History Of Cosmetics accross the globe

China:

chinese people began to stain their fingernails with beeswax, eggs, gum arabic and gelatin. the colours used symbolised the class of the person as royals would wear gold and silver and lower class people were forbidden to wear bright colours, later royals wore red and black.

Japan:

In Japan, geisha wore lipstick made of crushed safflower petals to paint the eyebrows and edges of the eyes as well as the lips, and sticks of bintsuke wax, a softer version of the sumo wrestlers' hair wax, were used by geisha as a makeup base. Rice powder colors the face and back; rouge contours the eye socket and defines the nose. Black paint colours the teeth for the ceremony, called Erikae, when maiko (apprentice geisha) graduate and become independent.The geisha would also sometimes use bird droppings to compile a lighter color.

Europe:

In the Middle Ages it was thought to be sinful and immoral to wear makeup by Church leaders, but many women still did. From the Renaissance up until the 20th century the lower classes had to work outside, in agricultural jobs and  light-colored European's skin was darkened by exposure to the sun. The higher a person was in status, the more leisure time he or she had to spend indoors, which kept their skin pale. Therefore the highest class of European society were pale in European men and mostly women attempting to lighten their skin by using white powder on their skin to look of a higer class. A variety of products were used, including white lead paint. Queen Elizabeth I of England was one well-known user of white lead, with which she created a look known as "the Mask of Youth".Pale faces were a trend during the European Middle Ages. 16th century women would bleed themselves to achieve pale skin. Spanish prostitutes wore pink makeup to contract pale skin. 13th century and Italian women wore red lipstick to show that they were upperclass.
info sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cosmetics