Beauty requires sacrifice.
From time immemorial, women have been looking for means to become "more beautiful" and nicer. And sometimes all these experiments with cosmetics left the ladies sideways, leading to disastrous consequences, and often even death. The choice of beauty products was, unfortunately, not as wide as it is now.
But what can't you do for the sake of beauty?
Let's get acquainted with the secrets of cosmetology of girls of the past.
For the sparkle of the eyes ...
Ladies of the past used the juice of poisonous belladonna to give their eyes a seductive sparkle. But she clearly did not realize that belladonna is poisonous from the tip of the root to the tips of the leaves. And the plus was the narcotic properties of the flower. The pupils really shone and dilated, but the longer the drops were used, the faster the eyes lost sight and complete blindness set in.
And the skin is white as snow ...
The beauties of the past smeared their faces with lead whitewash, not knowing at all about their toxicity. The effect was, as they say, “on the face” - porcelain-white skin, and in addition to it, such wonderful symptoms as: thinness, lack of appetite and disorientation in space. Often everything ended with the death of a fashionista, because they never stopped powdering their face.
Dead donut ...
Arsenic pills were used to maintain curvaceous forms, because donuts were the trend. And the skin color was evened out, the young ladies thought “solid pluses”. Arsenic really helped to put on a little stout, and plus added dizziness, diarrhea and headaches. With continued use, the symptoms intensified, which of course resulted in death.
Down with pimples ...
Do you want to get rid of acne or freckles, do you want aristocratic pallor? Then mercury serum is just for you! Pharmacists made skin products based on mercury, it accumulated in the body and led to poisoning. It all started with depression, which no one paid attention to. Then there were problems with breathing, liver, kidneys. The victim of beauty was approaching death more and more rapidly.
And she folded her white hands ...
Marie Curie discovered radium, and it immediately became popular in cosmetology. Hand cream with radium is a favorite find of women of the 20-30s. The product promised to return the natural shine to the skin, make it soft and silky. But after a while, after using the "wonderful cream", terrible deformities of the hands appeared, and, unfortunately, infertility.
Live hair ...
The fashion for high hairstyles forced women of antiquity to make unusual decisions. Hair should remain in a standing position for the entire evening spent dancing and dancing in stuffy halls. There was a way out - the melted fat was carefully warmed up and styled the hair as needed. It was left in the hair for several days, sometimes weeks. Naturally, such a "delicacy" attracted insects, and sometimes even small animals, which willingly settled in the hair of women, generously rewarding them with diseases, sometimes even fatal.
No extra hair ...
The use of X-rays has been extensive. Especially cosmetology has undertaken this. X-rays were considered ideal for depilation. A couple of sessions and unnecessary hair fell out beautifully. But in addition, the skin became thinner and aging. But the most terrible consequences awaited the beauties in a few years. X-ray depilation led to inevitable skin cancer.
Here is such an excursion into the world of the beauty industry of the past. I propose to rejoice together that we live in the 21st century.
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