We tried making *5* different 250 year old rouge (blush) recipes || [real] regencycore makeup
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Another day, another historic makeup recipe trial...except this time, Chrissy and I made a lot of rouge, because why not? These recipes are found in both The Toilette of Health and Beauty from 1833 and Toilet de Flora from 1772 - so these recipes are over 250 years old.
So...uhh...welcome to the chaos kitchen?
Here are the books we referenced:
The Toilette of Health, Beauty, and Fashion (1833), Page 46, Composition for staining the Hair Black: www.google.com...
Toilet de Flora (1772)" www.google.com...
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The best historically accurate blush method still is being embarrassed about everything literally all the time. Works like a charm.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
that or rosacea 😅🙃
Or jus consuming wine 🍷🤣🤣
@@angelaross1 because u did’t put a T on the end of just I read it like u were slurring ur words after trying this method, not sure if it was deliberate but it made me giggle, so… 👍
@@okgibberish6771 typo, but I guess it works too 🤣🤣
I really enjoy the idea of some person in the 1830s looking at their rogue powder wondering why TF it's turned purple, but they don't have google to tell them why.
LOL!!! Just picturing it.
This should become a new series "Scientific Shenanigans" because this was marvellous and such a joy to watch you two. Loved the saltiness!
That would be so much fun!
I second this!
I double second this! (or should it be 'third this'? 😲)
Yus!
Fifth or sixth this! (What number are we at?)
😆 all the laughing at the end had me giggling irl
lolol just think, maybe we could have tried dying your hair purple instead of black 🤣
@@AbbyCox well you got to make use of that purple thing.............. just saying
Hey lady, just watched your hair video! Wow!!! Also I can now understand your willingness to try Abby’s black hair dye! Great Content ladies!!!
@@eurydice5890 Mix it with a bit of oil/egg white and a few other ingredients, and you've got yourself some paint! Wonder if that's how they got those purples for royal portraits?... 🤔😆
@@AbbyCox Still a possibiity! A purple buzzcut sounds fun.
I'm of the opinion that the experiments are a success if you have fun with them. So it looks like each one has been an olympic-level win. If not, well.. at least I always get a laugh out of your adventures.
I find that experiments are for learning things and it's almost impossible to experiment with something and not learn anything at all even if it's just "that didn't work". Plenty of learning happened here, super fun to watch.
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Even as elder millennials, it's fun to embrace our inner children's penchants for making "potions." This made me want to go mix stuff in the kitchen and try to get my sister to drink it - like ye auld days! 🤣
Oh what fun we had...!
I remember everytime I washed my hair I asked my mom for permission to take a small handful of everything in the bathroom to do my "experiments" 😋
Once I managed to make something that looked exactly like the green goo in that episode of goosebumps and I got so scared I possibly unleashed a terrible curse on everyone
😂😂😂
This is exactly how it feels making historical drink recipes. Is it really mulled apple juice or a witch's secret recipe?
Baahhaahee
This starts out looking like a weird vampire cooking show 😂. “Then you heat the blood to a gentle simmer”
Yeah, that's all I could think of is: that looks like blood.
@@margaretschaufele6502 that’s what I thought, too.
This is basically experimental archaeology, where the goal is not the end product it is the information you gain by trying. Love it! I hope we see more of this kind of experimentation from you and your helpers.
I wonder if you could use that purply rouge as a fabric dye. I know that making purple dye in the past was very difficult/expensive, so it is kind of neat to see you make purple pigment by accident using ingredients that in theory should have been available historically.
I looked it up and: cochineal / carmine mordanted with alum (or: an alum / iron mixture, for those luscious purples) is *absolutely* a dye. I don't know what using the alum / cochineal mix would do since the process is, mordant (i.e. a bath of the desired substance) first then dye, or if more alum would do anything to the results, but. This is absolutely a thing (and may I say, a very exciting one because of that color range- I am usually not this excited about natural dyes 💜♥️)
I'll bet you could! Worst case, you end up with something that's boring/bland and overdye it with something more exciting, or black, if things go REALLY wrong.
Making purple dye was not actually all that hard historically. Its easily accomplished by dying blue over red, or by a method similar to the one we accidentally used. It’s only one super specific *shade* of purple that was hard to make; that particular shade that comes from a certain species of sea snail.
@@thelacedangel Thank you for the clarification.
That was my thought. I think it would be worth a try at least.
