Pictures below describe how terrible beauty care procedures looked like in the 1930s and 1940s. Women now must be happy they don’t have to spend many hours sitting under strange devices or put weird things on their faces.
Permanent hair procedure. Germany, 1929
Blow-drying, the 1920s
The procedure of removing freckles with carbon dioxide, 1930s
Warming mask for the face and head skin, 1940
Legs massage with metal rollers for the weight loss. USA, the 1940s
The device that helps to correct the application of make-up, the invention of Max Factor, 1930
Ice mask by Max Factor
The special mask that guaranteed a rosy complexion reducing the air pressure and allegedly substituted for a walk in the mountains
Device creating the dimples on cheeks, used in the night. First produced in 1936
Another device for permanent hair waving. Women had to sit with such a thing on the head for hours
Beauty treatments at the Helena Rubinstein’s salon, the 1940s
Rubber “beauty masks” worn to get rid of wrinkles and skin imperfections, 1921
Fruit mask, 1930
Vacuum face massage for smooth skin and nice complexion, 1930
Beauties from the 1940s tried to save their skin from burns before sunscreen was invented
