What do we know about standards of beauty within the Nahua peoples who made up the Aztec Empire? What was considered 'attractive', both in physical standards, but also makeup or fashion? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

What do we know about standards of beauty within the Nahua peoples who made up the Aztec Empire? What was considered 'attractive', both in physical standards, but also makeup or fashion?

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17 Late Medieval 51 Mexico 6 Beauty

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While you wait for a longer answer, you might enjoy this thread on Aztec cleanliness, these two comments from a thread about growing up as a girl in the Aztec Empire (one, two), and this thread on the life of Tezcatlipoca's ixiptla (a deity impersonator who served for a year before being sacrificed)