The word beauty can be understood from two angles. The first choice is "capacity", followed by "beauty". "Rong" includes three meanings: face, grace and decoration. "Beauty" has two meanings: adjective and verb. Adjectives indicate that the result and purpose of beauty are beautiful and beautiful; Verbs express the process of beauty, that is, beautification and change.

Therefore, simply speaking, beauty is to change the original bad behavior and disease (face) into a civilized, high-quality and acceptable appearance through activities and processes, or to say products and methods to achieve this goal.

In ancient Egypt, in order to moisturize the skin and prevent the sun, people applied various drugs and ointments to the skin. Women in ancient Egypt like to draw the outline of their eyes with black pigments. Green pigment made of malachite powder was painted on their eyelids, eyebrows were painted as slender as willow leaves with black-gray antimony powder, and ivory grease was painted on their bodies. Their lips and cheeks are painted with red pigment, and even their nails on their hands and feet are dyed orange, which is very eye-catching.

Beauty was very popular in Europe in the Middle Ages. By the Renaissance, the art of beauty had developed greatly. From 65438 to 1980s, modern beauty salons appeared in the west. During the Yin and Shang Dynasties in China, people had already used Yan Dihong's orchid leaf juice to condense into fat for decoration.

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