Cleopatra’s eye makeup secret? Ancient Egyptians used lead-based kohl that may have boosted the body’s immune defences and helped fight eye infections
Make-up as an art never began simply to enhance the appearance but to draw courage from what was not mere beauty, but power and protection. Mistaken for mere garb, its long expanse across myriad empires and dynasties has symbolized unyielding power, stretched in strokes of black kohl and rosy rouge, painting a face not just…