Grim-ish Beauty: When Fashion Came With Hidden Dangers
Beauty has always been fashionable. But in the past, some beauty practices came with risks people didn't fully understand. From lead face powders to arsenic wafers, fashionable looks sometimes hid uncomfortable truths.
Looking fashionable has always mattered.
In the past, pale skin, bright eyes and carefully styled hair were often seen as signs of status and elegance.
Many of the powders, drops and treatments people used seemed harmless at the time. Most people didn’t realise the risks at the time.
Some of these curious and slightly unsettling beauty practices appear in my tiny printable book Some of these strange beauty practices appear in my tiny book Grim-ish Beauty, which explores some of the surprising things people once did in the name of looking fashionable.
