We tried making *5* different 250 year old rouge (blush) recipes || [real] regencycore makeup

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Another day, another historic makeup recipe trial...except this time, Chrissy and I made a lot of rouge, because why not? These recipes are found in both The Toilette of Health and Beauty from 1833 and Toilet de Flora from 1772 - so these recipes are over 250 years old.
So...uhh...welcome to the chaos kitchen?
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The Toilette of Health, Beauty, and Fashion (1833), Page 46, Composition for staining the Hair Black: www.google.com...
Toilet de Flora (1772)" www.google.com...
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[@amelieapfelsaft5564]

The best historically accurate blush method still is being embarrassed about everything literally all the time. Works like a charm.

[@AbbyCox]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@MeKsTeR330]

that or rosacea 😅🙃

[@angelaross1]

Or jus consuming wine 🍷🤣🤣

[@okgibberish6771]

@@angelaross1 because u did’t put a T on the end of just I read it like u were slurring ur words after trying this method, not sure if it was deliberate but it made me giggle, so… 👍

[@angelaross1]

@@okgibberish6771 typo, but I guess it works too 🤣🤣

[@fionacreates]

I really enjoy the idea of some person in the 1830s looking at their rogue powder wondering why TF it's turned purple, but they don't have google to tell them why.

[@margaretschaufele6502]

LOL!!! Just picturing it.

[@MorganDonner]

😆 all the laughing at the end had me giggling irl

[@AbbyCox]

lolol just think, maybe we could have tried dying your hair purple instead of black 🤣

[@eurydice5890]

@@AbbyCox well you got to make use of that purple thing.............. just saying

[@charliecat5686]

Hey lady, just watched your hair video! Wow!!! Also I can now understand your willingness to try Abby’s black hair dye! Great Content ladies!!!

[@warriormaiden9829]

@@eurydice5890 Mix it with a bit of oil/egg white and a few other ingredients, and you've got yourself some paint! Wonder if that's how they got those purples for royal portraits?... 🤔😆

[@TheVadsten]

@@AbbyCox Still a possibiity! A purple buzzcut sounds fun.

[@jenninstitches]

This should become a new series "Scientific Shenanigans" because this was marvellous and such a joy to watch you two. Loved the saltiness!

[@wyrdfarm]

That would be so much fun!

[@aprillen]

I second this!

[@rdb4996]

I double second this! (or should it be 'third this'? 😲)

[@adahusten2188]

Yus!

[@rd6203]

Fifth or sixth this! (What number are we at?)

[@sonorasgirl]

This starts out looking like a weird vampire cooking show 😂. “Then you heat the blood to a gentle simmer”

[@margaretschaufele6502]

Yeah, that's all I could think of is: that looks like blood.

[@battlebear437]

@@margaretschaufele6502 that’s what I thought, too.

[@loraleitourtillottwiehr2473]

This is basically experimental archaeology, where the goal is not the end product it is the information you gain by trying. Love it! I hope we see more of this kind of experimentation from you and your helpers.

[@LaineyBug2020]

I'm so freaking jealous of how Chrissy braids her hair into a crown...

[@meriahtigner]

SAME

[@jayneterry8701]

I thought Chrissy looked really good. Especially the part where you spoke face on to the camera!

[@KelseyDrummer]

My mom has a hair braiding book and has done this on my hair.

[@rd6203]

🖤

[@joannakasper5486]

This is why I came to comment today. The braid, the pink, the undercut...so cool. If I didn't have a head that was shaped like a potato I would totally copy this. :D

[@denisha8596]

When you mentioned Safiya Nygaard, I thought you'd end the video by mixing them all together into a franken-rouge.

[@AbbyCox]

Guess what got cut for time 👀👀👀

[@denisha8596]

@@AbbyCox Nooooo!!!!

[@beeb6730]

OMG please tell me there can be a "cutting room floor" video of these shenanigans someday.

