What were the characteristics of beautiful women in ancient times?
=== Well, it is clear from Egyptian tomb paintings that slim and graceful women were admired. Eyes were very important, Egyptian women devoted a lot of care to outlining their eyes, painting their eyelids etc. The Egyptians don’t seem to have been particularly fond of hair though, both men and women often cut their hair off and wore wigs, wig-making was a common form of employment for women in ancient Egypt. From paintings from Minoan Crete, we can judge that they also admired slim women, the women in their pictures are slender, and also have tiny waists. Long curly hair seems to have been fashionable. Judging by Greek paintings, they also admired slim women, and they always seem to have curly hair. Somewhat surprisingly, it seems that both Greek and Roman women developed a passion for blonde hair, from seeing it on northern Gaulish women,and got wigs made from it. In medieval Europe, again, the standard of beauty seems to have been slim women, and blonde hair was admired. In medieval
