Laren's Design Studio

Surely,every neighborhood has its own resident “Community Watchdog” ??? 😂😂😂

When the police are at the neighbors house! 👀

In the 1600s women would dye their eyelashes a reddish-gold after Queen Elizabeth I. But at the time the dyes were made from sulfuric acid.
But what's worse is that in the 1800s some French women would take hair from their heads and sew that hair on to their eyelashes to give them thicker lashes. And remember there was not much for anesthesia.

People have been playing, "kitchen beautician" since the Middle Ages, when various foods were used as beauty aids.

Curdled milk was applied to acne, cucumber juice removed freckles, while boiled nettles produced a smooth, even complexion. Women even attempted to remove wrinkles with the help of ointments made of wax and almond oil, or crocodile fat.

Not sure about you but I will not be trying any of these home remedies.

Despite being called the "Golden Age of Spain," having a tan was a serious beauty faux pas back then. In an effort to maintain a porcelain complexion, young women would eat clay, even though it often caused anemia or chlorosis.

In the late 18th century, members of The French Court such as Marie Antoinette also obsessed over having flawless alabaster skin. They faked it with thick layers of white powder (made out of everything from white lead and talc to pulverized bone) combined with wax, whale blubber, or vegetable oil to give the face makeup a greasy consistency that adhered to the skin.

The term for a makeup artist in Egyptian hieroglyphic is derived from the root "sesh," which means, "to write, to engrave." Makeup application was taken pretty seriously back then: the same accuracy was needed to paint lips as to write out a text.

Oh and By "text" we mean etching symbols into a rock, not typing out a message on your iPhone.

For those of you who have blue eyes they are considered a a mutation. Blue eyes are actually a genetic mutation. What's even cooler is that every single person with blue eyes has one common ancestor. The mutation probably happened between 6,000-10,000 years ago.

Did you know that in the Middle Ages and Renaissance times that the Catholic Church issued a series of edicts declaring the presence of any female hair sinful. So women would tweeze their eyebrow but also their eyelashes. OUCH!!!

Hope everyone has a fun and safe 4th of July.

Happy Easter from all of us at Laren's Design Studio.

When did it become popular to color hair? In 1950, only about 7% of women colored their hair, but in 2015, it’s up to about 75%.

Have heard and seen this many times!

I am sure everyone with a kid has had to deal with this. But on the other hand this made me laugh.