Helen of Sparta was young. Her beauty was radiant and blinding like the sun, sparkling with divine grace. Her radiant alabaster face with a warm golden glow highlighted vibrant azure-blue eyes, wide and clear with a loving and devoted gaze. She wore a tight bright-blue linen open-fronted bodice with a gold zigzag pattern and a deep V-shaped neckline that frames her luminous skin, following the authentic Mycenaean Lady fresco style. The edges of the V-cut are stiff and decorated with gold rosettes. A broad collar necklace of gold and red agates beads hung from her neck. The layers of her heavy tiered bell-shaped deep indigo linen skirt made of stiff woven bands of madder-red and creamy-white, rows of horizontal patterned ribbons, no ruffles, structured silhouette, flat decorative trimmings. Large, sun-shaped gold hoop earrings adorned her ears, and gold cuff bracelets adorned her wrists. Her hair was liquid gold, bright honey-blonde, parted into long cascading strands, threaded through gold sfikotires, and adorned with a wide, flat gold headband. A translucent golden-tinted veil draped over her shoulders. Her lips stained with a soft coral madder tint.