When you mentioned Safiya Nygaard, I thought you'd end the video by mixing them all together into a franken-rouge.
Guess what got cut for time 👀👀👀
@@AbbyCox Nooooo!!!!
OMG please tell me there can be a "cutting room floor" video of these shenanigans someday.
@@AbbyCox I, and I believe many others, would happily watch a shorter video of just that part if you're willing to post it. It's such a shame it got cut
@@AbbyCox please do a video of clips that were cut for time
You two are such a fabulous double act, would love to see more fashion history & science intersections scheduled in :-)
I'm so freaking jealous of how Chrissy braids her hair into a crown...
SAME
I thought Chrissy looked really good. Especially the part where you spoke face on to the camera!
My mom has a hair braiding book and has done this on my hair.
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This is why I came to comment today. The braid, the pink, the undercut...so cool. If I didn't have a head that was shaped like a potato I would totally copy this. :D
Me, a blush addict and hoarder, at the start: maybe I’ll go ahead and make my OWN rouge!
Me, a blush addict and hoarder, at the end: yeah no
As a chemist I love it. FYI alum is an aluminum salt which has both acid and base behaviors!
This is why science is magic, how does that make sense lol
I love this! as a former violin maker who's tried making varnish based on old recipes, I appreciate the need to find the most authentic ingredients & do the methods as they would have been done (or close to it!) Great results!
You've made it SCIENCE by documenting your process -- it's all good! (and hilarious to watch)
Chrissy keeps me honest and responsible. 😂
I love Nicole's look at the camera at the end, and that Abby immediately got the joke of the gift. #FriendGoals
Abby: *"I love a 'salty' gift."* 🤣👍👍
Oh this was fun! The danger of powdered dyes is for real! It takes surprisingly little iron oxide to mordant or change the color of carmine. In a lab I worked in we used a carmine stain for microscope slides. Right before you used a decanted potion of stain solution to the tissue on the slide you would dip in a rusty nail we kept in a little glass vial. That’s all it took! So fun! Thanks!
That's so interesting! I always wonder how those things get found out, by accident maybe? Science is awesome...
@@lenaeospeixinhos It is! I think some things were just accidental or trial and error to get a result that worked. There are stains that have been used since the 1850’s or 60’s that are still used today. The understanding of the chemistry of how they work is astonishingly recent!
@@angelmaden1559 so cool... 🤗
I love science 😍🧪 so much... ✌🏻💗😊❣️
That is the salt my chef husband insists on! And complains *exactly like Chrissy* about *any other salt* 😂🤣😂
You two are an absolute riot together! And "orangey-purple" is totally red.
And poor Nicole just sitting there handsewing while y'all arguing about salt like "what on earth is happening" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yay fun in the kitchen!
Also when Abby was showing off the red wine rouge, it looked like she had a bruise on her arm to me. XD it could have been the lightning though.
Yeah, it was a little bruise-y but out of everything, it was the best result, and I think on my face it could have been ok (or not...) that rouge is really weird because when it gets on other surfaces it tries really tacky (i assume from the sugars) and it does actually turn this weird black color...so....yeah...it's a strange one!
My favorite thing ever is to watch two highly educated and intelligent people mess things up . And I mean that in the best way possible.
"looks like the bathroom every month" TOO DAMN TRUE 😂😂😂
I need a tutorial on how Chrissy braids her hair!
That was definitely where my attention went for a good chunk of the video. So neat!
As absolutely glorious as the braiding is, it was the gorgeous, waved side mane that really had me going 🤩
This is just the chaos of Safiya's franken-makeup science madness but make it historically accurate, and I'm 100% here for it!
Omg now I need NEED a collab
Laughing all through this. Chrissy's expressions are priceless. When you said, "We survived the 80s..." I was like, "Infant, please!"
Yes, you have fans who are older than dirt.
Yep, I survived the 70's too :)
Bicentenial born Gen Xer IUB grad who loves all this Abby!
I’m technically a Boomer, but I was also a Yuppie Puppy almost two decades before the term Yuppie was coined.
So Abby’s video starts with a warning, “Hey kids, we’re going to do some science today!” I’ve decided that crossover videos are my new favorite video. It’s like Batman, the real Adam West Era Batman, “Tonight’s, on Abby’s Video, special guest costumer, Chrissy.”
