Cleopatra Makeup

Cleopatra Makeup

Cleopatra has gone down in history as one of the most beautiful women that has ever lived. The queen of the Nile's ornate eye makeup made her a legend.

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Step 1: Try on Cleopatra makeup in our virtual makeup studio.

As a master manipulator and temptress, Cleopatra's eyes were weapons of mass seduction.

Step 2: Cleopatra Face Prep

Leave the face for last so that the fallout from the intense eye shadow does not ruin carefully applied foundation. For now, just apply a primer like Make Up For Ever HD Microperfecting Primer. We will come back to finish the face later.

Cleopatra Eye Makeup

Step 3: Cleopatra Eye Makeup

Prep the eyes by applying a primer all over the eyelid, up to the brow bone. Cleopatra's eyebrows were elegantly elongated. The long and thick brows made her bone structure more prominent.

Start by filling in your eyebrows. Using an eyebrow pencil is an easy alternative but if your liner is dull or you press too hard, you may end up with artificial-looking brows. Try a matte dark shadow, like M.A.C. Eyeshadow in Wedge, and use an angled brush to apply the color to the brow in a featherlike motion. Extend your brows about 1/4 of an inch at the ends. You can do this with a brow pencil or by using the M.A.C. Eyeshadow.

Cleopatra Eyeliner

Step 4: Cleopatra Eyeliner

You will need some tape. Test it first on the inside of your wrist to make sure it's gentle on your skin. Place a strip of tape under your eye, leaving about 1/8 of an inch between your lash line and the tape. Extend this strip out to your temple to help ensue that your eyeliner is perfectly drawn and sharp.

Egyptians are known for mastering the kohl liner. Luckily for us, gel liner has made the application process much easier and has a similar finish. Grab a black gel liner and a precise eyeliner brush, we recommend Maybelline's Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner because its smudge free, will last all night, and comes with its own applicator for around $8.

Step 5:

Find connecting points between your eyebrow and the tape you placed under your eyes (see the dots in the image). Begin drawing your Cleopatra eyeliner with your eyeliner brush and apply a thick line of gel liner across the bottom eyelid, below the lash line and above the tape area. Extend your eyeliner to your temple and up to the points you had previously marked.

Now, proceed to line your top lid, starting at the inner corner and working your way to the outer corner. You want to build thickness as you approach the outer corner. Continue extending your liner out towards the temple, following a curved shape (like the one shown in the image). Fill in any gaps in that area and remove the pieces of tape very gently. You will need to retouch later, however this sets a guide for your eyes.

Cleopatra Eye Shadow

Step 6: Cleopatra Eye Shadow

For this look, we will only be using one blue eye shadow. You want a true blue, so shy away from anything that may look turquoise or that has a green tint. Do the test by applying some foundation to your wrist and then apply the eye shadow over it, this will give you a feel for what the true color will look like.

Starting at the lash line, apply your eye shadow and work your way to the crease and up to the brow bone. As a beauty rule, we know this is usually a no-no, but this looks calls for attention-grabbing eyes. Be sure to cover the entire eye area, which means everything inside the eyebrows and inside the liner. If blue shadow falls on your lower lid or cheeks, simply use a bush and lightly sweep it away.

Step 7:

Re-touch your upper eyeliner by sweeping one last coat of gel liner. Apply a coat of black mascara (our favourite is Maybelline's Great Lash Mascara in Blackest Black) to your top and bottom lashes. Follow by applying a set of full false lashes to create high volume. Press your lashes and the false ones together so that they look more natural.

Cleopatra Face Makeup

Step 8: Cleopatra Face Makeup

Now that you are finished with the eyes, apply a foundation that is one shade warmer than your natural skin color. Keep in mind that Cleopatra's skin was known for its sun-kissed glow. To fake this, you may also use your regular foundation and apply a shimmer-free bronzer to deepen the color. Apply concealer, with a concealer brush, and try not to get too close to the eyeliner.

