Author: Seven Years Period

Franz was concentrating on the desk, scribbling and correcting a winter melon the size of a human face, euphemistically calling it a creation, which surprised Adjani.

After all, as far as she knew, although the Grand Duke showed great admiration for the artist on the surface, after contacting him in private, she found that he did not understand art at all, let alone spend time on such trivial matters that had nothing to do with running the country.

Out of curiosity, she decided to approach quietly; after walking around the table, she suddenly saw a human face on the winter melon.

"Ah!!!" Adjani's sharp cry made Franz's eardrums feel the stinging sensation of listening to a soprano singing at close range.

"Oh my god! Did you mean to scare me to death?"

"Well... can you tell me how a face grew on a winter melon?" She said with an extremely exaggerated expression. She even tried to get up several times, but fell down again because she was immersed in an atmosphere of panic and extreme confusion.

This is of course not because she is not smart enough or has little knowledge, but because people of that era had cognitive limitations.

It is hard for us now to believe that until the 1980s, the top list of Westerners' most feared things was still occupied by werewolves and vampires.

The Asian magic used by Franz was completely legendary for Adjani, and even exceeded her imagination.

People's fear of the unknown is almost instinctive, which made her look very out of control.

"What's this? It's just a painting."

Franz said casually.

"Painted? Do you know what you are talking about? How come there are eyebrows on a winter melon?"

Then Franz pulled off the eyebrows from Winter Melon's face and placed them in front of her.

"Look carefully, don't you think 'she' looks a little familiar?"

The latter shook his head.

"It's made of the hair you shed."

Franz took out another large plate with various powders in it.

"This is makeup."

"Cosmetics?" Adjani gradually understood. It seemed that what was placed in front of her was some kind of high-tech product. "It's similar to the mixture of white lead, white wax, and arsenic that you use, but it's more

This thing is much safer and has more tricks."

Franz has long been dissatisfied with the morbid aesthetics of this era, which regards whiteness as beauty. That kind of whiteness is not healthy whiteness, but a sickly paleness like a dead person.

Therefore, tuberculosis in this era is called an elegant disease. Some Europeans even take the initiative to get this disease in order to pursue this so-called elegance.

The romantic literature at that time highly praised tuberculosis, calling it a love disease. In the writers' writings, tuberculosis patients were often portrayed as romantic, tender, persistent, elegant, sentimental, sentimental and noble in artistic accomplishment.

people.

Franz, who came from a later generation, didn't like dead faces.

So when a series of cosmetics such as makeup and foundation were developed, he brought them into the palace, preparing to personally take the lead in fundamentally changing the palace and the people's preference for this perverted aesthetic.

People in the East have small feet, and people in the West have thin waists. Everyone is a pervert, and no one can tell anyone else.

Adjani's eyes moved quickly between the cosmetics, Franz, and the winter melon, trying to confirm the relationship between the three.

Franz couldn't help but say as he looked at the other person's expression that his brain was overloaded.

"Would you like to experience it for yourself?"

"What did you say?" At this time, Adjani had completely lost her usual mature, intellectual, and confident look, like a silly girl who didn't understand anything.

"Close your eyes." She complied obediently. After a quarter of an hour, Franz stopped what he was doing. After all, this Polish lady had a good foundation and did not need to wear too much makeup to highlight her appearance.

appearance.

"Can I open my eyes?" Adjani asked.

"Yes, go and look in the mirror." Franz said with a smile. He was quite confident in his masterpiece. Adjani walked to the mirror and was stunned by the sight in front of her.

She couldn't believe her eyes, as if she saw herself more than ten years ago again, and tears suddenly flowed out like broken beads.

"Don't cry, tears will turn your makeup into mud!"

After she heard this, she immediately wiped it with her hands subconsciously, but of course it became more and more blurred. After seeing her makeup and tears turning into "mud", she couldn't stop crying.

Under this cycle of evil deeds, Adjani's appearance soon turned into a big painted face.

"Okay, don't be sentimental, go rinse it off."

Adjani stubbornly refused to leave the mirror and tried to put the makeup back on with her hands. Franz had no choice but to persuade her.

"If you are really reluctant to part with it, why not give you a few sets? You can study it slowly in your spare time in the future."

"Really?" She was immersed in disappointment a few minutes ago and immediately became excited again. After all, there is no upper limit to a woman's pursuit of appearance.

"When have I lied to you? Go ahead. Cosmetics are designed to be used by people. As my right-hand man, you will naturally receive preferential treatment." Franz said with a smile.

Adjani excitedly kissed Franz on the cheek and rushed to the bathroom.

In fact, in addition to these simple cosmetics, there are also some more complex and expensive similar products in the process of being developed.

When this project was first proposed, not many professors showed interest in it. Even the cosmetics in Franz's hands were made by himself by mixing kaolin + clay + natural dyes.

However, hard work paid off, and several professors finally changed their initial attitudes. There were even students at the Royal Academy for Women in Vienna who began to study chemistry in preparation for devoting themselves to this research that they regarded as highly mysterious.

The price of cosmetics during this period was ridiculously high. A bottle of soju lotion usually cost between 1 and 20 gold louis, and the most expensive could even reach 200 gold louis. (Note: 1 gold louis = 20 francs). And these

The cost of cosmetics is usually less than 1 franc; so if we can make better use of this advantage and effectively cooperate with industrial model production, we can further reduce costs.

At this time, the price of cosmetics on the Austrian Empire market usually ranged from 10 to 100 florins, but the most expensive one was a rose essential oil that cost as much as 15,000 florins.

Franz aimed at the mid-to-high-end market. After all, given the poor spending power and desires of the poor at that time, they were not able to enjoy expensive luxury jewelry. Therefore, he was confident that his products could easily beat those on the market at that time.

similar products.

At the same time, it can rely on enough influence to compete with those merchants for market share; just the word "royal" can be worth the hundreds of years of painstaking efforts and sky-high advertising costs of those merchants.

However, he still had some misunderstandings about the cosmetics market at that time, that is, the era of metallic foundation had passed and was replaced by rice powder and pearl powder.

Taking white as beauty is just a taste of the upper class. On the contrary, pink makeup has won the love of the emerging citizen class in the city, so the rouge box is the mainstream of this era.

Ruddy cheeks are considered a sign of good health, so women often use blush or rouge to add color to their faces.

However, the foundations and cosmetics of this era were still mainly single-toned, which was still several grades behind the makeup developed by Franz.

As for the production of high-priced rose essential oil, liposuction was still used at that time, which not only consumed a lot of manpower and time, but was also a huge waste of raw materials.

The simplest method in the industrial era is of course the distillation method. The principle is to use the insoluble nature of oil in water to achieve large-scale oil-water separation. This is simple, effective and cheap.

The purified industrial products are actually close to the effect of liposuction.

In fact, even if the liposuction method is used, the price of the product has not changed, so Franz is very sure to win by this method. After all, the strength and status of the two parties are not at the same level.

Of course, this prince who admires the fierce collision of technology will not drive people to death. He will leave a part of the market share for the other party; even if the other party is willing, they can join his industry and become one of its departments.

Thanks to book friends I Have a Sword Named All Things One and Brother KFC for the reward.
Chapter completed!