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The Georgian era is incredibly well known for the heavy and sometimes dangerous makeup that aristocratic men and women painted their faces with. Prior the French Revolution, the aristocracy had a desired look to be deathly pale with beauty spots and fake veins drawn onto the skin! Kitty Fisher To achieve the fashionably pale skin, people would paint their faces and skin with pastes and powders usually with lead paint! Now we know that lead is a highly poisonous toxin but this was unknown to the Georgian society! Sadly, the lead paint led to painful open wounds and in some cases even premature death. The famous Georgian socialite Kitty Fisher is suspected to have died due to lead poisoning. However in the Regency era (George IV and William IV), the wealthy wished for their young ladies to have a healthy natural looking skin. Unlike today, where tanned skin is very trendy (especially in Essex!), to have tanned or sun burnt skin was frowned upon because only people who worked ...