MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 52 cosmetic

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Franz was concentrating on painting and modifying a wax gourd the size of a human face on the book, calling it creation, which amazed Ajani.

After all, as far as she knew, although the Grand Duke had an attitude of admiration for the artist on the surface, after contacting him in private, he found that he didn't understand art at all, and he would not spend time on such trivial matters that had nothing to do with governing the country.

Out of curiosity, she decided to approach it quietly; after going around the table, she suddenly saw a human face on the winter melon.

"what!

! "Ajani's sharp cry made Franz's eardrums feel the sting like listening to a soprano singing at close range.

"My God! Are you trying to scare me to death?"

"This...can you tell me how a human face grew on a wax gourd..." She said with an extremely exaggerated expression, and even tried to get up several times, but fell down again because of the panic and extreme perplexity. fall.

This is of course not that she is not smart enough or has little knowledge, but that people in that era have limited cognition.

It's hard to believe now that until the 1980s, werewolves and vampires were still at the top of the list of the most frightening things for Westerners.

For Adjani, the Asian magic used by Franz is completely legendary witchcraft, even beyond her imagination.

And people's fear of the unknown is almost instinctive, which makes her look very out of control.

"What's the point? It's just a painting."

Franz said casually.

"Painted? Do you know what you're talking about? How come there are eyebrows on a winter melon?"

Then Franz pulled off the eyebrows on Winter Melon's face and placed it in front of her.

"Look carefully, don't you think 'she' is a little familiar?"

The latter shook his head.

"It's made from your hair."

Franz took out another large plate with various powders in it.

"It's makeup."

"Cosmetics?" Adjani gradually understood, as if what was placed in front of her was some kind of high-tech product. "It's similar to the mixture of white lead, white wax, and arsenic you use, but it's much safer and has more tricks in comparison."

Franz has long been disgusted with the morbid aesthetics of this era - white is beautiful. That kind of whiteness is not a healthy whiteness, but a sickly paleness like a dead person.

So tuberculosis in this era is called an elegant disease. Some Europeans even take the initiative to get this disease in order to pursue this so-called elegance.

Romantic literature at that time even praised tuberculosis, calling it a love disease. In the writer's pen, tuberculosis patients are often portrayed as noble people with romance, tenderness, persistence, elegance, sentimentality, sensibility and artistic accomplishment.

Franz from later generations didn't like dead faces.

So when a series of cosmetics such as make-up and foundation were developed, he brought them into the palace, preparing to personally take the lead in fundamentally reversing the court's and folk's preference for this perverted aesthetic.

The east has small feet, and the west has thin waists. Everyone is a pervert, so don't tell anyone.

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Adjani's eyes moved quickly between the cosmetics, Franz, and the winter melon, trying to confirm the relationship between the three.

Franz looked at the other person's expression of brain overload and couldn't help but said.

"Would you like to experience it for yourself?"

"What did you say?" At this time, Adjani completely lost her usual mature, intellectual, and confident appearance, like a silly girl who didn't understand anything.

"Close your eyes." She obeyed obediently. After a quarter of an hour, Franz stopped what he was doing. After all, this Polish lady has a good foundation and doesn't need to wear too much makeup to bring out her appearance.

"Can I open my eyes?" Adjani asked.

"Yes, go and look in the mirror." Franz said with a smile, he was quite confident about his masterpiece. Ajani walked to the mirror and was immediately stunned by the scene in front of her.

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She couldn't believe her eyes, as if she saw herself more than ten years ago again, tears flowed out like broken beads.

"Don't cry, tears will turn your makeup into a lake!"

After she heard it, she immediately wiped it with her hands subconsciously. Of course, the more she messed with the lake, the worse it became. After seeing her makeup and tears merged into "muddy water", she couldn't stop crying.

Under this vicious cycle, Adjani's appearance soon became a big painted face.

"Okay, don't be sentimental, go and wash it off."

Adjani stubbornly didn't want to leave the mirror, and tried to paint the makeup back with her hands. Franz had no choice but to persuade.

"If you really don't want to give up, why not give you a few sets, and you can study it slowly in your spare time."

"Really?" She, who was immersed in disappointment a few minutes ago, immediately became excited again. After all, women's pursuit of appearance will never have an upper limit.

"When have I ever lied to you? Go ahead, cosmetics are meant for people to use. As my right-hand man, you will naturally have preferential treatment." Franz said with a smile.

Adjani excitedly kissed Franz on the cheek, and then rushed to the bathroom quickly.

In fact, in addition to these simple cosmetics, there are some more complex and expensive products of the same kind that are being developed.

When this project was first proposed, few professors showed interest in it. Even the cosmetics in Franz's hands were made by mixing kaolin + clay + natural dyes by himself.

But the hard work paid off, and finally several professors changed their initial attitudes, and even some students of the Royal Women's Academy in Vienna began to study chemistry, ready to devote themselves to this mysterious research in their eyes.

The price of cosmetics in this period was ridiculously high. The price of a bottle of shochu lotion usually ranged from 1 to 20 gold louis, and the most expensive could even reach 200 gold louis. The cost of these cosmetics is usually less than 1 franc; therefore, if we can make better use of this advantage and cooperate with the effective production of industrial models, we can further reduce the cost.

Cosmetics on the market in the Austrian Empire at this time usually cost between 10 and 100 florins, but the most expensive one was a rose essential oil that cost as much as florins.

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Franz aimed at the mid-to-high-end market. After all, considering the poor spending power and desires of the poor at that time, they were not blessed with expensive luxury accessories at all, so he was confident that his products could easily beat the market at that time. similar products~www.novelbuddy.com~ and at the same time rely on enough influence to compete with those merchants for market share; just the word "royal family" can be worth hundreds of years of painstaking efforts and sky-high advertisements by those merchants cost.

However, he still has some misunderstandings about the cosmetics market at that time, that is, the era of metallic foundation has passed, replaced by rice powder and pearl powder.

Taking white as beauty is only the taste of the upper class. On the contrary, it is the pink makeup that has won the favor of the emerging urban class in the city, so the rouge box is the mainstream of this era.

Ruddy cheeks were considered a sign of good health, so women often used blush or rouge to enhance their looks.

But the foundation and cosmetics of this era are still based on a single color tone, which is still several grades behind the makeup developed by Franz.

As for the production of high-priced rose essential oil, it was still through the liposuction method at that time, which not only consumed a lot of manpower and time, but also was a great waste of raw materials.

The simplest method in the industrial era is of course distillation. The principle is to use the insoluble nature of oil to achieve large-scale oil-water separation. The move is simple, effective and cheap.

The purified industrial product is actually close to the effect of liposuction.

In fact, even with the same method of liposuction, the price of the product has not changed, so Franz is very sure to rely on this method to win, after all, the strength and status of the two sides are not at the same level at all.

Of course, this Grand Duke who advocates the fierce collision of science and technology will not kill people, he will set aside a part of the market share for the other party; even as long as the other party is willing, he can join his industry and become one of the departments.