[@definitelynotalizard]

@@AbbyCox I, and I believe many others, would happily watch a shorter video of just that part if you're willing to post it. It's such a shame it got cut

[@salazarslitherin1812]

@@AbbyCox please do a video of clips that were cut for time

[@Megh2D]

Even as elder millennials, it's fun to embrace our inner children's penchants for making "potions." This made me want to go mix stuff in the kitchen and try to get my sister to drink it - like ye auld days! 🤣

[@adedow1333]

Oh what fun we had...!

[@NankitaBR]

I remember everytime I washed my hair I asked my mom for permission to take a small handful of everything in the bathroom to do my "experiments" 😋 Once I managed to make something that looked exactly like the green goo in that episode of goosebumps and I got so scared I possibly unleashed a terrible curse on everyone 😂😂😂

[@definitelynotalizard]

This is exactly how it feels making historical drink recipes. Is it really mulled apple juice or a witch's secret recipe?

[@donnakawana]

Baahhaahee

[@kirstenpaff8946]

I wonder if you could use that purply rouge as a fabric dye. I know that making purple dye in the past was very difficult/expensive, so it is kind of neat to see you make purple pigment by accident using ingredients that in theory should have been available historically.

[@merror-fx8cn]

I looked it up and: cochineal / carmine mordanted with alum (or: an alum / iron mixture, for those luscious purples) is *absolutely* a dye. I don't know what using the alum / cochineal mix would do since the process is, mordant (i.e. a bath of the desired substance) first then dye, or if more alum would do anything to the results, but. This is absolutely a thing (and may I say, a very exciting one because of that color range- I am usually not this excited about natural dyes 💜♥️)

[@christineg8151]

I'll bet you could! Worst case, you end up with something that's boring/bland and overdye it with something more exciting, or black, if things go REALLY wrong.

[@thelacedangel]

Making purple dye was not actually all that hard historically. Its easily accomplished by dying blue over red, or by a method similar to the one we accidentally used. It’s only one super specific *shade* of purple that was hard to make; that particular shade that comes from a certain species of sea snail.

[@kirstenpaff8946]

@@thelacedangel Thank you for the clarification.

[@wendyreynolds2261]

That was my thought. I think it would be worth a try at least.

[@rburns8083]

I'm of the opinion that the experiments are a success if you have fun with them. So it looks like each one has been an olympic-level win. If not, well.. at least I always get a laugh out of your adventures.

[@thetiniestpirate]

I find that experiments are for learning things and it's almost impossible to experiment with something and not learn anything at all even if it's just "that didn't work". Plenty of learning happened here, super fun to watch.

[@donnakawana]

🎖️🎖️🎖️🎖️

[@shannanolan]

Me, a blush addict and hoarder, at the start: maybe I’ll go ahead and make my OWN rouge! Me, a blush addict and hoarder, at the end: yeah no

[@eviescotia]

That is the salt my chef husband insists on! And complains *exactly like Chrissy* about *any other salt* 😂🤣😂

[@Lpcolletti]

As a chemist I love it. FYI alum is an aluminum salt which has both acid and base behaviors!

[@alexisasheep6554]

This is why science is magic, how does that make sense lol

[@thisissshe]

My favorite thing ever is to watch two highly educated and intelligent people mess things up . And I mean that in the best way possible.

[@LaineyBug2020]

I love Nicole's look at the camera at the end, and that Abby immediately got the joke of the gift. #FriendGoals

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

Abby: *"I love a 'salty' gift."* 🤣👍👍

[@rebeccacuthbertson1271]

You two are an absolute riot together! And "orangey-purple" is totally red. And poor Nicole just sitting there handsewing while y'all arguing about salt like "what on earth is happening" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@claire2088]

"looks like the bathroom every month" TOO DAMN TRUE 😂😂😂

[@faithmo5347]

This is just the chaos of Safiya's franken-makeup science madness but make it historically accurate, and I'm 100% here for it!

Omg now I need NEED a collab

[@angelmaden1559]

Oh this was fun! The danger of powdered dyes is for real! It takes surprisingly little iron oxide to mordant or change the color of carmine. In a lab I worked in we used a carmine stain for microscope slides. Right before you used a decanted potion of stain solution to the tissue on the slide you would dip in a rusty nail we kept in a little glass vial. That’s all it took! So fun! Thanks!

