You will love this vivid cream rouge for lip and cheek!
Kermes is a brilliant red pigment that was highly prized for cosmetics and textiles.
Spanish trade with the New World introduced new sources of kermes, called carmine.
“With wax you know how to whiten your skin, and with kermes to give yourself the rosy hue which nature has denied you.” - Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book III, Roman Empire, 1 BC - 8 AD.
