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A breast washer from France, 1930s.
Procedure of removing freckles with carbon dioxide from the 1930s.
Spray tan vending machine in 1930.
A permanent hair procedure in Germany in 1929.
Another device for permanent hair waving. This process took at least 4 hours.
Another variation.
A mask to protect your face from snow storms in Canada around 1920.
A deluxe blow-dryer in the 1920s.
Portable hair dryer in the 1940s.
A way to watch what you scratch, 1940.
Metal leg rollers that claimed to lose weight by rolling the pounds off in the 1940s.
Another variation.
The machines would work the entire body, "rubbing" out fat.
A device that helps to correct the application of make-up. Invented by Max Factor (right) in 1930.
An ice mask in 1931, also invented by Max Factor.
Special mask that guaranteed a rosy complexion reducing the air pressure and allegedly substituted for a walk in the mountains in the 1930s. Sounds like it made you high and dizzy just to make your cheeks red.
Beauty treatments in the 1940s.
Nope, not BDSM, but a rubber beauty masks worn to get rid of wrinkles and skin imperfections in 1921.
Portable Sauna in the 1940s.
A skin treatment mask in 1940.
notinmywatch
that's no hair waving, i know the matrix when i see it
Bard2DBone
Why would you want to get rid of freckles? freckles are gorgeous and adorable
goingtochipotlewitharistotle
Portable sauna yes please
TheRealGoddamnLochNessMonster
I look at fallout and think that items are weird. Then I see that theyre real.
GrossIncandescence
Max Factor has not only a name fit for an action hero but also a very specific fetish.
SendMeOxygen
shugies
suddenly, the japanese dont seem so weird anymore
Wronggifplacement
So Hitler was a hairdresser before he fucked up
Individualsocksinthewashingmachine
So humans used to be Borg?
GiantPaws
I still want a lot of these.
zbaerenlovesme
You can still get perms like that and I have a hood dryer like that portable one, it's good for curly hair.
OrionDax
TIL Max Factor was an actual person and not just an extreme sounding brand name!
crimsonghost1
Beauty is metal.
papacheetah
Metal is perfection
Glitterexplodingfromwhalesblowhole
*mental
lickwidghost
LazyTheAssCat
Ah, suburbia, how your mysteries elude me.
LooisPoois
Well. Here come the nightmares!
masterpaimei
LurlineLumpkin
BulkSausage
Freckles are a feature not a flaw.
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BulkSausage
A hairstyle is a style. Freckles are not. I get what you're saying tho. It's just not a flaw at all for me.
QuackMcDuck
So are we just gonna pretend that it's not Hitler in #4 ?
just4thelolz
Wer schön sein will, muss leiden.
Gonorrheus
Repost saying that it's a horror photoshoot and no one will know the difference
ohHiMark2000
Yeah, just rub the fat out, that will do the trick.
tospik
In fairness, my pener is pretty shredded.
JesseSlayer
its not like todays snake oil weight loss machines have gotten any less stupid...
GronkIsTheSoundAGronkMakes
I joined the breast washers union to protect my job from automation.
DocSmock
Speaking as a Canadian, I want one of those plague-doctor snowstorm face-shields.
ableck
Am I the only one who was appalled by the spray tan pic? I mean, in that WHITE top?!?!
quattroformaggix4
THATS THE EXACT MOMENT I STARTED LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY..... historically hysterically
Mikanojo
Search online for snowmobile helmets with heated face shields. Look cool while you keep warm! ( ^_^ )
Foffett
I did not know I needed one of those, thanks!
DrLophophora
portable sauna or toaster cosplay?
Mavgurian
The least weird thing though.
ijoinedtoolate
This makes Dr Suess seem kinda plain. Just products of the time.
CheeseburgertheSinister
I'm glad I'm not the only person to think that.
creaothceann
*Seuss
Drarra
Dr. Suess in German is Dr. Sweet.
jennym123
#1 I can't help but feel that's a tad overkill. Soap and water usually does well for me and I can wash both boobs at the same time!
SamuellSokol12
U can buy 2 of ‘em
clk62
It's a massage device to firm you breast, not a breast washer. See complete ad:
samsonguy920
But this way you can do it while also washing dishes
GingerLaird
Dunno about anyone else, but my opinion on #2 is that those people can go **** themselves because freckles are gorgeous.
bellathefrenchie
Right!?!? I would kill for some.
GingerLaird
Hah! There's a 'myth' that says that a Ginger's freckles represent the number of souls they've claimed.
galindorf
I got picked on for having freckles... even by my own family! So happy to see other people like them, they're even in beauty ads now :)
joeyGOATgruff
In before notification and 1k upvotes. Another nice post @DaFunOne
DaFunOne
Thanks. I appreciate that.
SudoNimm
#12 Hello there
pirate08
Her other lips are smiling????
SomewhatSarcastic
1940's camel toe
ColoradoGirrl
She looks so bored.
Farrit
Nah, just hungry.
ColoradoGirrl
Maybe hangry.
quodrisu
VillainousFiend
eatyourveggiescarl
This is so applicable to everything.
OhThisGuyAgain
whatw as it? it's gone
quodrisu
jpeg of the gif
quodrisu
Oh thank you!
SickOfThisCessPool
I want to know what it was
quodrisu
It was a jpeg of the gif
CreedanceTapes
Breast Washer
LucidPariah
CyberAkuma
Do I want to know where that's from?
chromofoam
Never ending STOOOOO-RYYYYYY
FLambda
How did I never notice that as a kid?
chromofoam
Too busy hiding from that terrifying flying dragon dog thing
JackDoodle
So your telling me that women have been doing weird shit to themselves since 1900. Got it.
