It’s said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Perhaps this is the reason humans have been enhancing and decorating their eye area since at least 4000 B.C., as reported by the Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions. In those days, both men and women in Egypt would darken the area around their eyes with kohl made from antimony or lead sulfide in order to create a larger-eyed look. These ancient trendsetters also believed that painting around their eyes would keep them protected from the malevolent “evil eye.”
