In answer to more and more frequent requests for my beauty secrets (as well as tips for gentlemen on the art of fascination), I here-to-for submit a collection of my top counsel, which will appear once a day over the course of the next ten days. I must admit, however, that when it comes to [...]
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of beauty and fascination. rule the first.
Posted in Beauty, beauty "cures", Lola Montez, Victorian Culture, tagged the art of beauty and fascination on April 11, 1848 | Leave a Comment »
Mirror, mirror, on the Wall
Posted in Beauty, beauty "cures", hair styles on August 22, 1848 | Leave a Comment »
Nené’s face was covered in her beauty cream of lard, marshmallow root and ground slugs; her dark grey eyes looked like tarnished coins peeking out of a ghostly dew. She’d begun to freckle, too, and Mummi had warned against the sun, so when my sister wasn’t covered in slime, she dabbed her face with milk [...]