[@lenaeospeixinhos]

That's so interesting! I always wonder how those things get found out, by accident maybe? Science is awesome...

[@angelmaden1559]

@@lenaeospeixinhos It is! I think some things were just accidental or trial and error to get a result that worked. There are stains that have been used since the 1850’s or 60’s that are still used today. The understanding of the chemistry of how they work is astonishingly recent!

[@lenaeospeixinhos]

@@angelmaden1559 so cool... 🤗

[@donnakawana]

I love science 😍🧪 so much... ✌🏻💗😊❣️

[@kimclements4680]

You've made it SCIENCE by documenting your process -- it's all good! (and hilarious to watch)

[@AbbyCox]

Chrissy keeps me honest and responsible. 😂

[@caseyelizabeth1930]

"as someone who crawled around the floor of a college bar on her 21st birthday I think I have the immunity to deal with this" 🤣 🤣 we have all been there!!

[@sturmykins]

I need a tutorial on how Chrissy braids her hair!

[@Eloraurora]

That was definitely where my attention went for a good chunk of the video. So neat!

[@rd6203]

As absolutely glorious as the braiding is, it was the gorgeous, waved side mane that really had me going 🤩

[@aurorameyer159]

This feels like Costuming History Mythbusters. It's a really long shot, but it would be so cool to get Adam Savage involved in something in the realm of CosTube!

[@mienafriggstad3360]

❤YES!

[@maggiemakgill]

You CANNOT fail in an experiment. If you are asking the question "Does this work?" "No." is a valid and useful experimental result.

[@catherinerw1]

You two are such a fabulous double act, would love to see more fashion history & science intersections scheduled in :-)

[@Aurriel]

I appreciate that you use the term rouge! As a non-native speaker it is sometimes hard to differentiate between blush as a make-up product and as a bodily function when listening or reading.

[@robinhazen8034]

I love this! as a former violin maker who's tried making varnish based on old recipes, I appreciate the need to find the most authentic ingredients & do the methods as they would have been done (or close to it!) Great results!

[@naithom]

Laughing all through this. Chrissy's expressions are priceless. When you said, "We survived the 80s..." I was like, "Infant, please!" Yes, you have fans who are older than dirt.

[@nanettebromley8843]

Yep, I survived the 70's too :)

[@mamafrau2181]

Bicentenial born Gen Xer IUB grad who loves all this Abby!

[@ItsJustLisa]

I’m technically a Boomer, but I was also a Yuppie Puppy almost two decades before the term Yuppie was coined.

[@roxiepoe9586]

I once saw my grandmother using red Koolaid(the powder from the envelope) as a rouge. She wasn't pleased that I had seen this. :) (She was born in 1900.)

[@sarahrosen4985]

THAT made my day on so many levels.

[@cincocats320]

I remember doing that as a kid. I also used it as "makeup" for my barbies.

[@splendidcolors]

Manic Panic hair dye was created so punks would have something better than Koolaid to color their mohawks.

[@andreahidalgolujan7029]

I still remembered the salt argument! Nicole's face cracks me up every time

[@jayneterry8701]

Nicole's reaction 🤣was the best! Lol

[@mienafriggstad3360]

Me too 🤣

[@liahonagirl]

as soon as she opened the package, I immediately flashed back to Chrissy's salt rant . . . I had, however, forgotten the total look of 'wtACTUALf' that Nicole had given the camera😂

[@andgordo558]

I’m a chemist, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS! (And I died at the Diamond Crystal at the end, yes it’s the best!)

[@davidblum7125]

So Abby’s video starts with a warning, “Hey kids, we’re going to do some science today!” I’ve decided that crossover videos are my new favorite video. It’s like Batman, the real Adam West Era Batman, “Tonight’s, on Abby’s Video, special guest costumer, Chrissy.”

