Should one wish to study portraits from the 18th century, one would notice that in most, the eyebrows have been darkened. This was not some fashionable fancy of the painter, but was in fact, considered proper if one was going to be made up.
Eyebrows were stained, powdered and dyed. It was also popular to bleach your hair or beard. There were many receipts that claimed that the colour would not run when wet as I suppose many did.
Hair powder was not only bought in white, but also in blue, grey, yellow, pink, black, brown and red. Evidently, if you darkened your hair the effect of a light powder would be all the more spectacular. Vice versa should one bleach the hair and use a dark powder.
- Fashions in Makeup, by Richard Corson, Peter Owen, London, 1972
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