Today,we usually associated the concept of beauty with women.However, this,too,is the result of change that took place over time.In fact, the male from was the original standard of beauty in Western culture. Michelangelo's sculpture David was the ideal of masculine beauty. For hundreds of years, makeup was associated with both women and men. Men in ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome wore makeup on their lips, cheek, and nails. Roman men even had some bizarre beauty practices of their own, such as the habit of bathing in crocodile excrement of improve their skin.