Do you know how makeup was applied in ancient Rome? What was the legendary aura that allowed African-American women to beautify themselves in Harlem in the 1930s? Can the mystery of steam baths be unravelled? What were the beauty and skin care rituals practiced in France during the Second Empire?
Constantinople, Okinawa or in Rajasthan, these ancestral rituals are at the origin of our own contemporary beauty rituals.
Through the prism of history and the expert historians we have consulted, we have travelled through the centuries and across the world. Today, we are delighted to share these tales of beauty.
You will find an episode of our Ancient Beauty Rituals every week on all podcast platforms.
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Do you know how makeup was applied in ancient Rome? What was the legendary aura that allowed African-American women to beautify themselves in Harlem in the 1930s? Can the mystery of steam baths be unravelled? What were the beauty and skin care rituals practiced in France during the Second Empire?
Constantinople, Okinawa or in Rajasthan, these ancestral rituals are at the origin of our own contemporary beauty rituals.
Through the prism of history and the expert historians we have consulted, we have travelled through the centuries and across the world. Today, we are delighted to share these tales of beauty.
You will find an episode of our Ancient Beauty Rituals every week on all podcast platforms.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Ottoman Empire, multinational and multilingual, at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries, was powerful both financially and intellectually.
The Sultan possessed a harem of the most beautiful women in the empire, who benefited from the best teaching in dance, poetry, music and erotic art. Concubines were pampered, adorned with the finest jewels and the finest clothes. Their sacred moment of relaxation was the hammam, where the treatments they received immersed them in a hushed universe, disconnected from their life of pomp.
But the limit to this idyllic picture was freedom, symbolized by the Sublime Porte, the French name given to the monumental gate of honour of the Grand Vizier in Constantinople, the seat of the Sultan. Which our character Emel dreams of crossing to find her first love...
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