People have been trying to look fabulous for ages. Whether it’s the images of Cleopatra seducing Caesar with her beautiful skin (and charm) or Greek gods gallivanting through the heavens, we know that the ancients were just as obsessed with beauty as we are today.

So, to make use of #ThrowBackThursday, the gals at Buzzfeed decided to pay homage to said ancient goddesses by trying out some way back beauty tricks. There’s milk, honey, chalk and blackberry mush involved and things inevitably get M-E-S-S-Y.

Of course, we wouldn’t have it any other way ’cause this is totally how makeup and beauty regimens went down in olden days, right? Right?