Beauty is a quality that has been valued throughout time. However, ideas about beauty have always changed.
In this top ten, we will tell you which women were considered beautiful at different times.
10th place: The ideal of beauty in Ancient Egypt was a slender and graceful woman with full lips and large almond-shaped eyes. To dilate the pupils and make the eyes sparkle, juice from the “sleepy dope” plant was dripped into them. Green was considered the most beautiful eye color. But this is a rare color. Enterprising Egyptian women lined their eyes with green copper carbonate paint. To complete the look, they painted their fingernails and toes green.
9th place: Mayan women painted their bodies with a red ointment laced with a very sticky and fragrant resin. After this procedure, they became elegant and perfumed. Various paints were also applied to their faces.
8th place: The ideal of beauty in ancient China was a small, frail woman with tiny feet. No decent Chinese man would marry a woman with large feet. To keep their feet small, girls' feet were tightly bound, preventing them from growing. Incidentally, long hair, often braided into elaborate braids, was considered a man's greatest asset in China.
7th place: In Ancient Greece, there was a cult of the toned body. The Greeks' ideal of a beautiful body was the sculpture of Aphrodite: height – 164 cm, chest – 86 cm, waist – 69 cm, hips – 93 cm. According to the canons of Greek beauty, a beautiful face combined a straight nose and large eyes.
6th place: In Ancient Rome, fair skin and blonde hair were revered. It was Roman women who first mastered the secret of hair bleaching. They would rub their hair with a sponge soaked in goat's milk oil and beech wood ash, then bleach it in the sun.
5th place: In the Middle Ages, earthly beauty was considered sinful, and enjoying it was forbidden. Blonding hair was declared a profane practice. The figure was hidden under layers of heavy fabrics, and the hair under a cap. The ideal of the medieval woman was now the Blessed Virgin Mary—an elongated oval face, large eyes, and a small mouth.
4th place: In the early 13th century, the cult of worship of the “beautiful lady” began. Women are now compared to roses—gentle, fragile, and graceful. Incidentally, this is the reason why small breasts are fashionable.
3rd place: During the Renaissance, a pale complexion, a slender “swan neck,” and a high, clear forehead were considered beautiful. To elongate the oval of the face, women shaved the front of their hair and plucked their eyebrows, and to make their necks appear as long as possible, they shaved the back of their heads.
2nd place: During the Rococo era, the main focus was on hair, a time of marvelous hairdressing. People tried to preserve this expensive pleasure as long as possible: they wouldn't comb or wash their hair for weeks. Queen Isabella of Castile of Spain once admitted that she washed only twice in her life—at birth and on her wedding day.
1st place: 20th century. Life has changed. Intelligence, energy, and the ability to earn money are now valued above all else, while freedom is considered a woman's greatest asset. However, fashion historians agree that in the future, the 20th century will be defined as the century of short women's hairstyles and the cult of malnutrition.
What's going on in the minds of modern women?! Esquire magazine surveyed 11,000 women from around the world (average age 22, 65% single) about their sexual preferences.
It turned out that women generally prefer gentle, affectionate sex. This was the preference of 83% of Italian women, 76% of Spanish women, 72% of Brazilian women, and 69% of German women, while opinions in Slovenia, Indonesia, and the Philippines were evenly divided.
Moreover, girls are losing their virginity earlier. American, British, Australian, and Swedish girls are losing their virginity at an average age of 16, while Italian, Spanish, Filipino, and Russian girls are losing their virginity at an average age of 17.
During the survey, women were also asked to rate the importance of so-called “size” on a scale of one to ten. It turned out that “size” was most important to Israeli women (an average of 7.4) and Italian women (6.5). Polish and Indonesian women were least interested in size (5.4).
In Poland, the home country of the late John Paul II, women wait longer than others before having sex with a partner (an average of 7.4 dates), Italians – 5.4, and Swedes, apparently, are impatient, giving in after just the fourth date.
When it comes to threesomes and homosexual relationships, American women (26% have had a threesome) and Australian women (43% admit to having had lesbian relationships) are clearly in the lead.
In addition, the survey revealed that Filipinas and Italians are the least interested in pornography, and among them, the fewest women own a vibrator.
On the contrary, the most “killer” in this sense turned out to be American and British women, about 46% of whom have this miracle device at home.