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10 Life-Threatening Beauty Hacks From Eras Gone by
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Wren lemmy.today Wren@lemmy.today
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Across cultures and centuries, from Japanese Geisha to European aristocracy, pale skin meant beauty and status. A tanned skin and freckled face meant that someone was a laborer, working outdoors and therefore socially inferior. Men and women raced to achieve that pale skin at any cost, using pastes and powders to erase any hint of color. The main ingredient in all those lotions, at a time, was lead.

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