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Chapter 24 The City of Romance—French Women's Beauty Remedies (1)
Beauty Trends in a Romantic Country
France is a romantic country. People pay attention to the quality of life and life sentiment, but also pay great attention to beauty.According to records, at the end of the 17th century, women in Paris popularized the makeup technique of spotting moles.The shapes of moles are star-shaped, crescent-shaped and round. They are generally dotted on the forehead, nose, cheeks and lips, and also on the abdomen, belly and inner legs.Moles are black and red in color. At the beginning of the 18th century, in France, not only women but also men were not far behind.King Louis XIV of France would rather shave off his beautiful golden curly hair for beauty and put on a wig and smear various face powders on his face.For a time, the princes and nobles followed suit vigorously and smeared it.

In the Rococo era when Louis XVI ruled France, spices were sold in a large amount and used in a wide range of society.The most fashionable thing at that time was to take a bath with milk, rub the skin with grape juice or lemon juice and massage the skin to achieve the effect of whitening and maintaining the skin.

At that time, it was popular among European ladies to use lipstick and face powder.The lipstick and face powder they use are made of chemicals such as red lead, tin, sulfur and mercury.At that time, science was underdeveloped, and people did not know that these chemicals were not good for beauty. Long-term heavy makeup would harden the skin and increase wrinkles.European ladies are aging faster in pursuit of beauty.

France from 1755 to 1793 is known as the period of luxury.Women of high standing during this period bathed in strawberry juice or milk, and used numerous expensive cosmetic formulations.They made face powder from ground starch and used it as face powder; lips and cheeks were painted with bright cosmetics, ranging from pink to orange in color.Small pieces of silk calico are used to embellish the face and conceal facial imperfections.The women's eyebrows are carefully groomed, the eyelids are covered with a highly glossy substance, but the makeup used on or around the eyes is very pale.Wealthy people like to wear extravagant clothes and wigs.

Grapes and wine make French women beautiful

Grape is a fresh and juicy fruit. The pulp, juice and seeds are rich in natural nutrients, and for the skin, these nutrients have amazing moisturizing and protective effects, which can fully meet women's skin care needs. Various needs.Simply put, it can protect skin, beautify, delay aging, enhance human immunity, and make skin white, delicate and elastic.French women use grapes for beauty.

Why do French women use grapes for beauty?First, grape seeds contain tannins and oils rich in essential fatty acids, which are extremely soft and moisturizing to the skin.Secondly, grape fruit contains water-soluble B vitamins, sugar, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and other vitamins and mineral components that are indispensable for human metabolism, as well as many trace components that allow organic tissues to function normally.

In fact, the most essential nutrition of grapes lies in the outer skin and the stem of each bunch of grapes, which is the part with the most polyphenol content.Experiments have proved that grape polyphenols can play a role in the chain reaction of various free radicals, and effectively capture and reduce the formation of free radicals.So when eating grapes, don't spit out the grape skins.

When the French eat grapes, they must eat all the grapes. They don't even spit out the grape seeds, they just go in and out.This does not seem to be in line with their refined and elegant eating style.If you ask them why, they will look at you in surprise and say, "Don't you know that the skin and seeds of grapes are more nutritious than the flesh of grapes?"

In France, a dried red grape leaf is also sold in pharmacies.Very popular with French women.This kind of leaf is not a special leaf, but a grape leaf that naturally changes from green to red in autumn.Red grape leaves are good for treating swollen legs, varicose veins, fragile capillaries, and hemorrhoids.Because red grape leaves contain anti-free radical ingredients, it helps to remove the oil on the blood vessel wall and supplement vitamin P, so as to relieve the bleeding of veins and capillaries.The beauty-loving French woman bought this kind of dried red grape leaves home, ground them into powder, and ate them with three meals.

In addition, wine will also make you more beautiful and delicate.Since ancient times, red wine has been loved by people as a good product for beauty and beauty.Some people say that the delicate, moist and elastic skin of French women is related to the frequent drinking of red wine.

You must know that the ladies of the French court in the past and today's film and television stars and fashion models often used aged red wine for external use to maintain the skin and make the skin more shiny, delicate and elastic.

1.Health Benefits of Wine

Wine contains more antioxidants, such as phenolic compounds, flavonoids, vitamin C, vitamin E, trace elements selenium, zinc, manganese, etc. Women can delay aging and reduce skin wrinkles by drinking some wine every day.In addition, the tannins of red wine can increase the contractility of smooth muscle fibers in the intestinal muscular system, which can adjust the function of the colon.

2.External use of wine, bath beauty method
In addition to drinking wine, you can also apply it on the face and body surface, which will make the skin smooth, delicate and elastic.

