By Katie Aske returns this week in her second guest blog post – the first one is here . This week Katie is discussing beauty spots! The beauty spot is the trademark of the eighteenth-century’s powdered beauties, both male and female. To achieve a beauty spot when one
Puppy Water, Beauty’s Help
A guest post by Dr Katherine Aske The beauty products of the early-modern woman were a little different to the ones we know today, and in fact, some of them had far more ‘dog’ in than should be socially acceptable. Eighteenth-century clergyman and poet, Jonathan Swift’s poem ‘The Lady’s Dressing