Sexy Eyes ...

Sexy eyes, moving 'cross the floor,

couldn't want for more, sexy eyes
Sexy eyes, getting down with you,

I wanna move with you, sexy eyes

Dr Hook & the Medicine Show 

Wentworth Millar

The eyes are the most expressive part of the face, which is probably why we have so many sayings including eyes:

"The look of love"

"Looking daggers at someone"

" I only have eyes for you"

There are many more, but I am sure that you get the idea. The eyes are also the best way to tell if a smile is genuine or if the person is faking it ... when the smile is for real there will be little wrinkles around the eyes.

The eyes are also very sexy, when we are interested in someone our pupils dilate. Over the years a great deal of research has been into this and it has been proven that when the dilating of the pupils actually makes us more attractive the person we are attracted to. Many years ago women used Belladonna, a drug extracted from various plants, to make the pupils dilate. Cleopatra was known to have used it in the last century BC, it was also used widely in the Renaissance. The practice resumed briefly in the late nineteenth - and early twentieth-century in Paris. These days it is only used medicinally, as Atropine, to dilate the pupils for examination.

Women have always made the most of their eyes with eye cosmetics being some of the first ever being made, along with dropping poison into her eyes to make her pupils dilate Cleopatra would have used Kohl as eyeliner. Kohl was made from various products including soot, burnt almonds, ash, malachite and oxidised copper. In ancient Greece, rich people had their mascara applied for them. The Gauls made their mascara by mixing garfish with soot and rubbing it on the lashes. The first commercial mascara was produced by 19th Century perfumer Eugene Rimmel in London - yes, that is the same Rimmel of London. In Portugal mascara is known as "Rimmel" to this day.

Now, who said that history was boring?

Dominique