I'm not scientifically minded in the least, but being a massive history buff I love watching these to see what historical products may have looked like and the process of creating them! I could see you gals doing a whole series of these and I'd happily watch 🐦💜
Ahhh yes, the 'taking a swig directly from the bottle while using booze' method. I know it well.
You've gotta check your ingredients for quality, after all!
This feels like Costuming History Mythbusters. It's a really long shot, but it would be so cool to get Adam Savage involved in something in the realm of CosTube!
❤YES!
I’m a chemist, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS! (And I died at the Diamond Crystal at the end, yes it’s the best!)
This was HILARIOUS. And Abby trying to put the food processor together. I felt that. That is me.
Love these videos, thank you! :)
With the powder rouges, I keep wondering if those 2 drops of oil are supposed to be used only when you're about to use the rouge, rather than adding it to the bulk. Take the base 2 drops and add powder until the consistency is right to apply. Keeping the rouge a powder probably increases it's shelf-life?
But that's just a theory. :)
A FILM THEORY! Jk. That makes sense! I think you're on to something there!
I'd use the purple carmine "whoopsie" as eyeshadow, it's the color I'm most partial to as eyeshadow.
I thought it looked like a pretty eye shadow too (goes great with grey and green eyes) :)
This was so much fun! I'm sure you weren't the only people to be messed around by contaminated ingredients in the history of the world, and I'm sure some poor 18th and 19th makeup makers were just as flummoxed by things turning purple, when that wasn't the intended result :D
I really hope some ye olde makeup maker just rolled with the purple and sold it as a "hot new trend" because that would be amazing
yeah i’d be down for purple blush tbh
@@kathrose336 yeah, so would I. I'm sure there were fashion trailblazers, who took an unexpected outcome and just ran with it 😂
Isn't this a plot point in Jekyll and Hyde? His potion worked, but then subsequent batches failed, and he ended up concluding that the key ingredient had been some mysterious contaminant.
I still remembered the salt argument! Nicole's face cracks me up every time
Nicole's reaction 🤣was the best! Lol
Me too 🤣
as soon as she opened the package, I immediately flashed back to Chrissy's salt rant . . . I had, however, forgotten the total look of 'wtACTUALf' that Nicole had given the camera😂
The difference between messing about and science is writing stuff down - looks like you, Ladies, passed the Adam Savage test of scientific entertainment! Videos in the kitchen always promise fun!
That was really cool! I’ve seen the one rouge that turned out funky, before…so weird that it went purple! The carmine turning purple due to the iron in the alum is kind of amazing, though. I’m always fascinated by the colors produced by tiny inconsistencies in materials. I just dig science experiments like this!! If I were having that much fun doing the experiments, I’m pretty sure I’d enjoy any results.
I love that Chrissy snorts when she laughs!! I get endless amounts of crap from my friends and family for snorting when I laugh. The salt!! That was hilarious! Thank you for letting us in on the joke. 🤣🤣
LOL I snort laugh so much...
@@thelacedangel I snort laugh so much I actually type *snort* instead of LOL.
When rouge goes rogue
Darn iron ruining the experiment, the purple was stunning though! Reminds me of when trying natural dyeing for my wool, sometimes you end up with a surprise unexpected color due to non pure ingredients. Hoping the kitchen counters doesn't dye an unexpected shade of pink/red, fingers crossed.
I once saw my grandmother using red Koolaid(the powder from the envelope) as a rouge. She wasn't pleased that I had seen this. :) (She was born in 1900.)
THAT made my day on so many levels.
I remember doing that as a kid. I also used it as "makeup" for my barbies.
Manic Panic hair dye was created so punks would have something better than Koolaid to color their mohawks.
You were brave to use a pot with a white interior. Was it easy to clean afterwards?
Amazingly it all came out. We didn't even have to break out the Bar Keepers Friend!
@@thelacedangel those enamel pots seem pretty bomb proof (mine is, anyhow-thankfully 😂 I’ve done my fair share of “not mentioning to the husband I’m using the le creuset for dye” projects …😂😂😂)
"as someone who crawled around the floor of a college bar on her 21st birthday I think I have the immunity to deal with this" 🤣 🤣 we have all been there!!
Loving the violet carmine powder, it's about the same shade as my go-to eye shadow.
Also really love Chrissie's spiral braid.
Well one thing you can say about this plague we are all living through, plenty of masks around. Also I am pleased that the Great Salt Wars of 2021 has been settled amicably. Loved that shade of purple!
