In Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries upper-class as men and women wore make-up, especially lead-based ceruse cosmetics to whiten their skin.   As one commentator noted, “the aristocrats preferred several meters high wigs and hairdos, false teeth pulled out of corpse’s mouth, and fake eyebrows made from mouse skin.” During this period, men wore wigs including those with two large peaks at the top known as “allonge wigs” as well as more modest one known as “buckled wigs” or “buckled clubbed wigs”. More

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