Did you ever wonder where make-up came from?

It’s almost as old as the hills. In fact, cosmetics have been around ever since there have been people living in or around the hills to use them. Their history (cosmetics, not the hills) reads like a melodrama, involving poison, divorce, bugs, hair loss, blood thinning, miscarriage, prostitution and even death. Not even the most sensational soap opera today could claim such a variety of catastrophic events in a single episode!

Belief in the evil eye is a mystery in many ways, not the least of which is its origins. It is an ancient concept that is found in virtually all cultures known to man. Perhaps it goes back to early man glimpsing his own image in miniature in the eyes of others. The phenomenon of pupil reflection causes one’s own image to appear in the dark of the pupil of another’s. Perhaps the evil eye stems from the fear that this image might be somehow stolen. This might account for the belief of many early native Americans, including Chief Crazy Horse, who upon his capture by soldiers after the Battle of Th