Beauty Tips

9 Most Horrifying Beauty Tips Ever

Think waxing sucks? Wait until you hear the terrifying beauty tips your ancestors were subjected to

by Anna Jimenez

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Today's women go to extraordinary lengths to look beautiful. From hair care to plastic surgery, makeup to skin care -- we collectively spend billions of dollars to enhance our looks. We also invest countless hours collecting beauty tips from girlfriends, hairdressers, magazines and, yes, beauty websites to learn how to combat common beauty issues and to keep up with the hottest trends.

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But have you ever wondered what our great, great grandchildren or women of the future will think of our many beauty practices? Will they consider us insane for using hemorrhoid cream to de-puff eyes or mayonnaise to moisturize our hair? Will the beauty tips we prescribe to today seem totally archaic and ridiculous to future generations?

We ask this question after doing some research into the beauty practices of the past. We found some of the beauty tips from history to be absolutely horrifying in that they were so extreme they could cause nausea, seizures, nosebleeds and even death -- taking the whole "pain is beauty" mantra exceedingly literal. And what's probably even scarier is that these tips were considered to be totally "normal" at the time.

So peruse the nine scary beauty tips from the past and question what it is you do today that might make this list in 10 to 100 years time.

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No way! Over the top!

by EricaC123 Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 08:14AM Report as inappropriate

ew haha

by aishak55 Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 09:03AM Report as inappropriate

Pretty disgusting but interesting. Thank goodness we don't do that now!

by Lamexicana1 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 09:09PM Report as inappropriate

The history of beauty kind of! Very fascinating!

by Chris213 Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 06:35AM Report as inappropriate

Great history lesson.

by nicky22 Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 07:57AM Report as inappropriate

awfully funny!

by asiagirl4ever Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 02:32AM Report as inappropriate

Uggg, although it was a great read !

by applepiealamode Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 05:20AM Report as inappropriate

I agree with all of these except for the last one. I got this done when I was in singapore and it was really fun! It left my feet extremely soft and I only felt a light ticking sensation. I really wish you could get this done in Canada or the USA

by EmiLaine333 Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 12:21PM Report as inappropriate

Disgusting.

by robyne00 Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 08:20AM Report as inappropriate

Wow these are crazy.

by beautybody Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 10:27AM Report as inappropriate