5 sentences with 'cosmetics'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cosmetics and other words derived from it.
• « The earliest documented accounts of cosmetics come from pre-dynastic Egypt - from 3800 BC. As early as the second millennium, Egyptian ladies painted themselves with green malachite, with galena, used ochre with gold dust for their faces and plucked their eyebrows, painting other eyebrows on top of them. »
• « Women's cosmetics reached their peak during the reign of Cleopatra (50 BC), but in a much earlier tomb in the city of Ur, lipsticks and a case with rudimentary brushes were found. The date is astonishing: 4200 BC. »
• « The triangular face: before you start "transforming" your face, remember a few basic rules of cosmetics. The areas you want to hide should be made up with dark colours, the areas you want to highlight with light colours. »
• « One day in 1957, composer Johnny Mercer received a letter signed by Sadie Vimmerstedt, a widowed grandmother who worked in the cosmetics department of a shop in Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Vimmerstedt suggested that Mercer write a song entitled I Want to Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces When Somebody Breaks Your Heart. »