2 Kings 9:30

And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

Jezebel ... painted her face, х `eeyneyhaa (H5869), her eyes; bapuwk (H6320), in the painting; 'put her eyes in the painting,'] according to a custom universal in the East among women, of staining the eyelids with stibium, the sulphuret of antimony, a black powder, mixed with oil, called in Syria, Egypt, and Persia, kohl, and applied with a small brush or blunt probe of wood, ivory, or silver, on the border, so that by this dark liniment on the edge, the arch of the eyebrow is darkened and elongated, the largeness as well as the luster of the eye itself was thought to be increased, and the natural beauty of the countenance supposed to be heightened by the effects of contrast. This practice existed in early times, as is proved by the ancient monuments of Egypt and the kohl vessels and probes found in the tombs (Lane's 'Egypt,' 1:42: cf. Job 42:14; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 23:40: Xenophon, 'Cyrop.,' 1:, 15; Pliny, 'Natural History,' 11:, 37; Juvenal, 'Satires,' 2:, 93). Jezebel's object was, by her royal attire, not to captivate, but to overawe Jehu.