Mental Floss lists 11 Really Terrible 19th-Century Beauty Tips. They include:
- Bathe in ammonia.
- Don’t wash your face, hands, or hair.
- Dash soap suds into your eyes to keep them clean.
- Sit naked by the window in order to absorb sunlight and “vapor bathe.”
- Keep your eyelashes trimmed daily.
Strange, yes. But are they any more strange than today’s female beauty tips, which include:
- Change your eyelid color to shades of pink or green.
- Install bags of saline in your breasts to enhance their size.
- Cook your skin to a shade of brown via cancerous ultraviolet radiation.
- Undergo a process in which dermalogen is taken from your skin and is transformed into a high-concentration collagen slurry that is injected into your lips to enhance their size.
- Don shoes with heels that will permanently damage your feet over the course of a lifetime.
- Burn your hair daily until it is sufficiently straight.
I admire my wife for many reasons, but one is her rejection of the beauty industry’s trappings.
She does so little to pursue beauty and looks so damn good.