Limw2000
At least yeah.
PieterFeddema
That's how long we've been able to frame it... Weird shit is for the ages!
Elonth
ancient Egyptians use to put poison in their eyes to make them more beautiful.
chardlz
Since they were capable of having a concept of desire to attract a mate. Apes groom themselves even, attraction transcends even sentience
Loadertron
And their husbands are still waiting for them.
Illthinkofausernamelater
Not just women. Viking men ground lines into the front of their teeth and then dyed them. Scarrification has been a thing for a long time
Cartoones
0 bce *
AliBarber
*you're
xj4low
Don't forget up until 1900's, Japan female beauty was white face, bound feet, and black teeth.
TheWanderingBard
Bound feet was in china. The other two are correct.
jherazob
I wonder what will be the current stuff that will make people in the future go WTF, I bet on botox
zark4di
There’s a beauty treatment of injecting blood in your face or something like that. I’m guessing that will be a “wtf” for future generations.
SisterSinister
Or girls getting their legs broken, so they can grow back together and be longer afterwards.
SnowMeowPlush
What wonders caustic lime and a byproduct of arsenic spread over your body will remove all the hair, if its good enough for the Ottomans.
SendMeYourLameJokes
Take a costume history class. Women and men have been doing weird shit to themselves since forever.
ermahgerdshoez
Sounds like an awesome class!
shuffletheconversation
How much of that stuff was invented by dudes?
nihilistdad
Probably 100%.
BubbleGumLips
2.3 things
JackDoodle
Gif is fitting, also +1 for Rescuers Down Under. Best quote "my mental facilities are twice what yours are you pea brain".
DoublevBomb
*whispers* "I think... they might see though the cherade..."
Jerojero
I would guess that the majority of them were invented by dudes
dapperlaputan
Max Factor sure invited some of them
Jonokiwi
He seems like a crazy bastard, but he's probably doing this for money.
Mavgurian
*for his weird fetish
LittleLordThudleroy
How much of it was used by women? Ok.
shuffletheconversation
How much dick enhancement stuff is used by men. You make no point its just supply and demand over unrealist body expectations.
LesbianAndroid
For a second I thought you were implying that the majority of dick enhancements were used by women
quattroformaggix4
That would have made for a less predictable argument. Nice name from one dyke to another
LittleLordThudleroy
Nah, you were implying that a woman’s a vanity is the fault of men and I don’t care about your salt so send it elsewhere
mutedia
bottle that shit!
shuffletheconversation
Straight mens body image issues are caused by women. It goes both ways. Its natural to want to be appealing. Its not salt its Franken sense.
ReYourBrains
For a lot longer than that, I assure you.
DeZaim
How old are you?
dmex
With a whole host of fun chemicals!
FightMeYouLongAssBitch
Didn't Cleopatra bathe in milk?
AuBoss
That is easily the most normal beauty idea from the past.
phantomgallery
No but Egyptians used a bunch of shit as contraceptives, literally
was821
Who was that chick who bathed in the blood of virgins?
kayxdosenfahrer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
AliBarber
Elizabeth Bathory. But the Hillary Clinton one came a close second
thatdamnrat
Yes, although there's no concrete proof that actually happened, it's probably apocryphal.
shoulkion
Hillary?
Fumbledpersonality
FightMeYouLongAssBitch
How did they stay virgins with Bill around?
DaFunOne
Long ago in Egypt and the far East up until a few hundred years ago women would use toxic combos to lighten their skin. Yup, it killed them.
owmyribs
Lead-based make-ups were used all over the world.
Illthinkofausernamelater
You'd be hard pressed not to find whitening chemicals in face lotion in Malaysia, the Philippines , and around that area. It's still done.
Myloveforpunsisunrivaled
Pretty sure women used belladona during the renaissance to make eyes brighter or something. It's just insane.
SharkBaitEx
They used it to dilate their pupils.
Eunjae
Other drugs would probably have been an at least more fun way to do THAT.
StopAskingMeForAnAccountImgurIWannaLurk
What? Like Botox; a highly lethal poison used to make your face look like Mass Effect Andromeda characters?
Gulanga
Botox is actually so deadly that about 300 grams of it is enough to kill every human on earth.
StopAskingMeForAnAccountImgurIWannaLurk
That...sounds kinda B.S. Is it 300 grams to all 7 billion humans or 300 grams to one person like Anus Gerog?
Gulanga
No, all 7 billion. It's something like 2 billionths of a gram to kill one adult, and many are kids or old.
pajamallamadrama
What? Really? My doctor suggested botox to help ease my migraines. I've strongly considered it.
SnootyEuropean
It's one of the strongest poisons in the world; it eliminates wrinkles by paralyzing the muscles in your face. I'm not kidding.
TheGhostOfFutureDisappointments
My mom uses botox injections for her migraines. It works very well for her.
pajamallamadrama
I really want to try but it's sooooo expensive :(
befuddlepuddle
Yeah no. Don't do this. Go see a massage therapist and a chiropractor
pajamallamadrama
I go to the chiropractor regularly. It helps with my back pain, but never my migraines. I can't take the meds cause of my other meds, >
FuckYouAndYourHappiness
Cause a massage therapist has had a more extensive education on the body /s