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Chinese people didn’t wear much make up at the start of time. In around 3000BC they started with their nails, they used died beeswax and egg white to make them shiny. The colours represented social class, so people who wore gold and silver at that time were Royals then later on in time royals wore black or red. The lower classes weren’t allowed to wear any colours on their nails! Flowers were used in China for makeup at the same time as the nail colour came in. “Legend has it that once on the 7th day of the 1st lunar month, while Princess Shouyang daughter of Emperor Wu of Liu Song was resting under the eaves of Hanzhang Palace near the plum trees after wandering in the gardens, a plum blossom drifted down onto her fair face, leaving a floral imprint on her forehead that enhanced her beauty further. The court ladies were said to be so impressed, that they started decorating their own foreheads with a small delicate plum blossom design”. This story is a Myth and when the people heard about this story they started experimenting with flowers on their faces and called it “plum blossom makeup” it made their faces darker, but later on in time the Chinese wanted a lighter completion because they thought it looked better so for a foundation they put bird pooh over their faces firstly they dried it out so it turned into a powder and they mashed it up and covered it on their faces. This is still done today but only in festivals such as Chinese New Year etc. I got the story about the Princess from Wikipedia