Episode 124: To Die For (ad-free)
Added 2019-09-30 07:00:59 +0000 UTCEveryone wants to look good. And while there’s nothing wrong with beauty, sometimes people have made sacrifices—both willing and unaware—in the pursuit of it. After looking through the pages of history, though, that hasn’t always been a good thing.
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Further Reading
- “Arsenic Pills and Lead Foundation: The History of Toxic Makeup,” National Geographic, 22 September 2016, https://tinyurl.com/y5ps3d7o.
- “Ballerinas On Fire (1861),” Tidings of Yore, 21 November 2014, https://tinyurl.com/y2h8wkce.
- “Beautiful Women Use Dr. Simms’ Arsenic Complexion Wafers,” Spokane Daily Chronicle, 12 August 1893, pg. 4, https://tinyurl.com/yxbv78tj.
- “Cleopatra’s Eye Makeup Warded Off Infections?,” National Geographic, 15 January 2010, https://tinyurl.com/y3zdykb7.
- “Cosmetics in Ancient Rome,” Roemer Cohorte, https://tinyurl.com/y47w2ss4.
- Derek Doyle, “Notoriety to respectability: a short history of arsenic prior to its present day use in haematology,” British Journal of Haematology Vol. 145, Issue 3 (6 April 2009), https://tinyurl.com/yxsw6vog.
- “Dr. James P. Campbell’s Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers,” National Museum of American History, https://tinyurl.com/y4tt5msk.
- “Egyptian Eyeliner May Have Warded Off Disease,” Science Mag, 8 January 2010, https://tinyurl.com/y556b6qe.
- “Elizabethan Make-Up 101,” Elizabethan Costume, https://tinyurl.com/nzx8mal.
- “The Peculiar History of Foot Binding in China,” The Atlantic, September 16, 2013, https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/the-peculiar-history-of-foot-binding-in-china/279718.
Comments
Ahhh, the Victorian Era; Where even your walls can kill you. It will always my my favorite historical period.
Meghan
2019-10-08 11:02:16 +0000 UTCIt's funny that I ended up listening to this today. I was actually in the middle of swapping some of my older oil paints out for newer less toxic paints when I started playing this in the studio. I've recently seen a revival in interest in historical pigments, and it's always really good to see people interested in preserving the history of art and how it's made, but some of it has been alarming. I recently watched a YouTube video where someone actually found and purchased a tube of Paris green (as well as Tyrian purple and mummy brown, gag) and used it inside an unventilated bedroom. People seem to understand that it is dangerous but seem to forget how it's dangerous and what it does to you. I hope the people that need to hear it end up listening to this episode somehow.
Tiffany Toland-Scott
2019-10-03 14:59:47 +0000 UTC
