By the way, 8 years ago, there was an Austrian-German TV production about the "History of Beauty", commented and introduced by the Austrian actress Senta Berger, who once was herself regarded in many beauty magazines around the globe as one of the most beautiful women who ever lived:
In this TV poduction, she was also talking about the tricks which were ever used to make us humans more beautiful and in this sense, the times of Baroque and Rokoko were some of the hardest, because powder, hair and wigs were used not only to cover the age but all kinds of diseases of human skin and flesh and some of the "tools & utensils" are looking shocking for us today, like this one in her right hand on the left side of the picture, which is from the time before the French Revolution:
It is a "flea trap", which was hidden in the wigs and she shows how it was used, for example behind the ears:
It was a beautiful little tube, enabled to be turned open, often mady of ivory and manufactured by a professional jeweler.
Inside, there were usually bloody parts of a fresh butchered sheep or still bloody parts of an animal fur.
Senta Berger seems to shiver a bit, when she says: "This was one of the most important and most hidden tools of the beauty industry in Baroque- and Rokoko-times!"
Nice and beautiful times on paintings of that time but under the wigs ...
This documentation is very interesting in many aspects, for example the perfection in nature or in paintings e.g. by Leonardo da Vinci ...
... tricks by cosmetics and beauty magazines, e.g. this is
the same woman before and after "falling into the hands of make-up-specialists":
and when you speak German, you still can find its two parts here:
Im ersten Teil "Die Suche nach der Schönheitsformel" begibt sich Senta Berger auf die Suche nach den Geheimnissen der Schönheit und fahndet nach den Ursprüngen dieses weltumspannenden Faszinosums.
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