BEAUTY is a brutal business. From silicon in your bum or your todger and lips that look like the Michelin Man’s mother’s haemorrhoids, humans have been dying and being stupid to look beautiful of eons In this gallery we look at some of the 20th Century contraptions designed to make you the belle of the ball.
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