Renaissance Beauty

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Beauty Secrets Workshop

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Beauty Secrets Workshop

Here is a belated write up of my morning workshop in August at Hampton Court Palace, as part of the events to run alongside their ‘The Wild,  the Beautiful and the Damned’ exhibition.

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Renaissance Beauty Secrets - Natural Cosmetic Making

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If my previous post on the 17th century beauty lecture I attended whetted your appetite, well exciting news...

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Courtly Beauty Secrets from the 17th Century

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Well this is not exactly a typical anti-ageing recipe, but in the 17th century, similarly strange, repellent and sometimes toxic substances were used in the name of beautification, as we soon found out...