The combination of faulty electricity and chemicals made styling hair with heat a dangerous part of a woman’s beauty regime in the past (and sometimes the present).
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Hair removal for aesthetic enhancement of women’s bodies has a long history.   Continue reading “The History of Female Hair Removal”

Beauty or Torture, a new exhibit at the Women’s Museum of California, explores how women across the ages have gone to extreme measures to alter their looks, often in painful ways, in order to conform to beauty standards of the time. Continue reading “Beauty or Torture: Society’s Demand of Perfection Examined”