I just died laughing at the end. I'm glad I didn't take a sip of my tea before the reveal 🤣🤣🤣🤣
lolol she also kept referencing salt the *entire* time we were working on the rouge (I think I left the references in the video) and then last night she told me she didn't even realize it! I thought she had set this up from the beginning, but no, it was just coincidence she ended the video with a 3lb box of kosher diamond salt 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your introduction reminds me of the time that a history minded friend and I decided to drink some of her family's apple pie, while dying her hair the night before event. There was dye on the ceiling when I moved out.
I need a megacut that just jumps between Abby and Chrissy's facial expressions during the chalk food processing
I appreciate that you use the term rouge! As a non-native speaker it is sometimes hard to differentiate between blush as a make-up product and as a bodily function when listening or reading.
No wonder, with all the brewing ,mixing and laughing . Women were acused of witchcraft . Back on the old days. Tee hee hee.😸
I have also had a crack at the carmine/talc/almond oil recipe, and mine came out exactly the same as yours, basically invisible on a pale skin tone, so I wonder if it was intended to be more of a general foundation style powder than specifically blushing rouge?
If the Brazil wood is Brazilian Cedar you were smart- When I worked with it at the cabinet factory you had to go wash your hands because you would break out in hive like poison ivy because the acidic type sap
I enjoy videos where friends are having fun friendship times more than any other videos. :D
You guys legit look like your heating up blood in a saucepan and I love it.
Fun video
I enjoyed this science™ and would gladly watch more.
But now I'm wondering if my red tailor's chalk would work as rouge in a pinch... 🤔
What a fun video! Thanks for taking one for the team, making these, and saving the rest of our countertops!
I may have been turned on a bit when Chrissy said “exothermic reaction” - science brain is such a turn on.
Even if it fails, it should still be published. You did good. FOR THE SCIENCE!
You CANNOT fail in an experiment. If you are asking the question "Does this work?" "No." is a valid and useful experimental result.
Retitle this, "historically accurate halloween makeup," and you've got yourselves some primo clickbait. That said, I think I wore that purple A LOT in the nineties lol.
Reminds me of my henna experiments. I had the same little jars with bits of hair and all kinds of results. Was fun.
I love Chrissy's braided hairstyle. It's so pretty and practical.
That purple is fierce! Maybe not the most historically accurate color, but it’s FIERCE
The colors are pretty - I wonder how they would work as fabric or fiber dyes....
Yes, especially the wine one & the purple one !
As a brazilian, I never saw brazilwood being used in anything outside of history books. I legit thought it was extinct.
Por acaso Brazilian wood e o famoso ipê? Fiquei curiosa.
@@carolinemaluca Brazilian wood é Pau-brasil kkkkkk
Ipê é ipê mesmo, se não me engano
Aqui na minha cidade (Campo Grande, MS), tem ipê de monte
As a Brazilian, I felt weird.. cause like, we know how they got it back in 1700's.. and yeah they are almost extinct. What makes it even worse.
“A little bit of this some of that, throw it in a pot, have a good time” abbey Cox on historical recipes
Loved seeing Chrissy take a more active part in this video. She is awesome and the two of you make a great team
Yes!
Me, 8 minutes into the video: but are they making rouge or are they making fake blood bc what they have so far looks like it could lean either way
I’m watching this a second time and I can’t help but wonder if there was such a thing as deodorant back then what ingredients would it have? 👀
I’m about to go down a googling rabbit hole, haha why did deodorant become a thing, when, etc. Great video you guys! The gift at the end got me so good😂 damn funny haha
More of this please. I'm a big fan of alchemy and while this isn't exactly the same thing, it transports me back to a time when even science was mystical/magical.
I enjoyed this experiment, I would love to see more of these beauty science videos. 🙂
That box of Salt was just the perfect ending!!
The look on Nicole's face, though...
Netflix and chill? Nope! Rouge and chill
The subject of the video is quite apt considering you two already have such good chemistry!
I'll show myself out...🤣
I would like to see more videos about "correcting the historically correct", like making things like rouge or other things by basing it in the original recipes, but removing the dangerous ingredients. I would really love to see lots of videos like this so I can make some to use when I can actually go to an re-enactment.
See, you know that talc isn't safe, but most makeup people have no idea! It's crazy
Not just makeup people. I lived in South America and was addicted to these little mints... until I decided to sit down with a spanish-english dictionary and read the ingredients. There was very little purchasing of prepared foodstuffs for a while afterward.
