Long before the likes of MAC and Revlon came into being, good ol’ Cleopatra was bashing up beetles and ants and rubbing them into her queenie pout. Brilliantly, this was a mixture made up especially for the ancient Egyptian monarch. The standard production for the average peasant woman of the land was rouge combination of seaweed, iodine and bromine. Bromine is both corrosive and toxic, so needless to say there were quite some seriously ill dames swanning around Cleo’s kingdom. Talk about suffering for beauty.

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