Colonial bans on cosmetic practices failed to take hold for decades.

Evidence

Guevara never did manage to enforce his ban on henna, and the practice was still an issue a generation later. Nor was Guevara under any misapprehension with regard to the lack of progress on more important matters. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 528

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The failed henna ban parallels the moral-panic dynamics in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — sumptuary-style regulations that persistently fail against entrenched cultural practice.