[@nevethangiel]

I'd use the purple carmine "whoopsie" as eyeshadow, it's the color I'm most partial to as eyeshadow.

[@MajaBiana]

I thought it looked like a pretty eye shadow too (goes great with grey and green eyes) :)

[@nimuenorth6295]

The difference between messing about and science is writing stuff down - looks like you, Ladies, passed the Adam Savage test of scientific entertainment! Videos in the kitchen always promise fun!

[@spinstercatlady]

I'm not scientifically minded in the least, but being a massive history buff I love watching these to see what historical products may have looked like and the process of creating them! I could see you gals doing a whole series of these and I'd happily watch 🐦💜

[@AmeerahMuhammad]

This was HILARIOUS. And Abby trying to put the food processor together. I felt that. That is me.

[@thetiniestpirate]

Appreciate the "your eyes are fine" focus note.

[@FlybyStardancer]

Yay fun in the kitchen! Also when Abby was showing off the red wine rouge, it looked like she had a bruise on her arm to me. XD it could have been the lightning though.

[@AbbyCox]

Yeah, it was a little bruise-y but out of everything, it was the best result, and I think on my face it could have been ok (or not...) that rouge is really weird because when it gets on other surfaces it tries really tacky (i assume from the sugars) and it does actually turn this weird black color...so....yeah...it's a strange one!

[@marikotrue3488]

Well one thing you can say about this plague we are all living through, plenty of masks around. Also I am pleased that the Great Salt Wars of 2021 has been settled amicably. Loved that shade of purple!

[@TheMetatronGirl]

That was really cool! I’ve seen the one rouge that turned out funky, before…so weird that it went purple! The carmine turning purple due to the iron in the alum is kind of amazing, though. I’m always fascinated by the colors produced by tiny inconsistencies in materials. I just dig science experiments like this!! If I were having that much fun doing the experiments, I’m pretty sure I’d enjoy any results. I love that Chrissy snorts when she laughs!! I get endless amounts of crap from my friends and family for snorting when I laugh. The salt!! That was hilarious! Thank you for letting us in on the joke. 🤣🤣

[@thelacedangel]

LOL I snort laugh so much...

[@TheMetatronGirl]

@@thelacedangel I snort laugh so much I actually type *snort* instead of LOL.

[@BrokenMonocle]

When rouge goes rogue

[@emmajones-phillipson6123]

I need a megacut that just jumps between Abby and Chrissy's facial expressions during the chalk food processing

[@thekarategirl5787]

I love Chrissy's braided hairstyle. It's so pretty and practical.

[@nickiel577]

“A little bit of this some of that, throw it in a pot, have a good time” abbey Cox on historical recipes

[@cynthiadugan858]

Loved seeing Chrissy take a more active part in this video. She is awesome and the two of you make a great team

[@lunarsma8446]

Yes!

[@iSharShar]

I just died laughing at the end. I'm glad I didn't take a sip of my tea before the reveal 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AbbyCox]

lolol she also kept referencing salt the *entire* time we were working on the rouge (I think I left the references in the video) and then last night she told me she didn't even realize it! I thought she had set this up from the beginning, but no, it was just coincidence she ended the video with a 3lb box of kosher diamond salt 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@systlin2596]

Ahhh yes, the 'taking a swig directly from the bottle while using booze' method. I know it well. You've gotta check your ingredients for quality, after all!

[@laulutar]

This was so much fun! I'm sure you weren't the only people to be messed around by contaminated ingredients in the history of the world, and I'm sure some poor 18th and 19th makeup makers were just as flummoxed by things turning purple, when that wasn't the intended result :D

[@wolvie1618]

I really hope some ye olde makeup maker just rolled with the purple and sold it as a "hot new trend" because that would be amazing

[@kathrose336]

yeah i’d be down for purple blush tbh

[@laulutar]

@@kathrose336 yeah, so would I. I'm sure there were fashion trailblazers, who took an unexpected outcome and just ran with it 😂

[@Eloraurora]

Isn't this a plot point in Jekyll and Hyde? His potion worked, but then subsequent batches failed, and he ended up concluding that the key ingredient had been some mysterious contaminant.

