#35 - Deadly Makeup: (Literally) Toxic Beauty Trends Throughout History

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English - September 21, 2020 16:00 - 40 minutes - 28.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Would you smear lead or arsenic on your face, ingest radiation, or sit under an X-ray machine for 20 hours all in the name of beauty? That's what people throughout history did!

Ellie talks about some of history's most deadly makeup trends, from the horrifying origin of false eyelashes to the cages women wore on their heads to stop vermin being attracted to their lard-filled hair.

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