she was dressed and painted in the very latest upper-class styleher red hair now bleached deep yellow , sprinkled thick with gold dust , and buried under a feathered hat ; her crushed-velvet bodice low-necked , cut fashionably just below the nipples , then tied at the neck with a silk lace ruff ; her once-ruddy breasts now painted pale , with blue veins penciled in ; and her face carefully powdered lead-white , save the red dye on her lips and cheeks and the glued-on beauty patches of stars and half-moons .