Her experiments also allowed her to make discoveries, such as “glycerin is still the best humectant. To re-create the Venetian ceruse, which turned ladies’ faces a fashionable alabaster shade, Eldridge paid a visit to the research-focused Keele University, and worked with a pharmacist to make the exact recipe for the show.Įldridge said it made her think “’Why are women risking their lives for this? Is it like plastic surgery today?’ I don’t know the answer - but it’s interesting.” “I got pharmaceutical handbooks, and made everything from scratch,” said Eldridge during a Zoom interview in London. All the while Eldridge concocts the historic beauty formulas and re-creates the looks on herself and on a model. The first episode of “Makeup: A Glamorous History,” aired earlier this month with a look at the ostentatious, money-obsessed Georgians, who would happily smear poisonous lead paste on their faces if it would help snare them a rich husband, or sit for hours as servants loaded fatty pomade, powder and wigs onto their hair to create towering styles.Įldridge shot the series during lockdowns two and three in London and, in other episodes, she looks at the Victorians and their fixation with “natural” beauty, and how the look of the ’20s flappers mirrored the era’s freedoms. Inside the VIP Tent at the 2023 Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic
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