From the Seventeenth-century French court to the Victorian times, beauty was measured by paleness which led to an increase in women drawing on their veins with blue paste
Lately the demographics focused on veins could also be limited to nurses and the people commenting on fuckboy thirst traps, nevertheless they were over again widespread. In a time before Bondi Sands and St Tropez, beauty was measured by pallor – and one option to emphasise how pale you were was through the blueness of your veins.
The practice of drawing on veins has been recorded way back to Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome, but really got here into its own among the many upper classes...
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