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| Question:
What did Roman women use to apply make-up, and dress their hair? |
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| Make-up palette |
| This rectangular shaped stone was used for mixing make-up ingredients like powders and oils. |
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| Cosmetic mortar & pestle |
| This tiny boat shaped object was used to prepare make-up. Soft stone and coloured earths were crushed in it with the smaller curved object. The powder was then mixed with oil and other things to make eye shadow and lip colours. |
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| Hair pins |
| Women in Roman times sometimes wore their hair in complicated styles that took a long time to do. These hairpins were probably used to keep plaits and loops of hair in place. |
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| Mirror |
| This is part of a bronze mirror. Tin was put onto the surface to make it more reflective, although it would not have been as good as mirrors today. |
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