What 15 Beauty Products Looked Like 100 Years Ago

Hair curlers have changed A LOT! My Grandmother & most women before her, didn't have many options. Many women would simply use pieces of rags to tie up their hair. Unsure when "Bobby Pins" were invented, but as a child in the 1960's my Mom would give me "spit curls" & fasten each one with (2) Bobby pins to form an "X"...all over my head!! Then I was expected to sleep on those things! As I got older, she used stuff brush curlers (ouch)! Imagine tiny brush heads with stiff bristles in a circular design stuffed into a tiny circular wire cage! Those were the torture devices that my mom used on me! They left tiny red impressions all over your scalp because they were so stiff! Eventually, hair curlers improved. I remember rigid plastic ones (pink) that fastened with a seperate cylinder that snapped onto the main curler & was a latticework pattern to allow your hair to dry. These were more comfortable to wear, but left ugly creases in your hair...ugh! That was a dreaded feature, especially on picture day at school! Later Mom got sponge-type curlers. Better to sleep on, but they also left weird creases in your hair! In Jr. High I was given a "steam set" My 1st set of El. Heated curlers! You added water to the unit & waited approximately 15 min. for the unit to heat the rigid plastic curlers with a metal core. The steam made a huge difference in my hair, but I had burned fingers every time I used them!

Even though I didn't used one, my grandmother told me about a very early version of the curling iron made out of iron that was place directly into the flame on a gas kitchen stove. That gadget could easily burn your hair off if you didn't know what you were doing (no temp. guage)! ??

That's all! Cynthia Garcia in Pueblo, Colorado

Oh dear girls, you have always wanted to look beautiful, the tools changed, the wish stayed :)

Some of the mascaras also used to look this way
Girls had to add water to use it (or just to spit in it) ?

Though I'm really glad the technology has changed out lives dramatically and helps people to take care of themselves in an easier way..
I would still love to have this Tower of Pisa lipstick. At least the designs were so cool back in the days ?