Beauty’s Deadly Century

**“Beauty That Could Kill: The Dark Side of Fashion, Makeup, and Beauty in the

Last 100 Years”** --- For most of the last century, beauty wasn’t just

painful. It was **toxic, radioactive, addictive, and sometimes lethal**.

What’s unsettling is not that people made mistakes— it’s that many of these practices

were marketed as *scientific*, *modern*, and *safe*. Let’s go back.

--- ### 1. When beauty literally glowed In the 1910s and

1920s, **radium** was considered a miracle substance. It was new. It was modern.

It *glowed*. So of course, it ended up in beauty products. Radium was added