Rouge

Rouge was in use among the Egyptians as an article for the toilettes of ladies of fashion, for the dead, and for the statues of the gods. A papyrus in the Turin Museum contains an amusing caricature of a lady, mirror in hand, rougeing her lips. So long ago as the Old Empire two sorts of rouge are mentioned in the lists of offerings for the dead; and according to an Abydos ritual the priest of the day on first entering the temple was to incense the statue of the god and then proceed to commence its toilette by removing the old rouge from the face.