Beauty prices and appearance priorities change not only every year, but every century. In the past, women made every effort, managed to use incredible means to achieve epoch-making beauty and stand out from the environment. To narrow the waist, the skin is always fresh and silky, the leg – like Cinderella – women fulfilled all the requirements of their era in full, some paid for it with death. What did women use to be the best and most beautiful of all. What victims of women for the sake of beauty terrify with their willpower?
5 Shocking Facts: Women Sacrificing for Beauty
1. Corset – murderer of the human race (Napoleon)
The corset determined the fashion for the wasp waist. Catherine de Medici, the French queen, introduced a fashion standard that said that the girth of a woman's waist should be 33 cm. And women who followed the fashion tried to pull themselves in as much as possible, deforming their internal organs. Women covered in corsets could not breathe fully. Therefore, only the upper part of the lungs worked, mucus accumulated in the lower part of the lung system, causing a constant cough. During exercise (dancing, riding or emotional stress), the body could not stand it and there were frequent fainting and often even death, when the tightened ribs dug into the organs, tearing them.
At first, when the fashion for corsets was just beginning, led by the church in Spain, the frame was made of metal with steel bolts. Later, in France and throughout Europe, each lady's dress was accompanied by a corset made of fabric and whalebone, which was a flexible material and held its shape tightly when tightened tightly. Since fashion dictated not only a wasp waist, but also the absence of a lush chest, the body was tightened with a corset so that the chest seemed flat and the waist was thin. The corset reduced the stomach several times, so women were constantly on a diet so as not to eat a lot, otherwise digestive problems began. In any case, the corset brought women many problems with the excretory function, childbearing, and well-being was often accompanied by unbearable pain, which women endured steadfastly and with a smile on their lips.
2. Arsenic – friend or foe
From the point of poison and medicine, arsenic was used by women to achieve an attractive appearance in order to enchant men. The victims of women for the sake of beauty reached such absurd figures that they not only poured on themselves a mass of cosmetics that had a toxic environment, but also took arsenic inside, thereby poisoning themselves. And there is no need to know how the weed of lovely ladies took place during the reign of kings. It cost a little to get carried away with arsenic, and the path to the next world is open. They began to take it one grain at a time, so that the body got used to the poison. But those who began to take arsenic remained faithful to him for life, otherwise death overtook immediately after the refusal. Taking such a "stimulant" contributed to the improvement of appearance, the person seemed healthy, cheerful, had a sparkle in his eyes, a healthy blush. And few people knew
No diets, no pills worked like settlers in the intestines – parasites that could reach 30 meters. Women took the eggs of these parasites, which with a huge & nbsp; quickly settled in the body and sucked out all the food, and the person lost weight. And the parasites themselves grew and thrived inside.
When the weight that was needed was lost, one could take a pill and drive this parasite out. But only problems remained with the person forever: indigestion, problems with the stomach and intestines, liver.
Women's sacrifices for the sake of beauty went so far that the female body was turned into ugly forms on its own. This applies to bandaging the feet to reduce the size of the foot. Such distortion was a tradition in China. A girl at the age of 6 or 7 began to bandage her legs. The fingers were tightly pressed to the feet and bandaged in a certain way so that the foot resembled an arc. There were several traditions in China that varied in relation to the place of residence. The procedure for swaddling the legs was called "Golden Lotus", and when it was said about making love, it was called "walking among the golden lotuses." In some areas of China, flat feet were considered an example, in others – short feet.
When the legs were bandaged, they began to swell, bleed, fester, bones broke, and all this brought unbearable torment to the girls who could not do anything. This procedure explained the position of the girl's parents in society, who occupied the highest positions and could afford to have children carried in the hands of servants. Because the girls could not move independently, and led a mostly sedentary lifestyle, which led to serious health problems.
The legs were deformed, and the constant process of suppuration gave the legs an unpleasant smell, so the girl could not show her feet even to her husband, she had to sleep or take a bath in shoes. The feet were given special care, after washing, they were carefully treated with perfume and bandaged again. This tradition has its roots from the 9th century to the middle of the 20th – when the communists came to power. A woman with such legs was highly valued in the market during her marriage, which made it possible to choose a profitable party. Such sacrifices of women for the sake of beauty were considered a tribute and a natural process, few people thought that such bandaging and deformation of the foot brings not only severe pain, but also significantly affects the general health of a woman, reproductive function.
It was the influence of this plant that women used to embellish their eyes. After instillation, the pupils dilated, the eyes shone and the owner was transformed. But few people paid attention to the fact that such a sacrifice harmed their eyesight, and often women went blind after one of these procedures.
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