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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-01-03  |  1.0 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  48 seconds
Transcription: makeup and jewelry. Both women and men wore makeup and jewelry, especially when they were dressing for a banquet. Egyptians wore lots of eye makeup. They blackened their eyebrows and traced their eyes with black. Then they applied green or blue eyeshadow all the way up to their eyebrows. Women stained their lips with red ochre mixed with grease. Ochre is a kind of iron found in clay. Women tinted their fingernails orange with henna, a dye made from a plant. Sometimes they dyed their hair red as well. Men and women wore necklaces, bracelets, armbands, and rings. Wealthy people wore jewelry made ...