Renaissance beauty regimes
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The History of Hair Dye
Venetian women were particularly famous for bleaching their hair. They'd go up to the roofs of their houses and wear a special hat, which shaded their face but had an empty crown. And that was a really common hairdi. But some women would dye their hair red much to the kind of distaste of some of the factors like why are you dyeing your hair red? Some women who had darker hair would use various substances. Often things like dye made from walnuts, for example, to make their hair darker again.
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