[@eurydice5890]

That purple is fierce! Maybe not the most historically accurate color, but it’s FIERCE

[@SconeMonster]

I enjoy videos where friends are having fun friendship times more than any other videos. :D

[@nicolakunz231]

That box of Salt was just the perfect ending!!

[@lauradmcginnis]

Your introduction reminds me of the time that a history minded friend and I decided to drink some of her family's apple pie, while dying her hair the night before event. There was dye on the ceiling when I moved out.

[@lunar1983]

Loving the violet carmine powder, it's about the same shade as my go-to eye shadow. Also really love Chrissie's spiral braid.

[@lenaeospeixinhos]

Even if it fails, it should still be published. You did good. FOR THE SCIENCE!

[@zoeblueyes]

Ok seriously I LOVED this video so much, however I am a 43 year old woman with a best friend and we act exactly the same way together. It warmed to heart

[@babydrane]

More of this please. I'm a big fan of alchemy and while this isn't exactly the same thing, it transports me back to a time when even science was mystical/magical.

[@NankitaBR]

I would like to see more videos about "correcting the historically correct", like making things like rouge or other things by basing it in the original recipes, but removing the dangerous ingredients. I would really love to see lots of videos like this so I can make some to use when I can actually go to an re-enactment.

[@k_golly_g]

What a fun video! Thanks for taking one for the team, making these, and saving the rest of our countertops!

[@stellad7018]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Chrissy's amazing pink braid situation? So good :)

[@mssunset]

Love these videos, thank you! :) With the powder rouges, I keep wondering if those 2 drops of oil are supposed to be used only when you're about to use the rouge, rather than adding it to the bulk. Take the base 2 drops and add powder until the consistency is right to apply. Keeping the rouge a powder probably increases it's shelf-life? But that's just a theory. :)

[@lenaeospeixinhos]

A FILM THEORY! Jk. That makes sense! I think you're on to something there!

[@Kat-fr3jn]

Reminds me of my henna experiments. I had the same little jars with bits of hair and all kinds of results. Was fun.

[@TudorositiesbyMaureen]

Darn iron ruining the experiment, the purple was stunning though! Reminds me of when trying natural dyeing for my wool, sometimes you end up with a surprise unexpected color due to non pure ingredients. Hoping the kitchen counters doesn't dye an unexpected shade of pink/red, fingers crossed.

[@GuilhermePalacio]

As a brazilian, I never saw brazilwood being used in anything outside of history books. I legit thought it was extinct.

[@carolinemaluca]

Por acaso Brazilian wood e o famoso ipê? Fiquei curiosa.

[@GuilhermePalacio]

@@carolinemaluca Brazilian wood é Pau-brasil kkkkkk Ipê é ipê mesmo, se não me engano

[@GuilhermePalacio]

Aqui na minha cidade (Campo Grande, MS), tem ipê de monte

[@tteister]

As a Brazilian, I felt weird.. cause like, we know how they got it back in 1700's.. and yeah they are almost extinct. What makes it even worse.

[@yoclark2723]

Sooo you made some 80's eye shadow! You guys are friendship goals!

[@kathyseidel9842]

You were brave to use a pot with a white interior. Was it easy to clean afterwards?

[@thelacedangel]

Amazingly it all came out. We didn't even have to break out the Bar Keepers Friend!

[@khills]

@@thelacedangel those enamel pots seem pretty bomb proof (mine is, anyhow-thankfully 😂 I’ve done my fair share of “not mentioning to the husband I’m using the le creuset for dye” projects …😂😂😂)

[@karowolkenschaufler7659]

hats off to that detectivework on finding out what happened with the alum!