Use a warm-matte shade of blush to highlight the bone structure (try NARS Blush in Exhibit A), apply it to the hollow of the cheeks, contouring the cheek bones.

Cleopatra Lips

Step 9: Cleopatra Lips

Use a nude lip color, one with a warm-coral undertone. Skip the gloss and amplify the effect of your lips by dabbing a gold shimmery eye shadow to the center of your lips. This sets your lipstick, making it last longer and will give your lips a little extra oomph.

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Elizabeth Taylor predecessors played the role of cleopatra were not the less well-known actress - Vivien Leigh (the film "Caesar and Cleopatra," 1945) and Sophia Loren (the film "Two Nights with Cleopatra," 1953).

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The image of cleopatra incarnated many times in the cinema. The most famous performer of the role of cleopatra is pushed away March 23, Elizabeth Taylor. The film "Cleopatra" with Elizabeth Taylor in the title role was released in 1963.

Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra

Against Caesar in Egypt began a revolt that Caesar was able to suppress. The king Ptolemy died. Cleopatra, formally combined with any other brother, their young Ptolemy XIV, actually became the ruler of Egypt under the undivided Roman protectorate, which guarantees were left in Egypt, three of the Legion.
Cleopatra bore Caesar a son, named Caesarion. In the summer of '46 BC Caesar is cleopatra in Rome (formally - for an alliance between Rome and Egypt). cleopatra was isolated villa of Caesar in his gardens on the banks of the Tiber. I went even a rumor that Caesar is going to take his second wife, Cleopatra, and to move the capital to Alexandria. Caesar ordered the gilded statue of Cleopatra's place at the altar of the Mother of Venus (Venus as a kind of mythical ancestor Julian, to which he belonged). But Caesar did not dare to officially recognize his son Caesarion.
Caesar was assassinated in a conspiracy 44 March 15 BC. Oe. A month later, in mid-April, cleopatra left Rome in July and arrived in Alexandria. Soon after, he died 14 years old Ptolemy XIV. According to Josephus, he was poisoned by his sister: cleopatra gave birth to a son co-ruler of the formal. In this situation, maturing her brother was completely superfluous.
In Rome, the civil war between Caesar's assassins, Brutus and Cassius on the one hand, and on the other hand - his heirs Antony and Octavian. Antony and Octavian defeated. In the division of the Roman world, produced after the defeat of the Republicans, Anthony went to the East. Anthony, who is planning a war with the Parthians, arrives in Egypt to enlist the help of Egypt. cleopatra at the time they met was 29 years old, Anthony - 40. At a meeting with Anthony Queen arrived, according to Plutarch, "on a boat with a gilded stern, purple sails and silvered oars, which moved under the tune of flutes, elegantly
was combined with a whistle and flute clash cittern. The queen was resting under the shade of a gold-embroidered dress of Aphrodite, with what the painters portray her, and on both sides of the bed stood a boy with large fans - like Eros in the pictures. Similarly, the most beautiful slaves were disguised Nereids and Haritha and who stood at the stern oars, who the ropes. Wonderful incense ascended from innumerable censers and flowed along the banks. "Anthony was completely captivated by Cleopatra. Their affair lasted for more than 10 years until their deaths. cleopatra had three children by Antony.
 

To 32 BC relations between the former allies - Antony andOctavian - finally turned from friendly to hostile. Antony, cleopatra who was distributing the children of Cleopatra's Roman sister),and passionate break with his official wife Octavius ​​(Octavian'slands, began to look in the eyes of the Romans as a traitor. In the battleof Actium September 2 31 to n. Oe. fleet of Antony and cleopatra defeated, vanquished have returned to Egypt and tried to flee to India, but when you try to drag the trial dragged across the Isthmus of Suez to the Arabs burned. Escape from the plan was abandoned.
When Octavian reached Egypt, Antony committed suicide by throwing himself on his sword. cleopatra tried to seduce Octavian, or at least agree with him, but spell 39-year-old queen at this time were powerless. Octavian wanted to take cleopatra to Rome as a prisoner to participate in his triumph, however, cleopatra committed suicide. According to the most common version, cleopatra died from a snake bite, snake in the room but was not found. On the other, more plausible version of cleopatra poisoned herself with poison. This version says a quick death of Cleopatra, that she suffered shortly before his death poisons on prisoners, and finally, that, together with cleopatra found the two dead servants (it is doubtful that a snake slew three people). Octavian tried unsuccessfully to revive cleopatra with psillov, an exotic tribe, who could suck the venom is harmless to themselves.

