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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
From 51 to 30 BC, Cleopatra VII Philopator served as the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt's last active monarch. She was a direct descendant of the kingdom's first ruler, Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and friend of Alexander the Great. She darkened her eyebrows and lengthened her eyelashes with black kohl, a mixture of powdered lead sulphide and animal fat. She used a deep blue eye shadow with goldcolored pyrite flecks on her upper eyelids.
Neferneferuaten Nefertiti
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Even the nails of Queen Cleopatra were painted with henna, an earthy reddish-brown dye derived from the Egyptian privet tree.
For her lipstick and rouge, Cleopatra used red ochre, a type of clay that has been coloured red by iron oxide.
Neferneferuaten Nefertiti was a great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten and a queen of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt. She ruled alongside her husband during arguably the most prosperous time in ancient Egyptian history.
Nefertiti is frequently depicted wearing a flat-topped blue crown, but she is also shown wearing a plumed headdress with a sun disc. Nefertiti also occasionally dons wide matching armbands with multi-color stones placed between the wrist and elbow.
This design featuring a large amount of gold. The color scheme also includes some references to the crimsons, sapphires and lapis lazuli blues.
Spring 2020 Couture, Designed by Zuhair Murad.
The model used kohl to make eyeliner and was inspired by egyptian gold elements, such as baggy gold pants and a jumper covered in jewels.
