A well-groomed appearance played a leading role in what was the ideal of femininity Ancient Greece, where the artifices of make up would be used primarily to make women as close as possible to the gods.
The facial makeup, than on the skin exasperatingly white (http://www.pilloledistoria.it/2059/storia-antica/bellezza-nellantica-grecia-cosmetici-pericolosi), focused on what Eye, that had to be eye-catching and then deliberately load.
To achieve the desired result, the edges of the eyelids were accentuated with a thick riga nera outlined with a piece of carbon and elongated leteralmente to make eyes look bigger; the “eyeshadows”, obtained by the pulverization of various plant substances and minerals, to di various colors, but with a clear predominance of red, green and shades of brown.
The eye make-up could not be complete without one of the Eyebrows, that were darkened with antimony black and slack and elongated over the nose almost to join, because, according to the canons of the, This habit gave character to the face and, symbolically, also to the whole person.
In Ancient Greece, the weakness was in fact a negative factor for both men and women. (Photo: basilisco.blogspot.it)