Eating tapeworms and doll shoes

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Some women already feel that they came to meet the standards of beauty of their time, but we never imagined how these standards were in the past, and the fact that they were terrifying and dangerous and almost end the lives of women who only wanted to attract the attention of men and marriage.

1- Foot the doll
The foot size may be one of the most famous cosmetic surgeries, but its origins in China are unknown despite its spread among the wives and daughters of the nobles between the tenth and nineteenth centuries, to prevail among other women in China, and become a sign of beauty and condition for marriage.

Foot shrinking usually begins when the girl is five years old, tying the foot, attaching the fingers and bandaging them tightly before growing.

The feet are placed in hot water mixed with herbs, then bend all fingers except the thumb, and wrapped tightly so as not to exceed ten centimeters long, and then placed in a narrow wooden shoes, similar to the shoes of dolls.

This causes the bones of the foot to be broken and bent until the toes meet the heels, and the girl becomes incapable of walking, with rotting feet, a pelvis and deformed thighs of heavy reliance on movement. The work of women was therefore limited to the fabric, which only needed them to sit down and rent a car to move from one place to another.

2 - Mayan skull
The Mayan ancients pressed their skulls and tied them in different shapes to reflect the individual's place in society. They hold until the skull rises from the sides

Mayan women specialized for themselves after the pressure of their skulls inlaying and decorating teeth, they were from all social classes to carve the edges of the teeth, and drilled holes in them and inlaid with turquoise and gemstones, which vary from one layer to another.

3- Teeth whitening with urine
Today, women seek to whiten their teeth with powders or lasers, despite all the damage and weakening of the teeth, but what women did in ancient Rome to whiten teeth would not have expected on your own.

Wives and daughters of wealthy Romans decided to use urine as a lotion to whiten their teeth.Unlike this strange method, they did not use any urine to brush teeth, but it is a urine that comes from the people of a village in Portugal, which was thought to be the strongest in the world.

Urinary jars are shipped from Portugal to the palaces of Roman women to brush their teeth, and the product became so popular that Nero, the last emperor of Rome, imposed taxes on him.

The strange thing about this story was not only the use of urine, but that the ammonia in the urine played its role as an effective disinfectant, and proved successful until the end of the tradition in the eighteenth century.

4 - dull skin
Medieval women did not seek as smooth and bright skin as now, but freckles, birthmarks and moles were magical spots and a symbol of beauty.

What is more difficult is what women have done throughout the Middle Ages in Europe to get pale skin versus rosy skin associated with activity and going out to work, unlike pale skin that denotes richness and pampering for hundreds of years.

To achieve this, the woman was injuring herself and bleeding in large quantities to reach this pale skin, and whenever she recovered, she repeated the process, according to Bastel.

5- X-rays
Women used X-rays to remove hair permanently in the early twentieth century as soon as they were discovered. To achieve the desired result, women were exposed to radiation for 20 hours per session.

This caused women to lose their hair, their skin became thick and atrophied, skin ulcers appeared, and the symptoms ended with cancer and the death of many, causing lawsuits against those who marketed these rays as a safe cosmetic method.

6 - plucking the hair of the head
The wigs were important to the women of ancient Rome as an aesthetic appearance, but in return the woman in Britain was not only concerned with the appearance of her hair, but she plucked her hair from the front of her head to get a wide and round front.

The most important criterion of beauty in Britain in the eighteenth century is the long face, and oval, with a curly hair back from the front, and the appearance was not complete only plucking eyebrows, to show them barely a line of compact hair.

7. Tapeworm diet
Thinness has always been the dream of girls, but a tapeworm in the intestines is something nobody dreams of. However, the strangest beauty and slimming system in Britain in 1800 under the name "tapeworm diet".

Here, a woman who seeks to reduce her weight takes the larvae of sterile and canned tapeworms. It is still being followed.