maneuver. The hair was imported from India (when blacks) and northern Europe (where blonde).
we appeal to the use of dyes, both wigs for poor heads, using minerals derived dall'antimonio black, combined with animal fats, or ashes of wormwood infused with rose oil and cypress leaves soaked in 'vinegar for black and brown. The red was obtained with henna, while Gallic was the potion that made her hair blonde, made from goat fat and beech ashes. Special colors such as blue or carrot were the prerogative of harlots.
A touch of color if they granted the men too, especially the blond, or even a sprinkle of gold dust, as did the emperor Commodus.
Now having completed the dressing before you go out dressed up with jewels, to give the final touch. During the Republican
any kind of luxury was forbidden by law, living in an austerity of manners and customs, but in 193 BC, the women formed a coalition against the hardness resulting in a softening of the uses and at the end Julius Caesar passed a law regulating the use of pearls.
The goldsmiths, who by the end of the Republican multiplied, they began working on Greek and Etruscan designs. Gradually these artisans perfected their art, importing workers from the east, using different techniques and imported materials. These were divided into Caesellatores , Inauratores , Anu larii , B ractearii (the latter fought very thin gold leaf between two layers of leather) and Margaritari (which deals with processing pearls). And in addition to pearl introduced the use of rubies, emeralds, diamonds, topaz, sea water, glass, amber from the Baltic.
more rich and powerful were the matrons, who wore more jewelry this should show their importance. Caligula's third wife, Lollia Paulina, appeared at an event with various jewels that were to have an overall value was around four million sesterces, as Pliny the Elder tells us.
The jewels used in the ancient world were the rings, bracelets, the hours 
cchini, brooches and necklaces. After the introduction of the worship of the goddess Isis, is often used the image of snake, gold bracelets, made with lots of eyes and scales in molten glass or precious stones, to be worn on the forearm or as rings.
The series, however, was the most important jewel, being the first to be seen, it is placed on the chest of the matron. The shirts could be larger or smaller ring or skeins of wires twisted together, or formed by folding strips of gold and silver. Could be illustrated by the mountings of precious stones or gold coins, and end with a pending big and heavy which gave a sense of balance and stability to the composition. These collections could reach 40 cm, and were definitely heavy. In a
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mba was found a series of eight feet, weighing a pound used as cintum , with special weaves around the chest, armpits and the waist. The earrings were made of any kind and shape: they had forms of animal hearts, amphorae, faces, suns, half moons, rosettes and what else. The famous Crotali , 
constructed from more that ended with a pearl pendant, named for the noise produced pearls slamming each other with the movement.
And in the end it was ready to quit, but do not get your hopes up it was all over it. Even at this point because we went to the spa to finally do the washing, so the trick was intended to ruin. To this end, the tricks were contained in boxes, so follow the matron in her movements. The trick was done in the morning, looked back after the spa and SFAC at night before going to bed, but the methods used to remove the heavy layer there is now nothing then it is likely that they used water and oil, to start with face masks.
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