Put a little wine into the bath water when bathing, and then soak in the bath for 15 minutes, which can relieve fatigue and make rough skin smooth again.If there is no wine, you can also squeeze 500 grams of grapes and 5 oranges into the bath water for 20 minutes, which can also have the same effect.It should be noted that the water temperature of the wine bath should not be too high, because the nutrients in red wine, such as vitamins and fruit acids, are prone to deterioration and loss at high temperatures.Clean with water thoroughly after bathing, otherwise the residual alcohol will take away a lot of moisture on the skin surface, and you should also apply skin care milk to lock the moisture in the skin.

Smell the fragrance to know a woman—beautiful women should know the common sense of perfume use
There are three major boutique industries in France - fashion, wine and perfume, which are the pride of the French. "Smell the fragrance to know a woman", the fragrance is the most attractive packaging and the most attractive fashion for women.Chanel said: "A woman who doesn't use perfume is a woman with no future." Women and perfume have a constant relationship, and perfume is a close friend that beautiful women can't live without.Therefore, to be a woman, you must know the common sense of perfume use.

1.Proper use of perfume
According to perfume experts, different fragrances are suitable for different moods, occasions and activities.How to use perfume to make yourself look better?
1) Put on your clothes and spray the same perfume on the warm pulse of the body, such as wrists and knees.

2) The amount of use can be adjusted according to the climate. If the climate is dry, the amount should be larger, which will spread out slowly and last for a long time; when the climate is humid, start with a small amount, because the perfume will spread out quickly, and you can spray it again after a while.

3) Make good use of the last fragrance, remove the cap of the exhausted perfume bottle and put it in the closet to make the clothes full of fragrance, or when washing the underwear, add a drop or two of perfume to make the underwear full of pleasant fragrance.

2.Perfume Spraying Site
1) Behind the ears: The body temperature behind the ears is very high, which is very suitable for applying perfume and can also avoid ultraviolet rays.If the temperature of the earlobe is low, it is not suitable to use perfume.

2) Neck: Since the hair blocks the ultraviolet rays on the back of the neck, you can safely apply perfume, but do not use too much.

3) Elbow: It is better to apply it on the outer side of the elbow than on the inner side where the temperature is higher.Underarms tend to sweat more, so don't use it.

4) Wrist: Apply to the place where the pulse beats on the inner side of the wrist.The beating of the pulse will drive the distribution of aroma.

5) Waist: If you want to have a faint fragrance, apply it here, and apply it below the waist when eating.

6) Leg joints: can be used with the joints or the inside of the skirt at the same height.With the swing of the skirt and the movement of the feet, the delicate fragrance will be released.

3.Stay away from the misunderstanding of perfume use
1) Perfume is both fragrant and skin-care when applied to exposed parts.Some people think that applying it on the face, hands and other parts can provide skin care and fragrance, but this is actually a completely wrong understanding.Perfume contains volatile oil extracted from plants. If it is sprayed on exposed parts or places that are easily exposed to the sun, some special components contained in volatile oil will react photochemically with long-wave ultraviolet rays in the sun, resulting in inflammation and dark spots. .

2) Spray in large doses.Some people like to spray a lot of perfume, thinking that it is more attractive. In fact, "the amount of perfume sprayed is inversely proportional to femininity".When using perfume, it is advisable to spray the amount when you just feel the fragrance.Too much perfume can make you look tacky.

3) From time to time, change new varieties from time to time.People who have this habit had better use the same fragrance from the same manufacturer for a long time.Especially for some skin allergies, don't mix different brands of perfumes.

4) In the process of makeup, sprinkle perfume first and then apply makeup. After makeup, you can sprinkle perfume a little to add charm.

5) Spray perfume when sweating profusely or profusely.In doing so, the smell of sweat mixed with perfume will be even more unpleasant.

Odile Lecoin's founder Ms. Ori Kou's way of beauty

It is often said that French women are beautiful, not only with a pretty face, but also with a slender figure.Sure enough, Ms. Odile Lecoin, the 60-year-old founder of the French salon maintenance brand Odile Lecoin, has a beautiful body and firm lines, and she does not look old at all. Perhaps from her maintenance methods, you can get a glimpse of the beauty secrets of French women.She advocates a minimalist and efficient maintenance method, integrating diet and life into beauty.

Her breakfast is fresh fruit juice with brown bread, and she only eats chicken or salad at noon, which can maintain her physical strength and vitality, and at the same time does not affect her thinking due to eating too much.I don’t eat much sweets either. Except for the occasional dessert for breakfast, I mostly eat vegetables after noon, and drink plenty of water. Drinking two glasses of red wine at night can help antioxidant.

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