Love watching how much fun you had with the experiments! Although I know that you know this, I feel like it is worth mentioning for anyone else who may want to try something like this that once you use your kitchen equipment with dye ingredients, it should never be used for food again.
Oh how I long for a good friendship where we try to recreate historical things together while laughing our butts off 😩😩😩
Now I am so curious if that purple carmine would work for dyeing wool
Idk what needs to happen to cochineal to make it a fabric dyestuff vs this carmine process, but I'm pretty confident that the reference chrissy found to iron being added to make purple was for dying fabric, so in theory I would wager you could get a purple color with adding iron to cochineal???
I was thinking the dyes and cotton!
There's lots of places you can find instructions to dye wool with cochineal, and you'd just add some iron to that mixture for the purple!
I'm watching this while I play with my blue tea that turns purple with lemon
SCIENCE!
And it's in my caldron mug
Ooh butterfly pea flower?
@@thelacedangel 👍 yep
Ok seriously I LOVED this video so much, however I am a 43 year old woman with a best friend and we act exactly the same way together. It warmed to heart
Blush is ALL the rage right now. Kardashian contour? We dont know her anymore. Get in on the blush making business 😂
Chrissy, you need to do a vid on how you did your hair
A salty gift and how to fake a bruise with purple rouge😜
I mean... copyright as we know it today is pretty recent! I don't know the specifics, but it is quite possible that the 1772 beauty recipe information was totally okay and free to repackage and redistribute (and wouldn't it be business smart to do so?)
Kind of like when publishers make "their" set of out-of-copyright books from many different authors, often in visually cohesive font and bindings
(Although, I think at that time, you were more likely to be buying the printed innards of a book and getting it bound to your own liking???)
Anywho
It's been a few years but I took a course in copyright, copyleft, and books :3
@5:40 (Chrissy) "Jesus, Christian Brothers" (repeated coughs) - I lost it. I had a similar reaction the last time I drank Christian Brothers Brandy (in my 20's). Question: did the iron come from your beautiful, red, cast iron saucier?
Nope, we thought of that, cause it certainly could have been a factor! The enamel on the pot held up and kept the iron separate. The first half of the mixture cooked for like, 30 minutes, and it stayed bright red the whole time. It wasn't until the moment the alum was added that it turned color!
@@thelacedangel Ahhh. I now understand. Thank you for your explanation.
@@thelacedangel Hey, Chrissy ! You are a riot ! Are you a chemist or something ? You seemed very comfortable with the science ?!
Thanks for being part of this chaotic & hilarious video !
@@m.maclellan7147 Nah just a nerd :P
Appreciate the "your eyes are fine" focus note.
I mean, they definitely use talc in today's make-up. Safety really depends on where it's mined.
That was really cool and interesting. Chrissy is a Rockstar for the salt. Sorry Abby but she is right about the salt.
Oh my god, the salt 😂Excellent call back!
I had totally forgotten the salty argument. LOL Awesome video. Better living through chemistry. LOL
1) I ALWAYS give you a thumbs up before I really start the video.
2) I wish I could give Crissy 3 more thumbs up because that was awesome. I’ll say no more. #nospoilers
Sooo you made some 80's eye shadow! You guys are friendship goals!
So, is this Brazilwood the same thing as Pau-Brasil? Like, they used Pau-Brasil to make rouges? That is why (besides furniture) it was driven to almost extinction? Holy S---t! And I feel like the fernambuco thing is about Pernambuco, a northeastern Brazilian state where used to be a lot of Brazilwood...
My favorite part was definitely the salt. I also need a Chrissy hair tutorial - that braid was gorgeous.
What a gorgeous little video to have before work- educational and comedic! Thank you!
Pernambuco and brazilwood aren't exactly the same... they may be from the same type of tree (I believe) but are from different parts of the tree. Pernambuco should be a reddish hue compared to brazilwood which is more brown. Not sure if that may have made a difference in the color of the purple blush. This is just a random thing I know because violinists/violists often use either pernambuco or brazilwood bows and there's definitely a difference between the two woods in terms of things like density, quality, and, often, color...
Covid: making life a little easier when you unexpectedly need to perform potentially toxic chemical experiments.
With the shirt you are wearing Abby the purple rouge might look good.
Bad makeup science with saf and Tyler- I mean Abby!! 😂😂😆❤️