Beauty requires sacrifice: shocking beauty treatments of the past

Cosmetology has advanced very far. With the help of modern beauty products, we can significantly improve our appearance.

Speaking about appearance, she always worried women, because this is their main weapon! True, they used to go to extremely shocking procedures ...

Women have always strived for a slender figure. Thinness was associated (and still is associated) with aristocracy. To keep their bodies in perfect shape, women went to monstrous procedures.

At first, they wore corsets that squeezed internal organs, then they replaced them with diet pills - capsules with eggs of parasitic animals (it really worked!)

Already in ancient Egypt, women highly appreciated a pale complexion, emphasizing aristocracy. In pursuit of the desired pallor, the ladies applied rice and wheat powder.

However, in ancient Rome, lead powder was invented, containing chalk and whitewash. The beauty treatments of the past can be envied - such a powder really made the skin perfect, although you could pay for beauty with your life in the literal sense of the word.

Unwanted hairs all over the body excite women from all over the world. In the 20th century, women used X-rays - the hair did disappear, but after such procedures, women walked anxious ...

This is because the consequences could be severe, up to and including skin cancer.

Once upon a time, Indian women came up with a unique invention - an edible "lipstick". The ladies constantly chewed betel leaves to keep their lips blazing bright red.

Often this procedure led to the destruction of tooth enamel.

In the Kayan tribe, the swan neck was highly valued - it was not given to everyone by nature, but the girls "created" it on their own.

Mothers have been dressing up their daughters since the age of 5, putting copper rods around their necks.The neck stretched under the weight of such an ornament.