The modern beauty industry offers us lasers, botox, and expensive serums. But if we look back a few decades, we’ll see that our ancestors had wild ideas about beauty. Some of these methods seem more like torture than self-care. Get ready for a journey into the past, where the golden rule was: “Beauty requires sacrifices!”
A Photo Report on Beauty Trends of the Past
Salon or secret alien meeting place?
Women are sitting under giant metal domes that look like an industrial ventilation system. Is this a hair-drying method or some kind of top-secret communication with extraterrestrials?
Ice for freshness… or freezing all facial expressions?
Ice cubes are great for cooling off in the heat. But when they’re attached to your face like this, it looks more like training for a mission to Antarctica!
Vitamin C overload or an ancient beauty hack?
Lemon slices carefully placed on the face – either a skincare treatment or a tribute to the beauty gods. Will this make her younger, or just permanently sour-faced?
Water buckets + electricity = genius or disaster?
A woman sits with her hands and feet in electrically charged buckets. Is this an energy-boosting beauty treatment or an early attempt at wireless charging for humans?
When beauty meets robotics
A doctor adjusts a terrifying head device. Could this be the first version of direct brain-to-internet connection?
Beauty or futuristic human storage?
Women lie inside chambers that look like futuristic sleeping pods. Are they preserving their beauty or just testing a new method of cryogenic sleep?
Inflatable hair styling or DIY spaceship helmet?
A woman with a giant air-filled bag on her head looks ready to float away. Is this a futuristic hair dryer or just an experiment gone wrong?
Plugged into the Matrix?
This woman smiles confidently while wearing what looks like a mechanical octopus on her head. Maybe she’s already connected to Wi-Fi 2070?
Sunbathing or studying the news?
A group of women in swimsuits are deeply focused on their newspapers. Hopefully, they won’t fall asleep and end up with printed headlines tattooed on their faces!
The bigger, the better: when hair reached the sky
These two women have sky-high hair. Maybe they store their secrets up there?
Would You Try These?
Looking at these photos, one thing is clear: beauty was extreme in the past! What will people think of today’s trends in 100 years? Maybe highlighter and contouring will seem ridiculous. Which beauty treatment shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments!
