Conservators remove ‘Kylie Jenner treatment’ from 17th-century portrait

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Diana Cecil’s face had been overpainted to make her lips appear fuller and lower her hairline

If you think the influencer’s penchant for big lips reflects a modern beauty fad, then think again.

According to English Heritage, a painting within the charity’s collection of a Jacobean “beauty” has been found to have received the so-called “Kylie Jenner treatment” – with touch-ups involving plumping the sitter’s lips and lowering her hairline.

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