Comments on: A Gei Old Time http://news.rotemdesignstudio.com/wordpress/2009/06/12/564/ Shop News, Studio Insights & Life by Design. And sometimes meerkats. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:19:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jrotem http://news.rotemdesignstudio.com/wordpress/2009/06/12/564/comment-page-1/#comment-15343 jrotem Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:59:26 +0000 http://news.rotemdesignstudio.com/wordpress/?p=564#comment-15343 It's all in the eye ...! It was even more different in earlier centuries in Japan, by the way. Nobility-class Japanese women would shave off their eyebrows, replace them with a smudge higher up on the forehead. And white teeth were considered unattractive, so they'd blacken them with iron oxide. There is a 12-century story I like called The Lady Who Loved Insects, about a very unconventional young woman who collects insects and caterpillars, and perhaps worse, refuses to shave her eyebrows and blacken her teeth. People are horrified by her hobby and appearance, and compare her natural eyebrows to the caterpillars she collects, and her teeth to peeled caterpillars. I like her :D It’s all in the eye …! It was even more different in earlier centuries in Japan, by the way. Nobility-class Japanese women would shave off their eyebrows, replace them with a smudge higher up on the forehead. And white teeth were considered unattractive, so they’d blacken them with iron oxide.

There is a 12-century story I like called The Lady Who Loved Insects, about a very unconventional young woman who collects insects and caterpillars, and perhaps worse, refuses to shave her eyebrows and blacken her teeth. People are horrified by her hobby and appearance, and compare her natural eyebrows to the caterpillars she collects, and her teeth to peeled caterpillars. I like her :D

]]> By: MrsEvilGenius http://news.rotemdesignstudio.com/wordpress/2009/06/12/564/comment-page-1/#comment-15341 MrsEvilGenius Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:46:03 +0000 http://news.rotemdesignstudio.com/wordpress/?p=564#comment-15341 That was fascinating! Interesting to see the difference in that style - which is obviously considered attractive - and what we traditionally do in the west (use of red on the eyes and making the mouth smaller [whereas we strive to look as Jolie / smacked-in-the-mouth-with-a-board as possible]) The bloody director was irritating as crap, though! LOL That was fascinating!

Interesting to see the difference in that style – which is obviously considered attractive – and what we traditionally do in the west (use of red on the eyes and making the mouth smaller [whereas we strive to look as Jolie / smacked-in-the-mouth-with-a-board as possible])

The bloody director was irritating as crap, though! LOL

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