Alexander Cabanel. cleopatra feels poisons on prisoners

The testament of Ptolemy XII, who died in March 51 BC. Oe., broadcast throne to cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy XIII, who was then about 9 years old, and with which it combined a formal marriage, because according to the Ptolemaic tradition the woman could not reign alone. cleopatra rules a first, removing a minor brother, but then won a rematch last, with the eunuch Potin (formerly something of a head of government) and the commander of Achilles.
At this time the Roman Republic was a civil war between Caesar and Pompey. Defeated by Pompey fled to Egypt, hoping to find support, but was killed by approximate Ptolemy, who had hoped to win the favor of Caesar. However, Caesar arrived in Egypt, was angry reprisals against Pompey. Caesar decides to restore order in Egypt, torn between medzhuusobitsey cleopatra and her brother. Plutarch's biography of Caesar describes the first meeting of Caesar and Cleopatra:
"Cleopatra, taking with him only one of his friends, of Apollodorus the Sicilian, sat in a small boat and approach of darkness clung close to the royal palace. Because otherwise it was hard to go unnoticed, she climbed into the bag for bed and stretched out in it at full length. Apollodorus tied the belt bag and brought it across the yard to Caesar. It is said that this is a trick of cleopatra Caesar seemed a bold and captivated him. finally conquered courtesy of cleopatra and her beauty, he reconciled it with the king to reign them together. "

The Roman historian Sextus Aurelius Victor, negatively nastroennny to Cleopatra, writes about her: "She was so dissolute that often prostituted, and possessed of such beauty that many men of his death, having paid for it in one night." However, to Roman sources, describing cleopatra should not be treated withconfidence, because cleopatra in the eyes of the Romans was the enemy, and ancient historiography was inspired by cleopatra Cleopatra's winner, the emperor Octavian Augustus, did not want her idealization.

Reliable image Klepatry not preserved. There are several antique busts of Cleopatra, considered the most reliable Algerian Klepatry bust, now located in the Berlin Museum of Antiquity, created after her death, on the occasion of the wedding the daughter of Cleopatra. Some scientists believe that this is a bust of cleopatra in her most recent years, while others believe that the bust does not depict Cleopatra, and her daughter. Preserved image of cleopatra on coins, cast in her reign, but difficult to say how they reflect her actual appearance.
The ancient Greek historian Plutarch, who saw the portrait of Cleopatra, Mark Antony's biography describes the appearance of Cleopatra: "The beauty of this woman was not toyu what is called incomparable and striking at first sight, but its appeal irresistible charm different, and because of its shape, combined with a rare conviction speeches, with great charm, through in every word, every movement, firmly rammed into the soul. Most sound of her voice caressed and gladdened ear, and the language was just polychord tool, easy to adjust to any mood, - any dialect, so that only with very few barbarians, she said through an interpreter, but mostly she was talking with strangers - Ethiopia, troglodytes, Jews, Arabs, Syrians, Medes, Parthians ... said that she learned many languages, while the kings who ruled before her, did not know even Egyptian, but some have forgotten the Macedonian. "

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Cleopatra VII (69 - 30 years. BC. E.) - The last queen of Egypt, the most famous woman of ancient times.
Cleopatra was born November 2 69 BC. Oe. It is one of the three (known) daughters of King Ptolemy XII Avleta of the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty, founded by Ptolemy I - general of Alexander of Macedon