What sacrifices a woman walked past for the sake of beauty

Women want to be beautiful, sometimes - at any cost! The site publishes a selection of incredible sacrifices made krasote.1. KorsetyZnaete that men seem particularly boring? Wholesome female body, that's what! Why, do you think, in the 19th century a strong floor so diligently hunted whales? To enable women to drag away his body corsets of whalebone and maim internal organs, of course.





2. MyshyakV the 19th century it was fashionable to have arsenic in order to "give a person blooming, eyes - shine and body - an attractive roundness." Admission of arsenic, of course, regulated by a set of rules - the moon should be coming, the first reception - only one grain (not yet developed resistance), and since you have started, you should continue to eat this stuff all my life - or death
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However, there were also side effects - arsenic accumulates in the thyroid gland and causes goiter. And sometimes death. But when it comes to beauty, who can stop it ...

3. Tapeworms that case, women were not just their health at risk for the sake of a slim figure - they voluntarily settles in your body disgusting parasites

. tapeworm eggs in the form of pills taken, then these things growing in the intestine, absorbing the nutrients intended person. The owner lost weight, the parasites grow and tolstel.

Some worms have reached a length of 30 meters. However, then it was possible to get rid of the "guests" if you want, but just imagine that from you, centimeter by centimeter stretched a long, flat, sticky and squirming worm ... Brrr.

4. Dressing stopEta ancient Chinese tradition, it seems to have originated somewhere in the late 10th century. The idea is to tightly as possible, to bandage the foot of a little girl, with the result that over time, they had become a "golden lotus". Stinking, rotting lotuses with deep folds such that they can not be washed. (Men do not see, because the bare feet were not even accepted to show her husband.)

The process of "ripening lotus" was terribly painful, and ended with an irreversible deformation of the feet and lameness. But this is what the Chinese and achieved.

Unsteady gait and foot doll size - for the sake of it and transferred all suffering

5.. Radioactive kosmetikaSamym great dignity popular in the 1930s, the French cosmetics Flo-radia considered its content of chloride, thorium and radium bromide. Cosmetics Advertising promised wonders: "Provides vitality of cells, increases blood circulation and makes the skin smooth, eliminates the fat, prevents the expansion of pores, removes blackheads, pimples, redness and pigmentation, protects, stops aging and smoothes wrinkles, gives a fresh and youthful appearance . »

This cosmetics caused rough delight in women, is the use of it have not started to fall off the jaw.

6. BeladonnaNazvanie plants "Belladonna" is translated as "beautiful woman." Once her juice instilled into the eyes, why they began to "shine", the pupils at the same time expanded. However, then for this beauty had to pay loss of vision.

7. Lead pudra1700's were very demanding on the complexion. At the time, hardly anyone survived to middle age without experiencing disease from which the person was covered with a rash or acne, why even after recovery remained unsightly marks.

The best way to hide defects was considered the lead powder. It was an excellent remedy - an inexpensive, well-rested on the skin, leaving it smooth and silky

. But then ... a brain tumor, stroke, almost all the body's systems begin to fail ... Belle was comforted by how beautiful it is in a coffin.

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