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In the 2018 period comedy-drama film, "The Favourite", set in Great Britain in 1708, various of the lords/politicians are depicted as wearing large amounts of makeup. Was this a historical practice of the time in reality? If so, when did the practice begin and subsequently fall out of fashion?

by /u/Kurma-the-Turtle in /r/AskHistorians

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