Empress

In ancient Chinese civilisation, you needed to fulfil these 7 steps to finish your makeup routine: 1 - Powdering the face 2 - Rouging the cheeks 3 - Tracing the eyebrows 4 - Gilding the forehead 5 - Colouring the lips 6 - Dotting the cheeks 7 - Pasting floral designs The eyebrows enhance the beauty of the face, and were very important to ancient Chinese women. Drawing eyebrows was a “must-learn lesson.” If you wonder why the women had flower tattoos on their foreheads, this originates from the legend of Princess Shouyang, who fell asleep under a plum tree and had a plum blossom land on her forehead. The court ladies all admired the plum blossom look so much that they started imitating it with makeup. This started in the Southern Dynasty but became widely popular during the Tang Dynasty. And the cute red dots on the cheeks were to enhance the look of dimples. But my favorite lesson of all in these steps to beautify oneself has to do with the importance of inner beauty. The ancient Chinese were clear that the most important aspect of beauty was something that was on the inside. "Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."