100,000 Years of Beauty

100 000 ans de Beauté (100,000 Years of Beauty) - The quest for beauty has obsessed the human race for more than 100,000 years and the human body is its preferred medium. Modelling of the body and definitions of rules, care and applications of colors, hairstyles and ornaments, nudity and clothing, the extravagant variety of these signs forms a language which dictates cultural membership, type, epoch, age and social status. In spite of the extreme diversity of gestures and ideas, a certain universality of psychological and social stakes guides this search of embellishment. Or how to speak about beauty intelligently and wisely…

Comment and reactions

Share with your friends!

---

Articles in the same rubrique :

---

	Organic Body Care Recipes May 11, 2012 Stephanie Tourles, a licensed esthetician, herbalist, and aromatherapist, has developed 175 recipes that are fun, simple, and immensely satisfying to make in home kitchens. Her natural beauty treatments deliver the results promised by department store brands - skin, hair, and nails that glow with vitality and inner wellness. Lotions, scrubs, toners, balms, and masks polish and balance the...
	1001 female secrets May 14, 2012 Femininity in full bloom, well-being, the feminine way, naturally healthy, beauty recipes…Similar to the secrets shared between women from different generations, here are some advice and ideas to pick-up or to share between female friends, sisters, mothers and daughters, to make us beautiful.
	A history of make-up May 14, 2012 In this work, the author brings us to a trip through the beauty along the time and on all the continents. You may find the secrets of manufacturing make-up in the Ancient times, the changes in habits of fashion and beauty standards along the centuries, the habits and customs in Egypt, Greece, Italy, in Oceania or Japan, the different rules for hygiene, face, hair and body care, the meaning of...
	Mother’s Day: a selection of books May 15, 2012 Mother’s Day: would you like to offer a beautiful book about perfumes, or to make her discover a novelty issued in May? CosmeticOBS-L’Observatoire des Cosmétiques suggests its selection of books specifically for Mother’s Day, which comprises twelve “beauty and cosmetics” works. From the Lola Montes breviary on the art of beauty to the history of make-up...
	The Arts of Beauty May 11, 2012 Originally published in 1858, this unusual book will appeal greatly to all who have an interest in the history of early cosmetics and beauty regimes.New republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
	My beauty "to-do" list May 2, 2012 Get to the point! This guide, full of advice coming as lists, has reported for you the “tops of the top” to make you even more beautiful, more surely and quicker: face, cleavage, hair, arms, hands, nails, stomach, thighs, feet, nothing is forbidden!
	On Beauty April 25, 2012 "On Beauty" is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, "On Beauty" has been conceived for a vast and diverse readership. Packed with examples from painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the...
	Bob Recine - Alchemy of Beauty April 6, 2012 Alchemy of Beautygathers original artwork by Recine, from sketches, collages and paintings to previously published and unpublished editorial images of his extraordinary sculpture and headdresses. Art direction for the volume is by Fabien Baron.
	Facial gymnastics April 2, 2012 This works presents a series of simple and efficient exercises, which will allow you, without any cosmetic surgery, for maintaining the strength, the peculiarity and the attractiveness that make your face unique. The aim is only to alleviate efficiently the inevitable effects of time, of tiredness, stress and skin sagging.
	Makeup: The Ultimate Guide March 23, 2012 This luscious ultimate guide to makeup contains everything you ever needed to know about makeup and is written for ordinary women of all ages.