[@arifal-yousif]

The subject of the video is quite apt considering you two already have such good chemistry! I'll show myself out...🤣

[@gabrielajunqueira216]

Oh how I long for a good friendship where we try to recreate historical things together while laughing our butts off 😩😩😩

[@orladdin]

Damn I'm so impressed by Chrissy's dedication to hunting down why the rouge was purple. I did not expect to learn about alum mining and refining. I love it when searching for one thing sends us down really distally related rabbit holes

[@rebeccawest8973]

Abby taking that shot with a straight face is my favorite part. A girl after my own heart!

[@danasussman611]

Love watching how much fun you had with the experiments! Although I know that you know this, I feel like it is worth mentioning for anyone else who may want to try something like this that once you use your kitchen equipment with dye ingredients, it should never be used for food again.

[@jacquelineb9487]

My favorite part was definitely the salt. I also need a Chrissy hair tutorial - that braid was gorgeous.

[@casieperry9047]

Chrissy, you need to do a vid on how you did your hair

[@DanielleVlog365]

You guys legit look like your heating up blood in a saucepan and I love it. Fun video

[@jenhaynes4773]

The colors are pretty - I wonder how they would work as fabric or fiber dyes....

[@m.maclellan7147]

Yes, especially the wine one & the purple one !

[@trichiabaird8286]

Crissy has inspired my future hair goals. Has someone who has dabbled in FX makeup, the rouges they made looked like they would be great for realistic bruises.

[@centurycountess4949]

I enjoyed this experiment, I would love to see more of these beauty science videos. 🙂

[@PrncsKaters]

The zoom-in on Nicole at the end. ::chef’s kiss::

[@juliehenry6421]

If the Brazil wood is Brazilian Cedar you were smart- When I worked with it at the cabinet factory you had to go wash your hands because you would break out in hive like poison ivy because the acidic type sap

[@maidden]

"I appreciate a salty gift" I love you.

[@misspenguinsupreme9923]

I'm watching this while I play with my blue tea that turns purple with lemon SCIENCE! And it's in my caldron mug

[@thelacedangel]

Ooh butterfly pea flower?

[@misspenguinsupreme9923]

@@thelacedangel 👍 yep

[@rd6203]

HAHAHAHA The salt argument!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 This was fun! 💕 Thank you both!

[@annbrookens945]

Just two mad kitchen scientists, whipping up historic recipes for cosmetics... So much fun! I loved the whole carmine debacle.

[@dinafisman]

The salty gift was everything

[@christacorvidae615]

ok, the whole story about the Carmine (sp?) coming out purple is absolutely fascinating!

[@ajnormandgroome]

I love when fashion historians get together. This is a great combination

[@Kate-the-Curst]

I have also had a crack at the carmine/talc/almond oil recipe, and mine came out exactly the same as yours, basically invisible on a pale skin tone, so I wonder if it was intended to be more of a general foundation style powder than specifically blushing rouge?

[@MiffoKarin]

I enjoyed this science™ and would gladly watch more. But now I'm wondering if my red tailor's chalk would work as rouge in a pinch... 🤔

[@ShinySarah44]

Salty gifts are the best gifts xD thankyou for sharing that final footage, it was a fantastic wrap up to the original salty exchange. hahah.

[@somnaire3418]

That gift at the end... Chef's kiss. XD

[@forced2makethisbloodyaccou355]

That suprise at the end! Priceless!

[@shepherdessinthefray]

Abby your videos with friends are such good vibes. love them

[@mikuvocaloidlove]

What a gorgeous little video to have before work- educational and comedic! Thank you!

[@sherrysenf-mcginn7693]

That was really cool and interesting. Chrissy is a Rockstar for the salt. Sorry Abby but she is right about the salt.

[@snehapradhan5591]

I love how much fun you have! ✨

[@silasjames4082]

Chrissy- I LOVE your coiled french braid hairstyle. It looks so cool.

[@barbiedesormeaux5496]

The salty surprise at the end! So good!

[@ridgewalker5718]

With the shirt you are wearing Abby the purple rouge might look good.

[@Desertbearsangel]

I love all the laughter and silliness.

[@elysemccarty1415]

I love the salt it made dissolve into a fit of giggles. Love the scientific shenanigans, historical hijinks if you will, please make it a regular thing!