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Medieval #Trends

From pigs on trial to hairless faces, discover what

went viral in the Middle Ages
Written by Frances White

very age has a tendency
to look back at older
generations and judge
the customs, beliefs and
E traditions of the time. LOCATION: WESTERN EUROPE
However, it is fair to say that there While today many
are few periods in history that we women spend
regard as strangely as we do the money to accentuate
Middle Ages. They sometimes lack their lashes, it was
the mystic appeal of Ancient Egypt, completely different
the beauty of the Renaissance or the in the Middle Ages.
Elizabethan age’s excitement and Because the forehead
adventure. The Middle Ages have was seen as the
been stamped an unlucky time to central point of
be born and popular consensus is their faces, women
that people were poor, food was would remove
dull, everything was dirty, and for their eyelashes and
the vast majority of it the population eyebrows in order to
was dropping like flies. What we accentuate it. Some
don’t hear about is that people were so committed,
created some of the most peculiar, they would pluck
bizarre, hilarious and astounding their hairlines to
Medieval beauty was a case
trends in human history. It’s time to achieve a perfectly of hair today, gone tomorrow
embrace the medieval period and all oval, bald face.
of its lovable eccentricities.

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