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🗓️ 18 April 2024
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What do we know about what Elizabeth I actually looked like? How was her appearance altered through the use of cosmetics? Portraits suggest that makeup was used to lightly accentuate lips and cheeks, alongside a sheer wash of white base on her skin. What products would she have typically used and how were they made?
In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by author and educator Sally Pointer, to decipher the truth about Elizabeth's image and how her use of makeup has become part of her enduring legacy.
This episode was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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| 1:18.0 | We all have a perception of what Elizabeth the first looked like, The urban hair, very pale skin, a high forehead, painted |
| 1:27.9 | lips and lightly flushed cheeks. It's an image that has resonated throughout the centuries with the iconography of the Virgin Queen. |
| 1:36.0 | Portraits in her lifetime, even those of the older Queen, would seem to suggest that makeup was used to lightly accentuate lips and cheeks alongside a sheer wash of white base on her skin. |
| 1:48.0 | While film and television portrayals tend to favour the use of heavy rouge and thick white paste makeup which only grows heavier as the Queen ages. |
| 1:58.0 | But what do we know of her actual appearance? |
| 2:01.0 | And how was that appearance altered through the use of |
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