Renaissance beauty regimes
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Professor Jill Burke and Charlotte Hodgman are venturing into the realm of Renaissance beauty culture. From cosmetic recipes to 16th century body anxieties, they reveal that Renaissance women weren't all that different from us today. Did you know that Renaissance women used arsenic and mercury in their makeup, even though they knew they were poisonous? Professor Burke: "The ideal woman has golden blonde, wavy hair, not straight but not curly"
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