The things we do for beauty...
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Apr 19, 2014
Anupa M.
Http://www.gurl.com/2014/04/15/weird-creepy-vintage-beauty-products/#12
I found this link to 12 vintage beauty items and I thought it was pretty cool and crazy all at the same time! Makes me wonder what routines we're doing today will make us look nuts >.<
Apr 19, 2014
Kenzie L.
Those are hilarious lol.
Apr 19, 2014
Cece H.
Well you learn something new eveyday tee hee xx
Apr 19, 2014
Katie C.
Jeeeez. think I'd wanna try the dimple one though just out of curiosity! x
Apr 19, 2014
Anupa M.
The dimple one was my favorite only because when I was a little girl I reallllly wanted dimples so I used to take the backs of spoons and press them into my cheeks and walk around >< apparently I wasn't the only one who came up with such a brilliant idea :p
Apr 20, 2014
Lindsay M.
I wonder if those are patented lol!... Probably not... Most probably aren't legal either! 😂😂
Apr 20, 2014
Emily W.
Interesting article! Humans have a long history of bizarre and often dangerous beauty practices... In the late nineteen century they sold "sterilized" tape worms as a diet aid (which sounds great but is actually ridiculously dangerous).
After the discovery of Radium, they put it in EVERYTHING from bath salts (tauted as a cure-all) to lipstick (because glow-in-the-dark lips is fashionable). Of course they didn't know just how dangerous rubbing radioactive material all over your body was until much later.
In the seventeenth century in much of Europe, it was fashionable to paint one's teeth black to give the appearance of rot, because rotting teeth was a sign of eating sugar (which only the wealthy could afford).
For centuries, lead was used in cosmetics to whiten the skin. It was also used as a sweetener for food and beverage, as well as a material for making metal cutlery and cans.
And not necessarily beauty but style related: hatters used to use mercury to clean wool hats, leading to mercury poisoning for both the hatter and eventually the wearer. Mercury causes a breakdown of mental faculties, which is the origin of the phrase "mad as a hatter."
Apr 20, 2014
Anupa M.
For a while into the 50s certain medical practitioners would prescribe tape worm eggs. It was a huuuuuge thing! And I'm not sure you've seen this or not already but women used to use mercury as a foundation because lighter skin meant you werent working outside. All the horrendous things that happened to those poor women :o its worth looking up since this stuff seems to interest you :D